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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.…
True contentment in the gain of godliness, with its self-sufficiency A meditation on 1. Timoth. 6. 6. By Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.True contentment in the gaine of godlines, with its self-sufficiencie A meditation on 1. Timoth. 6. 6. By Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.
London: printed by Edward Griffin for William Bladen, 1620
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Part 1: THE FORMER PART. The Gain of Godliness.Part 1: THE FORMER PART. The Gaine of Godlinesse.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Thirdly, men would be more affected with it, if they supposed any matter of Gain to be in it. hThe covetous miser, saith the Heathen man, while the ⟨p. 32⟩people either curse or hi••e at him abroad, yet he pleaseth and cheereth himself the whilst with the sight or the consideration of his substance at home. It doth a man good at the very heart, even to think upon his riches, and but ito look upon his treasure. It will make our hearts to spring and leap within us for joy, to have sudden news brought us of some rich legacy, or large patrimony by some means befallen us.
Thirdly, men would be more affected with it, if they supposed any matter of Gaine to be in it. hThe couetous miser, saith the Heathen man, while the ⟨p. 32⟩people either curse or hi••e at him abroad, yet he pleaseth and cheereth himselfe the whilest with the sight or the consideration of his substance at home. It doth a man good at the very heart, euen to thinke vpon his riches, and but ito looke vpon his treasure. It will make our hearts to spring and leap within vs for ioy, to haue sodaine newes brought vs of some rich legacie, or large patrimonie by some meanes befallen vs.
- hPopulus me sibilat; at mihi plau do Ipse domi, simulat nummos contemplor in arca. Horat. serm. l. 1. sat. 1.
- iEccles. 5. 10.