CHAP. IX.
FOurthly, his thoughts are so taken up with what he wants (or ra∣ther desires, for he wants nothing but wit, and a good heart) that he not once mindes or cares for what he hath, as you may see in Abab, 1 Kings 21.4. and Haman, Hester 5.13. and Micha, Judges 18.••4.
What the covetons man hath, he sees not; his eyes are so taken up with what he wants; yea the very desire of what he cannot get tor∣ments him, and it is an heart-breaking to him, not to add every day somewhat to his estate: besides, not to improve it so many hundreds e∣very yeer, will disparage his wisdom more to the world, then any thing else he can do, as I have heard such an one allege, when I have told him my thoughts, about perplexing himself.
But see the difference between him, and one that hath either wit or grace: whose manner it is, even in case of the greatest losses, to look both to what he hath lost, and to what he hath left; and instead of re∣pining, to be thankfull that he hath lost no more, having so much left that he might have been deprived of. But fortish sensualists have a duller feeling or many good turns, then of one ill: they have not so sensible a feeling of their whole bodyes health, as they have of their fingers aking; nor are they so thankful for twenty yeers jollity, as dis∣pleased for one dayes misery. Whereas an humble and good man, will see matter of thankfulness there. Where the proud and ingrateful finde matter of murmuring. And so much of the fourth particular, onely let