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

Though for the present thou mayst please thy self with thine ill-gotten goods, yet if ever thy Conscience be enlightened, and made sensible of the evil of sin, thou wilt find no quiet therein, till thou hast made restitution. Ill-gotten goods will be to thy Conscience, as the Canaanites were to that good Land: It is said, the Land groaned till it had spewed them out. So thy Conscience will travel with grief, till it be delivered of thine ill-gotten goods. Seneca tells us of a Philosopher at Athens, who having bought a pair of Shoes upon trust, and afterwards hearing that the Shoo-maker was dead, flattered himself, for a while, with a conceit, that the Money due for the Shoes was his own, and that he should never be called upon for the same. But his Conscience being afterwards awakened, he was so terrified with the thought of his injustice, that as one affrighted, he ran with all speed to the mans Shop, and finding the door shut, he flung the Money in at the Window, saying, Though the good man be dead, yet the Money is due from me. If an Heathen made such conscience of restoring what was another's, and not his own; how much more shouldst thou, who art a Christian, make Conscience of restoring whatsoever thou hast stolen, or fraudulently gotten from another, and doth not properly belong unto thee?

Though for the present thou mayst please thy self with thine ill-gotten goods, yet if ever thy Conscience be enlightened, and made sensible of the evil of sin, thou wilt find no quiet therein, till thou hast made restitution. Ill-gotten goods will be to thy Conscience, as the Canaanites were to that good Land: It is said, the Land groaned till it had spewed them out. So thy Conscience will travel with grief, till it be delivered of thine ill-gotten goods. Seneca tells us of a Philosopher at Athens, who having bought a pair of Shooes upon trust, and afterwards hearing that the Shoo-maker was dead, flattered himself, for a while, with a conceit, that the Money due for the Shooes was his own, and that he should never be called upon for the same. But his Conscience being afterwards awakened, he was so terrified with the thought of his injustice, that as one affrighted, he ran with all speed to the mans Shop, and finding the door shut, he flung the Money in at the Window, saying, Though the good man be dead, yet the Money is due from me. If an Heathen made such conscience of restoring what was anothers, and not his own; how much more shouldst thou, who art a Christian, make Conscience of restoring whatsoever thou hast stoln, or fraudulently gotten from another, and doth not properly belong unto thee?