[ 982] Graces, to stock them up against a day of trouble.
ST. Chrysostom suffering under the Empresse Eudoxia,* 1.1 tells his friend Cyriacus, how he armed himself before hand, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, &c. I thought,* 1.2 Will she banish me? The earth is the Lords, and the fulnesse thereof. Take away my goods?* 1.3 Naked came I into the world, and naked must I return. Will she stone me? I remembered Stephen.* 1.4 Behead me?* 1.5 Iohn Baptist came into my mind, &c. Thus it should be with every one that intends to live and die comfortably, they must (as we say) lay up something for a rainy day, they must stock themselves with graces, store up promises, and furnish themselves with experiences of Gods loving kindnesse to others, and themselves too, that so when the evill day comes, they may have much good comming thereby.