Man ashiv le-Yahoweh, or, A serious enquiry for a suitable return for continued life,…

2. ¹The riches of this world are unprofitable riches; therefore be not too eager in your pursuit of unprofitable profits: They cannot profit you in tim• of greatest need. Have not you had the experience of the unprofitableness of riches? that they are unprofitable (1.) For diverting of Judgments, ⟨p. 243⟩or removing evils that come upon you; whether temporal, as Sickness, Plague, Death; or spiritual, as Hardness of Heart, Blindness of Mind, Terrors of Conscience; none of all these can be removed by worldly riches. (2.) For the procuring of good; whether temporal, for the Body, as Health in time of Sickness, or Ease in time of Pain; or spiritual, for the Soul, either Grace, or Comfort, or Glory; if Conscience be wounded, they cannot heal your Consciences, nor comfort your Hearts.

2. ¹The riches of this world are unprofitable riches; therefore be not too eager in your pursuit of unprofitable profits: They cannot profit you in tim• of g•eatest need. Have not you had the experience of the unprofitableness of riches? that they are unprofitable (1.) For diverting of Judgments, ⟨p. 243⟩or removing evils that come upon you; whether temporal, as Sickness, Plague, Death; or spiritual, as Hardness of Heart, Blindness of Minde, Terrors of Conscience; none of all these can be removed by worldly riches. (2.) For the procuring of good; whether temporal, for the Body, as Health in time of Sickness, or Ease in time of Pain; or spiritual, for the Soul, either Grace, or Comfort, or Glory; if Conscience be wounded, they cannot heale your Consciences, nor comfort your Hearts.

1. 1Unprofitable.