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The reformation of covetousness Written upon the 6. chapter of Matthew, from the 19.…The reformation of couetousnesse Written vpon the 6. chapter of Mathew, from the 19.…
The reformation of covetousness Written upon the 6. chapter of Matthew, from the 19. verse to the end of the said chapter. By William Perkins.The reformation of couetousnesse Written vpon the 6. chapter of Mathew, from the 19. verse to the ende of the said chapter. By William Perkins.
London: printed by T. Creede for Nicholas Ling, 1603
THE REFORmation of Covetousness.THE REFORmation of Couetousnesse.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And so much of the commandment and the reason. I beseech you remember it, and learn it, and put it in practise⟨p. 46⟩ both in life and death.
And so much of the commaundement and the reason. I beseech you remember it, and learne it, and put it in practise⟨p. 46⟩ both in life and death.
21. verse. For where your treasure is, there will your hearts be also.
21. verse. For where your treasure is, there wil your hearts be also.
In the two verses next before going these words, Christ gave two commandments. First, what we should not do, and the reason of it. Secondly, what we should do, & a reason thereof. The first, a corruption & mutabilitate. The second, ab incorruptione & immutabilitate: Now he renders a common reason pertaining to both, and serves to confirm both, which is thus framed: Where your treasure is, there your hearts will be: But your heart must not be on earthly treasure, but on heavenly: Therefore lay not up treasure in earth, but in heaven.
In the two verses next before going these words, Christ gaue two commaundements. First, what we should not doo, and the reason of it. Secondly, what we should do, & a reason therof. The first, a corruptione & mutabilitate. The second, ab incorruptione & immutabilitate: Now he renders a common reason pertaining to both, and serues to confirme both, which is thus framed: Where your treasure is, there your hearts will bee: But your heart must not be on earthly treasure, but on heauenly: Therefore lay not vp treasure in earth, but in heauen.