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Meditations -- Early works to 1800.
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"Meditations divine & morall by H.T. ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A63822.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.
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XXIV.
Religion and riches seldom meet together. They that are kept down with such cloddes of earth can hardly reach at the joys of heaven. The Rich-man is so puff'd up with the leaven of his wealth, that he cannot enter in at the strait-gate, and the way thi∣ther is too narrow for his spreading greatnesse. Poore Lazarus was advanced to the bosome of Abraham, while Di∣ves lay frying in the bowels of Hell. Grace and abundance are not alwayes inconsistent; but Poverty hath fewer tem∣ptations, and less danger. Nay
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even in this world, plenty doth but crosse content; and he that hath all things to his minde, yet wants a mind to enjoy all he hath. Feare of loosing, care of preserving, envy of neighbours, opposition of enemies, so disturb his rest, that he cannot truly say, soul, take thy ease here, or soul, go to heaven hereafter.
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