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The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A…
The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A familiar and learned exposition on the ten commandments gathered from the mouth of a faithful pastor by a gracious young man, sometime scholar in Cambridge.The bright star which leadeth wise men to our Lord Jesus Christ, or, A familiar and learned exposition on the ten commandements gathered from the mouth of a faithfull pastor by a gracious young man, sometime scholler in Cambridge.
London: printed by John Harison for Thomas Man, 1603London: printed by Iohn Harison for Thomas Man, 1603
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But if this be such a point of learning how should man come to it? That Paul shows in. 1. Tim. 6. Godliness is great gain, if he a man be contented with that he hath. First, because it makes man contented with that he hath. So far as any man is godly, so far is he content with his outward estate, though he have but a little he is not much troubled, for he knows Gods hand is not shortened, and if he had nothing, he would not be out of heart, & dismayed, because he persuades himself Gods blessing can sustain him as well without means as with means. And this was that, that made Paul so quiet and settled in all cases. For before Godliness had calmed his heart he was as ⟨image 170⟩unquiet as the sea, and troubled all the world with his raging and discontendnesse, none more boisterous then: But so soon as he grew godly, all these storms were quieted, none more quiet and contented then he, if they imprisoned him, if they whipped him, if they stand him; hunger, cold, nakedness, what ever came, all is one to him, it was no great trouble to him, he knew all came from God, and for his good, and therefore he never stormed nor took on for the matter, but possessed his soul in patience, and knew how to bear all things quietly.
But if this be such a point of learning howe should man come to it? That Paule shewes in. 1. Tim. 6. Godlinesse is great gain, if he a mā be contēted with that he hath. First, because it makes man contented with that he hath. So farre as any man is godly, so farre is he content with his outward estate, though hee haue but a little he is not much troubled, for he knowes Gods hand is not shortned, and if he had nothing, he would not be out of heart, & dismaid, because he perswades himselfe Gods blessing can sustaine him as well without means as with means. And this was that, that made Paule so quiet and setled in all cases. For before Godlinesse had calmed his heart hee was as ⟨image 170⟩vnquiet as the sea, and troubled all the world with his raging and discontendnesse, none more boystrous then: But so soone as hee grewe godly, all these stormes were quieted, none more quiet and contented then hee, if they imprisoned him, if they whipt him, if they stond him; hunger, cold, nakednesse, what euer came, all is one to him, it was no great trouble to him, he knew all came from God, and for his good, and therefore he neuer stormd nor tooke on for the matter, but possessed his soule in patience, and knew how to beare all thinges quietly.