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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.
Besides, great men stand so much the more in need of plain-dealing from Ministers, by how much the less they meet with it from other men. Some flatter them, others fear them, some are bewitched with their favours, and others are affrighted by their frowns; but the Word of the Lord is not bound, the Spirit of the Lord is not straitened; his 1Ministers are or should be full of judgment, power and might, to declare their transgressions to the heads of the house of Jacob, and to the Princes of the house of Israel, Mic. 3. 8, 9.
Besides, great men stand so much the more in need of plain-dealing from Ministers, by how much the less they meet with it from other men. Some flatter them, others fear them, some are bewitched with their favors, and others are affrighted by their frowns; but the Word of the Lord is not bound, the Spirit of the Lord is not straitned; his 1Ministers are or should be full of judgment, power and might, to declare their transgressions to the heads of the house of Jacob, and to the Princes of the house of Israel, Mic. 3. 8, 9.
Besides, they are in more danger; the richest Land is more subject to be overgrown with Weeds and Thistles; great men are apt to be hardened, ensnared, tempted unto more pride and stubbornness. And as they are under greater danger, so they are under a greater trust, and are responsible to their Lord for more Talents; their conversion is of a more general influence and concernment, then that of mean and private persons;