Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulness of sin. The life…Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulnesse of sinne. The life…

All ships are not of an equal capacity, and they must be freighted, and manned, and victualled with proportion to their burden. Al men have not the same abilities, some have such a measure of grace as enables them with much wisdom and improvement to manage such an estate as would puff up another with pride, sensuality, superciliousness, and forgetfulness of God. Again some men are fitted to some kind of employments, not to others, as some ships are for merchandise, others for war; and in these varieties of states every man should pray for that which is most suitable to his disposition and abilities, which may expose him to fewest temptations, or at least by which he may be most serviceable in the body of Christ, and bring most glory to his Master. This was the good prayer of Agur, give me neither poverty nor riches, feed me with food convenient for me: this is that we all pray, Give us Our daily Bread, that which is most proportioned to our condition, that which is fittest for us to have, and most advantageous to the ends of that Lord whom we serve.

All ships are not of an equall capacity, and they must be fraighted, and mann'd, and victualed with proportiō to their burden. Al men have not the same abilities, some have such a measure of grace as enables them with much wisedome and improvement to manage such an estate as would puffe up another with pride, sensualitie, superciliousnesse, and forgetfulnesse of God. Againe some men are fitted to some kinde of employments, not to others, as some ships are for merchandise, others for warre; and in these varieties of states every man should pray for that which is most suteable to his disposition and abilities, which may expose him to fewest temptations, or at least by which he may bee most serviceable in the body of Christ, and bring most glory to his Master. This was the good prayer of Agur, give me neither poverty nor riches, feed me with food convenient for me: this is that we all pray, Give us Our daylie Bread, that which is most proportion'd to our condition, that which is fittest for us to have, and most advantageous to the ends of that Lord whom wee serve.

Secondly, labour ever to get Christ into thy ship, he will check every tempest, and calm every vexation that grows upon thee. When thou shalt consider that his truth, and person, and honour is embarked in the same vessel with thee, thou mayest safely resolve on one of these, either he will be my Pilot in the ship, or my plank in the