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Again, that little estate that a righteous man hath is most commonly a more lasting, ¹a more abiding, a more permanent, and a more enduring estate than the great and large estates of the wicked are, Psal. 37.16. A little that a ⟨p. 145⟩righteous man hath, is better than the riches of many wicked. One old piece of Gold is worth more than a thousand new Counters, and one box of pearls is more worth than many loads of pebbles, and one hundred pounds a year for ever is better than many hundreds in hand. 'Tis very observable, the Psalmist doth not simply say, the estate, but the rich estate; the riches not of one, or a few, but of many wicked, are not comparable to that little that a righteous man hath: ²the Hebrew word [Greek or Hebrew] Hamon, that is here rendered riches, signifies also a multitude or an abundance, or store of riches; a little that a righteous man hath is better than the multitude of riches, or the abundance of riches, or the store of riches that many wicked men have; and he gives you the reason of this in the 17 v. For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but he upholdeth (or under-props) the righteous. By the arms of the wicked you are to understand their ⟨p. 146⟩strength, their valour, their power, their wit, their wealth, their abundance, which is all the arms they have to support and bare up themselves in the world with; Now these arms shall be broken and when they are broken, then, even then, will God uphold the righteous, that is, God will be a continual overflowing fountain of good to his righteous ones, so that they shall never want, though all the springs of the wicked are dried up round about them.

Again, that little estate that a righteous man hath is most commonly a more lasting, ¹a more abiding, a more permanent, and a more induring estate than the great and large estates of the wicked are,