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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30288	The sure way to wealth Infallible directions to get and keep sufficient riches; even while taxes rise, and trades sink. By Daniel Burgess, pastor of a church near Covent-Garden, London.	Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713.	1693 (1693)	Wing B5718; ESTC R224016	25,745	78

that if we seek first his Kingdom and its Righteousness we shall not have that only but a good Substance with it Mat. 6.33 All these things shall be added He is a wise Master also too wise to send Servants in his Message and cut off their Feet I say their Feet for this World's Blessings be as requisite to his Worship as our Feet be to our Walk And he knows it well enough Mat. 6.32 Your heavenly Father knoweth that you have need of these things He knows that if he will employ us he must maintain us on this Earth we cannot live by the Air. He is a good Master too He delighteth in Mercy But there were small sign of it if he fed Ravens and Lions and starved those that loved him above their Lives especially being that he hath in his House Bread enough and to spare Luke 15.17 Known and wilful Sins that is Aversions from God and Conversions unto Creatures will bring the Moth and the Lion Sometimes a Moth that eats out an Estate slowly and silently no body knows how Sometimes a Lion that makes open and quick work with it Hosea 5.12 14. Hear O ye Rich hear it O ye Poor partial Religion brings this sad Moth and Lion Most Men have some Religion but few have All. Naaman was a Captain and was a Favourite and was much more but he was a Leper One and another of you is a just Man a charitable a Sermon-hearer and a great deal more but he is a neglecter of the Lord's Supper Never renewed his holy baptismal Covenant at God's Table It may be he understands it not at least he has his But and his Leprosy he acts not some Grace he indulges some Lust Some Duty he doth not perform some Ordinance he doth not attend Hence hence comes the Wrath of God who hates to be serv'd by halves Follow the Lord fully and verily thou shalt be fed Psal 37.3 Direct V. Wear your Master's Livery Humility is the supream King's Livery And his Servants are shamefully naked when they are any otherwise clothed St. Peter's words which we read Be ye clothed with Humility are thought fit to be thus read Be ye clothed with Humility as your Badg and Livery Humilitatem induite ut 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quale viles servi gestarent Heinsius in 1 Pet. 5.5 You may not therefore look to be fed with God's Bread if you cast off his Badg Alas that it should be so grown out of fashion in our Days But wot ye there is no Garment of richer Praise Our Blessed Saviour never put it off and he commanded us to learn from him the perpetual Use of it Matth. 11.28 He knew and taught the gratefulness of it unto God It s being as is said of the Violet of sweetest Scent though of lowest Place For your Lives then keep on this Livery and hold this Violet in your Bosoms A Flower without which the highest Angels would stink in God's Nostrils And with it the worst Sinner hath a way into his Favour In God is no Pride at all He doth not think himself nor desires he to be thought better than he is Unto his Soul Pride is the most abominable Sin of all He resists stands in Battel-array against it James 4.6 It 's an Abomination to him Prov. 16.5 What brings Men low It 's Pride Prov. 29.23 What brings Shame It 's Pride Prov. 11.2 What destroyeth Families It 's Pride Prov. 15.25 The House of the Proud shall be destroyed It brought Vzzias the Leprosy 2 Chron. 26.27 It cost David the Lives of seventy thousand Men 1 Chron. 21.14 It brought Wrath upon Hezekiah and all Judah and Jerusalem 2 Chron. 32.25 Tremble old England whose Pride taketh Blessings with Disdain and Scorn and Crosses with Wrath and Rage Thy Pride looks like the Harbinger of thy Death Pride gave the Apostle Paul a Messenger of Satan 2 Cor. 12.7 Wonder not that any break and burst when they swell of Pride's Tinpany Marvel not that high Hills be barren and high-minded Men be begging Think not strange to see Lice eat up Herods and Gnats and Flies plague Pharaohs But know this the Meek shall inherit Earth and Heaven too Matth. 5.5 Valleys shall laugh with richest Fatness and honourable Estate shall be to the Humble Prov. 15.33 If Humility put your Mouth in the Dust neither God's Wrath or Man's shall put your Honour in the Dust Humble your Minds to God's Soveraignty and your Wills to his Precepts and Providences and then assure you of his rich Promises He will exalt you 1 Pet. 1.6 He will beautify you Psal 149.4 He will make your Soul dwell at ease and your Seed inherit the Earth Psal 25. Of Humility I will say As poor as it looks it makes many Rich. Though it seems to have Nothing yet it possesseth all Things And he was not besides himself who said That he would rather be an humble Devil than a proud Angel The Depth of Humility is better than the Height of Pride Say then to Pride as Naboth to Ahab God forbid it that I should give away the Inheritance of my Fathers unto thee Direct VI. Hold your Heart at your right Hand Your Heart's Business is to Contrive and Consult your Hands is to Work and Execute your Interest requires that these two be never asunder They are Fools and it's odds but they are Beggars too that contrive without executing or rashly act without first deliberating Eccles 10.2 God's Blessing you may not expect upon your Affairs if you follow not his Counsel in ordering of them His Counsel is that you order them with this Discretion Psal 112.5 A good Man will guide his Affairs with Discretion Clothe his Family Furnish his House Buy Sell Give Refuse to give with Discretion With all his own and oft-times borrowed Discretion taken from the Counsel and Example of Men more Discreet He that hearkneth to Counsel is wise Prov. 12.15 It is oft said by decayed Men This and that unadvised Act undid me had I taken my Friends Advice I had not become a Charge to my Friends He is surely no wise or good Man that asks not Counsel from God in his secular Business and having ask'd it doth not look after it Expecting to have it given him in the ordinary Ways of his wise Providence These are Meditation and Consultation with such as are Godly Wise The neglect whereof is therefore stark Profaneness and as a direct working Cause a highly deserving Cause of deep Poverty Nor need they to wonder at their ignominiously low Condition who hereby sin themselves into it Forasmuch as they do among other Evils bring the Religion they profess into greatest Disgrace Causing more than a few to conceit and exclaim that Religion maketh Men simple and self-undoing Idiots in this World Walk wisely then and you are safe you have Royal Security Prov. 24.3 4. Through Wisdom is an House built by Vnderstanding it is established By Knowledg shall the