Sun-beams of gospel-light shining clearly from several texts of Scripture, opened and applied. 1.…Sun-beams of gospel-light shining clearly from severall texts of Scripture, opened and applyed. 1.…

Secondly, for Temporal things let us be content with him alone, for he is our fullness even in them also, for the better conceiving of this, we must know that the first Adam brought a general Emptiness through all the world, for though the world be full of pomps and pleasures, as John calls them, Lust of the flesh, Lust of the eye, &c. yet it is properly empty, because not full of that it should be: even as we say a well is empty, though it be full of air, because it is not full of water which should be in it: for Emptiness is not so much, Absentia Entitatis as absentia Entitatis debitae. Hence therefore not only the hearts of men, but the creatures are said to be empty, hence Solomon saith Ecclesiastes the 1. Chapter, Vanity of Vanities, all is but vanity, that is emtine••e: and Rom. 8. The Creature is subject to vanity: that is emptiness: through him that subjecteth it. Hence the hea•ts of men are not satisfied with the world, but as the Prophet speaks: They eat and are not filled, they drink, ⟨p. 7⟩and behold their soul is empty, because the Creature is now but as the husk without the grain, the shell without the kernel, full of nothing but emptiness, and being empty in it self, cannot give us satisfaction; But Christ the second Adam hath filled all things again, Epes. 1. last verse. He ••ls all in all things, that is, not only the hearts of men, but the things also. It is the Neuter Gender. [Greek or Hebrew]. Hence we may observe, that many find a want in the midst of plenty, their hearts find no rest or satisfaction in all they enjoy, but with the holy Regenerate man it is much otherwise, though he have but a little wealth, a little food and raiment, yet there is a secret fullness put into that little which makes it fit to give him satisfaction, which is the meaning of that of the Psalmist, Psal. 37, 16. A little thing to the Righteous, is better then great riches to the wicked, because in that little it being filled with the blessing of the second Adam, they find a fullness, whereas the wicked find an emptiness in the midst of their greatest abundance.

Secondly, for Temporal things let us be content with him alone, for he is our fullnesse even in them also, for the better conceiving of this, we must know that the first Adam brought a generall Emptinesse through all the world, for though the world be full of pomps and pleasures, as Iohn calls them, Lust of the flesh, Lust of the eye, &c. yet it is properly empty, because not full of that it should bee: even as we say a well is empty, though it be full of ayre, because it is not full of water which should be in it: for Emptinesse is not so much, Absentia Entitatis as absentia Entitatis debitae. Hence therfore not onely the hearts of men, but the creatures are said to bee empty, hence Solomon saith Ecclesiastes the 1. Chapter, Vanity of Vanities, all is but vanity, that is emtinee: and