Divine consolations, or, The teachings of God in three parts ... with an answer to the objections made against it, and Doctor Crips [sic] booke justified against Steven Geree / by Samuel Richardson.

Creatures.

The voice the creatures cry is, content∣ment and rest is not in me.

The creatures are full of emptinesse, they satisfie but a small time, & spend in the using.

Every earthly blessing hath it's vexation.

The creatures cannot be injoyed without sorrow.

All the creatures are fading, part we must with them, and with life ere long.

The reason we are so subject to be drawn away with the creatures, is, because wee see not the emptinesse of them.

The creatures are like brookes, whose wa∣ter faileth when we have most need of them.

The more we leane upon the creatures, the more we are pierced by them.

What so ever we depend upon, besides God and his Word, is but creature-confidence.

It's not the enjoying of creatures, that will make our lives comfortable, but Gods pre∣sence, and blessing them unto us.

We oft love the creatures more before we have them, then when we have them, because we expected more from them then was in them.

Even the hearts of good men are apt to be taken with outward things.

The love of the creatures doe much hin∣der us in good things, but a wise use of them much furthers us.

He is not troubled at the coming and go∣ing of the creature, whose heart is fixed on God.

He that lightly esteems of outward things, can easily part with them.

A childe of God may in the use of the crea∣tures be spirituall.

Creatures are not fountaines but cisterns, and broken ones, yet full of transitorinesse, mutability, and change.

God can give the comfort of outward things without them.

What God conveys by meanes, sometimes he instills immediatly from himselfe.

By the creatures many are deceived and insnared, and drawne into many excesses be∣fore they be aware, to the dishonour of God, and griefe of themselves, and others.