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A plea for alms delivered in a sermon at the spital, before a solemn…A plea for almes delivered in a sermon at the spital, before a solemn…
A plea for alms delivered in a sermon at the spital, before a solemn assembly of the city, on Tuesday in Easter week, April. 13. 1658. / By Thomas Watson Minister of Stephens Walbrook. Lond.A plea for almes delivered in a sermon at the spital, before a solemn assembly of the city, on Tuesday in Easter week, April. 13. 1658. / By Thomas Watson Minister of Stephens Walbrook. Lond.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1658
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Answ. Answ. If you cannot do so much, yet do something. Let there be ⟨p. 41⟩quantitas virtutis, though there be not quantitas molis. The Widows two mites cast into the treasury, were accepted, *Luke 21. God (as Chrysostom observes) looked not at the smallness of her gift, but the largeness of her heart: in the Law he that could not bring a Lamb for an offering, if he brought but two Turtle Doves it sufficed. We read Exod. 35. The people brought gold and silver and Goats hair to the building of the Tabernacle. On which place (saith Origen.) I desire Lord, to bring something to the building of thy Temple, if not Gold to make the mercy seat on; if not silk to make the Curtains on, yet a little Goats hair, that I may not be found in the number of those that have brought nothing to thy Temple.
Answ. Answ. If you cannot do so much, yet do something. Let there be ⟨p. 41⟩quantitas virtutis, though there be not quantitas molis. The Widows two mites cast into the treasury, were accepted, *Luke 21. God (as Chrysostom observes) look'd not at the smallnesse of her guift, but the largenesse of her heart: in the Law he that could not bring a Lamb for an offering, if he brought but two Turtle Doves it sufficed. We read Exod. 35. The people brought gold and silver and Gaots haire to the building of the Tabernacle. On which place (saith Origen.) I desire Lord, to bring something to the building of thy Temple, if not Gold to make the mercyseat on; if not silk to make the Curtaines on, yet a little Goats haire, that I may not be found in the number of those that have brought nothing to thy Temple.
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