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…

2. In their Promises and Pretences; the fool promised himself long life, but was answered with an hac nocte. Many mens riches are like Israels Quails, promise meat, but bring a curse; like Ezekiels Book, Chap. 2. 10. 3. 3. Tastes like Honey, but is written with woes. Like Johns Role, Sweet ¹in the Mouth, but bitter in the Belly; like Belshazzer's Feast, Wine on the Table, and an Handwriting on the Wall. Achans Wedge of Gold, Gehazies Talents, Ahab's Vineyard, Jehoiakim's wide House, and large Chambers, were all but like the Queens Feast unto Haman, as poisoned dainties, sweet to the taste, but attended with Death. Beds of Ivory, Lambs of the Flock, Calves of the Stall, Instruments of Music, Wine in Bowls, Precious Ointments, all Comical Harbingers of a Tragical Catastrophe, They shall go captive with the first that go captive, Amos 6. 4, 7. Little reason to put trust in such false and uncertain things, which do not only lye and disappoint, but like a broken reed run into the arm of those that lean upon them, Kept to the hurt of ⟨p. 26⟩the owners of them, as the Wise man speaks, Eccles. 5. 13.

2. In their Promises and Pretences; the fool promised himself long life, but was answered with an hac nocte. Many mens riches are like Israels Quails, promise meat, but bring a curse; like Ezekiels Book, Chap. 2. 10. 3. 3. Tastes like Honey, but is written with woes. Like Johns Role, Sweet ¹in the Mouth, but bitter in the Belly; like Belshazzers Feast, Wine on the Table, and an Handwriting on the Wall. Achans Wedg of Gold, Gehazies Talents, Ahabs Vineyard, Jehoiakims wide House, and large Chambers, were all but like the Queens Feast unto Haman, as poysoned dainties, sweet to the taste, but attended with Death. Beds of Ivory, Lambs of the Flock, Calves of the Stall, Instruments of Musick, Wine in Bowls, Precious Oyntments, all Comical Harbingers of a Tragical Catastrophe, They shall go captive with the first that go captive,