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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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2. Discontent is occasioned from Poverty. Poverty is a sore Temptation: [Greek or Hebrew], Menand. Prov. 30.29. Give me not Poverty. Many by their Sin have brought themselves to Poverty; and when a great Estate is boiled away to nothing, then they are discontented, and think better to die quickly, than languish in Misery. Hereupon the Devil helps them to dispatch themselves.
2. Discontent is occasioned from Poverty. Poverty is a sore Temptation: 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Menand. Prov. 30.29. Give me not Poverty. Many by their Sin have brought themselves to Poverty; and when a great Estate is boil'd away to nothing, then they are discontented, and think better to die quickly, than languish in Misery. Hereupon the Devil helps them to dispatch themselves.
3. Discontent is occasioned from Covetousness. Avarice is a dry Drunkenness, an Horseleech that is never satisfied. The Covetous Man is like Behemoth, Job 40.23. Behold he drinketh up a River, and yet his Thirst is not allayed. The covetous Miser hoards up Corn; and if he hears the Price of Corn begins to fall, then he is troubled, and there's no Cure for his Discontent but an Halter.
3. Discontent is occasion'd from Covetousness. Avarice is a dry Drunkenness, an Horseleech that is never satisfied. The Covetous Man is like Behemoth, Iob 40.23. Behold he drinketh up a River, and yet his Thirst is not allayed. The covetous Miser hoards up Corn; and if he hears the Price of Corn begins to fall, then he is troubled, and there's no Cure for his Discontent but an Halter.