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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

fire of Hell Jam. 3.6 St. Paul is large in the Account of the Sins of Speech Rom. 3. But who can name all or count the Evils done by unwary Words All Places are full of Instances of their impoverishing Efficacy Who knows not such as had not wanted Bread for their Mouths had they not wanted a Bridle to their Tongues Or would they have timely believed what they after felt Better a Head without a Tongue than a Tongue without Government An Estate is a small thing a whole Kingdom hath been lost by a rash Word Attend me O you that are Poor Immortal John Fox professed he did forget Lords and Ladies to remember such as you This Discourse speaks my Care of you and this that follows flows from my Kindness unto you It 's your great Mistake that you have nothing but your Fingers ends to live by Nothing therefore to be careful of but them Alas your Welfare and the contrary cometh as much from your Tongues Ends. And the Divine Wisdom counselleth you to take as much care of them Subject then your Lips to God's Laws Take heed to your Words as well as your Works See that your Tongues drop nothing but Honey such is all that is of Honour to God of Use to Men of Benefit to your self All that truly edifies or innocently recreates The Psalmist's Rule is as good as Free Land What Man is he that desireth Life and loveth many Days that he may see Good Keep thy Tongue from Evil and thy Lips from speaking Guile Psal 34.13 Death and Life are in the Power of the Tongue our Safety depends on the use of it Prov. 18.21 If any Rich and Noble bestow their Eye on these Pages I advance this Doctrine to their consideration God prescribes one and the same way for all Men to Prosperity Dukes and very Kings as well as Stockarders and Plowmen must keep their Tongues from Evil if they expect to have their Estates good Crowned Heads have not the Promise of good Days without good Tongues in them Palaces are no such privileged Places that Men may speak what they please in them By their Words God judgeth and blesseth or curseth Princes and Peasants Direct XVI Vnite Courtesy and Truth Godliness is not clownish Divine Graces are no Enemies to good Manners It is an Apostolical and Divine Precept Be ye courteous 1 Pet. 3.8 Be of a pleasant winning Conversation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 loving and affecting to please as far as innocently we may in Words Looks Gestures Habits Inconformity to sinless Customs herein cometh of Evil and worketh Evil. It's an unreasonable ruggedness of Behaviour and contracts mischievous Censure Disaffection and Blame Few esteem a morose Man as other than a Hedghog and his needless ungrateful Singularities as other than Bristles turned to his Neighbours It is very oft that a gracious Man faulty herein is secluded and one of no serious Religion is taken into a gainful Employment None wondring that the best of an ill Man should be preferred before the worst of a good One Though lamenting that a good Man should be the Martyr of his adhering Distemper But how dear is Truth to God and Men What is Fallacious is odiously Courteous Religious Courtship is without Dissimulation it is a Complaisance with Love and with the Love of Love The Truth of both in the inward Parts Simplicity and Sincerity 1 John 3.18 Let us not love in Word neither in Tongue but in Deed and in Truth q. d. Let not our Love have only Lips and no Hands Words without Works are heartless Let us abhor real Unkindness as much as Verbal and of the two let us more fear to do an ill thing than to speak an unkind Word Let our Veracity and Integrity be as conspicuous as the World's Falsity is notorious It is sure that Love universally exercised and apparently unfeigned highly pleaseth God and mightily takes with Man Nor will you in haste be forsaken of either if you provoke them neither by Churlishness nor Falseness You can come into no Want till you are forsaken And how should you be forsaken by any other Means Wherefore express all the Love ye ought and bear in Heart all the Love you express then shall you not be ashamed in the evil Day and in Days of Famine you shall be satisfied Psal 37.19 Direct XVII Be at Court one whole Day in a Week At the King Eternal's Court I mean Six Days of the Week we have somewhat to do beside But one Day the first we have nothing to do beside we are called to the Court of the Great King therein to rest and feast our Souls all the Day long Seeing the King of Glory's Face hearing his Voice eating of his holy Bread and drinking of his holy VVine Remembring his redeeming Love more than VVine making a joyful Noise to him with Psalms and Hymns and spiritual Songs taking the Day in his Courts for better than a thousand in Shops calling it our Delight But let it not be asked VVill a Man rob God Where is the Man that robbeth him not of his Day The Day which is the Lord's electively as his chosen Lot and his subjectively as that whereon his Affairs are to be transacted Who makes Conscience of Sacrilege of taking God's Time and giving it to the Flesh to Sleep to their own Ways to their own Words to their own Pleasures Whose Heart smites him for cutting off a Moment half Hour or whole Hour of the King's Day Who hastens early to his Court beginning the Sabbath in the Mount Who is not weary of his Court but ends the Sabbath late in the Valley Where is any great Zeal for his Court commanding of Children and Servants into it And is not the Divine Majesty provoked hereby think we Yea and because of these things cometh his Wrath all the Week after on the Children of Disobedience They slight his Court and he overthrows their House they neglect or profane his Table and he will not spread theirs their Families are Dens of Thieves and his revenging Justice makes them Habitations of multiplied Sorrows Therefore is it that we see not better Days because we no better hallow the Lord's Day Therefore decayeth secular Trade and its Markets because Trade for Heaven is let down and the Market for that is so ill kept If ye hallow the Sabbath Day there shall enter into this City Kings and Princes sitting upon the Throne of David and the City shall remain for ever But if ye will not hallow the Sabbath Day then will I kindle a Fire in the Gates thereof and it shall devour the Palaces as well as Shops of Jerusalem and it shall not be quenched Jer. 17. Your Blessings depend on your keeping the Day that God hath blessed You cannot profane it and be sure of Bread nor sanctify it and be without good Security of it Isa 58.13 14. If thou turn away thy Foot from the Sabbath

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