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As the Needle in a Dyall remoued from his point, neuer leaues his quiuering motion, till it settles it selfe in the iust place it alway stands in: So fares it with a Christian in this world; no∣thing can so charme him, but hee will still minde his Sauiour: all that put him out of the quest of Heauen,
are but disturbāces. Though the pleasures, profits, and honours of this life, may sometime shuffle him out of his vsuall course; yet he wauers vp and downe in trouble, runnes to and fro like Quick-siluer, and is ne∣uer quiet within, till hee re∣turnes to his wonted life, and inward happinesse: there he sets down his rest, in a sweet, vnperceiued, in∣ward content: vvhich though vnseene to others, hee esteemes more, then all that the world cals by the name of felicity: they are to him, as May-games to a Prince; fitter for children,
then the Royaltie of a Crowne. It shall not more grieue me, to liue in a con∣tinued sorrow, then it shall ioy mee, to finde a secret perturbation in the worlds choycest solaces. If I finde my ioy in them, without vnquietnesse, that vvill proue a burdensome mirth: For finding my affections settle to them without re∣sistance, I cannot but di∣strust my selfe, of trusting them too much. A full de∣light in earthly things, ar∣gues a neglect of heauenly. I can hardly think him ho∣nest, that loues a Harlot for her brauery, more then his
Wife, for her vertues. But while an inward distaste shewes mee these Cates vn∣sauourie, if my ioy bee vn∣compleat in these terrene felicities, my inward vn∣settlednesse in them, shall make my content both suf∣ficient, and full.