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Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…
Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...
London: printed by R. Ibbitson and M. Wright, 1661
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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.
The better to quicken you up to this Duty, consider these two Arguments.
1 This is an especial end of Gods giving more to some than to others, that they who have more abundance should thereout give to them that need. This inference doth Saint Paul make (2 Cor. 8. 14, 15) from the distribution of Manna, Exod. 16. 18. for they that gathered more than was needful for themselves, and their Households, gave of their abundance to such as had not enough.
1 This is an especial end of Gods giving more to some than to others, that they who have more abundance should thereout give to them that need. This inference doth Saint Paul make (2 Cor. 8. 14, 15) from the distribution of Manna, Exod. 16. 18. for they that gathered more than was needful for themselves, and their Housholds, gave of their abundance to such as had not enough.
2 Rich men are not Lords of the abundance which they have, but Stewards, 1and therefore must dispose it according to the mind of the Lord; and that is, some part thereof to the poor, hereof they shall give an account.