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 Foundation [Greek or Hebrew] for the time to come, for the life to come, when none of our glory will follow us. Wealth hath wings, it is here to day, it is gone to morrow; but goods are a Bank in Heaven, when all other mens wealth doth stay behind them, and betake themselves to other Masters; A good Mans being turned into good works, doth follow him, and enrich him in a life to come.

And it is a Foundation 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 for the time to come, for the life to come, when none of our glory will follow us. Wealth hath wings, it is here to day, it is gone to morrow; but goodes are a Bank in Heaven, when all other mens wealth doth stay behinde them, and betake themselves to other Masters; A good Mans being turned into good works, doth follow him, and enrich him in a life to come.

And this life to come, a life which may be held, a life which can never be lost, when the last general conflagration shall have consumed and melted all the Treasures of the World, our good works will abide that trial; the inheritance unto which they follow us, is incorruptible and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in the Heavens for us.

And now Right Honourable and Beloved, to give you all in one view, You have heard the Charge of the God of Heaven, to the Rich men of the Earth: It is my Petition, it is his Command. I beseech you, he enjoins you, Not to be high minded; not to let that which comes from the deep places of the Earth, exalt you, and make you forget that you are Earth; not to let the thick Clay make the thin Dust proud. It cannot add a cubit to your stature, let it not add so great a sin to your Souls: It is gift, it is not property; ⟨p. 47⟩