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1 Tim. vi. 8.

Eccl. i. 2.

  • sire to be Poor; we do not

desire your goods but you. We have Food and wherewithal to cover ourselves and desire no more, for Vanity of Vanities and All is Vanity. Wherefore the devotion of Men towards them increased still more, so that many held in small Regard the Goods which they saw thus despised of the Saints.