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The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…
The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham, minister and preacher of the Word of God collected into one volume: revised, corrected, and published, for the further building of all such as love the truth, and desire to know the power of godliness. By H.H.The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham, minister and preacher of the Word of God collected into one volume: reuised, corrected, and published, for the further building of all such as loue the truth, and desire to know the power of godlinesse. By H.H.
London: printed by Thomas Snodham and Thomas Creede for William Welby, 1612London: printed by Thomas Snodham and Thomas Creede for VVilliam VVelby, 1612
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CHAP. LX. Of Riches and their abuse.
Riches and sin have some affinity, in regard whereof Christ saith, in a compassion of their misery whom we so wonder at, Oh how hard a 1thing is it for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven? Adding (which the world condemneth for a hard speech,) That it is as easy for a Cable to go through the eye of a needles &c, Christ calleth riches thorns, forewarning us that we handle them well, least we be pricked with them. They are evil commonly in either getting, or in keeping, or in using,2 or in loving them. It is an old proverb among the heathen, the rich man is either unjust himself, or his father. Mark the evil Steward in the Gospel, the gorgeous Rich man, the Glutton that promised to himself abundance for many years, who possessed it not many hours. When Christ catechised the Rich man, he went away sadly. He calls riches the Mammon of iniquity, Matth. 6. The glory of a mans house, Psal. 37. The blessing on the left hand, Proverb. 3. And the fatness of the earth, is as well the blessing of Esa• as of Jacob. Demas loved the world, Paul loved not the world. Isaiah poor, and Sabnah rich. I put the question to the veriest reprobate, & let him answer me, whether Isaiah be not now wise,3 and Sabnah be not a fool. Alas what will it profit a man to hoard up any thing in such a chest, as in four days will stink? What if a man can rejoice in his wicked riches seventy years, when he shall be grieved for them seven hundred thousand years, when they shall say to the mountains fall on us, and to the hills cover us?
RIches and sinne haue some affinitie, in regard whereof Christ saith, in a compassion of their miserie whom wee so wonder at, Oh how hard a