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when we can tell how to enjoy them, and how to be without them. O think of this when you are at your full Tables. Now I have all things about me, but can I now, if God should call me to ⟨p. 15⟩suffer poverty, could I be content to be laid in a Prison for his Name sake? Paul he could, when he was at the fullest, readily come off: O Lord, if thou wilt honour thy self by me, in a Prison, or Poverty, or Disgrace, why Lord, here I am: He was ready prepared. And know, that you have not learned how to be full, except you can find your hearts in the midst of your fullness; to be ready prepared to part with all your fullness for Jesus Christ. Now in the very naming of these things, I suppose you all think this is hard lesson; you think it's hard for poor people to know how to want; that's hard, but the truth is, it's rather the harder of the two to know how to be full: That's the fifth thing, when a man knows how to be full.

when we can tell how to enjoy them, and how to be without them. O think of this when you are at your full Tables. Now I have al things about me, but can I now, if God should call me to ⟨p. 15⟩suffer poverty, could I be content to be laid in a Prison for his Name sake? Paul he could, when he was at the fullest, readily come off: O Lord, if thou wilt honour thy self by me, in a Prison, or Poverty, or Disgrace, why Lord, here I am: He was ready prepared. And know, that you have not learned how to be full, except you can find your hearts in the midst of your fulness; to be ready prepared to part with all your fulness for Jesus Christ. Now in the very naming of these things, I suppose you all think this is hard lesson; you think it's hard for poor people to know how to want; that's hard, but the truth is, it's rather the harder of the two to know how to be full: That's the fifth thing, when a man knows how to be full.

Sixthly, Then doth a man know how to be full, when he can make all his fullness to be furtherance of his graces, to act his graces, to exercise his graces, to draw forth his graces: As now, when he can make the fullness that he hath, to be a means to act and draw forth the grace of Love; to love God in all his fullness: Not so much to love the Creature, as to love God in the Creature. When he can make his fullness to be a means to help his faith: Thus, Lord, thou hast said, That godliness hath the promise of this life and the life that is to come; why Lord thou hast made thy promise good unto me, and so it strengthens my faith: When a mans fullness can exercise the grace of Charity to others: When a mans fullness can exercise his grace of heavenly mindedness; as in this manner, O Lord, These comforts that thou givest me in thy creatures, O they are sweet; but how sweet is thy self! how sweet is Jesus Christ, that is the fullness of all this fullness! And if so be that this life be so sweet here in this world, what hast thou then in the heavens, to make me