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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

Chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant Riches The Riches which are not always to Men of Understanding are such as can be very well spared by Men of Understanding that is for the time that they are without them and upon the occasions Even David was once fain to ask Supplies from Nabal and our blessed Saviour had not where to lay his Head But ordinarily Wisdom enricheth and when for a short season it receiveth it rejoiceth in Tribulations As well it may for its Poverty is glorious No Martyr is a Beggar There is a very reigning with Christ in suffering for him Direct VII Watch against your five Enemies Such are your five Senses See to it and keep those Bears in Chains They are as wild Creatures and if not warily and strongly kept in subjection will tear and destroy your Temporal with your Spiritual Interests He was a Monster that in this London spent his whole Patrimony of many thousands of Pounds as I hear in one Treat of his five Senses But he was a Brother of yours by Father and Mother's Side And your Blood hath the like Brimstone in it beware that it take not fire If your Lusts kindle your Substance is quickly in Ashes For Wool will not be soft enough then for your Backs nor any but the most sumptuous Silks No Dishes will relish except Dainties no Table please unless it be spread with Snares nothing but what 's above your Estate will please your Palat. Necessaries will be loath'd without Superfluities One Lust shall stand you in more by the Year than all Nature More will be spent extravagantly in a Day than necessarily in a Week So chargeable things are sensual Delights Its bewitching Epilepsies require so much to maintain them Alas our Bodies are sinful as truly as our Souls and need Sanctification 1 Thess 5.23 They are rebellious against God and our Souls their Senses sway more powerfully than the unrenewed Soul's Reason doth And regenerated Men have enough to do to controul and keep them down 1 Cor. 9.27 If they prevail and act us we cease to be Christians yea Men we are as Beasts that perish Psal 50. ult They cease not to war in us for that prevalency they are restless Tempters and Seducers within us as Devils are without us The Eye the Ear and the rest of them crave for what Grace and Reason forbid And O how commonly are immortal Souls damned to gratify those perishing Brutes How also are Names and Estates devoured that these Senses may be humoured Damned Angels are less Destroyers and without these could not be so easily destroyers of us Prov. 21.17 He that loveth Pleasure shall be a poor Man he that loveth Wine and Oil shall not be rich That is he that loveth them for more than their proper Use for Lust as most do Adam and Noah our two great Parents fell by Eating and Drinking millions of their Children are undone thereby The Senses were given to maintain natural Life but Sin makes them destroy rational Life and Natural too full often Would you see good Days and many This you must do Day by Day Let religious Reason rule you and so that your Eye shall not see nor your Ear hear nor your Mouth taste nor your Finger touch what Conscience doth not warrant No though as oft-times they will be they be very troublesome and importunate for their unwarrantable Objects Though you be put to vex and crucify your Flesh in this Combate as you must do Gal. 5.24 This is what the Apostle speaks in those emphatical Phrases 1 Cor. 9.27 I keep under my Body and bring it into subjection Such a mortified Body will not be forsaken nor its Seed beg Bread But of those that are pampered multitudes come to be famished Epicures do so eat up themselves as well as their Friends As commonly do we see those unclean Fowls go barefoot as other Geese and almost as unpitiedly Yet mistake me not all sensual Pleasure is not sinful Some doth whet and not let Body and Mind for their Services And so much is lawful needful and laudable It is Sin and Folly to prefer Money above the Body as to prefer the Body above the Soul and very oft this Folly is conjunct It 's seldom any value their Flesh more than their Spirit but they take far greater care to preserve their Estates than their Lives Many are the Misers that die to save Charges Solomon when he was returned to God commanded eating with joy and drinking with mirth Eccles 9.7 Enoch while he walked with God begat Sons and Daughters Gen. 5.22 Sordid withholding and stingy tends unto Poverty Prov. 11.24 They that pinch their Families Bellies to cram and swell their Bags do not so certainly die rich as they live poor but do together sin against Body and Estate It is not the Holy Spirit that leads any Man to hate his own Flesh though it is most certain Whosoever indulgeth the Luxury and Lechery of the Flesh he is a Stranger and an Enemy unto that Heavenly Spirit Temperance stands between Scylla and Charybdis it 's equally distant from Luxury and Penury Hold that golden Mean and shun both of these Rocks you need not fear Shipwrack Never waste a Penny you shall never want a Shilling said Dr. Harris to his Children It is because Epicures and Misers do swarm among us that the Poor we have always with us otherwise Beggars would be as rare in England as Frogs and Spiders in Ireland Direct VIII Lay not violent Hands on your selves The Murder of many Mens Estates is by their own wicked Hands and Seals They do run into Danger in hopes of coming out with Safety Without just forelooking they leap into perilous Projects and mortal Suretiships But take you this Divine Counsel Do not ever hang your selves in hope the Cord will break Do not forget or slight God's Word so much his Word put into the Bible to give Wisdom to the Simple Prov. 6.1 If thou be Surety for thy Friend thou art snared thou art taken with the Words of thy Mouth Prov. 11.15 He that hateth Suretiship is sure Prov. 20.16 Take his Garment that is Surety for a Stranger that is Trust not such a Fool without a Pawn no take the Coat from his Back It is true Suretiship is in some Cases lawful and necessary Gen. 42.37 Gen. 43.9 Philem. v. 18 19. But always unlawful it is to oblige you to pay for another more than you have right to dispose of and a sincere Will and Purpose to pay for him if need require It is I suppose wisdom alway to give unto needy Men as much as we can spare and not bind us at any time to pay for them any more The Divine Wisdom brandeth ordinary Sureties for Fools Prov. 17.18 A Man void of Vnderstanding striketh Hands and becometh Surety in the presence of his Friend Wise Men may fall into Evils of Affliction seven times and rise up again The Royal Preacher in that

