A25470:1040
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.
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.
3 That they have no assurance of the continuance of their wealth. For as the wiseman 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.
- 1Prov. 23.5. Alas Aquilinas.
4. Though their riches should continue with them, even to their deaths, yet they have no assurance that God will give them grace to be liberal at their deaths, who had never the goodness to be charitable in their life-time.
4. Though their riches should continue with them, even to their deaths, yet they have no assurance that God will give them grace to bee liberal at their deaths, who had never the goodness to bee charitable in their life-time.