Two sermons tending to direction for Christian carriage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and…Two sermons tending to direction for Christian cariage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and…

Lastly, he doth so, ^fto make us the more careful ²to keep his favour, and the sense of it, when we have it, and the more wary to shun and avoid all such courses, whereby we may either lose it or hazard the loss of it: ^“when we shall find by woeful experience, that being once gone, it is not usually so easily recalled or recovered.

Lastly, he doth so, ^fto make vs the more carefull ²to keepe his fauour, and the sense of it, when we haue it, and the more warie to shunne and auoid all such courses, whereby wee may either lose it or hazard the losse of it: ^“when wee shall finde by wofull experience, that being once gone, it is not vsually so easily recalled or recouered.

1. fAd cautelam •criorem.
2. 2Reason 8.
3. “Quàm cara sint, ubi post carendo intelligunt; Quamque attinendi magni dominatus soent. Terent. apud Cicer. de Orat. perf.

^gThat that is hardly earned, is wont to be more carefully kept. A man will not in haste or unadvisedly spend his penny, that he hath laboured hard and taken much pains for; especially if he know not how to get so much again, but with the like difficulty when that is gone: But lightly come, we say, and lightly gone; young Gallants that never knew what the getting of money meant, are ready when they come to it, to let all fly abroad, as if they could have it again with a wish or a word, when they would. If God, when (for just causes best known to himself, and for the most part for evil desert and bad demeanour on our part) he hath turned his face away from us, and carried himself strangely toward us, he should by and by suddenly upon the first and least bend of our ham, or formal sob, or superficial sigh, or a forced tear or twain, or some faint and heartless prayer turn it again toward us, and look kindly again on us;