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…

Neither doth he forbid the use of such lawful means, by which, through Gods blessing thereupon they may be rich. We must maintain honest trades for necessary uses, Tit. 3. 14. We must be industrious in them, that we have lack of nothing, 1 Thes. 4. 11, 12. It is true, in every estate, as well of want as plenty, we must be content, Phil. 4. 11. (for there is a rich discontent as well as a poor) We may not will, resolve, conclude upon it, that ⟨p. 12⟩whatever come of it, by any means by which it may be effected, we will be rich, 1 Tim. 6. 9. We may say so of grace and glory, whatever pains or danger it cost me, I will venture all for grace; but not so for riches; they are not absolutely and per se good; and therefore not simply to be desired. We may not seek great things to our selves; they who have most need of them, may not greatly multiply them to themselves, Deut. 17. 17. Cyrus ¹esteemed himself more rich in the hearts and love of his people, then in his Exchequer, as he told Croesus. We may be more rich in a narrow estate, with Gods Blessing, then many wicked men are in the midst of their abundance, Psa. 37. 16. As a man may be rich in bonds, who hath but little money in hand; so may a good man be rich in promises, who is but narrow in possessions. He forbids Treasures of unrighteousness, Micah 6. 10. Hab. 2. 6, 9. Jere. 22. 13. He forbids misplacing of Treasures, making our hearts the repositories of them,