A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

3. By an immoderate delight in worldly Comforts. A Man may be worldly, that is, not carking and ravenous. Esa• saith, I have enough, my Brother, Gen. 33.9. Your Complacency in outward Enjoyments is a great Sin: When Men are satiated with their present Portion of the World, it is as great, if not a greater Sin, than to desire more. When Christ would represent a Covetous Man, he doth it not by one that grasps at more, but by one that found a greater Complacency in what he had, he blesseth himself as if he had Happiness enough, Luke 12.19. I will say to my Soul, Soul, thou hast much Goods laid up for many Years, take thine Ease, eat, drink, and be merry. It is a Question which is worse, a ravenous Desire after more, or a carnal Complacency in what we do enjoy? This last is worst; there is Discontent and Distrust in the former, but God is robbed and wholly laid aside by the latter: Our Delight, which is the choicest Affection, is intercepted. Many will say, I desire no more: but thy Heart is set upon what thou hast, and so God is robbed, who is to be the Soul's Treasure; and the Poor are robbed, they are loth to part with what they delight in; and the Soul is robbed of eternal Happiness which it should look after, and of present Comfort, in case God should blast all by his Providence; for a contented worldly Man will be soonest discontented. It is a breach of the Matrimonial Contract, James 4.4. Ye Adulterers, and Adulteresses, know ye not that the Friendship of the World is Enmity with God? There is a Matrimonial Contract between God and the Soul, wherein God propoundeth himself as God All-sufficient. Now, as if God were not good enough, Men seek Delight elsewhere. Well then, deny these Lusts of the Eyes. To this purpose consider,

3. By an immoderate delight in worldly Comforts. A Man may be worldly, that is, not carking and ravenous. Esa• saith, I have enough, my Brother, Gen. 33.9. Your Complacency in outward Enjoyments is a great Sin: When Men are satiated with their present Portion of the World, it is as great, if not a greater Sin, than to desire more. When Christ would represent a Covetous Man, he doth it not by one that grasps at more, but by one that found a greater Complacency in what he had, he blesseth himself as if he had Happiness enough,