A26344:116
God's anger
God's anger ; and, Man's comfort two sermons / preached and published by Tho. Adams.
London: printed by Tho. Maxey for Samuel Man, 1652
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Another complains; I am fallen from an affluent estate, to deep indigence. I have kept 1hospitality, to entertain friends: and made charity the Porch of my house, to relieve the needy ones. The vessel of my means is now drawn out to the bottom, there is not sufficient provision left for my own family.
Another complains; I am fallen from an affluent estate, to deep indigence. I have kept 1hospitality, to entertain friends: and made charity the Porch of my house, to relieve the needy ones. The vessell of my meanes is now drawn out to the bottom, there is not sufficient provision left for my own family.
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Inquire of thy heart, whether this decay did not come by thy own riot, or through the vainglorious affectation of an abundant hospitality. If this, or that, or any other habitual sin, were the cause of it, begin with mortification there. First, mourn for thy sins: then faithfully depend upon thy Creators providence, and thou canst not fail of convenient sustenance.
Inquire of thy heart, whether this decay did not come by thy own riot, or through the vainglorious affectation of an abundant hospitality. If this, or that, or any other habituall sin, were the cause of it, begin with mortification there. First, mourne for thy sinnes: then faithfully depend upon thy Creators providence, and thou canst not faile of convenient sustenance.
But it may be, that this is not the complainants case: he is not taken with a tabe or wasting of his substance; like a scarce sensible consumption of