If we have not what we desire, God shall not have a good look from us, but presently are sick of discontent, and ready to die out of an humour. If God will not give the ⟨p. 57⟩people of Israel for their lusts, they bid him take their lives; they must have Quails to their Manna. Ahab though a King, and one would think his Crown-lands had been sufficient for him, yet, is sullen, and discontented for want of Naboths Vineyard. Jonah though a good man and a Prophet, yet ready to die in a pet*, and because God killed his Gourd, Kill me too, saith he. Rachel, Give me children, or I die; she had many blessings, if she could have seen them, but wanted this of contentation. God will supply our wants, but must he satisfy our lusts too? many are discontented for a very trifle; another hath a better dress, a richer jewel, a newer fashion. Nero not content with his Empire, was troubled that the Musicians had more skill in playing then he: how fantastic are some, that pine away in discontent for the want of those things, which if they had, ⟨p. 58⟩would but render them more ridiculous.
If wee have not what wee desire, God shall not have a good look from us, but presently are sick of discontent, and ready to die out of an humour. If God will not give the ⟨p. 57⟩people of Israel for their lusts, they bid him take their lives; they must have Quailes to their Manna. Ahab though a King, and one would think his Crown-lands had been sufficient for him, yet, is sullen, and discontented for want of Naboths Vineyard. Ionah though a good man and a Prophet, yet ready to die in a pet*, and because God kill'd his Goard, Kill me too, saith he. Rachel, Give me children, or I die; she had many blessings, if she could have seene them, but wanted this of contentation. God will supply our wants, but must he satis•ie our lusts too? many are discontented for a very trifle; another hath a better dresse, a richer jewell, a newer fashion. Nero not content with his Empire, was troubled that the Musicians had more skill in playing then he: how phantastick are some, that pine away in discontent for the want of those things, which if they had, ⟨p. 58⟩would but render them more ridiculous.
- *Jonah 4. 8.
