[ 1453] The spiritual benefit of divine Contentment.
ZEno (of whom Seneca speaks) who had once been very rich, hearing of a Shipwrack, and that all his goods were drowned at Sea, Fortune, saith he,* 1.1 (speaking in an Heathen Dialect, Iubet me Fortuna expeditiùs Philosophari) hath dealt well with me, and would have me now to study Philosophy; He was content to change his course of life, to leave off being a Merchant, and turn Philosopher; And if an Heathen said thus,* 1.2 shall not a Christian much more say, When the World is drained from him; Iubet Deus mundum derelinquere, et Christum expe∣ditiùs sequi, God would have me leave off following the World and study Christ more, and how to get Heaven, to be willing to have lesse gold and more good∣nesse, to be contented to have lesse of the World, so I may have more of Christ, to sit down with a little, so much as shall recruit Nature, and if that fail, so that the slender barrel of Provision fall shorter and shorter, not to murmure and say