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.…

The third and last Note of Contentment may be ^kSilence before the Sheerer. When God cometh ⟨p. 85⟩to sheer a man of his substance, of his wealth and his riches, if he have a contented mind, he will not murmur and repine at it, as ^lthe Israelites ever and anon when they wanted ^mwater, or ⁿbread, or ^oflesh in the wilderness: but rather praise God with Job; ^pGod gave it, and God taketh it: blessed be Gods name. ^qI return my life to Nature requiring it back, said that Apostate, as some report of him, when he lay a dying, as a faithful debtor, with a good will. So ^rshould we return God his own again, that he hath pleased to lend us, as faithful and thankful debtors with hearty good will; ^srendering thanks unto him, that we have had them so long, not repining because we can have them no longer.

The third and last Note of Contentment may be ^kSilence before the Sheerer. When God commeth ⟨p. 85⟩to sheere a man of his substance, of his wealth and his riches, if he haue a contented minde, he will not murmur and repine at it, as ^l