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And then for those you envy, you know not the Burdens they lie under; you see their seeming Happiness, but you see not their real Miseries: You envy their brave Houses, but you see not the Cares, the Fears, and Discontents that commonly lodge within them; you are vexed at the bravery of their Apparel, but you would pity them, if you knew the Diseases that are under it. Their Cares and Troubles are proportionable to their Estates, and so are their Temptations. A wise Man would not have their Estates a Year, for the Temptations they have in an Hour; Temptations to Pride, to Flesh-pleasing, to Covetousness, to Atheism: What Fuel do their Estates lay up for these Sins? And then the greatness of their Account, and the imminent danger they are in of missing Heaven at last, makes their Condition to require your Compassion, rather than your Emulation. Therefore, Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the Glory ⟨p. 177⟩of his House is increased: For when he dieth, he shall carry nothing away, his Glory shall not descend after him: Psal. 49. 16. He that rejoices in another's Prosperity, makes it his own; he that envies at it, robs himself of what he has to no purpose.

And then for those you envy, you know not the Burdens they lie under; you see their seeming Happiness, but you see not their real Miseries: You envy their brave Houses, but you see not the Cares, the Fears, and Discontents that commonly lodg within them; you are vext at the bravery of their Apparel, but you would pity them, if you knew the Diseases that are under it. Their Cares and Troubles are proportionable to their Estates, and so are their Temptations. A wise Man would not have their Estates a Year, for the Temptations they have in an Hour; Temptations to Pride, to Flesh-pleasing, to Covetousness, to Atheism: What Fuel do their Estates lay up for these Sins? And then the greatness of their Account, and the imminent danger they are in of missing Heaven at last, makes their Condition to require your Compassion, rather than your Emulation. Therefore, Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the Glory ⟨p. 177⟩of his House is increased: For when he dieth, he shall carry nothing away, his Glory shall not descend after him: