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 of this spiritual wealth and gain most men are merely stupid and senseless: No more moved commonly or affected, when either, (if any time at least they so do,) they think on it, or when they hear it spoken of in the Pulpit; then (as a Philosopher said sometime of an ignorant Dol• •itting in the Theatre, where the seats were of marble, that ^kOne stone sate upon an other:) then, I say, either the benches that they sit upon, or the pillars that they lean against: Not once stirred at all to hear of the heavenly inheritance, or of holiness, the means that must bring them to heaven, yea that worketh in mens hearts a kind of ^lheaven upon earth, and giveth Christian men seizin of heaven even while they live here. An evident argument that either they believe not the Gain of it, or they believe not themselves to have any share in it.

But of this spirituall wealth and gaine most men are meerely stupide and senseles: No more moued commonly or affected, when either, (if any time at least they so do,) they thinke on it, or when they heare it spoken of in the Pulpit; then (as a Philosopher said sometime of an ignorant Dol• •itting in the Theater, where the seats were of marble, that ^kOne stone sate vpon an other:) then, I say, either the benches that they sit vpon, or the pillers that they leane against: Not once stirred at all to heare of the heauenly inheritance, or of holinesse, the meanes that must bring them to heauen, yea that worketh in mens hearts a kinde of ^lheauen vpon earth, and giueth Christian men seizin of heauen euen while they liue here. An euident argument that either they beleeue not the Gaine of it, or they beleeue not themselues to haue any share in it.

1. k[Greek or Hebrew]. Aristipp•• apud Ltium l. 2.