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That Grace will! help Men to carry themselves evenly with God, and graciously with God in variety of Conditions. Let the Condition be up and down, this way, and then another, yet Grace helps a Man to lie square any way, like a Dye; cast it which way you will it lies square: So put a gracious Heart into any Condition, Full or Empty, yet Grace will help him in any Condition whatsoever, as the Apostle saith in the Corinthians: Through Honour and Dishonour, by Evil report and Good report, by the Armour of Righteousness, on the Right hand and on the Left. We find Use of our Weapons on the Right hand, and on the Left, the Armour of Righteousness helps not only on the Left-hand to Fence off the evil of Adversity, but on the Right-hand, to Fence off the Evil of Prosperity: Here's a Christian Soldier, ⟨p. 73⟩that can make use of the Armour of Righteousness, both on the Right-hand and on the Left.

That Grace wil! help Men to carry themselves evenly with God, and graciously with God in variety of Conditions. Let the Condition be up and down, this way, and then another, yet Grace helps a Man to lie square any way, like a Dye; cast it which way you will it lies square: So put a gracious Heart into any Condition, Full or Empty, yet Grace will help him in any Condition whatsoever, as the Apostle saith in the Corinthians: Through Honour and Dishonour, by Evil report and Good report, by the Armour of Righteousness, on the Righthand and on the Left. We find Use of our Weapons on the Right hand, and on the Left, the Armour of Righteousness helps not only on the Left-hand to Fence off the evil of Adversity, but on the Right-hand, to Fence off the Evil of Prosperity: Here's a Christian Souldier, ⟨p. 73⟩that can make use of the Armor of Righteousness, both on the Right-hand and on the Left.

I had thought to have given some grounds, Why it is that Grace will help any way; as a Watch in a Mans Pocket, if it be a good Watch, though a Man sit upon it, and it is tumbled up and down, yet the Wheels they keep a constant steady motion. So it is with the heart of a man, if there be Grace within, and the wheels work aright, yet Grace makes the Heart steadfast within, let the condition be never so various; to be tossed up and down, this way, or that way; yet the heart keeps the same. The Motto of Queen Elizabeth may be the Motto of every gracious heart, Always the same. So in a constant way, either in prosperity or adversity, still he continues in an evenness with God. If God casts him upon his Sick Bed there he rejoices in God and blesses God, and you will find savoury and spiritual things come from him then; and if God deliver him, and you find him in prosperity, there his heart is heavenly still, and gracious and spiritual, and raised above the Creatures; which way soever he be put.