• 8 Job l t.Lf• ~iC•>·!• e./1 Sermon preached - the rich ofthis wprld; in niaey oftheir caufes, when jullice, and equity' a~ Fight, and Go o, and good men, and a good ~onfcience and all forfakethe~ ,an yet yeeld they will pot,ia thepride of anhigh minde) they knbw;whcn.all oth ~and forfakea them,; their p11r.{e will fiand to them: and thither, ;Js to theirflrongejlefal~~= tton they fly, whenno~hmg.elfeco~fotts the.m. So that; when.they cannotin heart fay.to. Go o, Thot~ Art my hope,.rhexr matter xs fo bad they doe.fay ('ris he in 1 h > their Wedge ofgold; Vfell yet, 1h011 art my confidence. And furely, herhar cl'evif:rdto purfuerh an.unr,ight'e.ous ca~[e,becasifi his hand bathJI.reY!gth;rbat man may be artai~~ .., ned of the poxht. . 1\.,s agame xf any far, and fay wxthm truly (dtc, die, fed inttu d~, , (aith, 4ng~f!ine.j wxth all mr rzches, wuh allmy· fneri.~s, and all the meanes I caa make, I can doenothmga~amll the truth: w!1en aman xs fo mh_, that he is poore to doe evxll; [o wife, that.he 1S a foole to doe eyx!l; fo tmffeth m hxs rzches,that he dare not take an evxll ca~emhand, no !llOre than the poorefi commoner in the Citie. I dar,e difcharge that man th~ Cot!rt for this point.Oh beloved? thinkeofthefethings; and fccretly betwixt G 0 D and you, ufe rour [elves to tlus exammation: Sureif Goo be Go o, and xf there be any truthmH•m, you !ball findc great peace and comfort ih it at the la!l; i~'~"Con.. . · charge the rick, tb~t thej be not high mjnJeJ, nor tmjl, &c. And whynot high tie~{ ;::1~;:•· minded.< ~nd why not tmfl .< Inclulively rhe rea[on is added in thefe \;ords becaufe ~ p[ the iiflcertaiwtieof ricb_u• . ItJs Pautsreafon ; and it is Salomonstoo, \;ho knew :!':!'.·.'J·f, · petter what belotig.ed to rt~h~s; thanPtUtl or any other. Travel/ not too greedily for them, beJfow n.ot a,/1 thj wi{erlome 11pen them (faith he : ) for they hwe the wings if an · Eagle,and.wi/1 tqkethei'r}light of aj11dden. Such is Saint Paul's word here;the very · fame• We behold them, we hold them, they are here with us ; let us bur turne our · fdves allde a little,and looke for.them, and they are gone. It is, as if he Lhouldfay; ~!!~'~·.~f. Indeed ifwe couldpini6n the wings of oter riches,ifwe couldnailethem downef•H to 111, then werctherefome Oiew orlhadow, why we lhould repofe trztjlin them: But it is otherwifc; theyare exceeding tmcertaine; everi theharvejl of the water much above -:Jlltrades. Yea, I takeit, theMerc.lwJisconfetfefomuch, before they be aware: For, by this,he claimeth eobe allowed an extraordinary gaine, becaufehevcntureth his trafficke as 11ncertaine, and that he is driven tohazardand put inaventttrehisgoods t:ontinually,andmanytimeshis perfon, and ( romakehim a rightvcnttmr) many times hisJoule too; And, ifthey be not uncertaine, how commeth it then to palfe,' that rich men rhemfdves are fo uncertaine? that is, that they that were but the other day even a little before, of principal! credit, within awhile after, and a very ilwrt whileafrer,their bils will not betaken~ And if richesbenottmcertaim, what need they upon a night offouleweather, any Ajft~ranw upon the Exchange? Wh.tt need the Merchants have femritie one of another~ What need they, rohavethexr efratesfure, and fogood? fur::h afJtlrAnces and conveyanres, fo firong,yea?more Llrong than the wit ofq1an can devife, if both riches and menbe not uncertame? !know, they pretend themans mortalitie : but, they know,they meane many times, themor– talitie of hisri<besrarherthan himfelfe; or at theleafr, ofthe one as ofthe other. I will be judged by themfelves. , I would have you marke Saint Pa11l'smanner offpeech. Before, he called them, not rich, barely; bur, \Vith an addition,the rich ofthis world. Sure, it is rhought ofdxf– versofthe bell Writers both old and new (I name of the new, M'.. Calvm; ando the old, Saint Augufline) that this addition is adiminution; and that Jt xs (as 1t were) abarre, in the Armes ofall richmen; and that, even by that word, hee meanes to cn– thwireti1em,and(as I may fay)rocrythem down;fo,to makean entrance to h1s charge that men lhould not be too proud ofthem. For, beingofthis world, they mull needs favour ofthe[o·ile; be as this world is(that is)tran{itory,jickleanddewtfuU.Andnow, he comes in withriches a~~ine;and. will not pmit alone, ?ut c_allerh xt the zmcerw~ir tze of rtches. And I fee, xt xstheHolj Ghoft's fafiuon, nor-mthxs place onely, bur a along the Scriptures, to fpeakc nothing magnifically ofthe!ll, as the manner of th 1; ' worl( '
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