True contentment in the gain of godliness, with its self-sufficiency A meditation on 1.…True contentment in the gaine of godlines, with its self-sufficiencie A meditation on 1.…

And it is hard here to say, whether a man had more need to persuade the poor man to be content with his poverty, or the rich man with his riches. For as ^athe Star that went before the Wisemen, went when they went, and stayed where they stayed: So ^briches fly the faster from a man, the more eagerly he followeth them, but then stay, when a mans mind is stayed. Till that be, ^call is put (as the Prophet speaketh in another case) into a broken bag, that will hold nothing, or ^dinto a bottomless barrel, as the proverb is, that is never a whit the fuller for all that is put in: And we are but like those that have a flux, that take in much, but retain nothing, and so thrive not with their meat, are nothing fuller or fatter for it, till this ^espiritual looseness of ours be by Contentment stayed with us.

And it is hard here to say, whether a man had more neede to perswade the poore man to be content with his pouertie, or the rich man with his riches. For as ^athe Star that went before the Wisemen, went when they went, and stayed where they stayed: So ^briches flie the faster from a man, the more eagerly he followeth them, but then stay, when a mans minde is stayed. Till that be, ^call is put (as the Prophet speaketh in another case) into a broken bag, that will hold nothing, or ^dinto a bottomles barrell, as the prouerbe is, that is neuer a whit the fuller for all that is put in: And we are but like those that haue a flux, that take in much, but retaine nothing, and so thriue not with their meat, are nothing fuller or fatter for it, till this