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Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…
Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithfull Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...
London: printed by J.T., 1658
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.
But you will say, how shall we do in the mean time? yet we are not satisfied: alas if God should strip us of all 1comfort we do not know where to betake our selves, what will become of us, we shall go out of home and harbour? usurers though they do so and so with their money, yet they keep so much by them that they may live upon, and they are rich men, &c.
But you will say, how shall we do in the mean time? yet we are not satisfied: alas if God should strip us of all 1comfort we do not know where to betake our selves, what will become of us, we shall go out of home and harbor? userers though they do so and so with their money, yet they keep so much by them that they may live upon, and they are rich men, &c.
- 1Object.
To this in a few words I answer, many times men that 1love money, we see what hard shift they make to live, though their money increase, we see they pinch and pine, so what if a Christian have nothing else to find himself with the comfort and contentment of his being, what if he have nothing to live by but faith, and a joyful expectation of deliverance, that he sees coming though afar off? Such a mans case is not much to be pitied, Heb. 11. 35. there is a notable place. It is said, they are racked not accepting deliverance, they made not reckoning of 2deliverance, that is, they did not care for it, they did not desire it. What was the reason? It is said, that they might obtain a better resurrection. So they might have it at that day, at the great day, they cared not for the present what pain they did undergo.