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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

that his Father granted Matth. 26.39 Luke 22.43 The Covenant of Grace exempts you not from the Rod if you break these Rules Psal 89.30 31 32. If his Children forsake my Law and walk not in my Judgments If they break my Statutes and keep not my Commandments Then will I visit their Transgression with the Rod and their Iniquity with Stripes In executing of his Threats God doth not break his Promises My Directions are ended By some it 's like they will be quarrelled But I think them of Qualifications to answer for themselves The Language is unusual yes but 't is not found unprofitable The Matter will offend for many good Souls do all that 's here advised and yet be not rich enough No let that be proved What godly Soul will tell me of any bitter Wants and disclaim all Guilts I meet with no such But what is the Design of these Directions They are very blind that will not see It is to fetch Martha to the place of Mary at her Saviour's Feet To empty Hearts of earthly Cares that room may be made for Heavenly To kill the Thorns that choak the Seed of the Word Yea the Canker that preys upon and eats up the Souls of many To perswade Men to mind and do all that they have to do and not take God's Work out of his Hands but leave him to provide for their Subsistence and practically regard our Redeemer's Command five or six times repeated Matth. 6. Take no thought no disquieting distracting One for your Life or Livelyhood Briefly to convince of this Truth that God is a kind and no hard Master And that his good and faithful Servants are not themselves when they distrust him And when they cease to tell him to this effect Lord I refer all to thee I would have nothing but what thou thinkest good The Condition that is good in thy Eyes shall seem best in mine Infinite Wisdom cannot chuse amiss for me And the Goodness and Power which are no less will not fail to bestow that on me Wherefore henceforth I will no more trouble my Heart with Thoughts who shall give me Bread to eat than with Thoughts who shall give me Day-light to see by or Air to breath in I will take it for very certain that the Covenant of Grace is the best Freehold in the Creation for this World and for the next And therefore although the Figtree shall not blossom neither shall Fruit be in the Vines the labour of the Olive shall fail and the Fields shall yield no Meat the Flock shall be cut off from the Fold and there shall be no Herd in the Stalls yet I will rejoice in the Lord I will joy in the God of my Salvation Hab. 3.17 18. Policy fails and Strength fails I know Serpents I have seen naked and Foxes thin Clothed and Bald I have seen Lion's very meagre and Bears but lean The profoundest Sophy of our Nation died poor And strange Exemplars of Diligence have lived in wretched Want But my Saviour's Rule I am sure is infallible Seeking first and most and all God's Kingdom and Righteousness All and every needful thing must be added to me I must have all I want In Heaven they have not as yet all they have a Will unto The Saints there are without their Bodies and much of their Company I may not expect more on Earth than they have in Heaven But there have they as much as they yet want and here will I expect so much also And now Farewel worldly Sorrow Farewel all Sorrow in the World save only for the world of Sin in me and it Lord Jesus thou knowest all things thou knowest that I love thee And to my Comfort I know so much Thou causest them that love thee to inherit Substance Thou fillest their Treasures With Good perfect without Defect and Perpetual without Decay the Good of the upper Springs and the Nether All Things are mine for I am thine In proper Speech the Devil hath no Child Rich and my Lord and my God hath not one Poor Let them be Poor therefore that can be so I cannot want I am most certain the King's Tax shall be well paid and my House well kept as long as I do 1. Trust my Guardians 2. Go to School to the Ants. 3. Lean on no Reeds 4. Serve but one Master 5. Wear my Master's Livery 6. Hold my Heart at my right Hand 7. Beware of my five Enemies 8. Lay not violent Hands on my self 9. Load my Parents soundly 10. Marry none but an Heir to the Crown 11. Make Battlements to my House 12. Take Care of the King's Children 13. Vse good Salt 14. Kindle huge Fires on my Enemies Heads 15. Keep my Watch at my Door 16. Vnite Courtesy and Truth 17. Be at Court one whole Day in a Week And 18. Wrestle hard all the Week 19. Get well acquainted with my Father's Will and Testament 20. See that my Meat be not my Poison And this will I do if God shall give me to will and to do it Jabez called on the God of Israel saying O that thou wouldest bless me indeed and enlarge my Coast and that thy Hand might be with me and that thou wouldest keep me from Evil that it may not grieve me And God granted him that which he requested 1 Chron. 