19, 20,) which Jesus had consecrated, that brings all that walk in it to the eternal rest of God: whereunto He himself is entered, who is the holy and only blessed Redeemer. CHAPTER XIII. 1. Avarice, the second capital lust, its definition and distinction.--2. It consists in a desire of unlawful things.--3. As in David's case about Uriah's wife.--4. Also Ahab's about Naboth's vineyard.--5. Next, in unlawful desires of lawful things.--6. Covetousness is a mark of false prophets.--7. A reproach to religion.--8. An enemy to government.--9. Treacherous.--10. Oppressive.--11. Judas an example.--12. So Simon Magus.--13. Lastly, in unprofitable hoarding of money.--14. The covetous man a common evil.--15. His hypocrisy.--16. Gold his god.--17. He is sparing, to death.--18. Is reproved by Christ and his followers.--19. Ananias' and Sapphira's sin and judgment.--20. William Tindall's discourse on that subject referred unto.--21. Peter Charron's testimony against it.--22. Abraham Cowley's witty and sharp satire upon it. I. I am come to the second part of this discourse, which is avarice, or covetousness, an epidemic and a raging distemper in the world, attended with all the mischiefs that can make men miserable in themselves, and in society; so near akin to the foregoing evil, pride, that they are seldom apart: Liberality being almost as hateful to the proud, as to the covetous, I shall define it thus: Covetousness is the love of money or riches; (Ephes. v. 3, 5;) which, as the apostle hath it, "is the root of all evil." (1 Tim. vi. 9, 10.) It branches itself into these three parts: first, desiring of unlawful things; secondly, unlawfully desiring of lawful things; and lastly, hoarding up, or unprofitably withholding the benefit of them from the relief of private persons, or the public. I shall first deliver the sense of Scripture, and what examples are therein afforded against this impiety: and next, my own reasons, with some authorities from authors of credit. By which it will appear, that the working of the love of riches out of the hearts of people, is as much the business of the cross of Christ, as the rooting out of any one sin that man is fallen into.