Heaven taken

1. It is deceitful; our Saviour calls it, [Greek or Hebrew], The deceitfulness of Riches, Mat. 13. The world promiseth happiness, but performeth nothing less. It promiseth ⟨p. 82⟩us Rachel, but puts us off with blear-eyed Leah: it promiseth to satisfy our desires, but it increaseth them: it gives poisoned Pills, but wraps them in Sugar.

1. It is deceitful; our Saviour calls it, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, The deceitfulness of Riches, Mat. 13. The world promiseth happines, but performeth nothing less. It promiseth ⟨p. 82⟩us Rachel, but puts us off with blearey'd Leah: it promiseth to satisfie our desires, but it increaseth them: it gives poison'd Pills, but wraps them in Sugar.

2. It is defiling, Jam. 1. 17. Pure Religion is to keep himself unspotted from the world. As if the Apostle would intimate, that the world is good for nothing but to spot: it spots first mens consciences, and then their names. It is called [Greek or Hebrew], filthy lucre, 1 Pet. 5. 7. because it makes men so filthy. They will damn themselves to get the world. Ahab would have Naboth's Vineyard, though he swum to it in blood.

2. It is defiling, Jam. 1. 17. Pure Religion is to keep himself unspotted from the world. As if the Apostle would intimate, that the world is good for nothing but to spot: it spots first mens consciences, and then their names. It is called , filthy lucre,