4.20 Because thou hast asked VVisdom and Knowledg for thy self VVisdom and Knowledg is given to thee and I will give thee Riches and VVealth and Honour 2 Chron. 1.11 12. Quest 1. WHose is this Earth whose Goods be all The Creatures it contains Who takes the Care of this wide World As Lord and King who reigns Answer The Father Son and Holy Ghost Are the one King and Lord Who made and owns keeps all and rules All by his wond'rous Word Quest 2. But who be they this King affects Who be his Favourites In filling whom with all good things His Majesty delights Answer They be the Just that live by Faith On 's Power Love and Truth As Orphans on their Guardians lean Throughout their helpless Youth They be the faithful Servants who In constant Labours sweat And take more pleasure in God's Work Than earthly Princes Meat They be the Saints that trust not Kings And Princes for their Bread As knowing Kings be poor themselves And from God's Board be fed They be the Calebs that all times Serve fully their own Lord By whom Religion cut in halves As Atheism is abhorr'd They be the poor in Spirit known By their Humility Who of all Mercies ever say Less than the least am I. They be the wise in Heart whose Minds In Cares are exercis'd And whose right Hands strait execute What they have well devis'd They be the Spirit 's Souldiers Against the Flesh they fight Against the ravenous Lusts of Sense The Hell nam'd Appetite They be the wisely Charitable Rash Suretiship they loath Forward they are to Lend and Give But with Discretion both They be the Children good who pay A Duty not oft seen To whom a Father is a King And Mother is a Queen They be the Chaste and Holy Ones Who purely keep their Bed And of God's Royal Family Adopted Children wed They be the Friends of God whose Zeal Their House a Church doth make And see that all their Houshold shall Their House or Sin forsake They be the Holy Abraham's That tend God's Nursery And use their Power Skill and Love Their Babes to sanctify They be the fearful of the Plague In Fools infectious Breath They count walk with the Wise is Life And walk with Fools is Death They be the Follow'rs of the Lamb That bless'd and cursed not The glorious Art of pard'ning Spight Their Christian Souls have got They be the Davids who suspect Their Mouths most dangerous Door Strict Watch they keep and for a Guard They do their God implore They be the lovers of true Love Their Pleasure is to please And what gives any one Distaste Takes from their Rest and Ease They be the Saints who every Week In Heaven spend one Day Glad in their Heart that at God's Court They have so sweet a stay They be the Jacobs that in Pray'r Do wrestle all the Week Nor cease they till as Israel They gain the things they seek They be the Heirs of Life that prize Christ's Will and Testament By Day they read it and by Night Without it no Content They be the Zealous of good Works And Jealous of them too They all perform and all disclaim Trust none of all they do These be the Men of God our King These be his Favourites In filling these with all good Things His Majesty delights These be the Apples of his Eye These in him safely trust Others can only wish to thrive But these for certain must FINIS Books sold by Andrew Bell and Jonas Luntley RULES for heating the Word of God with certain and saving Benefit The Second Edition The Sure Way to Wealth Infallible Directions to get and keep sufficient Riches even while Taxes rise and Trades sink Both by Mr. Daniel Burgess The fulfilling of the Scripture or a Discovery of the Accomplishment of God's Holy Word in his Providential Works The third Edition corrected and enlarged with Doctrines and Histories by the Author Mr. Robert Fleming Pastor of a Church in Roterdam Published and recommended by Mr. Burgess Mr. Rutherford's Letters the third Edition now divided into three Parts The first containing those which were written from Aberdeen where he was confined by a Sentence of the High Commission drawn forth against him partly upon the account of his declining them partly upon the account of his Nonconformity The Second and Third containing some which were written from Anwoth before he was by the Prelates Persecution thrust from his Ministry and others upon Occasions afterward from St. Andrews London c. Published for the Use of all the People of God but more particularly for those who now are or afterwards may be put to suffering for Christ and his Cause

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