This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 edition. Excerpt: ... their departure presents for increasing his wealth. But Solomon likewise condemns the pursuit of riches by improper means. Those whose hearts are set on riches, if they are kept by the fear of shame and punishment from open deeds of theft and robbery, are often induced, when it can be done without detection, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 edition. Excerpt: ... their departure presents for increasing his wealth. But Solomon likewise condemns the pursuit of riches by improper means. Those whose hearts are set on riches, if they are kept by the fear of shame and punishment from open deeds of theft and robbery, are often induced, when it can be done without detection, to impose on the ignorance and the simplicity of others. A truly upright man would ask the same sum for a commodity from a child as from a person who was a complete judge of its value; but the ignorance of purchasers presents a temptation to extortion which the worldling cannot resist. To gain riches the language and the forms of religion have been sometimes basely prostituted. Some, under a disguise of self-denial, sanctity, and Christian sympathy and kindness, have gained the confidence of the weak and the simple, which they have converted to their own advantage, have wheedled the dotard to bequeath to them his possessions, and have obtained the charge of the affairs of the old, or of minors, and have managed these to their own emolument, and to the ruin of those whom they had engaged to protect. And to gain riches, the obligations of neighbourhood, of gratitude, and of public decency, are disregarded. There are some who will misrepresent the character and goods of a neighbour to increase their own business, who will entice away the customers to whom the orphan looks for support when a parent is gone, and who will appropriate to their farms and to their merchandise, that time which the worship of God in public or in their families demands. Such men are the devoted drudges of the world. 3. Dependence on riches is also forbidden in the text. There are many who say to the gold, thou art my hope, and to the fine gold, thou art my confidence....
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