consider, my dear brethren, has not God chose the poor of this world to be rich by faith, and to inherit the kingdom he has promised to those who love him?

Lazarus

Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, who was of Bethany, the town of Mary, and of Martha her sister.

Was laid

they were carrying a man who had been lame from his birth, one whom they daily laid at the gate of the temple called, Beauty-gate, to ask alms of those that pass'd into the temple.

Full

but he wanted to be fed with the crumbs, that fell from the rich man's table.

General references

eating and drinking, marriages and matches was the business till the very day that Noah entred into the ark, when the flood came and overwhelm'd them all.