A25470:982
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.
Only let this lawful liberty be limited with these & such like bounds.
1. That we lay up nothing but what is justly gotten. To lay up riches of unrighteousness, is to kindle a fire that may destroy both our temporal and our spiritual estate.
1. That wee lay up nothing but what is justly gotten. To lay up riches of unrighteousness, is to kindle a fire that may destroy both our temporal and our spiritual estate.
2. That we be not so covetous of hoarding up, as to deny our selves what is needful for our use and comfort, or to deny the poor what is needful and necessary for them; but that we willingly give out as ⟨p. 274⟩what is meet for our selves, so what is needful to the poor.
2. That wee be not so covetous of hoarding up, as to deny our selves what is needful for our use and comfort, or to deny the poor what is needful and necessary for them; but that wee willingly give out as ⟨p. 274⟩what is meet for our selves, so what is needful to the poor.