A27107:330
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author
London: printed for Edward Brewster, 1695
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
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.
eAlexander hearing the report of the great ⟨p. 100⟩riches of the Eastern Country, divided forthwith among his Captains and Soldiers, all his Kingdom of Macedonia. He phaestion asking him what he meant in so doing? Alexander answered, That he preferred the riches of India (whereof he hoped shortly to be master) before all that his Father Philip had left him in Macedonia. And should not Christians then prefer the eternal riches of Heaven, so greatly renowned (which they shall enjoy ere long) before the corruptible trash of the Earth, which lasts but for a season?
eAlexander hearing the report of the great ⟨p. 100⟩riches of the Eastern Country, divided forthwith among his Captains and Soldiers, all his Kingdom of Macedonia. He phaestion asking him what he meant in so doing? Alexander answered, That he preferr'd the riches of India (whereof he hoped shortly to be master) before all that his Father Philip had left him in Macedonia. And should not Christians then preferr the eternal riches of Heaven, so greatly renowned (which they shall enjoy ere long) before the corruptible trash of the Earth, which lasts but for a season?
- ePlutarch. Apoph. Regum.