explained and recommended. 383 and fit up late, and eat the bread of forrows ; S E R M. for this they fubmit to inceffant toil, and, XV. generally fpeaking, the more fuccefsful they are, flill they become the more folicitous, and the more diligent. And it is as plain that thefe lufts ruling in the human mind corrupt it, and directing the general tenor of a man's life they form a charaéter con- trary to what St. Paul, in the text, claimeth for himfelf and his fellow difciples of Chrift, rejoicing in it, and to what he elfewhere calleth a converfation in heaven. The ten- dency and the effea of them rifeth no high- er than this prefent world, and they termi- nate not in the rational and virtuous, but in the merely animal life ; as the apoftle yohn in other words explaineth the fame doc- trine, the lull of the eyes, and the pride of life, that is, the prevailing delire of wealth, and of power, and honour, is the love of the world, inconfiftent with the love of the fa- ther, or pure and fincere religion. Not but wealth and power may be improved to the purpofes of piety and virtue, and for that end, may be lawfully, if they be mode- rately, defired and purfued ; indeed it is from this capacity that they derive their belt ap- pearance, and the chief pretence by which the profecution of them is juftified to the mind
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