God's terrible voice in the city

1. In getting: what eager desires after the world, and their obtaining an estate by their trades? What studies and consultations, what wracking the brains, and torturing the wits, to find out the best way of thriving in the world? ⟨p. 167⟩what earnest prosecutions have there been, and laborious endeavours, rising up early, and sitting up late, and wearying the body, and the mind all the day, eating the bread of carefulness, and mingling the drink with solicitousness, crowding up the whole time with worldly business, so that their own health hath been disregarded, as well as the worship of God neglected in the families of these worldlings; and all to scrape a little worldly riches together which some have mist of, notwithstanding all their endeavours: and if they have obtained, yet they have remained more poor in contentment, than when they were more poor in their estates? for as their estates have increased, so their desires have increased and been farther off from satisfaction; as they have enlarged their shops and trades; and wealth hath flowed in upon them; so they have enlarged their desires like Hell, and like the Grave have never said It is enough: when they have added bag to bag, and house to house, the more cares, and fears, and sometimes piercing sorrows have accompanied their gains; but far have they been from finding the contentment and comfort in their riches that they looked for.

1. In getting: what eager desires after the world, and their obtaining an estate by their trades? What studies and consultations, what wracking the brains, and torturing the wits, to find out the best way of thriving in the world? ⟨p. 167⟩what earnest prosecutions have there been, and laborious endeavours, rising up early, and sitting up late, and wearying the body, and the mind all the day, eating the bread of carefulness, and mingling the drink with sollicitousness, crouding up the whole time with worldly business, so that their own health hath been disregarded, as well as the worship of God neglected in the families of these worldlings; and all to scrape a little worldly riches together which some have mist of, notwithstanding all their endeavours: and if they have obtained, yet they have remained more poor in contentment, than when they were more poor in their estates? for as their estates have increased, so their desires have increased and been farther off from satisfaction; as they have enlarged their shops and trades; and wealth hath flowed in upon them; so they have enlarged their desires like Hell, and like the Grave have never said It is enough: when they have added bag to bag, and house to house, the more cares, and fears, and sometimes piercing sorrows have accompanied their gains; but far have they been from finding the contentment and comfort in their riches that they looked for.