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enemy_n	answer_v	great_a	king_n	1,108	5	3.7723	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67765	The prevention of poverty, together with the cure of melancholy, alias discontent. Or The best and surest way to wealth and happiness being subjects very seasonable for these times; wherein all are poor, or not pleased, or both; when they need be neither. / By Rich. Younge, of Roxwel in Essex, florilegus. Imprimatur Joseph Caryl.	Younge, Richard.	1655 (1655)	Wing Y178A; ESTC R218571	77,218	76

God God will not be wanting in any good thing to us Nor can we look that God should make good his promises if we make them void by not observing the condition as that we may do by our distrusting him If we will not dare to trust God upon his promise so confidently as we would a friend or some great man that is able and honest Besides the Lord hath promised that there shall be no want to them that fear him and that no good thing will he with-hold from them that walk uprightly Psal. 34. 9. 84. 11. Where observe two things there shall be no want to such and such shall want no good thing so that he must be such an one to whom the promise is made and he must also be sure that it is good for him which is promised But oftentimes it is not good for a man to abound with earthly blessings as strong drinke is not good for weake brains Yea if any thing be wanting to a good man he may be sure it is not good for him and then better that he doth want it then that he did enjoy it and what wise man will complain of the want of that which if he had would prove more hurtful then gainful to him as a sword to a mad man a knife to a childe drinke to them that have a Fever or the Dropsie No good thing will God with-hold c. and therefore not wants themselves which to many are also good yea very good things as I could reckon up many want sanctified is a notable means to bring to repentance to work in us amendment of life it stirs up to prayer it weans from the love of the world it keeps us always prepared for the spiritual combate discovers whether we be true believers or hypocrites prevents greater evils of sin and punishment to come It makes us humble conformable to Christ our head increaseth our faith our joy and thankfulnesse our spiritual wisdom and likewise our patience as I have largely shewen in The Benefit of Affliction To coonclude All good things were created for the good and therefore are they called goods because the good God created them for good men to do good withal Therefore as Jacob got the blessing so he gat the inheritance also to shew that as the faithful have the inward blessing so they have the outward blessing too when they will do them good and cause them to do good Yea in this case even as the sheaffs fell before Ruth so riches shall fall in our way as they did to Abraham and Lot and Jacob and Job and Joseph upon whom riches were cast they knew not how but as if God had onely said Be rich and they were rich straight But that this is the true and only way to wealth and happiness needs no more proof then that which is recorded of Solomon 1 Kings 3. 2 Chron. 1. where the Lord appearing to him in a dream said Ask what I shall give thee And he asking only an understanding heart to discern between good and evil that he might the better discharge that great place whereunto God had called him wherein Gods glory and the peoples good was his principal aime and end Heare what the Lords answer is Because this was in thine heart and thou hast not asked riches wealth or honour nor the life of thine enemies neither yet hast asked long life but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thy self that thou mightest judge my people over whom I have made thee King Wisdom and knowledge is granted unto thee and I will give thee riches wealth and honour such as none of the Kings have had that have been before thee neither shall there any after thee have the like c. Yea he was so surpassing rich that he gave silver in Jerusalem as stones and gave Cedars as the wilde fig-trees that grow abundantly in the plain 1. King 10. 27. 2 Chron. 1. 7 to 13 14 15. Lo the true way to Wealth honour and happiness is to desire grace that we may glorifie God and do good for cleering whereof I 'le give you a similitude A man spies a fair apple on a tree hath a longing desire to it whereupon he falls a shaking the tree with all his might at length it not only comes down but many other come down to him together with it And so much to prove that the way to become rich is first to become godly If any shall ask why the godly are not alwayes nor oft rich notwithstanding these promises I answer that God not seldom withholds these outward blessings from his own people in great love only affording them all things that they have need of Our heavenly Father who knows us better then we know our selves and what is good and fit for us even as the Nurse knows better then the childe and the Physician better then the Patient knows too well how apt we are to abuse these his mercies and that we cannot abound with earthly blessings but we grow proud and surfeit of them as we see Solomon himself did who was the wisest next to Adam in his innocency that ever lived and likewise how happy it is for them to be kept short And when the All-wise God does fore-see that men will serve him as the Prodigal son served his father who only prayed untill he had got his patrimony and then forsook him and spent the same in riot to the givers dishonour even as the cloud that is lifted up and advanced by the Sun obscures the Sun In this case he either denies them riches in mercy as he denied Saint Paul in his suit 2 Cor. 12. 8 9. And our Saviour himself Matth. 26. 39. Or grants them their riches in wrath Hosea 13. 11. Psal. 106. 15. of which I have largely spoken in the foregoing pages where I have declared how miserable they are who swim in wealth wanting grace and Gods blessing upon what they do possesse This is the first and main step to riches and the next is like unto it viz. bounty and liberality to the poor members of Jesus Christ For CHAP. XXX SEcondly He that would be a rich man let him be a merciful man and do good with what God hath already given him be it never so little for there is not a more sure and infallible way to increase and multiply a mans outward estate then in being charitable to the poor if we will believe Gods Word As what saith our Saviour Give and it shall be given unto you good measure pressed down and shaken together and running over shall men give into your bosome Luke 6. 38. Matth. 7. 2. Mark 4. 24. In which regard it may be truly said Eleëmosyna non est divitiarum dispendium sed ditescendi potius compendium quaestusque omnium uberrimus And to this accords that place in the Proverbs There is that scattereth and is more increased but he that spareth more then is right shall surely come to