So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. Here is a picture of present folly, and of its awful issue. Such is the man "who is not rich toward God:" he lives to amass and enjoy such riches only as terminate on self, and end with time; but as to God's favour which is life (), and precious faith (; ), and riches in good works (), and the wisdom which is better than rubies (), and in a word, all that the Lord esteems true riches (; ), he lives and dies a beggar!

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