Mercy magnified on a penitent prodigal, or, A brief discourse

3. The lusts of an unregenerate man are insatiable: Like the horse-leeches two daughters, or like the barren womb, they never say they have enough, or like the grave, which is still gaping after more, hence so compared, Rom. 3. 13. Their throat is an open Sepulchre. all concupiscence labours of a dropsy, the more it hath, the more it craves. When a man hath done his utmost to make provision for, he can never give content to his carnal desire, Pro. 27. 20. And there is great reason for it, because concupiscence hath diverted the heart of man from the only soul satisfying object, to empty things.

3. The lusts of an unregenerate man are infatiable: Like the horse-leeches two daughters, or like the barren womb, they never say they have enough, or like the grave, which is still gaping after more, hence so compared, Rom. 3. 13. Their throat is an open Sepulchre. all concupiscence labours of a dropsie, the more it hath, the more it craves. When a man hath done his utmost to make provision for, he can never give content to his carnal desire, Pro. 27. 20. And there is great reason for it, because concupiscence hath diverted the heart of man from the only soul satisfying object, to empty things.

4. The outward favours which God bestoweth upon men are the proper objects upon ⟨p. 48⟩which their lusts are placed, & from which they seek their satisfaction. Every carnal heart hath (with Demas) embraced the present world: When man left God he went to the Creature, and what God had provided to express his bounty to him in, that hath he abused to serve his lust withal: It is the world and the things of the world that his heart is in love with, which is opposite to the love of the father,