Begging of the Rich

“Beggars in the streets if they see a poor man, meanly clad, they let hi?n alone; bttt when they see a man of quality and fashioit they roztse tip themselves, and besiege hijn with imporiunate ent7’eaties and clamotcrs, and will 7iot let him go until he hath left something with the7n” Thus should we do in our spiritual begging. Vain is the help of man, and therefore we should ask little of him: he is as poor as we are, and it will be a waste of time to wait upon such a pauper. As for the Lord Jesus, he is so rich that if all the beggars in the universe would call at his door he would not refuse one of them, but would set open the doors of his granaries and the hatches of his butteries, and feast the world. He is the heir of all things. There is no bottom to his treasuries. He is the true Solomon, and his daily provision is not only enough for all his household, but for all those who lie starving on the highways and in the hedges. The wealth of nations is nothing to the wealth of Jesus. Come, then, my heart, beg largely of thy Lord, and when he hears thee, beg again. His quality and fashion invite thee to follow him with importunity whithersoever he goeth.