Sidenote: Prov. xv. 16. Sidenote: Isa. xliii. 2. Sidenote: Prov. vi. 27. Sidenote: Ib. xxii. 1. 11. Nor let him covet many things, for even few things are to him as many; for poverty and wealth are words implying want and sufficiency. He is not rich who needs any thing, nor he poor who needs not. And let no man despise a widow, circumvent a ward, defraud his neighbour. _Woe unto him, whose substance has been collected by guile_, and _who buildeth a town_, that is his own soul, _with blood_. For this it is, which _is built as a city_; and this city avarice builds not but destroys, lust builds not but sets on fire and consumes. Wouldest thou build this city well? _Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure without that fear._ A man’s riches ought to avail to the ransom of his soul, not to its destruction. And a treasure is a ransom, if a man use it well; on the other hand it is a snare, if a man know not how to use it. What is a man’s money to him but a provision for his journey? Much is a burthen, a little is useful. We are wayfarers in this life; many walk, but it is needful that we walk aright, for then is the Lord Jesus with us, as we read, _When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee, and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burned_. But if a man take fire in his bosom, the fire of lust, the fire of immoderate desire he _walketh not through_, but burns this clothing of his soul. _A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour than silver and gold!_ Faith is sufficient for itself, and in its own possession is rich enough. And to the wise man nothing is foreign, but what is contrary to virtue; wherever he goes, he finds all things to be his own. All the world is his possession, for he uses it all if it were his own. Sidenote: Prov. vi. 26. (not quoted ad verbum). Sidenote: S. Luke xv. 17. Sidenote: v. 19.