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Furthermore, Gold is a Durable Metal. Tho' the Bible affirms that it is Corruptible, and ••• kerable, and Perishing, yet there is a mighty Strength to be ascribed unto it. It will endure the hottest Fire with small or no Dimin•••on▪ and Aqua-fortis it self will not eat into it. ••ch ⟨p. 92⟩an Enduring thing is a good man. His Character is that in Matth. 24. 13. He shall endure to the end. No Fire, no Water, no Vexation shall consume his Devotion. He is the Overcomer, whom neither the Flattery nor the Fury, neither the Frowning nor the Fawning of any Tempter can dissolve the Religion of.

Moreover, Gold is a Ponderous Metal. Even Lead it self in its weight, is to Gold as far short as Sixty is of an Hundred; if I mistake it not. Such is the Quality, such the Gravity of a good man. A godly man is a Weighty man. Tis said in Prov. 12. 26. A righteous man is more excellent than his neighbour. One such man will weigh down multitudes and myriads of other men. His being a pondering man, it soon makes him become ponderous man. His unconverted Neighbourhood may own of him, Thou art worth ten thousand of us.

Finally Gold is a precious Metal. Its precious for the Use which tis of in Nature. Rich Cordials and Medicines are to be extracted from it. Its precious also for the Price which tis of in Esteem; the Auri sacra fames, the unhallowed Appetite which men crave it with, prefers it above all common things. Tis in Scripture-phrase a precious thing indeed, of which it might be said, It is more precious than gold. But of a good man might such a thing be spoken: it may be said of such a man, as in