Yea,1 but it's Gods, so much as there is in it, it's bad, and after we have done all we had need come to God as beggars to cry for mercy; those men that have lived the most holy lives that ever men did live in this world, yet woe to them if they have not mercy; if they have not a Righteousness beyond their own, If mercy comes not in to plead for them, woe to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob if mercy comes not in to plead for them, if at the great day if they have nothing to tender up to God but their own righteousness they are certainly lost and undone for ever. Al that we can do is infinitely unworthy of the Majesty of God, Oh! the text that you have in 1 Chron. 29. 14. 2when the people did offer so much to God for the building of his Tabernacle, Mark how David was affected with it, Who am I (saith David?) and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things came of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. 3And when David in 1 Chron. 22. 14. when David had provided a thousand thousand Talents of silver, and an hundred thousand talents of gold for the building of the Temple of God, besides brass and iron, ⟨p. 453⟩without weight,4 yet when all comes to all, Out of my poverty have I offered this; so Arias Montanus turns it: In your books it is, In my trouble have I done this, but the same word that signifies trouble and affliction, signifies poverty likewise, and saith David, after all this, yet in my poverty have I done this; whereas this was a mighty thing that was offered. I remember Sir Walter Rawlegh• it is in the 17. Chap. of his 2d Part,5 and 9th Sect. he reckons up the sum of what David did there prepare for the Temple of the Lord, & he makes it more than any King in the world is worth, he makes it to come to three thousand,6 three hundred and thirty, and three Cart-load of Silver, allowing two thousand weight of Silver, or six thousand pound sterling, to every Cartload; besides threescore and seventeen Millions of French Crowns: and yet when he had done all, Out of my poverty have I done this. 7As if he should say, Lord, what is this in respect of thee who art the great God? If thou wilt but accept of this, I shall be infinitely bound to thee.
Yea,1 but it's Gods, so much as there is in it, it's bad, and after we have done all we had need come to God as beggars to cry for mercy; those men that have liv'd the most holy lives that ever men did live in this world, yet wo to them if they have not mercy; if they have not a Righteousness beyond their own, If mercy comes not in to plead for them, wo to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob if mercy comes not in to plead for them, if at the great day if they have nothing to tender up to God but their own righteousness they are certainly lost and undone for ever. Al that we can do is infinitely unworthy of the Majesty of God, Oh! the text that you have in 1 Chron. 29. 14. 2when the people did offer so much to God for the building of his Tabernacle, Mark how David was affected with it, Who am I (saith David?) and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things came of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. 3And when David in 1 Chron. 22. 14. when David had provided a thousand thousand Talents of silver, and an hundred thousand talents of gold for the building of the Temple of God, besides brass and iron, ⟨p. 453⟩without weight,4 yet when all comes to all, Out of my poverty have I offered this; so Arias Montanus turns it: In your books it is, In my trouble have I done this, but the same word that signifies trouble and affliction, signifies poverty likewise, and saith David, after al this, yet in my poverty have I done this; whereas this was a mighty thing that was offered. I remember Sir Walter Rawlegh• it is in the 17. Chap. of his 2d Part,5 and 9th Sect. he reckons up the sum of what David did there prepare for the Temple of the Lord, & he makes it more than any King in the world is worth, he makes it to come to three thousand,6 three hundred and thirty, and three Cart-load of Silver, allowing two thousand weight of Silver, or six thousand pound sterling, to every Cartload; besides threescore and seventeen Millions of French Crowns: and yet when he had done all, Out of my poverty have I done this.
- 1Answ.
- 21 Chron. 29. 14.
- 3Chap. 22. 14.
- 4Arias Mont. translated [Greek or Hebrew] in paupertate affliction mea•.Arias Mont. translated 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 in paupertate afflictione mea•.
- 5Rawleighs Hist. of the World part 2. C. 17. § 9.
- 6The quantity of treasure that David offered.The quā tity of treasure that David offered.
- 71 Chron. 22. 14. interpreted.
