50 A PERSUASIVE to 



his condition, is not rich, nor ever will be 

 fo ; becaufe there can be no other real limits 

 to his defires, but that of fufficiency, what- 

 ever is beyond this being boundlefs and in- 

 finite. And though men may pleafe them- 

 felves with an imagination, that if they had 

 but fuch an addition to their Eftates, they 

 fliould then think they had enough, yet 

 that is but a mere imagination, there being 

 no real caufe why they fhould be more fa- 

 tisfied then, than they are now. 



^. Riches may be taken in a more re- 

 lative fenfe, and fo they may be defcribed 

 to confifi in having large 'Poffejfions, when 

 a man's Eflate and Revenue is of fuch a 

 proportion as is commonly efteemed great ; 

 whether with relation to the generality of 

 other men ; and fo only thofe at the upper 

 end of the world are capable of being coun- 

 ted rich ; or elfe with refpeft to others of 

 the fame rank and order and fo all fuch 

 are accounted rich, who do in their Pof- 

 feflions exceed the common fort of thofe 

 that are of the fame rank with them ; this 

 kind of Wealth confifting properly in com- 

 parifon ; there being not any one determi- 

 nate fum or proportion of revenue to which 

 the name of Riches may be appropriated, 

 but that it may be as much below the oc- 



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