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5. We may much help our ¹selves, by making us friends with the riches of iniquity: we should learn that of the unjust Steward, as our Saviour Christ showeth. Since we shall be put out of the Stewardship, we should so dispose of them while we have them, that when we dye, they may receive us into everlasting habitations, Luk. 16. An unprofitable life is attended with a servile fear of death.

5. Wee may much helpe our ¹selues, by making vs friends with the riches of iniquity: we should learne that of the vniust Steward, as our Sauiour Christ sheweth. Since wee shall be put out of the Stewardship, we should so dispose of them while wee haue them, that when wee dye, they may receiue vs into euerlasting habitations, Luk. 16. An vnprofitable life is attended with a seruile feare of death.

1. 15 To make friends with riches.5 To make fri•nds with riches.

6. It would master this fear, ¹but to force our selves to a frequent meditation of death. To learn to dye daily, will lessen, ⟨p. 765⟩yea, remove the fear of dying. Oh this remembering of our latter end, and learning to number our days, is an admirable rule of practice. It is the forgetfulness of death, that makes life sinful, and death terrible,