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Learn this one Lesson farther (that should have been spoken) Learn throughly your dependence upon God in all your abundance; To see as much need of God in the midst of your abundance, as in the greatest depth of affliction. That's one thing that is of very great use. A man hath attained to a good measure of Grace when he comes to this, that he sees he hath as much need of mercy from God in his abundance, as in the lowest afflicted estate in the world. Many men and women they think that they have need of God in their affliction; then they depend upon God. I but you should depend upon God as much if you had all the world to possess, as the poorest beggar in the world. This you may either put into the mystery that there is in it, or into the Lessons; for indeed it is a mystery to the men of the world: and therefore Christ teaches not only poor people to come and say, Lord give us this day our daily bread; but the richest men in the world is to pray so: the greatest Prince and Monarch in the World is every day to come to God, to the Gates of Mercy, to beg his bread. Now if rich men would be so sensible of their condition, that, they depend upon God for the enjoyment of what they have every moment; have as much need of mercy as the poorest wretch ⟨p. 70⟩that lives upon the Face of the Earth: This would be a mighty help for them to learn how to Abound. I beseech you, examine whether this be so in you or no? When you have been poor, and afflicted, then you acknowledge you had need of Mercy: I, but now, whether do you find that your Life is as much a Life of Dependence upon God now, as ever it was? If God should take away all you have, then you would think, O, I must live altogether the Life of Dependence; but certainly, you should now live the Life of Dependence, as if you knew not where to have your Dinner or Supper: Man lives not by Bread only, saith the Scripture, or by Meat; but by every Word that proceedeth out of the Mouth of God: he lives by it. There is much in this that I am speaking: But a little for the further putting of you on in this, that you may learn this Lesson of Abundance:

Learn this one Lesson farther (that should have been spoken) Learn throughly your dependance upon God in all your abundance; To see as much need of God in the midst of your abundance, as in the greatest depth of affliction. That's one thing that is of very great use. A man hath attain'd to a good measure of Grace when he comes to this, that he sees he hath as much need of mercy from God in his abundance, as in the lowest afflicted estate in the world. Many men and women they think that they have need of God in their affliction; then they depend upon God. I but you should depend upon God as much if you had all the world to possess, as the poorest beggar in the world. This you may either put into the mystery that there is in it, or into the Lessons; for indeed it is a mystery to the men of the world: and therefore Christ teaches not onely poor people to come and say, Lord give us this day our daily bread; but the richest men in the world is to pray so: the greatest Prince and Monarch in the World is every day to come to God, to the Gates of Mercy, to beg his bread. Now if rich men would be so sensible of their condition, that, they depend upon God for the enjoyment of what they have every moment; have as much need of mercy as the poorest wretch