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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.
He is a Bountiful God; he is Good, and he doth good; he is Life, and he gives life, to him alone it belongeth to supply all necessaries, all comforts of life unto us; we place riches in his throne, we transfer his work and office upon them, when we make them the objects of our trust.
He gives, so do not riches; they buy, they do not give. I must part with so much of them, as I will proportionably have of other things: But when I have God, I need not exchange him away for other things; he brings them eminently in himself, he gives them bountifully with himself. The Earth is his, the Silver and the Gold his, the power, the strength, the wisdom, whereby we get 1riches, his; the blessing upon that strength and wisdom, his; we are not the getters, but he is the giver of them. And if we boast of them, and trust in them; he that gives, can take them away; they that receive, must not glory as if they had not received. And if he give first, he may well charge us to give too, since he requireth of us but his own.