Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment. By Thomas Vincent, sometime Minister of Maudlins…

9. Come forth all ye Covetous Persons, whose treasure, & heart, and hope, and confidence hath been in earthly things; who have made the world your God, desiring, and loving, & delighting, and trusting in your wealth and riches, as if they could yield the most contentment, and be the best defence unto you: whose greatest thoughts, and care, and labour have been spent about getting and keeping an estate and portion in the world, with little heart to use it for your selves, much less for the good of others, and glory of God that gave it: Did you not know that covetousness was Idolatry? and that no Idolater shall have any admittance into the new Jerusalem? Did you not know that the love of the world was inconsistent with the love of the Father? had you such mean thoughts of God, that you chose the world before him? were the riches of grace of so small esteem, that you preferred earthly riches? had the treasures in heaven no more worth in your account, that you should neglect and disregard them, and make choice rather of treasures on earth? When you had tried the world, and found it vain and empty, would you still set your heart upon it? when you felt such thorny cares, and piercing sorrows in your eager prosecution of this world, could not this damp and deaden your affection to it? when your own and others riches sometimes suddenly took flight as upon an Eagles wing, of desire after them? did you not foresee how naked and bare death would strip you of all: and yet would nothing wean your whorish heart from the love of the world? were you never told that riches could not profit you in the day of wrath? is not all your wealth consumed now? treasures there indeed prepared for you▪ […] they are treasures of wrath which your sins have deserved. Take them Devils bind them hand and foot.

9. Come forth all yee Covetous Persons, whose treasure, & heart, and hope, and confidence hath been in earthly things; who have made the world your God, desiring, and loving, & delighting, and trusting in your wealth and riches, as if they could yield the most contentment, and be the best defence unto you: whose greatest thoughts, and care, and labour have been spent about getting and keeping an estate and portion in the world, with little heart to use it for your selves, much less for the good of others, and glory of God that gave it: Did you not know that covetousness was Idolatry? and that no Idolater shall have any admittance into the new Jerulasem? Did you not know that the love of the world was inconsistent with the love of the Father? had you such mean thoughts of God, that you chose the world before him? were the riches of grace of so small esteem, that you preferred earthly riches? had the treasures in heaven no more worth in your account, that you should neglect and disregard them, and make choice rather of treasures on earth? When you had tried the world, and found it vain and empty, would you still set your heart upon it? when you felt such thorny cares, and piercing sorrows in your eager prosecution of this world, could not this damp and deaden your affection to it? when your own and others riches sometimes suddenly took flight as upon an Eagles wing, of desire after them? did you not foresee how naked and bare death would strip you of all: and yet would nothing wean your whorish heart from the love of the world? were you never told that riches could not profit you in the day of wrath? is not all your wealth consumed now? treasures there indeed prepared for you they are treasures of wrath which your sins have deserved. Take them Devils bind them hand and foot.