consider it in your heart that the Lord
Jesus Christ he is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath:
there is none else. He it is who gives grace and honour. He it is
who delivers us out of the hands of our enemies. He it is who
blesses the fruit of the womb, and the fruit of the flock, and the
fruit of the garden and the field. He is the living God, in whom
this world, as well as the world to come, lives and moves and has
its being; and only by obeying his laws can man prosper, he and his
children after him, upon this earth of God.

SERMON XVI. NATIONAL WEALTH

(Fifth Sunday after Easter.)

Deut. viii. 11-18. Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, in
not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes,
which I command thee this day: lest when thou hast eaten and art
full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; and when thy
herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is
multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; then thine heart
be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God, which brought thee
forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; who led
thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery
serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who
brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint; who fed thee in
the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might
humble thee and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy
latter end: and thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of
mine hand hath gotten me this wealth. But thou shall remember the
Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth,
that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers,
as it is this day.

I told you before that the book of Deuteronomy was the foundation of
all sound politics--as one would expect it to be, if its author were
Moses, the greatest lawgiver whom the world ever saw. But here, in
this lesson, is a proof of the truth of what I said. For here, in
the text, is Moses' answer to the first great question in politics,
What makes a nation prosperous?

To that wise men have always answered, as Moses answered, 'Good
government; government according to the laws of God.' That alone
makes a nation prosperous.

But the multitude--who are not wise men, nor likely to be for some
time to come--give a different answer. They say, 'What makes a
nation prospero