of Temporal Potions. 345 your hands to get wifdom and to get hap- S E R tit. pinefs, you have your matter's goods corn- XII. mitted to your truft, occupy with them in ``Y""j expectation of his coming : Do not hide them in the earth, nor wafle them riot - oufly, for he will come to call you to ac- count. The third obfervation, is, that the things of this world committed to our truft are not our own, but the property of another; but the gifts of God, granted as the reward of our improving them faithfully, have a nearer and more immediate relation to ourfelves, and a ftriet infeparable connection with our happinefs. Ver. 12, and if you bave not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own? The things which are faid to be another's, are, the unrighteous mammon, and others like it ; God is the fovereign proprietor of them, difpenfing them, not as a judge, but as an abfolute Lord, to whom, and in what mea- fores he thinketh fit, and, in fame fenfe, for the common benefit of mankind, the imme- diate poffeffors being only truflees account- able to him ; they are foreign to the confti- tution of the human nature, and their ufe- fulnefs to it is only accidental and temporary : 13ut the other goods, virtuous integrity and the favour
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