They cannot make you immortal
Surely then, to trust in riches for happiness is the greatest folly of all that are under the sun. Are you not convinced of this? Is it possible you should still expect to find happiness in money or all it can procure? What? Can silver and gold, and eating and drinking, and horses and servants, and glittering apparel, and diversions and pleasures (as they are called) make you happy? They can as soon make you immortal.
1771 text
Surely then, to trust in riches for happiness, is the greatest folly of all that are under the sun! Are you not convinced of this? Is it possible, you should still expect to find happiness in money, or all it can procure? What! *Can silver and gold, and eating and drinking, and horses and servants, and glittering apparel, and diversions and pleasures (as they are called) make thee happy? They can as soon make thee immortal.
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Sermon 28 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:19-23.
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