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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

it for me and I will pay thee thy Wages This Father of the Children you call yours is a great King and as kind a Father God is a mighty lover of Children You may compare Snow and Fire as well as your Love and his unto Children Expect no other his Wrath the fierceness of his Wrath cometh on such as neglect these Objects of his Love A Neglect that is of Sins sinfullest the Sin that next to Original Sin doth most to the corrupting of the World and the filling of Hell And a Sin whereto Poverty and all Judgments are extreamly owing Children be choice Gifts of God rich Rewards of his Grace Psal 127.3 5. Write this Man Childless is in effect write him Comfortless Indeed Africa is not the only Country of Monsters ours beareth many that wish to be Childless to save Charges Egregious Wisdom to wish one may have no Lands for fear of the Cost of Tillage Well-cultivated Children enrich their Fathers as well-tilled Lands enrich their Owners Truly good Breeding is the Parent 's Blessing as well as the Child's From Children as from Land we do ordinarily and we may expect alway to Reap as we Sow A rich People we should soon be if generally the Culture of our Minds were as well followed as that of our Grounds Were they as painfully Plowed Sown Fenced Watered Weeded the ill-natured Phrase of a Charge of Children would be dismissed we should take to say a Stock of Children and count it a most valuable One Wherefore let past Neglects be throughly repented and utmost Diligence be henceforth used Let not vain Mens Hawks Race Horses and Setting Dogs have more Care and Cost bestow'd on them than their Childrens Souls Let not any lay out more Time and Pains to teach their Children a Game of Folly or a Trade for a Penny than you lay out on yours to teach them their Baptismal Covenant and the glorious Art of living unto God Train the King's Children in the King's Way Prov. 22.6 Bring them up therein Ephes 6.4 Let Heaven ring of your Prayers for them O that Ishmael might live Provoke not chide not the King's Children without Cause or above it Ephes 6. Provide for them and give them all that you are able without countenancing them in Evil or making them a Way to it 1 Tim. 5.8 Lay up for them as well as lay out upon them though you be put to deny your selves useless Ornaments and unnecessary Pleasures to compass it 2 Cor. 12.14 Dispose of them in Marriage wisely and tempt them not to Folly 1 Cor. 7.38 Let it be seen you are as much afraid of their Poverty as of your own and more afraid of their want of Grace than of their want of Money This do and see if the great lover of Children do ever starve their Nurses No he will not but He will feed them with the finest of the Wheat with Honey out of the Rock will he satisfy them Psal 81.16 Direct XIII Let not Arsenick be your Salt So it is when an ill Man is chosen for your Companion You are sociable Creatures Company you must and will have Unto the Company of your Love and Choice you are very Bondmen Invisible Chains of theirs hold you even unawares It 's your Life to have them good you are dead Men if they be evil Ones Good ones our Saviour nameth Salt that seasons you Matth. 5.13 Ill ones are as very Arsenick to poison you Of your Company much is at your Choice and there are but these two sorts for you to chuse That the latter doth poison and undo you is sure A Companion of Fools shall be destroy'd That the former doth season and better you is as plain He that walks with wise Men shall be wise Prov. 13.20 Yet how few are so nice of their Company as they be of their Food or Sauce Unadvised how much depends on it for temporal Good and Spiritual Though it be rare for any at the Gallows and on the Dunghil not to exclaim against ill Company for bringing them thither robbing them of their Time their Vnderstandings their Hearts their Names and their Money altogether There is no fear of Want where these Texts are observed Prov. 14.7 Go from the presence of a foolish Man when thou perceivest not in him the Lips of Vnderstanding q. d. endure not his poisonous Breath Psal 119.63 I am a Companion of all them that fear God and keep his Precepts q. d. others be my Eye-sores these be the delight of my Eyes Religious Friends stick as close as Brothers and are as full of good Offices to us Their Prayers will be of unknown Worth so will be their Counsels and if we shall deserve them their Commendations of us to Persons that will be most helpful to us What we are most likely to deserve and to need their Reproofs will be of excellent use to bring us to Repentance and from thence to Innocence and beyond it too Whereunto their holy Example conduceth more than a little For this Cause said David They that fear thee will be glad when they see me Psal 119.74 In a word a Man is always burnt with the Fire or blacked with the Smoak of bad Company And always he is refined or at least refreshed with Company that is good Reputation and Safety Comfort and Profit are got in good Company and lost in Evil. Direct XIV Kindle huge Fires on your Enemies Heads Be they hardned in their Enmity made hard as Iron Fear them not Coals of Fire heaped on it melts down Iron And true Kindness giving and forgiving from the Heart will work as much on cruel Hearts There is a Charity as well as a Faith of Miracles It is your Fault if its Miracles cease Feed your Hungry give Drink to your thirsty Enemy my clothe your naked One you shall see strange Effects Rom. 12.20 We have known many undone by exasperating their Enemies and by being overcome of their Evil by flashing Wild-fire in their Faces But never heard we of a Man that proved not his own Friend by kindness to his Foe Sacred Fire as Love's is is always profitable Monsters there be whose Evil cannot be overcome of its Good but then doth the overflowing Grace of God otherwise reward it He shall never be a miserable poor Man who giveth no place to Wrath and leaveth all Vengeance unto God Rom. 12.19 Direct XV. Trust not your Door without a Watch. There is a Door of yours out of which come Legions of Evils to you A Door that needs Watch and Ward as much as the Gate of any besieged City A Door to which David sought to Heaven for a Watch Psal 141.3 Set a Watch before my Mouth O Lord keep the Door of my Lips And well he might for we are told Prov. 13.3 He that openeth wide his Lips shall have Destruction The Tongue is a Fire a World of Iniquity it defiles the whole Body sets on fire the Course of Nature is set on

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