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.…

It is Godliness then alone, that can cause true Contentment; and that can cause true Contentment alone.

It is Godlinesse then alone, that can cause true Contentment; and that can cause true Contentment alone.

Godliness alone is able to cause true Contentment: because Godliness alone bringeth man home unto God, out of whom true Contentment can not be had. For the soul of man, as ^ait beareth the image of God; so ^bnothing can satisfy it, but he whose image it beareth. ⟨p. 64⟩^cOur Soul, saith Augustine well, was created as by God, so for God, and is therefore never quiet till it rest in God. As ^dman fell at first into this restlessness by falling away from God; so ^*he can not be recovered of it, but by returning to him again. It is with mans soul in this regard, as it was with Noah's Dove in the Deluge. As ^ethe Dove, after she left the Ark, found no rest for the sole of her foot in the wide world, being then all a-float, till she betook her again thither, from whence before she came forth: So neither can man, fallen from God, find any sure rest for the foot of his soul in the whole world beside, till he come back to him again ^ffrom whom it came at the first. But it is Godliness alone, that bringeth man home unto God; that tieth and knitteth the soul fast unto God; whereof