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VE
R.5.
ephefians,Chap.
5.
599
unbelief::
in
God
and
confidence
in
the
meanes
:
for
as
it
excludeth
negligence, which tempreth
God
; fo
that double
diligence
in
which
the
heart refleth
withdrawne from
God.This
is a
leeret which bring
-
eth many within the compaffe of covetoufneffe,this doing
fo
much
that they think
all
Lure
enough without looking to
God;
and
therefore
Ecclef4.8.
this
is
made
to
decipher
a
covetous mifer,
there
isno
end
to
bú
travail,
he
hath more irons
in
the
fire
then he
can turne to
:
and
this
is a
truth
in
Chriftian experience,that
multiplying outward means
exceffively
in
any kind,
goeth with
diflruft
in
God
and
confidence in
the flelh. Looke
as
one
that
is
alwayes
getting crutches,
his
deed faith
hecannot goe alone: So
a
man
that
is
alwayes
in
this or
that
meane
of
health or wealth, proclaimeth
that
his
truft
Godward
is
exceeding
lame.
It
alike
fighteth with faith to negleót meanes
,
and
fo
to tempt
God,as
to multply
meanes and reft
there
,
the heart not lifted up
to
God.
And
as
there
cares
&double diligence,fowant
of
love
in
our
dea-
lings
makeih
us
finfull feekers
of
wealth
and
covetous:
as
when
I care
not
how another
is
pinched,
fo
I
make
a
good
hand my felfe
:
This for
the
unrighteous
feeking
which difcovereth covetoufneffe.
Now
the
keeping
is
more eafy, for it will
make
a
man
for the love
of
money de-
ny himfelfe and
othersthe
reliefe
they
fhould have
:
the
firft is
often
Peen, as
Ecclef..4.8.
but that
is
not alwayes, there may
be a
covetous
glutton:
bur
the latter
is
alwayes, for
a
covetous man,
though
he
may
give
a
little
of
his
fuperfiuity,
yet will
never open his hand
to
due re-
lieving
others
diflrefl'ed:
thus
the
covetous Pharifees, our Saviourfor
this covetous humour
doth
every where
tax them,Lake
t r.39:4t.Luke
z
2.33.
Sell
that
ye
have
andgive
almes.
3.
Now
for the
third,
a
covetous humour
is
dete
led
by
want
of
Contentation:
for looke fo farre
as
thou dollnot
tea
contented
in
that
thou
haft, fo farre forth you
are
covetous:
Godlineffe
rc
gaine
with
[eelfe.
fufficiency.
Heb.
t
3.5.
Letyour conversation
be
without
covetou
fne(je,and
be
content
with
(acb
things
ac you
have; for
this lingring and having
months mindsafter this,
and
that,
new proje&s
11111
before us, are
a
plaine covetous
converfation.
4.
We
may
fee it
by
our taking
of
loffes,for
a
covetous man
wilgrieve
more for
his
wealth gone, then forGods countenance eftranged.Hof.
7.14.
They howled upon
their
beds, they
affembled
themfeelves
for
corne
and
wine.
Look therefore,fo
much
as
our griefe or
joy
in
poffeffing
and
lofing thefe things
is
greater then
that
we have
for havenly
things,
prefent or abfent,fo
much
we are
overgrowne with covetoufneffeand
idolatrouslove
of
our
corruptible riches.
Now
for the
2.
Why
it is
idolatry. The anfwer
is
in
3.
regards.
z.
In
refpea
it hath the
heart,
the
thoughts,defires,
endeavours,
affe4
lions
run
that way; wherethe
treafure
is
,
there the heart
will be.
When riches increafe
set
net thy
heart
on
them.
a.
Becaufe
we
ferve
them;that
which
one
of
us
worlhippeth and
ferveth
is
our
God;
manytherfore
that
fay,
We
know money
is
but
re-
fined
earth,
we efteeme
as
barely
of
it
as
others;
all
thefe words will
not
Pfal.óa.so: