The wise steward
This is the part of a faithful and wise steward (Luke 12:42). Not to sell either his houses or lands or principal stock, be it more or less, unless some peculiar circumstance should require it, and not to desire or endeavor to increase it any more than to squander it away in vanity, but to employ it wholly to those wise and reasonable purposes for which his Lord has lodged it in his hands. The wise steward, after having provided his own household with what is needful for life and godliness, makes himself friends with all that remains from time to time of the mammon of unrighteousness (Luke 16:9), that when he fails they may receive him into everlasting habitations, that whenever his earthly tabernacle is dissolved, those who were before carried into Abraham's bosom, after having eaten his bread and worn the fleece of his flock and praised God for the consolation, may welcome him into paradise and into the house of God, eternal in the heavens (2 Corinthians 5:1).
1771 text
This is the part of a faithful and wise steward. Not, to sell either his houses or lands, or principal stock, be it more or less, unless some peculiar circumstance should require it; and not to desire or endeavour to increase it, any more than to squander it away in vanity: but to employ it wholly to those wise and reasonable purposes, for which his Lord has lodged it in his hands. The wise steward, after having provided his own houshold, with what is needful for life and godliness, makes himself friends with all that remains from time to time of the mammon of unrighteousness; that when he fails, they may receive him into everlasting habitations: that whensoever his earthly tabernacle is dissolved, they who were before carried into Abraham’s bosom, after having eaten his bread, and worn the fleece of his flock, and praised God for the consolation, may welcome him into paradise, and into the house of God, eternal in the heavens.