The rich mans charge delivered in a sermon at the Spittle upon Monday in…The rich mans charge delivered in a sermon at the Spittle vpon Monday in…

And it is a laying up for our selves. Men lay up usually for others; their Children, their Heirs and Executors meet with it at the last; but works of mercy are all expended upon a mans self, he hath the comfort here, and the reward hereafter. It is money lent to God, and he will repay it to our selves. In Law, he which sows must reap; and so says the Apostle, He that soweth bountifully, shall reap bountifully. Quas dederis solas semper habebisopes.

And it is a laying up for our selves. Men lay up usually for others; their Children, their Heirs and Executors meet with it at the last; but works of mercy are all expended upon a mans self, he hath the comfort here, and the reward hereafter. It is money lent to God, and he will repay it to our selves. In Law, he which sows must roap; and so says the Apostle, He that soweth bountifully, shall reap bountifully. Quas dederis solas semper habebisopes.

And it is laying up a Foundation, a way to make our uncertain riches ^asure and stable, that whereas other riches take unto them wings and fly away, those which are thus laid out, are laid up, as safe, as unmoveable as the Stones of a Foundation, as the bottom of a Rock. A Foundation not by way of merit towards God, but by way of evidence in regard of our selves, as Testimonies of our reconciliation and peace with God. A Learned Writer ^bmakes [Greek or Hebrew] to answer to the Hebrew [Greek or Hebrew], which is the Bond or Instrument, securing to a Creditor the money which ⟨p. 46⟩he hath lent. [Greek or Hebrew] is Bona nomina facere; God becomes surety for the poor to repay us there, where neither rust, nor moth, nor thief can enter.

And it is laying up a Foundation, a way to make our uncertain riches ^a