The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan…

Young man, thou art now going forth into the World, and thine eyes and thine heart are set upon getting an estate: and gathering thee substance against the time to come: but beware thou lay not up an evil treasure, a treasure of lies, and oaths, and deceit, with thy treasure of money or goods. Resolve from thy very first to have none by thee but honest gain: if God increase thee, bless him for it; but resolve rather to be ⟨p. 67⟩poor, than not to be honest and upright: For riches profit not at the day of wrath, but righteousness delivereth from death, Prov. 11. 4.

Young man, thou art now going forth into the World, and thine eyes and thine heart are set upon getting an estate: and gathering thee substance against the time to come: but beware thou lay not up an evil treasure, a treasure of lyes, and oaths, and deceit, with thy treasure of money or goods. Resolve from thy very first to have none by thee but honest gain: if God increase thee, bless him for it; but resolve rather to be ⟨p. 67⟩poor, than not to be honest and upright: For riches profit not at the day of wrath, but righteousness delivereth from death, Prov. 11. 4.

3. Consider that all the ways and works of unrighteousness, though acted never so secretly and cunningly, shall one day be made manifest to all the world. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil, Eccles. 12. 14. At the great day of Judgment, whereof Solomon had made mention before, all the ways and works of wickedness, all the deceits of men, though never so closely committed, shall be discovered to the view of all. And therefore the day of Judgment is called (