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on in theitate of our town popuTa^ tion hath been all accomplished by the iucrcosc or riehea. or, aa they call it, capital; andby thefraitB which result from dorotedneAs lo the accumula- tion and advantag^K which thence result. These are the uiiacrivs of a rich people, and ihe con«e- quences of a great increafle of that wealth which hath no representative to the bnd of a country. Against this ft|>eciGs of property, wc arc especially warned tn Scripture, under the natne of ricAa, which is pronounced the mont dangerous of all the snare^of Satan : the love of it being declared the root of all evil. For, while property dolb bring with it hereditarj' and ancestral recolloc- ^ bcflkB, and impose great public dutic^toF niagtt*^^ tracy and polity, and doth breed you up in the ^^ midst uf the nt^inor over which you are lord, and iMnd you by th<; tics uf ancient service, aiid kindly olScef^ and dutiful attentions to the people upon your estate, whereby the man as well as tha master is cultivated, the fcUow-fceling of butaa* nity as well as the superiority of lordships and there is a continual food to every noble and genib' rou« feeling of the soul \ the property of the merchant, on the contrary, is generally accumu- ^^ lated in cities, amongst the continual play of ^^ selfish interests and pa^ions; the property of ihc manufacturer i% i^enemlly accumulated by the labour of huudredb or thousandth; fruniall obliKa- lion to whom he consider* himself tu be freCt 4 i±.iii .•i,- I -l-Jii* xll- HI.] OOD't COMTKOVKftRV WltU TMK LAND. 917 when be ha^ paid chem on the Saturday night ; and Ihc property of Ibe money- lender, which isbcoomc almost paramouut to every other, i^ generally ac- cumuhlcd by fip«culationM, iMuriew, heartless cftl* culationa, aiid very cnitl acts; «» thai the accu- niij|iiiin|7 of that «ort of property in tbem is very trying to the constitutioD of a man's heart, and hardly one in n thousand who is not fenced round with rclifrion.cscnp<:lh spiritual death and moral df^th in the long continued controverKv of intereNt* Ytfl, to thcKe clu^Jtes I have tm ht^iliition in snying, that they alao are stewards of God'a bounty, for the agt^randizcment, not of them- aelvcs and their families only, bat for the com- fort and well<bein»of those by whose help they do make their gain. The btiyer is beholden to the seller, and the seller to the btiyer; iind they flro not quit froni obli^tion when they have bilanced their accounts^ The merchant in be- holden to the clerks of hi» coimtin^ house and