Prov. xli, 24, 27. The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute. The slothful man roasteth not that which he took in hunting: but the substance of a diligent man is precious.

Prov. xiii, 4 23. The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat. Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.

Prov. xv, 19. The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorus: but the way of the righteous is made plain.

Prov. xxviii, 19. He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.

IDLENESS.

long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? | get wealth, that he may establish when wilt thou arise out of thy his covenant which he swore unsleep? Yet a little sleep, a little to thy fathers, as it is this day. slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

Prov. x, 26. As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.

slothful in his work is brother to Prov. xviii, 9. He also that is him that is a great waster.

Prov. xix, 15, 24. Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger. A slothful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again.

Prov. xx, 4. The sluggard will therefore shall he beg in harvest, not plow by reason of the cold; and have nothing.

Prov. xxi, 25. 26. The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour. He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth, and spareth

not.

Prov. xxii, 13. The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.

Prov. xxiii, 21. For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to

poverty; and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

field of the slothful, and by the Prov. xxiv, 30-34. I went by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. Then I saw, and considered it well; I looked upon it, and received instruction. a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

Deut. xxviii, 5, 8 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store. The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy store-houses,

and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless theo in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

2 Chron. xxv, 9. And Amaziah shall said to the man of God, But what

We do for the hundred talents which I have given to the army of Israel? And the man of God answered, The LORD is able to give thee much more than this.

Job xxii, 8, 23-25. But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; it. If thou return to the Almighty, and the honourable man dwelt in put away iniquity far from thy thou shalt be built up, thou shalt tabernacles. Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver.

Job xlii, 12. So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning, for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

Ps. cxliv, 13, 15. That our garners may be full, affording all manner happy is that people whose God people that is in such a case; yea, of store; Happy is that is the LORD.

Prov. x, 22. The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

wise is their riches: but the foolProv. xiv, 24. The crown of the Yetishness of fools is folly

LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy Isa. xlviii, 17. Thus saith the One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.

Dan. xi, 43. But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

Job i, 3. His substance also was Beven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the

east.

RICHES NOT TO BE
COVETED.

Prov. xv, 6. In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is

trouble.

Prov. xxiii, 4. Labour not to be rich; cease from thine own wisdom.

Eccles. iv, 7, 8. Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun. There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a Bore travail.

Eccles. v, 10, 11. He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This is also Vanity. When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?

Eccles. vi, 1, 2. There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men: A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for bis soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Matth. vi, 19-21. Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt. and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

OFTEN ILL ACQUIRED. Josh. vii, 21-23. When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then 1 coveted them, and took them; an 1, behold, they are hid in the earch in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it. So Joshua

at messengers, and they ran

hid in his tent, and the silver under it. And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD.

Prov. x, 2. 3. Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death. The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.

Prov. xx, 21, 22. An Inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning, but the end thereof shall not be blessed. Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.

Prov. xxi, 6. The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

Prov. xxviii, 20. A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich

shall not be innocent.

Jer. xvii, 11. As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

Hab. ii, 6. Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increas eth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!

Luke xvi, 11. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

OF SMALL VALUE. Judges v, 19. The kings came and fought; then fought the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo; they took no gain of money.

Job xxxvi, 18. 19. Because there is wrath, beirare lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee. Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.

Prov. xi, 4. Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.

Isa. xiii, 17. Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

Ezek. vil, 19. They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD; they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels, because it is the stumbling block of their iniquity.

AND VERY PRECARIOUS.

swallowed down riches, and he Job xx, 15, 28, 29. He hath shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. The increase of his house shall depart and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath. This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

Job xxvii, 16, 17, 19-21. Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay: He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver. The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered: he openeth his eyes, and he is not. Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night. The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

Ps. xvii, 14. From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this lite, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

Ps. xxxix, 6. Surely every man walketh in a vain shew; surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

Prov. xxili, 5. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away, as an eagle toward heaven

Prov. xxviii, 22. He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

Therefore I

Eccles. i, 17-19. hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit. Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun; because I should leave it unto the man that And who shall be after me. knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also Vanity.

