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A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in the Abbey…A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peeres, in the Abbey…
A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in the Abbey at Westminster, the 26. of Novemb. 1645. Being the day appointed for solemn and public humiliation. / By Jer: Burroughs. Published by order of the said House.A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peeres, in the Abbey at Westminster, the 26. of Novemb. 1645. Being the day appointed for solemne and publique humiliation. / By Jer: Burroughes. Published by order of the said House.
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1645
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2. He learns to abound by often resigning up all his abundance to God, not by keeping it to his own proper advantage; Lord I profess all to be thine, to enjoy nothing but in order to thee; take all, improve all, lay out all for the praise of thine own name; by this he enjoys his abundance with more comfort and freedom ⟨p. 31⟩of spirit. The oftener any thing is given up into Gods hands, and comes out of them to us, the better it is; those men who having got any thing out of Gods hands once, dare not venture to put it into them again, enjoy not the comfort and blessing of what they have; that man who can daily as freely and cheerfully resign what he hath to God, as receive any thing from him, is the only man that is blessed in what he enjoys in this world.
2. He learnes to abound by often resigning up all his abundance to God, not by keeping it to his own proper advantage; Lord I professe all to be thine, to enjoy nothing but in order to thee; take all, improve all, lay out all for the praise of thine own name; by this he enjoyes his abundance with more comfort and freedome ⟨p. 31⟩of spirit. The oftner any thng is given up into Gods hands, and comes out of them to us, the better it is; those men who having got any thing out of Gods hands once, dare not venture to put it into them again, enjoy not the comfort and blessing of what they have; that man who can dayly as freely and cheerfully resign what he hath to God, as receive any thing from him, is the only man that is blessed in what he enjoies in this world.
3. He seeks to preserve his estate, and to enrich himself by communicating what he hath to the necessities of others, and the public. This is a mystery to the world. Isay 32.8. The liberal man deviseth liberal things: and what then? so he may lose all he hath? No, by liberal things he shall stand. He thinks it more gain to part with any thing to do good by, then to keep it for himself.