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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	master_n	servant_n	wage_n	1,026	5	11.4895	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09965	Foure godly and learned treatises Intituled, I. A remedy against covetousnesse. II. An elegant and lively description of spirituall death and life. III. The doctrine of selfe-deniall. IV. Vpon the sacrament of the Lords Supper. Delivered in sundry sermons, by that late famous preacher, and worthy instrument of Gods glory, Iohn Preston, Doctor of Divinitie, chaplaine in ordinarie to his Majestie; master of Emanuel Colledge, and sometime preacher of Lincolnes Inne.	Preston, John, 1587-1628.; Preston, John, 1587-1628. Three sermons upon the sacrament of the Lords Supper. aut	1633 (1633)	STC 20222; ESTC S115040	185,075	475

your life consists not in abundance He is but a foole that thinkes that these things will make him happy that these will make him rich all they that are not rich in God are poore and if they thinke themselves happy and rich in these things they are but fooles Secondly the desire of superfluitie is sinfull because it proceeds from an evill roote the fruit cannot bee good that proceedeth from an evill and bitter roote but this desire proceeds from such a roote That is from lust it comes not from Gods spirit which biddeth every man to be content with food and rayment Nor yet from nature which seekes not superfluities therefore proceeding from lust it must needs be sinfull Thirdly what yee may not pray for that ye may not desire to seeke after but we may not pray for superfluities Prov. 30.8 Give me neither Poverty nor Riches feed me with food convenient for me not with superfluities And in the Lords Prayer we are taught not to pray for superfluities but Give vs this day our daily bread that is as much as is necessarie for us and no more therefore we may not desire it The seeking of more than is necessary doth hinder us and not further us a shooe that is too big doth hinder a traveller as well as one that is too little Fourthly it is dangerous for it doth choake the word and drowne men in perdition therefore it is Agurs Prayer Prov. 30.8.9 Give me neither poverty nor riches feed me with food convenient for mee least I be full and deny thee and say Who is the Lord Fulnesse and excesse is alwayes dangerous full tables doe cause surfeits full cups make a strong braine giddy The strongest Saints hath beene shaken with prosperity and excesse as Dauid Hezekiah Salomon they sinned by reason of excesse in outward things It is dangerous to bee rich therefore it is Davids counsell Psal. 62.10 If riches increase set not your hearts upon them A rich man cannot enter into the Kingdome of Heaven It is easier for a Camell to goe through the eye of a needle than for him to enter into Heaven For if a man be rich it is a thousand to one but that hee trusteth in his riches and it is impossible that hee who trusteth in his Riches should enter into heaven Lastly to desire superfluity must needs be● sinfull because wee have an expresse command to the contrary 1 Tim. 6.8 If wee have food and raiment let vs therewith be content This is the bound that God hath set us we must not goe beyond it If it were lawfull for any man to desire and have abundance then it were lawfull for Kings yet God hath set limits to them Deut ●7 17 Hee shall not multiply Horses nor Wives to himselfe that his heart turne not away neither shall he greatly multiply to himselfe silver and gold that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren God hath set us downe limits and bounds how farre wee should goe therefore to passe beyond them is sinfull but we passe beyond them when as we desire superfluity therefore the desire of superfluity is sinfull But may not a man use his calling to increase his wealth I answer that the end of mens callings is not to gather riches if men make this their end it is a wrong end but the end of our calling is to serve God and man The ground of which is this Every man is a member of the Common wealth every man hath some gifts or other which must not lie idle every man hath some Talents and must use them to his Masters advantage and how can that be except hee doe good to men Every one is a Servant to Christ and must doe Gods worke no man is free every one is Christs servant and must bee diligent to serve Christ and to doe good to men He that hath an office must be diligent in it and attend on it every man must attend his calling and bee diligent in it If riches come in by our calling that is the wages not the end of our calling for it lookes onely to God wee must not make gaine the end of our callings there are many that make gaine their godlinesse and the end of their professions Some preach onely for gaine others use all other callings onely for gaine but if any man wil make gaine the end of his calling though he may conceale and hide his end from men yet let him be sure that hee shall answer God the searcher of the hearts for it on the other side if a man by diligence in his calling have Riches following him hee may take them as a blessing of God bestowed on him and as a reward of his calling The diligent hand maketh rich that is GOD will surely reward it not that we must eye riches and make them our end GOD makes a man rich and man makes himselfe rich God makes us rich by being diligent in our callings using them to his glory and mans good he doth cast riches on us Man makes himselfe rich when as he makes riches the end of his calling and doth not expect them as a reward that comes from God I shall expresse it by Iacob Iacob he serves Laban faithfully and God blessed him so that hee did grow rich hee went not out of his Compasse and Spheare hee tooke the wages that was given him and because Gods end was to make him rich God enriched him by his wages as a reward of his service The more diligent a man is in his calling the more sincere and upright the more God doth blesse him and increase his riches God makes men rich when as hee gives them riches without sorrowes and troubles when as they come in with ease without expectation and disquiet Man makes himselfe rich when as there is great trouble in getting keeping and enjoying them when as he useth his calling to get riches or when as hee useth unlawfull meanes The method that God useth to inrich men is this He first bids us seeke the kingdome of heaven and the righteousnesse thereof and then all these things shall bee administred unto us as wages we must looke to our duty and let God alone to provide and pay us our wages he that takes a servant bids him onely to looke to his duty and let him alone to provide him meate drinke and wages We are all but servants God is our Master let us looke to our duty and leave the wages to him But whether may not a man take care to get wealth Is not a man to take care for his estate to in●rease it and fit it I answer hee may lawfully take care of it observing the right rules in doing it which are these First hee must not goe out of his compasse but walke within his owne pale he must not step out of his owne calling into other mens and in his owne calling