getteth, or rather loseth about the world to come: But what doth
he get in this world, more than travel and sorrow vexation of
spirit, and disappointment? Men aim at blessedness in getting, I
mean, at temporal blessedness; but the man that thus getteth, shall
not have that. For though an Inheritance after this manner may be
hastily gotten at the beginning, yet the end thereof shall not be
blessed. They gather it indeed, and think to keep it too, but what
says Solomon? God casteth it away. The Lord will not suffer the
soul of the righteous to famish, but he casteth away the substance
of the wicked.

The time, as I said, that they do enjoy it, it shall doe them no
good at all; but long to be sure they must not have it. For God
will either take it away in their life time, or else in the
generation following, according to that of Job: He, the wicked,
may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent
shall divide the silver. {113d}

Consider that also that is written in the Proverbs: A good man
leaveth an Inheritance to his childrens children, and the wealth of
the sinner is laid up for the just. {113e} What then doth he get
thereby, that getteth by dishonest means? why he getteth Sin and
Wrath, Hell and Damnation: and now tell me how much he doth get.

This, I say, is his getting; so that as David says, we may be bold
to say too: I beheld the wicked in great prosperity, and presently
I cursed his habitation: for it cannot prosper with him. Fluster
and huff, and make a doe for a while he may, but God hath
determined that both he and it shall melt like grease, and any
observing man may see it so. Behold, the unrighteous man in a way