...should boast themselves of any good things in this world ? what can be more foolish than to say, " I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing," when any accident may at any moment take away what we trust in ? One man boasts of his money ; and...

...and lifting its glassy eyes up to heaven, with, " God, I thank thee that I arn not as other men are ! I am rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing!" Oh, how surpassingly hateful to heaven must be, as Augustine says, this piece of " proud putrefaction...

...of this is not easily fixed in the soul; and hence, many, like a fallen Church of old, are saying, "I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing." Sad and ruinous mistake ! Alas, how blinding is the influence of sin! How strange a delusion to judge...

...absolutely none ? In two respects it would. There would have been less of the means of self-deception. ( " Thou sayest I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing.") And all semblance and pretension to Christianity being abjured, there would have been less injury done...

...thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thce out of my mouth. Because thou gayest, I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. As many as I love, I rebuke...

...I do if it were not free ? How could I atone for a single violation of God's holy law ? I may think I am rich and increased in goods and have need of nothing ; and so the poor maniac may pace the 'halls of the hospital with the pretensions of a queen or a Croesus...

...besotted by the deceitfulness of the world, the flesh, and the devil, as to have said to this moment, " I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing." Yet if thou awakest fully to thy danger, despair not. Upon thee, even thee, false as well as sinful...

...this, must receive Christ as his all in all. This Church of Laodicea was emphatically self righteous. " Thou sayest I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing." By being besought to buy, then, it was asked to part with these riches that it might receive Christ...

...then, because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth : because thou sayest I am rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked." What miserable delusions...

...are very rich in grace who think themselves miserably poor; while, on the other hand, many who say "I am rich and increased in goods, and have need of nothing," are naked, and poor, and miserable. Poor Moabitess, long an alien, having gone far into sin, and now...