The Evil and Folly of Covetoufnefs. 299 introduáion dependeth our condition of ex- S ER m. iftence hereafter. Life alto is the effential XL foundation of enjoyment in the whole com- `v-4 pars of it, and all its various kinds. On the contrary, the dead know not any thing; their hatred, and love, and envy, are pe- rifhed, neither have they a portion in any thing that is done under the fun; there is no labour, no wifdom, nor device, in the grave; to all the purpofes either of good or evil in this world, or of preparation for ano- ther, the opportunity is loft when life end - eth, and is never to be recovered. What I have faid on this head is I think fuffici- ent to the prefent purpofe, that is, to give us fuch a notion of life as may enable us to judge whether it confifteth in, or if the ends of it have any neceffary dependance on, the abundance of his riches which are the things here meant that a man poffef- feth. And that it doth not, I fhall next endeavour to fhew. Firft, that the being and prefervation of life doth not confift in nor bath any depen- dence on thefe things, every one mutt be fen - fible. No man imagineth that riches con- tributed to his exiftence, or that they are effential to the human conftitution ; not one power of nature is either the more or the S lefs
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