Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament

¹⁵ What says luxuriousness? What? “Do well to your own soul.” See also the Lord says the same, “Do well to your own soul.” What luxuriousness was saying to you, the same says Righteousness to you. But consider here again in what sense the words are used. If you would do well to your own soul, consider that rich man who wished to do well to his soul, after the counsel of luxuriousness and avarice. His “ground brought forth plentifully, and he had no room where to bestow his fruits; and he said, What shall I do?” I have no room where to bestow my fruits; I have found out what to do; “I will pull down my” old “barns, and build new,” and will fill them, “and say to my soul, You have much goods; take your pleasure.” Hear the counsel against luxuriousness; “You fool, this night your soul shall be required of you; and whose shall those things be which you have provided?” And whither must that soul which shall be required of him go? This night it shall be required, and shall go he knows not whither.