upo11 the Epifl/1 of~ A M 1 s._ Your little may bring you more comfort, then ifall their !lore were ca!l: into one heap, and bellowed upon you. So Prov. I 5. I 6. Better is a little with thefe~tr ofthe Lord, then gre!!lt treafurr, and trouble therewith. Thefe are principles that are only relilhed by men ofamortified and contented mind. Verfe 2. Tour riches are corrupted, !!lnd yourg~trmmts moth– eaten: Verfe 3· YoNr goldandJilver is cank..fred, and the ruft ~~ them foal/ be 11 Witnefs againft JOU, and foal! et~tyour: fle/h M it Were fire: 7e have healed up tre11[urd together for the lapdap. Here the Apofile C'Ometh particularly to difcover their fin, and the reafon ofGods Judgment: The method is obfervable; he fid.l: threateneth,and then cometh particularly eo convince. Note hence, Th~~tt every folemn threatening muft be accompanied ·~:ith found 06fervAt. convitlion: This headeth the arrow, and maketh it enter. Every Wo mufi have aFor, M at. 2 3. otherwife men will not care for terrible words: Such brutilli Thunder becometh a Mahumetan 7Jeruis, rather then aPreacher ofthe GofPel: The fuccefs ofour work dependeth upon Evidence, and the demonflration of the Spirit, I Cor. 1. 4• Tour riches are corruptd,yourgarments moth-eaten,Jour gold andjilver is cank._ered,] ~ris obfervable that he fpeaketh of all kind of wealth ( YoHr riches (l.re corrupted; that is, corn, and win):, and oyl, all things fubjefl to corruption: Your garments are m9th– ueten; that is, filks, clothes, linm~ns, and all fuch kind ofwares: Then by the rnft ofgold anJ. ji/ver he intendech the decay of all kind of mettals. Now by thefe circumfiances the Apofile cloth, I. Evince their (in; that .they would hoard up their goods and mohey, and fuffer them to be eaten out by moths and rull, and fo to be corropted or peri{h without any profit at all,rather then lay them out fo~ good ufcs, the fupply ofthe poor, and publique commodity. z. Vpbr.aid their foil]; that they were fuch fools to place their con– fidence in that which is of fo periiliing and frail a nature, as to be eatm out by rufi and moths. 3. The Apofile may produce thcfe circumfi'ances, as the firfi pledges ofGods difpleafure againfi them, .. , 1 _. aAd the preface and introduction of thecurfe upon thdr hoards and Xxx trea-
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