Mony has its Use ’tis true; but generally speaking, the Benefit does
not Countervail the Cares that go along with it, and the Hazzards of
the Temptation to Abuse it: It is the Patron, and the Price of all
Wickedness: It Blinds all Eyes, and Stops all Ears, from the Prince to
the very Beggar. It Corrupts Faith and Justice; and in one Word, ’tis
the very Pick-Lock, that opens the way into all Cabinets and Councils.
It Debauches Children against their Parents; it makes Subjects Rebel
against their Governors; it turns Lawyers and Divines into Advocates for
Sacrilege and Sedition; and it Transports the very Professors of the
Gospel into a Spirit of Contradiction and Defiance, to the Practices and
Precepts of our Lord and Master. It is no Wonder now, that _Hercules_
should so Contemptuously turn his Back upon _Pluto_, or the God of Mony;
when the One’s Bus’ness is to Propagate and Encourage those Monsters,
which the other came into the World to Quell and to Subdue.