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…

Let me add this one word more, Let not your riches make you low-minded neither, to glue your hearts, to bend your affections to things below: Let them make you heavenly-minded, and then they will make you humbly-minded; the more of Heaven in any mind, the more of Humility.

Let me adde this one word more, Let not your riches make you low-minded neither, to glew your hearts, to bend your affections to things below: Let them make you heavenly-minded, and then they will make you humbly-minded; the more of Heaven in any minde, the more of Humility.

Not to trust in riches, not to let his gifts be used to his own degrading: Who would trust in an unstable thing, which he cannot keep! Riches are uncertain; in a false thing which he cannot credit? Riches are deceitful; in a nothing, which ¹is not? He that trusts in riches, makes them an Idol, and an Idol is nothing in this world. Who would trust in a Dead Idol, that hath a Living God to trust in? who would trust in an useless nothing, who hath a Bountiful God, who gives all things to trust in?

1. 1Prov. 23. 5. 1 Cor. 8. 4.

You have another charge, To do good, to be rich in good works, to do them cheerfully, to do them diffusively: And though God might stop at the charge, his sovereignty and dominion would bear him out, to command you only; yet being full of love and mercy, he is pleased to encourage as well as command you. He encourageth you antecedenter, by that which goes before your duty, his own example; he encourageth you consequenter, by that which follows after your duty, his great reward, his example you have; he gives, you do