The people who want to go away with all your earthly goods, and your soul if you let them.
"Or they are in their 60's and hopefully with enough earthly goods to assume the financial burdens."
What earthly good was a sacrifice if no one knew about it?
He wasn't concerned with earthly and material goods.
During his yearly visitation he collected material describing the church's earthly goods.
Gloucester gives away his last earthly goods, and consigns his fate to the higher powers.
The idea seems to be that earthly goods are nothing compared with things celestial, as personified by the divine gift of Wisdom.
We hadn't given a single thought to them wanting earthly goods, in our planning ahead.
The nation became rich in numbers and earthly goods.
And what earthly good was done by dwelling on it now?