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

Take heed therefore, O young man, of seeking to enrich thy self by any unwarrantable ways: What thou gettest thereby, may prove to thee as the Flesh that the Eagle catched from the Altar, and carried to her Nest, which having a live coal cleaving to it, set Nest and young ones on fire. The Curse of God is like a secret Moth, eating into such an estate as is got by fraud and deceit.

Take heed therefore, O young man, of seeking to inrich thy self by any unwarrantable ways: What thou gettest thereby, may prove to thee as the Flesh that the Eagle catched from the Altar, and carried to her Nest, which having a live coal cleaving to it, set Nest and young ones on fire. The Curse of God is like a secret Moth, eating into such an estate as is got by fraud and deceit.

6. Without restitution of goods ill got, there can be no true repentance, nor hope of pardon. Restitution is an hard work, as necessary as it is: the meat that goeth pleasantly down, costs some deadly pangs in the vomiting up. Whatever unrighteous gains thou swallowest up, it must be restored, or 'twill cost thee thy life. Lay not up such an unrighteous Treasure, which will certainly put thee to the pain of restitution, or damnation. If thou be able, thou must restore or die: if thou be not able to restore, thou must repent or die; and the pangs of thy repentance may be much more bitter, than thy unrighteous gains were ever pleasant to thee.

Be wise, O young man, and consider, if it be so hard for thee to hold thy hands from unlawful gettings, how much harder will it be to shake thy hands of them, when thou hast them. The few instances that ever we hear of, of restitution made (in an age of so much unrighteousness) do abundantly evidence, that 'tis hard work to restore.