YE CANNOT SERVE GOD AND MAMMON --- Matthew 6:24.
"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." --- Matthew 6:24.
Doth Satan tempt thee, either by pleasures, dignities, or profits? O my soul, stand upon thy guard, gird on thy strength with such thoughts as these: What can the world profit me, if the cares of it choke me? how can pleasures comfort me, if their sting poison me? or what advancement is this, to be triumphing in honour before the face of men here, and trembling with confusion before the throne hereafter?
What are the delights of the world to the peace of my conscience, or the joy that is in the Holy Ghost? what are the applauses of men to the crown prepared by God? or what is the gain of the world to the loss of my soul? The vainty of the creature is far beneath the excellency of my soul and the things of time not worthy to be mentioned with the things of eternity. Two masters of such opposite principles as God and Mammon I cannot serve; therefore, Satan, upon the most deliberate consideration, I must give thee and thy service up, for thou biddest me to my loss.
Two masters are too much for me;
Nor can the world with God agree;
Then, tempting Mammon, get thee gone,
And let me serve my Christ alone.