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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…
The rich mans charge delivered in a sermon at the Spittle upon Monday in Easter week, 12 April 1658, before the lord major, &c., by Edw. Reynolds.The rich mans charge delivered in a sermon at the Spittle vpon Monday in Easter week, 12 April 1658, before the lord major, &c., by Edw. Reynolds.
London: printed by Tho. Newcomb for George Thomason, 1658
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
That they trust not in uncertain Riches] By which, first, he giveth us a plain intimation, That rich men are naturally apt and prone to trust in their riches; as it is said of Doeg, that he did not make God his strength, but trusted in the multitude of his riches, Psal. 52. 7. And Solomon telleth us, ⟨p. 23⟩That the rich mans wealth is his strong Tower, and an high Wall in his own conceit, Prov. 18. 11. As Thrasylaus by a melancholy fancy judged all the 1ships in the Harbour at Athens to be his; so a rich man judgeth all the safety and security, that the World can afford to be his own, because he hath that unum magnum which will help in the sorest extremities. Every man is conscious to himself, both of his wants and of his dangers; what good he is defective in, what evil he is exposed to: And therefore doth what he can for assistance to procure the good he wants, and to repel the evil he fears; and of all assistances, he looketh upon this as the surest, because money answers unto all. The Fool in the Gospel promised himself, Ease, long life, many years, to eat, to drink, to be merry, and all in the confidence of his riches, Luke 12. 19. How many men trust their wealth to uphold their wickedness, and lean upon them while they fall from God? How many take a liberty of violence, rapine, cruelty, oppression, luxury, profaneness, because they think their wealth will be an advocate and a varnish unto all? How many, if Christ and Mammon should come into competition, would say as Amaziah did, What shall I do for the hundred Talents? Arduares haec est opibus non tradere mores. So hard a thing is it not to give up our souls into captivity to our wealth. But
That they trust not in uncertain Riches] By which, first, he giveth us a plain intimation, That rich men are naturally apt and prone to trust in their riches; as it is said of Doeg, that he did not make God his strength, but trusted in the multitude of his riches, Psal. 52. 7. And Solomon telleth us, ⟨p. 23⟩