Temporis Angustiæ: Stollen houres recreations. Being meditations fitted according to the variety of objects. By Tho. Manley, jun. gent. and student, anno. ætatis 21mo.

MED. 54.

A Happy content, is the only contented happiness, and to a covetous man, the vvhole vvorld is not enough, though the least part or tittle of it be too much; Esau, though he confess he has much, yet desires more; Iacob, though he has little, yet thinks it enough; desire lifts up the poor man toget, the rich man though he have, yet is troubled to keep. I would not be therefore too poor, lest I take the name of God in vain, and despair of his love to me; neither de∣sire to be too rich, lest I say, vvho is the Lord, & deny him; but make me able to say vvith Paul, In what condi∣tion soever I am, I have learned there∣with to be content.