Luke 16:12

if you have imbezel'd what another gave you in trust, how can he give you an estate in perpetuity?

and he called ten of his servants, to whom he deliver'd ten pounds: improve that, said he, till I return.

So it was when a man was going to travel into a foreign country, he called his servants, and delivered to them his stock:

but the best and the most necessary concern is, what Mary has pitch'd upon, of which she shall never be deprived.

for you are dead to them, and Christ has secured your life with God.

in the enjoyment of a state, that can never change or decay, a state reserv'd in heaven for us,

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And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?

and he called ten of his servants, to whom he deliver'd ten pounds: improve that, said he, till I return.

So it was when a man was going to travel into a foreign country, he called his servants, and delivered to them his stock:

but the best and the most necessary concern is, what Mary has pitch'd upon, of which she shall never be deprived.

for you are dead to them, and Christ has secured your life with God.

in the enjoyment of a state, that can never change or decay, a state reserv'd in heaven for us,

for he that makes use of what he has shall have more, but he that does not, shall be stript of what he has.

My dear child, whatever you do in behalf of the brethren, and of those who are strangers, is commendable.