Moses his choice with his eye fixed upon Heaven, discovering the happy condition of…

For the first, The fashion of this world passeth ⟨p. 126⟩¹away, and the lust of it; it does not only pass away at the last, but the lust of it passeth away, before the thing it self be gone. Although at first sensual things delight, yet within a while they come to be used as necessaries, not as delights, the delightfulness is over, and yet they cannot be without them: in this, such are more miserable then other men, for those things that are superfluous to others, are necessary to them. The more things a man wants that he cannot be without, the more miserable he is. It is Gods infinite happiness, that he hath need of nothing out of himself: and the less need a creature hath of any thing out of its self, the nearer it comes to happiness: all their pleasurable things do but serve to make up that imperfection in them, which is not in others; their pleasures now are but to help against the diseases of Nature, now these cannot be so delightful as the true natural delights, that are suitable to the principles of Nature, which others enjoy.

For the first, The fashion of this world passeth ⟨p. 126⟩¹away, and the lust of it; it does not onely pass away at the last, but the lust of it passeth away, before the thing it self be gone. Although at first sensual things delight, yet within a while they come to be used as necessaries, not as delights, the delightfulness is over, and yet they cannot be without them: in this, such are more miserable then other men, for those things that are superfluous to others, are necessary to them. The more things a man wants that he cannot be without, the more miserable he is. It is Gods infinite happiness, that he hath need of nothing out of himself: and the less need a creature hath of any thing out of its self, the nearer it comes to happiness: all their pleasurable things do but serve to make up that imperfection in them, which is not in others; their pleasures now are but to help against the diseases of Nature, now these cannot be so delightful as the true natural delights, that are surable to the principles of Nature, which others enjoy.

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