A34689:1669
A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first…A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first…
A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first Epistle general of John by ... John Cotton ...A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first Epistle generall of John by ... John Cotton ...
London: printed by M.S. for Thomas Parkhurst, 1658
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2 This lust of the Eye is expressed in excessive measure, and this is called a greedy eye, a man perhaps will not get it but by honesty, but when he hath laid hold on goods he is never satisfied, Eccl. 4.8. so Eccl. 5.9, 10, 11. like a Dropsy, the more a man drinks the more he desires; so, the more a man hath, the more he desires, Prov. 27.20. there a greedy eye, or covetous heart is compared to Hell and the Grave, you may as soon satisfy Hell as a covetous heart, you may sooner fill his Land, or Houses, or Barns, than fill his eye, that is never satisfied.
2 This lust of the Eye is expressed in excessive measure, and this is called a greedy eye, a man perhaps will not get it but by honesty, but when he hath laid hold on goods he is never satisfied, Eccl. 4.8. so Eccl. 5.9, 10, 11. like a Dropsie, the more a man drinks the more he desires; so, the more a man hath, the more he desires, Prov. 27.20. there a greedy eye, or covetous heart is compared to Hell and the Grave, you may as soon satisfie Hell as a covetous heart, you may sooner fill his Land, or Houses, or Barns, than fill his eye, that is never satisfied.
This greedy eye offends against that inward contentment that a man owes to his Soul, when he is so covetous that his heart is never satisfied.