Well sirs, you that are all for Getting, and for wealth, judge now if you have not lost your Reason, whether a Holy or unholy, • Heavenly or an Earthly life, be the more Profitable way! I would not draw you to any thing that you should lose by. If I speak not for your Gain, reject my words as contemptuously as you please. But if I do, then be not against your own commodity. Will such silly Gain as the world affords you, do so much with you as it doth: and shall not the Heavenly inheritance do more? shall all this stir be made in the world for that which you are ready to leave behind you, and will you not lay up a Treasure in heaven, where rust and moths corrupt not, and where you may live for ever? Matth. 6. 20. What profit now have all those millions of souls, that are gone from earth, by all the wealth they here possessed! Hear sinners, and bethink you in the name of God. You are leaving Earth, and stepping into Eternity, and where then should you lay up your Riches? Would you rather have your Portion where you must stay but a few days, then where you must dwell for ever? O Labour not for the meat that perisheth, in comparison of that which endureth to everlasting life, which Christ will give you, if you will follow him, Job. 6. 27. Make you friends of this wealth that the world abuseth to unrighteousness, that when all fails below, you may be received into the everlasting habitations, Luk. 16. 9. Make not your selves a Treasure of corruptible riches, and set not your heart on Gold and Silver, lest the rust of it be a witness against you, and eat your flesh as it were fire; and lest ye heap up another kind of treasure then you dream of, against the last days. How many of you have cause to weep and howl, for your approaching miseries, even then when you are glorying in your prosperity? Jam. 5. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Are you for Commodity? Refuse not then the best Commodity? Be not enemies to them, or to those holy motions, that make for your everlasting Profit. Take but the Gainfullest […] selves, and we are pleased. If you know […] ⟨p. 231⟩then God and Glory, and any riches that will endure any longer then Eternity, why do you not show it us, that we may join with you? But if you do not, why will you not hearken to the servants of the Lord, and joy• with them? [Wherefore, saith the Lord, do you spend money for that which is not bread:
Well sirs, you that are all for Getting, and for wealth, judge now if you have not lost your Reason, whether a Holy or unholy, • Heavenly or an Earthly life, be the more Profitable way! I would not draw you to any thing that you should lose by. If I speak not for your Gain, reject my words as contemptuously as you please. But if I do, then be not against your own commodity. Will such silly Gain as the world affords you, do so much with you as it doth: and shall not the Heavenly inheritance do more? shall all this stir be made in the world for that which you are ready to leave behind you, and will you not lay up a Treasure in heaven, where rust and moaths corrupt not, and where you may live for ever? Matth. 6. 20. What profit now have all those millions of souls, that are gone from earth, by all the wealth they here possessed! Hear sinners, and bethink you in the name of God. You are leaving Earth, and stepping into Eternity, and where then should you lay up your Riches? Would you rather have your Portion where you must stay but a few days, then where you must dwell for ever? O Labour not for the meat that perisheth, in comparison of that which endureth to everlasting life, which Christ will give you, if you will follow him, Job. 6. 27. Make you friends of this wealth that the world abuseth to unrighteousness, that when all fails below, you may be received into the everlasting habitations, Luk. 16. 9. Make not your selves a Treasure of corruptible riches, and set not your heart on Gold and Silver, lest the rust of it be a witness against you, and eate your flesh as it were fire; and lest yee heap up another kind of treasure then you dream of, against the last days. How many of you have cause to weep and howl, for your approaching miseries, even then when you are glorying in your prosperity? Jam. 5. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Are you for Commodity? Refuse not then the best Commodity? Be not enemies to them, or to those holy motions, that make for your everlasting Profit. Take but the Gainfullest 〈…〉 selves, and we are pleased. If you know 〈…〉 ⟨p. 231⟩then God and Glory, and any riches that will endure any longer then Eternity, why do you not shew it us, that we may joyn with you? But if you do not, why will you not hearken to the servants of the Lord, and joy• with them? [Wherefore, saith the Lord, do you spend money for that which is not bread:
