Wasting a talent
How pernicious to your own soul the latter of these is has been excellently shown by a late writer. If we waste our money we are not only guilty of wasting a talent which God has given us, but we do ourselves this further harm: we turn this useful talent into a powerful means of corrupting ourselves, because so far as it is spent wrong, so far it is spent in the support of some wrong temper, in gratifying some vain and unreasonable desires, which as Christians we are obliged to renounce.
1771 text
How pernicious to your own soul the latter of these is, has been excellently shewn by a late writer. “If we waste our money we are not only guilty of wasting a talent which God has given us, but we do ourselves this farther harm, we turn this useful talent into a powerful means of corrupting ourselves; because so far as it is spent wrong, so far it is spent in the support of some wrong temper, in gratifying some vain and unreasonable desires, which as Christians we are obliged to renounce.”
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Sermon 28 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:19-23.
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