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 This is the Way walk ye in it Isa 30.21 My God shall supply all your Need Phil. 4.19 London Printed for Andrew Bell and Jonas Luntley at the Pestle and Mortar over against the Horse-shoe-Tavern in Chancery-Lane MDCXCIII To my dear Brothers and Sisters Mr. OBADIAH BURGESS Mr. WILLIAM BURGESS Mrs. MARY HAUSE Mrs. SARAH PLUMMER Mrs. HANNAH LEWIS Mrs. ELIZABETH HARRISON With their faithful Consorts THIS Branch of Directions hath been thought likely to bear good Fruit and the more because it puts forth in so ill Times Ill Ones as they are called by those through whose Means they are so made I have taken the Weather-side of them and made their worst Winds to blow good unto my Arguments Which are more than a little strengthned by the Decays of our Foreign and Home-trade and their consumptive Effects Vexation the Hebrews say gives Understanding And Oppression is known to have made mad Men wise as well as wise Men mad Who dares say that there is no place for our hope of the Experiment It was in a howling Wilderness that Israel was taught the Law it may be in this howling and murmuring state of ours we shall be better taught the Gospel Being perswaded to make publick this Essay it liked me jointly to salute you in this Entry So expressing my dutiful Regard to your Souls in my ministration unto others wherein I cannot own my self short when it hath not been thus express'd An eldest Brother should be as a Father said one unto whom I assent And having inscribed another small Writing to your Nephew and Nieces I resolved to mete like Measure and inscribe this to your selves Who are as truly dear unto me and from whom I am as undivided in Joys and Sorrows as from those Apples of my Eyes You will all join with me in the Doxology to which I am carried by the thoughts of you Good is the Lord whose we are and whom we serve Let our Father's House say His Mercy endureth for ever For In his good Pleasure and rare Mercy we the Children of his Servants do continue every one of us We continue in the Land of the Living and in the House of God None buried none dead while he liveth or Excommunicated None is gone down to the Dust in the sense of the Psalmist Psal 22.29 not one sunk into ignominious Poverty As on the other hand no one is of the very Fat of the Earth no one hath his House full of Silver and Gold God hath chosen for all what Agur chose for himself neither Poverty nor Riches Not one Name infamously stained not one Body deformed not one Limb or Sense disabled Vnto every one is a Help-meet a Covering of the Eyes Gen. 20.16 Ezek. 24.26 that is the desire of them We are Children so beloved for our Father's sake and Mother's For sake of the Covenant made with them by their God VVho hath brought upon us that which he promised them for us There faileth not ought of any good thing which the Lord spake unto them and for which they trusted him Signally illustriously trusted him Chusing rather to suffer Afflictions with the People of God and to make us partakers of their Sufferings at Malborough than to enjoy the Opulence of Collingburn-ducis for a Season To name no more well known in Wiltshire Let our Seal be set God is true The Just Man walks in his Integrity and his Children are blessed after him And let this Vote pass into an Act He is our God we and our Houses will serve him He is our Father's God and we will exalt him So shall we do if these Rules be followed I mean with these Cautions taken viz. That God's Glory be the highest End of our Obedience and we do not obey ultimately for Self-ends That our Reward which we dutifully expect be not look'd for as our Merit but we still acknowledg that our Services deserve not a drop of Water while we conclude that Grace will follow them with the Rivers of God's Pleasure My Prayers ascend incessantly for you and your little Ones Nor hath our God greater Blessings than those that I ask him for you And of you all chiefly for that Family which Providence hath placed most remotely from us in another Kingdom Vnto which we all owe peculiar Offices of Love whereto I must hope none will ever be difficult but all continue most forward I am Your most affectionate Brother and Servant in Love Daniel Burgess S. Woodford in Paraphrase on Psal 37 and 34. IN War good Men are kept in Famine fed In the worst Times blush not nor be afraid God who 's their Shield himself doth find them Bread And only makes their Enemies dismay'd Sinners like Fat of Lambs shall waste And only leave a Smoak behind To be the Triumph of the Wind Their Goods ill gotten shall not last But like their sudden Growth their End shall come as fast Say Lord this poor Man to thee cried And thou heardst him why then am I denied I who no less am thy great Care Since equally round both encamp'd thine Angels are Try God but thus and thou shalt know Thy Joy as certain as my Joys are now How good God is how happy they Who make his Pow'r their Hope his Love their Stay Dread him for if he has thy Fear Thou may'st be confident thy Wants shall have his Ear. He 'l be himself thy mighty Store When savage Lions shall for Hunger roar While those that glory in their Gold And in his own Chains would the Prisoner hold Spoilers themselves are Captives made And into sudden Want which they least fear'd betray'd The sure Way to Wealth Infallible DIRECTIONS to get Riches enough while Trades sink and Taxes rise OUtcries of Poverty do fill the City and Country If not in Truth yet in common Fame it comes on us like an armed Man irresistably Mens Hearts fail them for Fear it is every where said We shall all be Vndone From the Court to the Mill this is the Complaint nor ever from my Childhood have I heard it so vexatiously uttered as at this Day or so universally For even they that fear God seem but little more than others to trust him Believers on his Son for the Salvation of their Souls do tormentingly fear what will become of their Bodies Men that have his Spirit are saying as the old Israelites did Who shall give us Flesh to eat They that are satisfied with his Word for the Life to come show plainly that they cannot rest thereon for the Life that now is So much Absurdity cleaveth to our Wisdom We trust for a Crown of Glory and distrust for a Crumb of Bread As though holy Faith were the substance of Things hoped for in Heaven only and not in the Way to it The Evidence