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2. Here is Comfort for you. If you can truly say, I have nothing that of right belongs to others; I can truly assure you, that many Blessings do of right belong to you. Whether you have much or little, a Blessing is in it. Better is a little with Righteousness, than great Revenues without Right, Prov. 16. 8. Perhaps your Estate is but little, little to what it might have been, if you had taken the indirect Courses, which some of your Neighbours have done: But your little is better than their Revenues, yea than the Riches of many Wicked, Psal. 37. 16. You adorn the Gospel, and the Gospel will crown you: Your Posterity shall, if it be good for them, flourish; when theirs shall be brought to a Morsel of Bread: For the righteous God loveth Righteousness, and doth usually in this Life reward the Upright. However he that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly, he that despiseth the Gain of Oppressions,—he shall dwell on High.—Thine Eyes shall see the King in ⟨p. 127⟩his Beauty, they shall behold the Land that is very far off, Isa. 33. 15. &c.

3. But if God or Man, or your own Consciences can prove you unrighteous and unconscionable in your Dealings, that care not how you get Wealth, so that you have it; nor whom you wrong, so that you can do it cleverly; let these Lines help to convict you, let these Words sink into your Hearts. Happy ye would be, but this is not the way to it: this only is the way to accursed Riches; you build your House upon a Quick-sand; Jerem. 17. 11. As the Partridge sitteth on Eggs, and hatcheth them not: So he that getteth Riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his Days, and at his End shall be a Fool. He was a Fool all along, but he shall find at last that he is a Fool. And though the Sword of Justice never reach you, nor any Man's Eye find you out; yet that Scripture will follow and overtake you,