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Hence it
comes
to pass
that
there are
so
many
bank-
rupts
in our
days,
even among
the
professors
of strict
religion
:
A sharnefúl
and an ungodly practice,
if
it
avise
from
luxury and
profuseness, or
from
a
careless
neglect
of
their
proper
affairs
!
It
was
thought
sufficient,
in
the
days
of our
fathers,
to
deserve
an
expulsion
from
the
church
of
Christ, unless they could
evidently make
it
appear, that it
was
merely
by the,
unforeseen and frown-
ing
providences
of
God, they
were
reduced
to this
ex-
tremity.
There
is
many a man
hath
groaned
away
his
latter
years
in
poverty,
and perhaps
in
a
cold prison,
and
in most
forlorn circumstances
of
life, by
means
of
the
profuseness of
his
youth
:
f,nd
he
bath
been
taught
to
read
the
guilt
of
his
lux
ur
and
injustice
in
a
long
and
painful
lesson.
But a
profuse and sensual
humour
is
not
only
the
spring
of
unrighteousness among persons
of
better -rank
and circumstance
in
the world,
but
it tempts servants
also
to
be unjust
to
their
masters
:
They
will
now
and
then provide
a
treat
for themselves and
their friends;
they
must
eat
nicely,
and
drink
to
excess
:
And thus they
waste
their master's
substance. They must
keep-
good
company
in
the
world,
and
now
and then spend
a
licen-
tious hour or
two, while
their
just
and reasonable
service
at
home
is
neglected
;
and perhaps
the
purse
of
the mas-
ter
must pay for
all.
Under
the
same
head
I
may
bring a charge
of
injustice
against the careless
-and wasteful
servant,
.
who
persuades
himself
that
his,
master
is
rich enough, and
therefore
he
is
not
solicitous to
buy or-sell,
or manage any
affairs
for
him to the best
advantage.
He
permits
the
goods of
his
master
to be wasted
or
embezzled, he grows
liberal
and
generous at
his
master's
cost,
and has
no
thought
of
the
golden rule
of our
Saviour,' to manage
his
master's con-
cerns
with
the same frugality
and conduct,
as
he
would'
expect a servant
should do
for
him.
But
it
is
time
I
pro.
-
ceed to
'the
next particular.
The fourth
occasion
of
injustice
is
sloth and idleness.
For
the
"slothful
man
is
a
brother
to him
that
is
a
great
waster,"
Prow.
xviii. 9.
Whosoever
wants the necessaries,
or
the.conveniences
of
life, is
bound
to
obtain
them
by
labour
and diligence,
if
he
is
not
possessed
of
them
by
any .other
methvt6
of