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Spiritual perfection, unfolded and enforced from 2 Cor. VII, 1 having therefore these promises,…
Spiritual perfection, unfolded and enforced from 2 Cor. VII, 1 having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse our selves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God / by William Bates ...
London: printed for Jonathan Robinson, 1699
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
(4.) Heart-breaking Sorrow in being deprived of them. If you touch their Treasure, you wound their Hearts. According to the Rule in Nature, what is possessed with Joy, is lost with Grief; and according to the degree of the Desires, such will be the Despair when they are frustrate. Poverty, in the account of the Covetous, is the last of Evils, that makes Men absolutely desolate. Blind unhappy wretches! Eternal Damnation is the extremest Evil. 'Tis infinitely better to be deprived of all their Treasures, and go naked into Paradise, than to fall laden with Gold into the Pit of Perdition.
(4.) Heart-breaking Sorrow in being deprived of them. If you touch their Treasure, you wound their Hearts. According to the Rule in Nature, what is possess'd with Joy, is lost with Grief; and according to the degree of the Desires, such will be the Despair when they are frustrate. Poverty, in the account of the Covetous, is the last of Evils, that makes Men absolutely desolate. Blind unhappy wretches! Eternal Damnation is the extreamest Evil. 'Tis infinitely better to be deprived of all their Treasures, and go naked into Paradise, than to fall laden with Gold into the Pit of Perdition.
[…]. Covetousness is virtually in the Actions; which are to be considered either in the getting, saving, or using an Estate.
〈…〉. Covetousness is vertually in the Actions; which are to be considered either in the getting, saving, or using an Estate.
1. The Covetous are inordinate and eager in their endeavours, to get an ⟨p. 35⟩Estate. They rise early, lye down late, and eat the bread of carefulness: They rack their Brains, waste their Strength, consume their Time; they toil and tire themselves to gain the present World: For when Lust counsels and commands, Violence executes. Their Eyes and Hearts, their Aims and Endeavours, are concentered in the Earth. Who will show us any good? is their unsatisfied inquiry.