A53689:249
Eshcol: a cluster of the fruit of Canaan
Eshcol: a cluster of the fruit of Canaan; brought to the borders, for the encouragement of the saints, travelling thither-ward, with their faces towards Zion. Or, Rules of direction, for the walking of the saints in fellowship, according to the order of the Gospel. Collected and explained for the use of the Church at Coggeshall, by John Owen their pastor.Eshcol: a cluster of the fruit of Canaan; brought to the borders, for the encouragement of the saints, travelling thither-ward, with their faces towards Syon. Or, Rules of direction, for the walking of the saints in fellowship, according to the order of the Gospel. Collected and explained for the use of the Church at Coggeshall, by John Owen their pastor.
London: printed for Philemon Stephens, 1648
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
EXPLIC. IX.
THE having of poor always amongst us, and of us, according to our Saviours prediction, Matth. 26. 11▪ and the promise of God, Deut. 15. 11. serves for the trial of themselves and others, of their own content, with Christ alone, with submission to the all-disposing▪ Sovereignty of God; of others, how freely they can part for Christs sake, with those things wherewith their hand is filled: when God gave Manna, for food unto his people, every one had an equal share, Exod. 16. 18. and he that gathered much, had had nothing over, and he that gathered little, had no lack, ⟨p. 78⟩2 Cor. 8. 15. This distribution in equality, was again for the necessity of the Church, reduced into practise, in the days of the Apostles, Acts 14. 35. of the total sum of the possessions of believers, distribution was made to every man according to his need.
THE having of poor alwayes amongst us, and of us, according to our Saviours prediction, Matth. 26. 11▪ and the promise of God, Deut. 15. 11. serves for the triall of themselves and others, of their own content, with Christ alone, with submission to the all-disposing▪ Soveraignty of God; of others, how freely they can part for Christs sake, with those things wherewith their hand is filled: when God gave Manna, for food unto his people, every one had an equall share,