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Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…
Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...
London: printed by R. Ibbitson and M. Wright, 1661
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The better to persuade the Poorer sort to this Duty of Contentedness, I shall propound some few considerations.
The better to perswade the Poorer sort to this Duty of Contentedness, I shall propound some few considerations.
1 That such as have convenient food and raiment enjoy as much as the richest men on earth; whereupon saith the Apostle in the forementioned place, Having food and raiment, let us be therewith content. Though a man possess never so much of this worlds goods,1 yet doth he enjoy no more thereof than himself eateth, and weareth, for the rest goeth to others, and is nothing to him.
1 That such as have convenient food and raiment injoy as much as the richest men on earth; whereupon saith the Apostle in the forementioned place, Having food and raiment, let us be therewith content. Though a man possess never so much of this worlds goods,1 yet doth he enjoy no more thereof than himself eateth, and weareth, for the rest goeth to others, and is nothing to him.
Obj. Happily thou wilt say, that though his belly can hold no more than thine, yet his fare is better, and more delicious?