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Durable riches. Two brief discourses, occasioned by the impoverishing blast of heaven, which the…
Durable riches. Two brief discourses, occasioned by the impoverishing blast of heaven, which the undertakings of men, both by sea and land, have met withal. : The one, handling, the true cause of loosing; the other, giving, the true way of thriving. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Four lines of quotations in Latin]
Boston: printed by John Allen for Vavasour Harris, 1695
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Preface.
IT has been Complained, not only tha• Christian Charity, but also that Moral Honesty, is too generally neglected by Men, in their Employing of those Temporal Estates, wherewith God in his Providence has Betrusted them. And it may be observed, That the too little Believed Providence of God most wisely and justly Ordering all our Temporal Affairs, has been Chastising this Unfaithfulness in our Stewardship, with such multiplied Losses, as often argue somewhat more than […] mere Display of Divine Sovereignty ▪ in th•i• Infliction. Upon the occasion hereof, Two brief Sermons that have been Preached on our Country-Lecture, are now offered unto the public: the presumption of which offer, I do not go to excuse, as Authors fondly use to do, with the Importunity of Friends, for […] number of my Friends has ever, that I know of, Importuned this Publication: but the Offer is made, briefly, Because I think my Neighbours had need be Told of these things, whether they ask […] To•d of them or n•. May the Blessing of Heaven, accompany these poor Ess•ves▪ To do good unto all.
IT has been Complained, not only tha• Christian Charity, but also that Moral Honesty, is too generally neglected by Men, in their Employing of those Temporal Estates, wherewith God in his Providence has Betrusted them. And it may be observed, That the too little Believed Providence of God most wisely and justly Ordering all our Temporal Affairs, has been Chasti•ing this Unfaithfulnes• in our Stewardship, with such multiplied Losses, as often argu• somewhat more than meer Display of Divine Soveraignty in thi Infliction. Upon the occasion hereof, Two brief Sermons that have been Preached on our Country-Lecture, are now offered unto the publick: the presumption of which offer, I do not go to excuse, as Authors fondly use to do, with the Importunity of Friends, for number of my Friends has ever, that I know of, Importuned this Publication: but the Offer is made, briefly, Because I think my Neighbours had need be Told of these things, whether they ask Tod of them or n. May the Blessing of Heaven, accompany these poor Essves To do good unto all.