A25470:1038
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers, September 1661.
London: printed for Joshua Kirton and Nathaniel Webb, 1661
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.
1. That if all rich men should do thus, the poor would soon be starved for want of bread.
1. That if all rich men should do thus, the poor would soon bee starved for want of bread.
2. That this practise of theirs, is against the express command of God, who requireth us to do good, and to communicate out of our store while we have time and opportunity.1
2. That this practise of theirs, is against the express command of God, who requireth us to do good, and to communicate out of our store while wee have time and opportunity.1
3 That they have no assurance of the continuance of their wealth. For as the wise man speaketh,1 Riches many times make themselves wings, they fly away as an Eagle towards Heaven; they have Eagles wings to fly from us. And how many are there, who have out-lived a fair estate? If God in his displeasure, blasts a mans substance; it vanisheth away in a moment.