As if it had been said, You have no such cause to look with displeasure or immoderate desire upon their delicacies; You may have better, Better belong to you, and invite you, The Lord himself is your portion; It becomes both your state and spirit, to apply your selves to an holy delight in him; To let your Souls loose, and set them ⟨p. 3⟩at liberty, to satiate themselves, and feed unto fullness upon those undefiled and satisfying pleasures unto which you have a right; and in which you will find the loss and want of their meaner enjoyments abundantly made up unto you. You have your natural desires and cravings as well as other men; and those may be too apt to exceed their just bounds and measures; But if you take this course, they will soon become sober and moderate, such as will be satisfied with what is competent, with an indifferent allowance of the good things of this earth. And towards the Lord, let them be as vast and large as can be supposed, they can never be larger than the Rule will allow; nor than the object will satisfy. The direction and obligation of the former being indeed proportioned to the immense and boundless fullness of the latter.
As if it had been said, You have no such cause to look with displeasure or immoderate desire upon their delicacies; You may have better, Better belong to you, and invite you, The Lord himself is your portion; It becomes both your state and spirit, to apply your selves to an holy delight in him; To let your Souls loose, and set them ⟨p. 3⟩at liberty, to satiate themselves, and feed unto fulness upon those undefiled and satisfying pleasures unto which you have a right; and in which you will find the loss and want of their meaner enjoyments abundantly made up unto you. You have your natural desires and cravings as well as other men; and those may be too apt to exceed their just bounds and measures; But if you take this course, they will soon become sober and moderate, such as will be satisfied with what is competent, with an indifferent allowance of the good things of this earth. And towards the Lord, let them be as vast and large as can be supposed, they can never be larger than the Rule will allow; nor than the object will satisfie. The direction and obligation of the former being indeed proportioned to the immense and boundless fulness of the latter.
