Excerpt from The Theological Work of Isaac Barrow; D.D, Vol. 3 of 9: Master of Trinity College, Cambridge
"I have learned in whatever state I am, therewith to be content."
In these words, by the example of an eminent saint, is recommended to us the practice of an excellent duty, or virtue; a practice in itself most worthy, very grateful to God, and immediately of great benefit to ourselves; being, indeed, necessary towards the comfortable enjoyment of our lives: it is contentedness; the virtue, which, of all other, doth most render this world acceptable, and constituteth a kind of temporal heaven; which he that hath, is thereby ipso facto in good measure happy, whatever other things he may seem to want; which he that wanteth, doth, however otherwise he be furnished, become miserable, and carrieth a kind of hell within him: it cannot therefore but well deserve our best study about it, and care to get it; in imitation of St Paul, who had learned in whatever state he was, therein to be content.
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