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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

much mistaken Text saith that they do so Prov. 24.16 But Nabal is his Name and Folly is with him that leaps into ruinous Troubles Notorious is the Reason of our common Saying That the greatest Leapers break most Bones And the most exquisite Dancers on the Rope die by the Rope Providence is no safeguard to Desperateness The Ruines of many Rich Families be sad Witnesses I do compassionately warn you and yours adding but this memorable word Most commonly they be Judasses that do hang themselves I mean covetous as that Son of Perdition and treacherous as he was Where Kindness makes one Surety Avarice and greedy expectation of Gain makes twenty And we see that it 's scarce one of twenty who betrays not the Creditor the Debtor or himself Wherefore if you will be Sureties take good Advice first remembring that Judas who was his own Judg was his own Executioner also Direct IX Load your Parents soundly So is the Hebrew Text in the fifth Commandment load them with Honour Give them Measures of Reverence Love Gratitude and Obedience pressed down and running over It is a Commandment of express Promise and that Promise of greatest temporal Good It is the first Commandment of the second Table next and immediately to his own Honour God stands for the Honour of Parents His Zeal for it appears in Threats for Sin against it Prov. 20.20 Whoso curseth his Father or Mother his Lamp shall be put out in obscure Darkness that is he shall live in Misery and die with Disgrace The Eye that mocketh at his Father and despiseth to obey his Mother the Ravens of the Valley shall pick it out and the young Eagles shall eat it Prov. 30.17 that is he that scorns and derides Parents tho it be but with a Look and Gesture and without one Word uttered he shall die untimely and ignominiously and after Death be denied a Burial lying exposed to Birds of Prey Have you been guilty of Disobedience Be as eminent for your Repentance Have you been Dutiful to your Parents continue to be so to your last Breath Fathers be Kings and Mothers be Queens unto you their Children Next and immediately under God Christ and Conscience they be your supream Moderators and Governours Sweeten you their Lives and God will sweeten yours Honour you them God will honour you Scripture and Providence say of this Duty Length of Days is in its right Hand and in its left Hand are Riches and Honour Prov. 3.16 Direct X. Marry to none but Heirs of the Crown Heirs of the Crown incorruptible Poor Matches be the notorious Seminary of Beggars The King of Heaven is not Childless in England and he provides as becometh a King for his Children All be Heirs of God Rom. 8.17 and Heirs of the Kingdom James 2.5 All of them he blesseth and his Blessing maketh rich and addeth no Sorrow with it Prov. 10.22 A rare Portion is it not A godly Man is the Son of the King of Kings a godly Woman is his Daughter The ungodly of both Sexes be the Devil's Children and outlawed Rebels The Wrath of God abideth on them John 3.36 God's Curse is on their very Blessings Malach. 2.2 Will ye marry Rebels then bear you Hunger and wear Rags They deserve to be stung that chuse a Serpent for their Bosom And they cannot look for God's Blessing who prefer such Vermine before his Children liking better to have Satan than to have his divine Majesty for their Father-in-Law Would you secure an Estate do not burn nor marry a Child of his who hath no Estate but the Lake of Fire Lust consumeth many single Persons and ill Yoke-fellows starve many married Ones But while the Earth is the Lord's and the Fulness of it you need not to fear Famine if you marry into his Royal Family If you take a Child of his and that for his Glory 1 Cor. 10.31 and by his Will expressed in the Rule of his Word Gal. 6.16 which is that which the Apostle nameth marrying in the Lord 1 Cor. 7.39 This I judg they do not who take such a Husband or Wife as a good Minister should not dare to take unto the Lord's Supper And my Advice is that you hold this Rule refusing Marriage-Covenant with those that renew not their Baptismal-Covenant Direct XI Make Battlements for the Roof of your House That is make such Provisions against Sin in your Families as shall make it hard for any to be wicked therein Make and keep good Rules of Government So that none shall fall headlong into destructive Courses for want of the Fence thereof Nor perish unless they will wilfully leap into Perdition notwithstanding all your Means of their Salvation See the Law Deut. 22.8 When thou buildest a new House then thou shalt make a Battlement for thy Roof that thou bring not Blood upon thine House if any Man fall from thence Blessed are the House-keepers that do their best to make all their House blessed But how few of these are to be found Hence more than from our War with France cometh Poverty Prov. 3.33 The Curse of the Lord is in the House of the Wicked but he blesseth the Habitation of the Just Wicked you are and not Just if God gives you a House and you rule not for God therein but against God Not to rule for him is to rebel against him and then what wonder if he eject you But do you Rule for God that make not all your Family hear his Word as daily as eat his Bread as daily pray together as work or eat together And to discern by your Words and Behaviour that they cannot offend God without offending you or any way so much please you as by care to please God Yea to find that there is no abiding in any known Sin in your Families without Reproof to them and Reformation by them Psal 101.7 He that worketh Deceit shall not dwell in my House O that these words were written on House-keepers Hearts Abraham 's Family-government will bring all Family-blessings Gen. 18.19 The House of the Righteous shall stand Prov. 12.7 The Tabernacle of the Vpright shall flourish When Family-Piety revives the Evil shall bow before the Good and the Wicked at the Gates of the Righteous Prov. 14.11 19. Direct XII Take special care of the King's Children The King of Heaven calleth yours his own God hath given me a Child saith every Parent But God so giveth them to every Parent as that he himself remaineth still the Proprietor He gives them unto you but only to educate for him Your Children are still his Children and so he expresly calls them My Children Ezek. 16.21 whom thou hast born unto me vers 20. You are but Nurses chosen by the grand Parent the Father of Spirits Heb. 12.9 and the Fashioner of Bodies Psal 139.16 His they are and he it is that saith of every Babe unto you as Pharaoh's Daughter said of Infant-Moses unto the Hebrew Woman Take thou this Child and nurse