A01551:130
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.…
True contentment in the gain of godliness, with its self-sufficiency A meditation on 1. Timoth. 6. 6. By Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.True contentment in the gaine of godlines, with its self-sufficiencie A meditation on 1. Timoth. 6. 6. By Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.
London: printed by Edward Griffin for William Bladen, 1620
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Again consider with thy self, how many an one wanteth that that thou hast, and yet deserveth as well at Gods hands as thou dost. *Thou lookest on thy rich neighbours to mislike thine own estate, ⟨p. 55⟩and to murmur for that thou wantest: Look rather on thy poor brethren, hthe far greater number, and compare thine estate with a many of theirs, to be thankful for what thou hast.
Againe consider with thy selfe, how many an one wanteth that that thou hast, and yet deserueth as well at Gods hands as thou dost. *Thou lookest on thy rich neighbours to mislike thine own estate, ⟨p. 55⟩and to murmur for that thou wantest: Looke rather on thy poore brethren, hthe far greater number, and compare thine estate with a many of theirs, to be thankfull for what thou hast.
- *[Greek or Hebrew] […] apud Stob. c. 93.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 〈…〉 apud Stob. c. 93.
- h[Greek or Hebrew]. Plut. de tranquill. —maiori see pauperiorum Turba compares. —Hor. sat. 1. Aspice quanto m• jor pars sit pauperū. S•n. ad Helv. c. 12. Pauper fiam? inter plures ••o. Idem epist. 24.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Plut. de tranquill. —maiori se pauperiorum Turba compares. —Hor. sat. 1. Aspice quanto m ior pars sit pauperū. Sn. ad Helv. c. 12. Pauper fiam? inter plures o. Idem epist. 24.