This shows that riches wear as they are won and woven. 1. That which is
won ill will never wear well, for a curse attends it which will waste
it, and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful
ways of getting well incline them to the like sinful ways of spending:
Wealth gotten by vanity will be bestowed upon vanity, and then it will
be diminished. That which is got by such employments as are not lawful,
or not becoming Christians, such as only serve to feed pride and
luxury, that which is got by gaming or by the stage, may as truly be
said to be gotten by vanity as that which is got by fraud and lying,
and will be diminished. De male quæsitis vix gaudet tertius
hæres--Ill-gotten wealth will scarcely be enjoyed by the third
generation. 2. That which is got by industry and honesty will grow
more, instead of growing less; it will be a maintenance; it will be an
inheritance; it will be an abundance. He that labours, working with his
hands, shall so increase as that he shall have to give to him that
needs (Eph. iv. 28); and, when it comes to that, it will increase yet
more and more.