which worldly thingsbring to their owners. 733 !call couet them ; and where as couetous men by greedy 4aarun terra. hungring'after them,doe thew themiel ues balebeggers,and na afnrir ve drudging feruants; che faithiullby contemningthew, m ap-mrndicets,fi- roue themfelues to be theirmailers and true owners; the drla conrem- p nit lido beggeth in keeping them, the other kcepeth in con- nee, ;die poi. temning them. Neither let any manexcufe hisgreedyaua- denao mendi- rice in pinching his backeandbelly for the loueofhis gol- cat, ifie con_ den idol!, bypretending his charge of children; for God tennendo(er. neuer taughtan to rob himfelfe, to enrich his children, rn y fuper todepriue himfelfe ofnecelfaries,that hee maylcaue ca. Serm.zt. vnto them luperfluities, wherewith they may play the prodigals in riotous (pending them, as their predecef- fors haue plaíed the wretched miters, in greedygathering them; for theLordgiueth his giftes to bee enioyed by thole vponwhomeheebelloweth them ; and would haue that alone laid vp for poflerity, which may be honeflly andchrtllianly (pared from natural!, ciuill, and religious vies, taking vpon himfelfe thecare ofprouiding for po- fierity, when their predecetforscannot bylawfull means lay vp for them fuflltcient plenty. Againe,letthemremem- ber, that God hath not giuen them children tobee caufes orexcufes oftheir couctou[ielre, and therfore when they thus abufe them, as occalions to increafe their auarice, theymay iullly feare, that God in his difplcafurc will take them away, that Co depriuing them of thefe figge-Itaues of vaine excufes , their couetoufneffe may lie open and naked, when as it (}ill c'óntinueth as raging -and violent as it was before. For that children are hot the true mi- tts of their greedyfcraping, it may appeare, in that many who haue them, are liberal]; and many whowant them, moll wretchedly miferable ; Come being neuer wearieof gathering, who haue but fewor none, and Come laying vp but little, whohaue a great many; whtreby it appea- reth,that it is notcare oftheir chddréwhich maketh them thus greedy in Ccraping, but theinfatiable difeafeof their ósadpopmil. mind which tormenteth themwithhunger, ifthey bee not Tom.r. continually feeding it with new fupplies. Finally,voluptuous pleafutes,when menCct their hearts §. Sett, to, vpon
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