Four useful discourses viz. ... /Four usefull discourses viz. ... /

And I told you that from the word in my Text, I am instructed, so it is in your Books; but in the Original it is, I am taught as in a mystery; so that there is a mystery in both these. I have shown you in many things wherein the mystery of Godliness lies in learning how to be content. A godly man knows how to abound after another manner than any other can do. Perhaps a man by some strength of natural prudence and wisdom may know how to order his Estate, so as not to be very inordinate and wicked in the management of his outward estate. A man that hath civility and natural wisdom, may make some good use of the blessings of God, that God hath given him: But a gracious heart comes to sanctify the name of God in his estate and outward blessings that God hath given him, in another manner than natural wisdom will teach a man. Grace will raise a mans spirit higher, and that in these particulars,

And I told you that from the word in my Text, I am instructed, so it is in your Books; but in the Original it is, I am taught as in a mystery; so that there is a mystery in both these. I have shewn you in many things wherein the mystery of Godliness lies in learning how to be content. A godly man knows how to abound after another manner than any other can do. Perhaps a man by some strength of natural prudence and wisdom may know how to order his Estate, so as not to be very inordinate and wicked in the management of his outward estate. A man that hath civility and natural wisdom, may make some good use of the blessings of God, that God hath given him: But a gracious heart comes to sanctifie the name of God in his estate and outward blessings that God hath given him, in another manner than natural wisdom will teach a man. Grace will raise a mans spirit higher, and that in these particulars,

First, A gracious heart learns how to be full, by often resigning up the estate that it doth possess unto God. He learns how to enjoy his estate, by resigning up all his estate and comforts unto God. This is a way that a natural man understands little of, To know how to enjoy his comforts by resigning up his comforts; yet that's the way of a gracious heart. He doth very frequently, when he gets alone into his Closet, resign up his Estate; Lord, Thou hast blessed me with many outward comforts, more than thou hast done others of my brethren: Lord, I here profess all to be thine, and give up all to thee; all belongs to thee: and I desire to enjoy no farther than I may be useful to thee in the place where thou hast set me. Here Lord,