On the Danger of Increasing Riches (Sermon 126)
"If riches increase, set not thine heart upon them." Ps. 62:10
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"If riches increase, set not thine heart upon them." Ps. 62:10
PREACHED AT SAVANNAH, FEBRUARY 20, 1736 "Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing." 1 Cor. 13:3
"How camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment Matt. 22:12.
"Do not I fill heaven and earth saith the Lord." Jer. 23:24
"But God said unto him, Thou fool!" Luke 12:20.
"If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. Therefore, if the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is...
"I say unto you, Make unto yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into the everlasting habitations." Luke 16:9.
"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries...
"The sin of the young men was very great." 1 Sam. 2:17.
"Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of -- wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; "But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament...
"As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." Josh. 24:15.
"For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience." 2 Cor. 1:12.
"Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of this world is enmity with God Whosoever therefore desireth to be a friend of the world is an enemy of God." Jam. 4:4.
"Without faith it is impossible to please him." Heb. 11:6.
"I beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love; endeavouring to keep the unity of the...
"This I speak -- that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction." 1 Cor. 7:35.
"What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes" Isa. 5:4.
"Children, obey your parents in all things." Col. 3:20
"Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: For they watch over your souls, as they that shall give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: For that is...
"Let us go on to perfection." Heb. 6:1.
"Let every man please his neighbour for his good to edification." Rom. 15:2.
"Henceforth know we no man after the flesh; yea, though we did know Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more." 2 Cor. 5:16
"Let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." James 1:4.
"Without God in the world." Eph. 2:12.
"Whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son: -- Whom he did predestinate, them he also called. And whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he...