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.…

Thirdly, Worldly wealth abideth with us but for a short time: whereas Godliness and ⟨p. 14⟩^tthe Gain of it will stick by us, & stay with us for ever. This worlds wealth, I say, can last but a while with us, & must needs therefore leave us after a while. ^uEither it will leave us, •r we must leave it: ^xeither it will have an end of us, •r we an end of it. ^yRiches are uncertain: ^zthere is no hold of them: they are slippery ware; ^athe faster we gripe them, the sooner they slip oft out of our hands; ^bthey are fugitive servants, ready to run away from their master, whom they leave many times, by their means, deprived, not of living only, but of life too: ^cthey take them wings, saith Solomon, like an Eagle that flieth up into the air, & get them a way from us far out of our reach, and beyond all hope o•re•overi.

Thirdly, Wordly wealth abideth with vs but for a short time: whereas Godlinesse and ⟨p. 14⟩^tthe Gaine of it will sticke by vs, & stay with vs for euer. This worlds wealth, I say, can last but a while with vs, & must needs therfore leaue vs after a while.