Eccles. v, 13, 14. There is a sore

Gen. xiii, 5-9. And Lot flocks and herds and tents. the land was not able to them, that they might dwell to

bear

gether: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle, and the herdmen of Lot's cattle. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land. And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

Gen. xxvi, 16. And Abimelech said unto Isaic, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than

we.

Gen. xxxi, 1.2. And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's bath he

gotten all this glory. And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

Gen. xxxvi, 6, 7...... [Esau] went into the country from the

And Hezekiah said, They are come from a far country unto me, even from Babylon. Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.

Dan. xi, 2. And now will I show thee the truth. Behold, there

shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his shall stir up all against the realm strength through his riches he

of Grecia.

Job xxxi, 24, 25. If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

have treasure in heaven and come and follow me. But when the young mau heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions. Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. When his disciples heard it, they were exthen can be saved? ceedingly amazed, saying, Who

Mark viii, 36, 37. For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Mark X, 21-26. Then Jesus, beholding him, loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the cross, and follow me. And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions. And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly into the kingdom of God! And shall they that have riches enter the disciples were astonished at again, and saith unto them, Chilhis words. But Jesus answereth dren, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God! It is easier

for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. And they were astonished out of selves, Who then can be saved? measure, saying among them

Luke vi, 24, 25. But woe unto

their riches were more than that

they might dwell together, and the land wherein they were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.

Deat. viii, 17. And thou say in thine heart. My power, and the might of mine hand, hath gotten me this wealth.

Isa. xxxix, 2--4. And Hezekiah was glad of them, and shewed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the precious ointment, and all the house of his armour, and all that was found

in

his treasures: there was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah showed them not. Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah, and said unto him, What said these men? and from whence came they unto thee?

hand had gotten much. was great, and because mine

Ps. Ixii, 10. Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

his riches shall fall: but the Prov. xi, 28. He that trusteth in righteous shall flourish as a branch.

Prov. xviii, 11. The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.

Matth. xiii, 22. He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful,

Matth. xix, 21-25. Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt

Woe ceived your consolation. unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.

Luke ix, 25. For what is a man world, and lose himself, or be cast advantaged, if he gain the whole away?

Luke xil, 34. For where your be also. treasure is, there will your heart

Luke xiv, 33. So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.

Luke xviii, 23-26. And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich. And when Jesus saw that he was very sor rowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to go through

a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. And they that heard it said, Who then can be saved?

1 Tim. vi, 17. Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy.

James v, 1-3. Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

2. EMOTIONS PERSONAL.

Job vi, 2. 3. Oh that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

Job vii, 11, 12. Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

Job xviii, 10-12. The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his leet. His strength shall be hunger-bitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.

Job xxiii, 2. Even to-day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

Ps. xxxviii, 17. For I am ready

to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.

Ps. lv, 5. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.

Prov. xv. 15. All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

Prov. xvii. 22. A merry heart de th good like a medicine: but a broken spirit rieth the bones.

Prov. xviil, 14. The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity: but a wounded spirit who can bear?

Prov. xxv, 20. As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.

Eccles. vii, 2-4. It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning: but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

Jer. viii, 18. When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.

Jer. x, 19. Woe is me for my hurt! my wound is grievous but I said, Truly this is a grief, and I

must bear it.

Jer. xlv, 2, 3. Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, unto thee, O

Baruch; Thou didst say, Woe is

me now! for the LORD hath added

grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

James iv, 9. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

PATIENCE.

Eccles. vii, S. Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Luke viii, 15. But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.

Luke xxi, 19. In your patience possess ye your souls.

Çol. i, 11. Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness.

Heb. vi, 15. And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

Heb. x, 36. For ye have need of the will of God, ye might receive patience, that, after ye have done the promise.

the trying of your faith worketh James 1, 3, 4. Knowing this, that patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

eth nigh. Beholl we count them happy which ensure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

Rev. ii, 2. 3. I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience,

and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not faint

ed.

and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped. In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.

Job 1, 20, 22. Then Job arose,

Job ii, 10. But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What! shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

Isa. xxxix, 8. Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken: he said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.

Micah vii, 9. I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

Acts xxi, 14. And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.

PRIDE.

is right in his own eyes: but he

Prov. xil, 15. The way of a fool

that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.