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The rich mans charge delivered in a sermon at the Spittle upon Monday in…The rich mans charge delivered in a sermon at the Spittle vpon Monday in…
The rich mans charge delivered in a sermon at the Spittle upon Monday in Easter week, 12 April 1658, before the lord major, &c., by Edw. Reynolds.The rich mans charge delivered in a sermon at the Spittle vpon Monday in Easter week, 12 April 1658, before the lord major, &c., by Edw. Reynolds.
London: printed by Tho. Newcomb for George Thomason, 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.
THE Rich Mans Charge.
1 Tim. 6. 17, 18, 19. Charge them that are rich in this World, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in store for themselves a good Foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
The Wise Man telleth us, that a word fitly spoken, is like Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver, Prov. 25. 11. And our Lord in the Prophet telleth us, that he had the Tongue of the Learned, to speak a word in season, Isai. 50. 4. Paul at Athens disproved the superstition of that Learned City, out of the inscription ⟨p. 2⟩of their own Altar, and the testimony of their own Poet, Acts 17. 23, 28. And before *Felix, a corrupt and intemperate Judge, he Preached of Righteousness and Temperance,