Excerpt from An Essay on the Sin and the Evils of Covetousness: And the Happy Effects Which Would Flow From a Spirit of Christian Beneficence; Illustrated by a Variety of Facts, Selected From Sacred and Civil History, and Other Documents The subject of the following treatise, considered in all its aspects, is one which has an important bearing on the happi ness and improvement both of Christian and Civil society. Impressed with a deep conviction of this truth, the author intended, sometime ago, to address his fellow-men on the subject; but other engagements prevented him from entering on the consideration of the several topics connected with it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.