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, such as all our wit and prudence can foresee nor avoid. Such was that and surprising storm in November 1703,  many thousands were undone, as to their, besides the many lives that were lost: and  also was the dreadful fire in London whereby  that had great estates the one week had  breed to eat the next: and in the time of war  are unavoidable losers. But these must not reckoned the common and ordinary ways that  and keep men poor. We know indeed, by the divine providence, in the body of a -wealth there must be both poor and rich,  as an human body cannot subsist without  and feet to labour, and walk about to prod for the other members; the rich being the, which devour all, yet do no part of the : but the cause of every man's poverty is  one and the same; some are poor by condition  content with their calling, and neither seck  can work themselves into better condition; et God raiseth up, as by a miracle, the children  posterity of these, oftentimes, to possess the  eminent places either in church or common , as to become Archbishops, Bishops, Judges Commanders-general in the field, Secretaries of State, Statesmen, and the like: so that it proveth not always true, which the poet say,

Of this condition are the greatest number in every kingdom: others there are, who have possessed great estates, but those estates have not thriven, continued, being gotten by oppessionoppression [sic], deceit, usury, and the like, which commonly lasteth not