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<p>Here, 1. It is supposed that an honest good man may have but a little of the wealth of this world (all the righteous are not rich),—that a man may have but little, and yet may be honest (though poverty is a temptation to dishonesty, <a class="bibleref" title="Prov.30.9" href="/passage/?search=Prov.30.9">Prov. 30:9</a>; yet not an invincible one),—and that a man may grow rich, for a while, by fraud and oppression, may have <i>great revenues</i>, and those got and kept <i>without right</i>, may have no good title to them nor make any good use of them. 2. It is maintained that a small estate, honestly come by, which a man is content with, enjoys comfortably, serves God with cheerfully, and puts to a right use, is much better and more valuable than a great estate ill-got, and then ill-kept or ill-spent. It carries with it more inward satisfaction, a better reputation with all that are wise and good; it will last longer, and will turn to a better account in the great day, when men will be judged, not according to what they had, but what they did.</p>
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