Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachi the…Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the…

¹It reproves the Avaricious Person, who instead of speaking of Heaven, talks of nothing but the World: the Farmer speaks of his Plough and Yoke of Oxen, the Tradesman of his Wares and Drugs; but not a word of God. John 3.31. He that is of the Earth speaketh of the Earth. Many are like the Fish in the Gospel that had Money in it's Mouth, Mat. 12.27. They talk only of Secular things, as if they Imagined to fetch happiness out of that Earth which God hath Cursed. Seneca being asked of what Country he was, answered he was [Greek or Hebrew], a Citizen of this World: we may know many to be Citizens of this ⟨p. 87⟩World, their speech bewrayeth them.— O curvae in terras animae, et caelestium inanes.

¹It reproves the Avaritious Person, who instead of speaking of Heaven, talks of nothing but the World: the Farmer speaks of his Plough and Yoak of Oxen, the Tradesman of his Wares and Drugs; but not a word of God. John 3.31. He that is of the Earth speaketh of the Earth. Many are like the Fish in the Gospel that had Money in it's Mouth, Mat. 12.27. They talk only of Secular things, as if they Imagined to fetch happiness out of that Earth which God hath Cursed. Seneca being asked of what Countrey he was, answered he was 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a Citizen of this World: we may know many to be Citizens of this ⟨p. 87⟩World, their speech bewrayeth them.— O curvae in terras animae, et caelestium inanes.

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