How to live, and that well in all estates and times, specially when helps…How to liue, and that well in all estates and times, specially when helps…

By this which hath been said, we are admonished first of all to acquaint our selves with the promises of God, as they are recorded in the books of the Prophets and ⟨p. 44⟩Apostles: secondly at all times to build upon them by our faith, and not to suffer our selves to be drawn from them, though all temporal blessings of God fail us, yea health and life it self. This is to arm our selves with a shield against all the fiery darts of the devil, and to put on a breast-plate that will save the heart and life,¹ though otherwise in temptations we be grievously maimed and foiled.

By this which hath beene said, we are admonished first of all to acquaint our selues with the promises of God, as they are recorded in the bookes of the Prophets and ⟨p. 44⟩Apostles: secondly at all times to build vpon them by our faith, and not to suffer our selues to be drawne from them, though all temporall blessings of God faile vs, yea health and life it selfe. This is to arme our selues with a shield against all the fierie darts of the deuill, and to put on a breast-plate that will saue the heart and life,¹ though otherwise in temptations we be grieuously maimed and foyled.

1. 1Eph. 6.16. 1. Thest. 5.8.

Thus much of spiritual life. That our temporal life is lead by faith, I make it thus manifest. Temporal life is preserved and maintained by an honest calling: every calling hath his labour & work: and the labour of all callings