Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

SSg &f thomiferies which accompany worldly thine. being taken like a bird, when with an hungrie cie he behol- deth the bakeofearthly things, he is vewittingly flrangled with the fnare of fin. Hence alto it is that couetoufnes by the s:Tim.6.ao, Apoflie is laid to be theroot of all culli; and by another it is Bien. Sophifa called the metropolis,or mother chic of all vice andwicked - apud Stob£um. neffe, becaufe where it is intertained, thither alto all manner of fin relorteth, and as it were keepeth continualt tearme. In regard ofwhich fins vfually accompanying riches, in refpe& of the vnlawfull meanes which are ordinarily vfcd in their viuet fl;,, . getting, one doubteth not to affirme that a rich man isvn- quas,aut iniqui righteous himfelfe,or the heire ofone which is unrighteous: keres.Hitron. which though it be not alwaies fo, yet it leldome faileth in infers. thofe who immoderately louing wealth, refolue with them - (clues that they will be rich; and making halle to fatisfie their greedie delire with all poflìble(peed, doe in (mort rime ac- complith that they with : for as hidden fulne(fe and fatne(fe is an vndoubted ligne ofthe ill difpofition of the bodie; fo when as a man fuddenly waxeth great,and(as I may fay)fat in his flate,by ordinarie meanes,and by hisowne induflrie and labour, it is an argument more then probable,that his mind is full ofthe grolfe humours offin.Ofthe former the Apoflle a.Tia+.6.91o. faith, that they who willbe rich (that is,pitch and refolue vpon it) fall into many tentations and fnaret, and intomany fooGß7 and noyfome lusts, which draw men into perdition and deflruflion, becaufe the de fire of money is the root o fall end. And ofthe o- Prou.a.S.ao.aa. they, the Wife man tel leth v=, that he who maketh hafte to be Ecclefialieus rich, /ball not be innocent ; and that he who haft eth Tinto richer, 3%c. hark an euilleye: for as the Author ofthe booke 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 to fpeake it, that they ot« ht to bee petrinQ on emery fide, thonQh it be by end! meanes. Yea this the Heathen man Menanderín could difcerne by the light ofnature ; There is no man (faith Colar. apud hè) fudderly made richlining iuflly ; for a iufl man increa- Srobæuro' feth his wealth by little and litde,rhrough fparing frugality; but he that treacherouflylieth in wait for thofe goods NNhich etherspoffefle, doth forthwith feaze on all, andallatonce becdmeth rich. Now what greater miferie can there be,then to