not a greater quantitye then is necessary for our Healthe.
2, VVith this Consideration I am also to enter into my Hearte, and to make an Anatomie of the disordered Inclinations, and Affections that it hath to Riches, Honours, and Delicacies; to Parents, kinred, and freindes; and to its owne Healthe, and Life, labouring to moue my VVill to desire to mor∣tifye the superfluous Loue of the Creatures, per∣swading myselfe heereunto by the reason aforesai∣de, and by others that I may inquire out with my Discourse, especially by that of the diuine Proui∣dence, which most carefully assisteth those, that wholely resigne themselues into the handes of God, casting vpon him,
(as S. Peter saieth) all their Cares to serue him with the greater perfection. For it is most certaine that Christe our Lord will fullfill his worde which hee gaue vs when hee saide:
Seeke first the kingdome of God, and the Iustice of him, and all these things shallbee giuen you besides: as if hee should haue saide; First seeke the kingdome, of God, which is your finall ende, and the Iustice the∣reof, which are the meanes to obtaine him, and thus doing bee assured, that the Prouidence of your Heauenly Father, will prouide you of temporall things necessary to sustaine your Life.
3. But because with myne owne forces I am not able to attaine to this resignation, I am to haue re∣course to him that can giue them mee, framing some Colloquie with our Lord, and saying vnto him very earnestly: I confesse, o my God, that my Heart very much cleaueth, and is tyed to the Creatures vvith disoordinate Loue: Seeing therefore I am so vvretched, and feeble, that hauing fastned myselfe to the Crea∣tures, I cannot vnfasten mee, fauour vvith thy Omni∣potencie my vveakenesse, destroying this connexion, and vveeding out from mee this disordinate Loue, that I