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future want, becaufe they have God's Pro- 

 mife for their fecurity: Let -them but do 

 good, and put their truft.in him, and verily 

 they fliall be fed. They are alfo to confi- 

 der, that great Riches cannot make them 

 more happy than they are, but rather ex- 

 pole them to Temptations. 



But it may be objefted, i. That there 

 are fome kinds of Virtue which feem to 

 have a contrary tendency, as Charity to 

 thofe that want, Bounty and Liberality to 

 any good Work. To which I anfwer, 



That thefe Afts may very well confilt 

 with Riches in the molt proper Notion of 

 it, as it denotes a fufficiency for our Occa- 

 fions ; the ability of contributing in fome 

 proportion towards any worthy and chari- 

 table Work being in the efteem of every 

 good Man one Of thofe occafions and con- 

 veniencies required to fuch a fufficiency, 

 and cannot any more be a prejudice to it, 

 than it would be for a- Man to lay up fome part 

 of his Eftate in the fafelt place, to lend it 

 out upon the bell " intereft, to part with it 

 for the purchafe of the fame favour and 

 affiftance from others in the like exigen- 

 cies ; to lay it out upon his pleafure,- with 

 refpeft to that inward comfort and fatis- 



faftion 



