SSg &f thomiferieswhich accompany worldlythine. being taken likeabird, when withanhungrie cie he behol- deth thebakeofearthlythings, he is vewittingly flrangled with the fnare offin. Hence alto it is thatcouetoufnes by the s:Tim.6.ao, Apoflieis laid tobe theroot ofall culli; and byanother it is Bien. Sophifa calledthe metropolis,or mother chicofallvice andwicked- apud Stob£um. neffe, becaufe where it is intertained, thither altoall manner of fin relorteth, and as it were keepeth continualt tearme. In regard ofwhich finsvfually accompanying riches, inrefpe& of the vnlawfull meanes which are ordinarily vfcd in their viuet fl;,,. getting, one doubteth not toaffirme that a rich man isvn- quas,aut iniqui righteous himfelfe,or the heireofonewhich is unrighteous: keres.Hitron. which though it be notalwaies fo, yet it leldome faileth in infers. thofe who immoderately louing wealth, refoluewith them- (clues that they will be rich; and making halle to fatisfie their greedie delire with all poflìble(peed, doe in (mortrime ac- complith that theywith : for as hidden fulne(fe and fatne(fe is anvndoubted ligneofthe ill difpofition of the bodie; fo when as aman fuddenly waxeth great,and(as I may fay)fat in his flate,byordinarie meanes,andby hisowne induflrie and labour, it is an argument more thenprobable,that his mind is full ofthegrolfe humours offin.Oftheformer the Apoflle a.Tia+.6.91o. faith, that they who willberich (that is,pitchand refolue vpon it) fallintomany tentations andfnaret, and intomany fooGß7and noyfome lusts, which drawmen intoperdition and deflruflion, becaufe the defireof money is the root o fallend. And ofthe o- Prou.a.S.ao.aa. they, the Wifeman tel leth v=, that hewho maketh hafte to be Ecclefialieus rich, /ball not be innocent ; and that hewhohaftethTinto richer, 3%c. hark an euilleye: for as the Author ofthebooke of Wifdome Wi(J. t f.r x. faith, tbcy make their whole conuerfarina to be Ant as a marls where there is -aine; and they refolue with themfelues and doubt not tofpeake it, that theyot« ht tobee petrinQ on emery fide, thonQh itbe by end! meanes. Yea this the Heathen man Menanderín could difcerne by thelight ofnature ;There is noman (faith Colar. apud hè) fudderlymade richlining iuflly ; for a iufl man increa- Srobæuro' feth his wealth bylittle and litde,rhrough fparing frugality; but he that treacherouflyliethin wait for thofe goods NNhich etherspoffefle, doth forthwith feaze onall, andallatonce becdmethrich.Nowwhat greater miferiecan there be,then to
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