A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…

3 The third is, wh •n confidence and trust is placed in any thing beside God, (to wit, excessively, as before we said of love.) Thus when a mans protection is placed in men, though Princes, Ps •l. •46.3. or in Multitudes, or in Horses and Armies, it is idolizing •f them. Thus rich men may make (as it is Job 31.24. gold their confidence, and fine gold their h •pe; that is, when men account themselves secure, not because God hath a Providence, but ⟨p. 34⟩because they have such means; as Asa trusted to the Physicians, and not to God, namely in that particular, the cure of his disease; or as the rich man, Luke 12.19. who founded his taking rest to his Soul on his full Barns; and so some trust their standing to such a Great Man who is their Friend: And this is known; 1. By the means to which men betake them in a strait, as when they stand not to make use of sinful means. 2. By what noise they make when they are disappointed. 3. It is known by this, when their leaning on such a Creature marreth their resting on God, and on his Providence. Hence it is hard for men to be rich, and not to place their confidence in riches; and so Christ speaketh of the difficulty of rich mens being saved. 4. Then men trust in their riches, when the having of them maketh them to think themselves the more secure, and maketh them proud and jolly, as if they added some worth to those who profess them, which could not be, if they were not something too much thought of.

3 The third is, wh •n confidence and trust is placed in any thing beside God, (to wit, excessively, as before we said of love.) Thus when a mans protection is placed in men, though Princes, Ps •l. •46.3. or in Multitudes, or in Horses and Armies, it is idolizing •f them. Thus rich men may make (as it is