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…

But great reason for rich and poor to trust in God, who is a Good able to replenish the Soul, to help it in greatest extremities, true and faithful in all his promises; and truth is the ground of trust. No attribute of God, which the Soul may not rest upon. His eternity, he will never fail me, in him there is everlasting strength: His immensity, I have him ever with me: His omniscience, I want nothing but he knows it: His omnipotence, I suffer nothing but he can rebuke it: His wisdom, he can order every condition to my Good. If I do my duty in the use of means, I may comfortably venture on his blessing for an happy issue. He is a living God, he ever abides; is a Fountain of Life ¹to his poor servants; all that is desirable is comprised in this one word Life: What ever we delight in as good, is in order to the support, or to the comfort of life. Now riches can neither give life, nor preserve it, nor restore it: A mans life stands not in his abundance, then there would be no poor man alive. It is not our Bread, but Gods Word of Blessing which feeds us, and that Blessing ²he can give to Pulse, and withdraw from Quails. Riches perish, but God lives; Riches sometimes make us to perish, but God makes us live. A thief can take away my Gold, but who can take away my God? what hath a rich man if he have not God? and what wants a poor man, if he have God? An Acre of Land, and a Shepherds Cottage in the South, with the warmth and benignity of the ⟨p. 27⟩Sun, is better then Twenty thousand Acres, and a stately Palace under the North Pole. Better be in a Wilderness with God, then in a Canaan without him. If thy presence go not with us said Moses, carry us not up hence, Exod. 33. 15.

But great reason for rich and poor to trust in God, who is a Good able to replenish the Soul, to help it in greatest extremities, true and faithful in all his promises; and truth is the ground of trust. No attribute of God, which the Soul may not rest upon. His eternity, he will never fail me, in him there is everlasting strength: His immensity, I have him ever with me: His omniscience, I want nothing but he knows it: His omnipotence, I suffer nothing but he can rebuke it: His wisdom, he can order every condition to my Good. If I do my duty in the use of means, I may comfortably venture on his blessing for an happy issue. He is a living God, he ever abides; is a Fountain of Life