The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…

having gotten them, we set not our hearts on them, we pray for the holy use of them, we return them to God his glory, and the comfort of his Saints; when we cannot keep them with a good conscience, we will willingly leave them, always making the Lord our chief inheritance, as we a•e his; and on this manner being weaned from earthly things, we must look for our outward estate to be ordered in full measure and scarcity by God, that we may say with Paul, Philip 4. 11. I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. 12. And I can be abased, and I can abound: every where in all things I am instructed, both to be full, and to be hungry, and to abound, and to have want. If we have much, it is well, and wisdom is a goodly thing with inheritance: if we have not outward things, the word is able to save our souls: and blessed are they that in time of trial can say, my lines are fallen unto me in fair places. Every man is to try himself, how in his particular calling he can stay himself on the word of God. Jacob desired nothing but cloth and meat for food and raiment; and Paul 1. Tim. 68 saith, When we have food and raiment, let us therewith be content. And surely great rest should we find in our consciences, if we could command our souls not to look for greater things than the Lord hath placed us in: for nothing doth more be•ray out want of faith than our restless minds which are not contented with those places allotted to us of God. But who in the time of the gospel cannot say, that his lines are fallen to him in fair places? Wherefore we must be so quiet in our proper stations, as if we were Kings or Emperors, knowing that when our places are not fit for God his glory, and his church, the Lord will fleet us. In the mean season let our consciences rest on the Lord his will, how base and inferior so ever our calling is, and he assured, that by so much the more our walking therein is an acceptable sacrifice to the Lord, by how much our gifts being the greater they do submit and humble themselves under the ordinance and appointed calling of the Lord the more. And let us stay at the Lord his commandment and pleasure to be put in his time to some other use; neither let us put the fault of our trouble in our places, as commonly we do, but in our restless mind, which as a rolling stone is carried from one place to another.

hauing gotten them, we set not our hearts on them, we pray for the holy vse of them, we returne them to God his glorie, and the comfort of his Saints; when we cannot keepe them with a good conscience, we will willingly leaue them, alwaies making the Lord our chiefe inherirance, as we ae his; and on this manner being weaned from earthly things, we must looke for our outward estate to be ordered in full measure and scarcitie by God, that we may say with Paul,