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The surest & safest way of thriving, or, A conviction of that grand mistake…
The surest & safest way of thriving, or, A conviction of that grand mistake in many, that what is given to the poor, is a loss to their estate : which is so directly contrary as to the experiences of the charitable : so to the testimony of God's spirit in divers places of Scripture ... by Thomas Gouge ...
London: printed for William Rawlins, 1673
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.
Though Joseph was but a lad, and sold as a slave, yet being one of the Church, one of the little ones, yea minimorum minimus; yet in Egypt God takes notice of him, and of that kindness which was showed to him, Gen. 32. 5. Many other like examples are noted in the Scripture; but none more fit for our purpose, than the example of Lazarus, Luk. 16. 20. though he were a very poor beggar, and full of sores, and despised of Dives, and all his household, yet God took such notice of him, as he made his Angels attend him. Yea God took notice of the kindness which the Dogs showed him, for their licking of his sores is recorded to all ages. Note those expressions of the Psalmist, Psal. 40. 12. But I am poor and needy, yet the Lord thinketh upon me. And again Psal. 34. 6. This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
Though Ioseph was but a lad, and sold as a slave, yet being one of the Church, one of the little ones, yea minimorum minimus; yet in AEgypt God takes notice of him, and of that kindness which was shewed to him, Gen. 32. 5. Many other like examples are noted in the Scripture; but none more fit for our purpose, than the example of Lazarus, Luk. 16. 20. though he were a very poor beggar, and full of sores, and despised of Dives, and all his househo•d, yet God took such notice of him, as he made his Angels attend him. Yea God took notice of the kindness which the Dogs shewed him, for their licking of his sores is recorded to all ages. Note those expressions of the Psalmist, Psal. 40. 12. But I am poor and needy, yet the Lord thinketh upon me. And again Psal. 34. 6. This poor man cryed, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.