Readers are fomething weaned from their Sare doting upon this prefent World, and defire to know how they may for the future .get off their affections from it, fo as to have this root of all Evil extirpated, and quite plucked up from within them. I hope this is now the defire of all, or at least of most of them; and therefore I fhall now endea your to fhew them how they may infalliIn order bly accomplish and effect it.

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1. LET fuch Perfons often confider with themselves how unfuitable the things of this World are for Affections and Love, which was defign'd only for the chiefeft Good. When God implanted the Affection of Love within us, he did not intend it fhould be the root of all Evil, but of all Good unto us; and therefore he did not give it us to place it fondly upon fuch low and mean Objects as this World prefents unto us, but that we fhould love Himself with all our hearts and Souls, Deut. vi, 5. And furely he infinitely deferves our Love more than fuch Trafh can do.

2. LET them remember that fo long as they love Money, they may pretend what they pleafe, they do not love God, 1 Joh. ii. 15. nor Chrift, Mat. x. 37. Luk. xiv, 26. and by confequence they have no true Religion at all in them, fam. i. 27. K4 3. LET

3. LET them often read and ftudy our Saviour's Sermon upon the Mount, where he pronounces the meek and low, not the rich and mighty, to be bleffed, Mat. v. 3,4 and weigh thofe ftrong and undeniable Arguments which he brings, to prevail upon us not to take thought for the World, nor trouble our Heads about the impertinent' Concerns of this tranfient Life, Mat. vi. 24, 25, 26, 27, 28.

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4. LET them labour to confirm and ftrengthen their Truft and Confidences on the Promises of God, who hath affured us, that if we love and fear him, he will take care of us, and provide all things necessary for us, Mat. vi. 33. This is the great Argument which the Apoftle ufes, Heb. xiii. 5, 6.

5. LET them remember that they are called to higher things than this World is able to afford them: The Chriftian is an

high and heavenly Calling; we are called by it, and invited to a Kingdom and eternal Glory, 1 Theff. 2. 12. and therefore ought not to spend our time about such low and paultry Trafh as Riches and Wealth.

6. LET them get above theWorld, let their Conversation be in Heaven, and then they will foon look down upon all things here below as beneath their Concern. Vilefcunt

lefcunt temporalia, cum defiderantur æterna, faid St. Gregory. He that ferioufly thinks upon and defires Heaven, cannot but vilify and defpife Earth. Oh what Fools and Madmen do the bleffed Angels, and the glorified Saints in Heaven, think us poor Mortals upon Earth to be, when they fee us bufying our felves about getting a little refin'd Dirt, and in the mean while ne glecting thofe tranfcendent Glories which themselves enjoy, although they be offer'd to us! to

E. LET them never fuffer the Vanity of all things here below to go out of their minds; but remember ftill, that get what they can, it is but Vanity and vexation of Spirit, as Solomon himself afferted upon his own Experience, though he be fure had more than any of us are ever likely to enjoy. And let them not only often repeat the words, but endeavour to get themfelves convinced throughly of the truth of them, which their own Experiences duly weighed, and rightly applied will foon do.

8. LET it be their daily Prayer to Almighty God, that he would take off their Affections from the World, and incline them to himself, as David did, faying, Incline my heart to thy Teftimonies, and not to Covetousness, Pfal. cxix. 36.

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To all thefe means, let them add the conftant and ferious Confideration of what they have here read, that the Love of Money is the root of all Evil, affuring themfelves that if they will not believe it now, it is not long before they will all find it but too true by their own fad and woful Experience; when they fhall be ftripp'd of their prefent Enjoyments, and fo turn Bankrupts in another World, where they will be caft into Prifon without ever having a farthing to relieve themselves, or fo much as a drop of water to cool their enflamed tongues,

By thefe and fuch like means none of us but may suppress the Love of Money in us, which is the root of all Evil, and fo avoid or prevent all the Evil which otherwife will proceed from it. Whether any of my Readers will be perfuaded to ufe thefe means or no, I know not, how foever let me tell them, that if they are loath to ftrive to get their Affections deaden'd to the World, it is an infallible fign that they are too much in love with it, and that this root and feed of all manner of Evil remains in them, nor can it be expected they will be perfuaded to any one Duty whatfoever, until they are firft prevailed upon to do this, even to mortify their Lufts and Affections to the things of this World. For

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fo long as thofe are predominant within us, no Grace whatfoever can be exerted, nor Duty performed, nor any Sin avoided by us.

BUT oh how happy would it be, if it fhould please the most high God to fet what I have here faid fo home upon any, as to induce them to fet themselves feriously for the future, to the eradicating or rooting up this Love of Money out of their hearts! what a holy, what a bleffed, what a peculiar People fhould we then be, and how zealous of good works! Then we should take all opportunities of performing our Devotions to Almighty God then we fhould have as many at the Sacrament, as at a Sermon, then our Churches would be filled all the week, as well as on Sundays, and the eternal God conftantly worshipped with Reverence and godly Fear, then we would take delight in cloathing the Naked, feeding the Hungry, and relieving the Oppreffed: Then there would be no fuch thing as cheating and coufenage, as lying and perjury, as ftrife and contention amongst us. But we fhould all walk hand in hand together in the ways of Piety, Juftice, and Charity upon Earth, until at length we fhall come to Heaven, where we fhall be fo far from loving or defiring Money, that we fhall account it as it is even drofs and dirt;

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