Durable riches. Two brief discourses, occasioned by the impoverishing blast of heaven, which the…

Bring ye all the Tithes into the Store house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of Hosts, if I will not Open you the Windows of Heaven, and pour you o•t a blessing, that there shall not be Room enough to Receive it; And I will Rebuke the Devourer for your soaks. Do many Devourers cause us to Loose our Stores: It may make us Enquire, whether we have not pinched in what Concerns the Stores that are necessary to keep the House of God from Sinking. 'Tis impossible that the Ordinances belonging to the House of God should be carried on without Charges; and every man to whom God has given any of His Talents, does owe something proportionable, for the maintaining of these Charges. The Opened Windows of Heaven use to let fall a pour of Blessings on those that are most Open handed in such a Piety. Whereas, I can tell of a Country in the world, where the Unavoidable Charges of the Gospel, have been accounted the heaviest of burdens, by very many of the Inhabitants; and at length, God gave them to see, that by his browns only upon One Expedition, He could in a few Weeks make them Loose more than would ⟨p. 11⟩have honourably Defrayed all the Ecclesiastical Expenses in the Land for several Years together. There needs not much of Geography to find such a Country; plainly, 'tis, My Own. It is among the Oracles of Wisdom, There is that withholds more than is meet, and it tendeth to Poverty. To withhold from the Service of God, and of His Truths, & Ways, those Quitrents which are Challenged by Him, who does give us All that we have; This is to withhold more than is meet. Let us then Consider, Is not my Sacrilege the cause of my Poverty? We Loose what we have, when we go to Keep what we should not. But,

Bring ye all the Tithes into the Store house, and pr•ve me now herewith, saith the Lord of Hosts, if I will not Open you the Windows of Heaven, and pour you o•t a blessing, that there shall not be Room enough to Receive it; And I will Rebuke the Devourer for your s•kes. Do many Devourers cause us to Loose our Stores: It may make us Enquire, whether we have not pinch'd in what Concerns the Stores that are necessary to keep the House of God f•om Sinking. 'Tis impossible that the Ordinances belonging to the House of God should be carried on without Charges; and every man to whom God has given any of His Talents, does owe something proportionable, for the maintaining of these Charges. The Opened Windows of Heaven use to let fall a pour of Blessings on those that are most Open handed in such a Piety. VVhereas, I can tell of a Countey in the world, where the Unavoidale Charges of the Gospl, have been accounted the heaviest of urdens, by very many of the Inhabitants; and at length, God gave them to see, that by his browns only upon One Expedition, He could in a few Weeks make them Loose more than would