Religion & morality > Profit and loss, or, The Christian merchant

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ctear understanding of much divine truth ; he
may be zealous for orthodoxy, and stand high in
reputation among Christians ; but while the world
has his heart, he must be ranked among those
who are far from God, who are in the gall of
bitterness, and the bond of iniquity.
t(The love of money is the root of all evil,
which some having coveted after, have erred from
the faith, and pierced themselves through with
many sorrows : and they that will be rich, fatt
into temptation, and a snare, and divers foolish
and hurtful lusts, which drown man in destruc¬
tion and perdition.” Alas! what an object of
pity to-Christians in ail ages, is that professor of
whom Paul ia-ys, “ Detnas hath' forsaken me,
having loved this present world.” Suppose De-
mas to have obtained the object of his love, where
was the prafir if he lost his own soul {
“ There is* a sore evil which [ have seen under
the sun, namely, riches kept for the owner's
thereof to their hurt. But those riches perish by
eviT travail: anti he begetteth a son, and there is
nothing in his hand. As he came forth of his mo¬
ther’s womb, naked shall he return to go as he
came, and shafl take nothing of his labour, which
he may carry away in his hand. Afid this also is
a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so-shall
he go : and what profit hath he that, hath labour¬
ed for the wind? Eedes. v. 13 —16'.