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Corollary 7.

Did Judas fancy so much happiness in a little money that he would sell Christ to get it?¹ Learn then, That which men promise themselves much pleasure and contentment in, in the way of sin, may prove the greatest curse and misery to them, that ever befell them in the world.

Did Iudas fansie so much happiness in a little mony that he would sell Christ to get it?¹ Learn then, That which men promise themselves much pleasure and contentment in, in the way of sin, may prove the greatest curse and misery to them, that ever befel them in the world.

1. 1Cor. 7.

Judas thought it was a brave thing to get money; he fancied much happiness in it: but how sick was his Conscience as soon as he had swallowed it! O take it again saith he; it griped him to the heart. He knows not what to do to rid himself of that money. Give me children (said Rachel) or I die: she hath children and they prove her death. O mortify your fancies to the world. Put no necessity upon riches. They that will be rich, fall into temptations, and many hurtful Lusts, which drown men in perdition, 1 Tim. 6.9. You may have your desires with a curse. He that brings home a pack of fine clothes infected with the plague, hath no such great bargain of it, how cheap soever he bought them.