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Three treatises tending to awaken secure sinners
Three treatises tending to awaken secure sinners by Richard Baxter.
London : To be sold by John Rothwell ..., 1656
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.
5. If you are not your own, then your wealth is not your own honour God therefore with your substance, and with the first fruits of your increase, Prov. 3. 9. Do you ask how? Is there no poor people that want the faithful preaching of the Gospel for want of means or other furtherance? Is there no godly Scholars that want means to maintain them at the Universities, to fit them for this Work? Is there no poor Neighbours about you, that are ignorant, that if you buy them Bibles and Catechisms, and hire them to learn them, might come to knowledge and to life? Are there no poor Children that you might set Apprentices to godly Masters, where soul and body might both have helps? The poor you have always with you. It is not for want of objects for your charity, if you hide your Talents or consume them on your selves; the time is coming when it would do you more good to have laid them out to your masters use then in pampering the flesh.
5. If you are not your own, then your wealth is not your own honour God therefore with your substance, and with the first fruits of your increase, Prov. 3. 9. Do you ask how? Is there no poor people that want the faithful preaching of the Gospel for want of means or other furtherance? Is there no godly Scholers that want means to maintain them at the Universities, to fit them for this Work? Is there no poor Neighbors about you, that are ignorant, that if you buy them Bibles and Catechismes, and hire them to learn them, might come to knowledge and to life? Are there no poor Children that you might set Apprentices to godly Masters, where soul and body might both have helps? The poor you have always with you. It is not for want of objects for your charity, if you hide your Talents or consume them on your selves; the time is coming when it would do you more good to have laid them out to your masters use then in pampering the flesh.
Some grudge that God should have the Tenths, that is, that they should be consecrated to the maintenance of his service; but little do these consider that All is His, and must All be accounted for. Some question whether now there be such a sin as Sacrilege in being; but little do they consider that every sin