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 ^xthe faithful Hebrews, saith the Apostle, ⟨p. 86⟩with joy, not quietly only but cheerfully, sustained the loss of their worldly goods, knowing that they had better treasure and more durable laid up for them in heaven. It is a sign that ^ya man looketh at a better matter, when he can so readily and so cheerfully part with his wealth: as ^zJacob regarded not his household-stuff and substance in Canaan, when he had all the fat of Egypt before him.

And ^xthe faithfull Hebrewes, saith the Apostle, ⟨p. 86⟩with ioy, not quietly onely but cheerefully, sustained the losse of their worldly goods, knowing that they had better treasure and more durable laid vp for them in heauen. It is a signe that ^ya man looketh at a better matter, when he can so readily and so cheerefully part with his wealth: as ^zIacob regarded not his houshold-stuffe and substance in Canaan, when he had all the fat of Aegypt before him.

1. xHebr. 10. 34.
2. yHebr. 11. 25, 26.
3. zGen. 45. 20.