58 A PERSUASIVE to 



fart a male dilabuntur: He that fliall care- 

 fully obferve the ufual courfe of things in 

 the World, may from his own experience 

 find Inftances enough to confirm thofe 

 Sayings of the Wifeman, Prov. n. ^^. 

 There is that fcattereth^ and yet increafeth 

 and there is that withholdeth more than is 

 meet ^ but it tendeth to poverty. Chap. 

 1 3. ir, ix. Wealth gotten by vanity Jhall be 

 diminijhed. The wealth of the Jinner is laid 

 up for the juft. Chap. xx. 16. He that op- 

 preffeth the poor to increafe his riches, Jhall 

 certainly come to want. Chap. x8. 8. He 

 that by unjujl gam increafeth his fubflance^ 

 jhall gather it for him that will pity the 

 poor. 



But if a man who by Extortion or un- 

 juft gain raifes an Eitate, happens to tranf- 

 mit it to his Pofterity, he ufually entails up- 

 on them a Curfe together with it, it decay- 

 ing by degrees , and coming to nothing : 

 *De male qu&fitis vix gaudet tertiw hue res : 

 The third Heir fcarce ever enjoying an ill- 

 gotten Eftate. 



0^7,3. It may be objefted, That there 

 are fome good Men that are poor ; and that 

 God hath chofen the poor of this world 

 to receive the Gofpel, and to be rich in 



faith, 



