Calling into which he was put by his Parents, or the Providence of
God, and has miscarried in a new way, that through pride and
dislike of his first state he as chose rather to embrace; his
miscarriage is his sin, the fruit of his Pride, and a token of the
Judgment of God upon him for his leaving of his first state. And
for this he ought, as for the former, to be humble and penitent
before the Lord.

But if by search, he finds, that his poverty came by none of these;
if by honest search, he finds it so, and can say with good
conscience, I went not out of my place and state in which God by
his providence had put me; but have abode with God in the calling
wherein I was called, and have wrought hard, and fared meanly, been
civilly apparelled, and have not directly, nor indirectly made away
with my Creditors goods: Then has his fall come upon him by the
immediate hand of God, whether by visible or invisible wayes. For
sometimes it comes by visible wayes, to wit, by Fire, by Thieves,
by loss of Cattel, or the wickedness of sinful dealers, &c. And
sometimes by means invisible, and then no man knows how; we only
see things are going, but cannot see by what way they go. Well,
Now suppose that a man, by an immediate hand of God is brought to a
morsel of Bread, what must he do now?

I answer: His surest way is still to think, that this is the fruit
of some sin, though possibly not sin in the management of his
calling, yet of some other sin. God casteth away the substance of
the wicked. Therefore let him still humble himself before his God,
because his hand is upon him, and say, What sin is this, for which
this hand of God is upon me? and let him be diligent to find it
out, for some sin is the cause of this Judgment; for God doth not