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.…

But Godliness, and the gain of it, will abide by us for ever. ^oIt is a grace that we cannot loose or fall from; ^pa benefit that we cannot be abridged or bereaved of by any. As ^qGod will never forsake thee; so Godliness will never leave thee, if thou beest once soundly and sincerely religious. ^rIt will go up with thee to the wheel, it will go down with thee to the rack: it will keep with thee while thou livest; ^sit will away with thee when thou diest. For ^twhen the worldly man dieth, his hope dieth with him; ^ubut the godly hath hope even in death. And ⁸the Fear of God, that is Godliness, and ^ythe righteousness of it, in ^zthe reward of it, that is the gain that cometh by it, endureth for ever, and extendeth it self to all eternity, lasting not only past this lives end, but past the whole worlds end, with which all worldly wealth and gain; must needs have an end.

But Godlinesse, and the gaine of it, will abide by vs for euer. ^oIt is a grace that we cannot loose or fall from; ^pa benefit that we cannot be abridged or bereaued of by any. As ^q