210 Get:erall dircltions far 4 honefl Traveller, in giving his purfe toan arrant thicfe ; for fèare pee fhould loofe both purfe and life. Is filch a man willing,thinke you, to lofe his money ? Or like thewill of a man, whofehoule being on fire, plucks downe part there- ofto fave the reft ; willingIy indeede as the cafe hands with him, yet not fimply, but upon neceffity. So the borrowers will isnotfree, but forced ; and fo a will againftwill. 2. With an infinite difdaine, and refòlute contempt ab. horre toget fo much asone farthing all the dayes of thy life, by any wicked means or wrong doing. Doe not plague thy preterit outward lbw, be it little or much ;neither empol- fon it to the poflerity, by any addition unto it ; by ufury, bribery, fymony, facriledge, healing, grinding the faces of the poor; oppreffion, lying, falfehoodes, forfwearings, over-reaching trickes of wit, cozening, cunning convei& ances, &c. I. Thereby thou (halt defperately fall into the revenging handsof an angry God : divine vengeance will dogge thee hard,andcontinually at theheels of thy deflruí&ion.. Which is incomparably a greater plague then extrenaeft beggery, and the bitterrefl confluence of all themolt vexing outward miferies in the world. Let no mar, faithS. Paul, gar: beyond and defraud his brother in any manner, becaufè that the Lord is the avenger ofall filch, 7144.6. 2. Secondly, a little ill got, naturally accompaniedwith Gods curfe, may fo empoyfon thy whole inheritanceandall the refs of thygoods, that it may prove like a dead Flye in aboxe ofprecious ointment; a fparke of fire in the thatch;. a ftrong incentive todivine lattice, not onely to gate up all honefl comfort in outward things, but alto to oonfume and aSea áiauruseft, walte all thy wealth : Nay, and fith immoderate delire of llabeo firos,GO_ enriching and railing his' pofterity, is the keenefi fpurre to bus laborem,ha his unconfcionable hoarding ; even to cur off aifo many ffieo quibus pro - 9pictam; habeo times the cruell worldling himfeife, and cafe him out ofthe qutbus cacao) maxiinam geramCZuam curaro geris fihorum, ut cos obrtus lacbrymis miferorutn ? Noneft hoe riösaraare, fed potiìts isc are. 9ttguff, TOM ro<,pa.g. 7oz. world
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