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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.
Thirdly, From respect to our selves. 1. Community of nature, we also are in the flesh: We they want mercy from others, as others do now from us. Who would have thought that David should have stood in need of the Bread of a Churl! ⟨p. 41⟩Good offices between men and men, are not duties only, but trade and merchandise. I show them to him now, and another time he may show them to me; it is the Apostles argument, 2 Cor. 8. 14. 2. A special honour, when God makes us instruments of doing good; for it is a more blessed thing to give, then to receive, Acts 20. 35. Mercy is the seed of honour, Psal. 112. 9. Prov. 21. 21.
Thirdly, From respect to our selves. 1. Community of nature, we also are in the flesh: We thay want mercy from others, as others do now from us. Who would have thought that David should have stood in need of the Bread of a Churl! ⟨p. 41⟩Good offices between men and men, are not duties onely, but trade and merchandise. I shew them to him now, and another time he may shew them to me; it is the Apostles argument, 2 Cor. 8. 14. 2. A special honor, when God makes us instruments of doing good; for it is a more blessed thing to give, then to receive, Acts 20. 35. Mercy is the seed of honor, Psal. 112. 9. Prov. 21. 21.