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Sixthly, hence we must learn contentation and patience in extreme poverty and in all other miseries of this life; If God should deal with us as he did with his servant Job: if for our religion he should bring upon us the loss of goods, of children, of health and all that we have, with banishment also from our friends and country, yet then must we labour to show the fruit of patience, and not suffer our harts to be swallowed up of overmuch grief: because our life stands by Gods word, and not in any of these things: indeed, if in these outward miseries a man should be deprived of the comfort of Gods providence, then might he sorrow without measure: but seeing all such as fear God do still enjoy the blessing of God in their greatest calamities (for Gods blessing is not locked up in bread, but above means, without means and against means can he manifest his power and goodness in their preservation) therefore in the extremity of evil must we comfort our selves in the Lord our God, as^c David did in great sorrow, having lost his two wives and being in danger to be stoned of his own followers: and learn to say with ⟨p. 23⟩Job,^d Though the Lord kill me yet will I trust in him. What if the Lord should send a famine among us, as he may justly do for the sins of this land? should we then despair or use unlawful means for our relief? nay, then we must learn Moses lesson, that man liveth not by bread only, and labour to depend on him that can increase^e the oil in the poor widows cruise and the meal in the barrels, till plenty come.

Sixthly, hence wee must learne contentation and patience in extreame pouerty and in all other miseries of this life; If God should deale with vs as hee did with his seruant Iob: if for our religion hee should bring vpon vs the losse of goods, of children, of health and all that we haue, with banishment also from our friends and country, yet then must we labour to shew the fruit of patience, and not suffer our harts to be swallowed vp of ouermuch griefe: because our life stands by Gods word, and not in any of these things: indeed, if in these outward miseries a man should be depriued of the comfort of Gods prouidence, then might he sorrow without measure: but seeing all such as feare God doe still enioy the blessing of God in their greatest calamities (for Gods blessing is not locked vp in bread, but aboue means, without meanes and against meanes can he manifest his power and goodnesse in their preseruation) therefore in the extremity of euil must wee comfort our selues in the Lord our God, as