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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
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Hag 1 7, 9. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, Consider your Ways. Ye looked for much, and •o, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did bow upon it.
IT was a true but a sad Report, which a Prophet once gave, concerning the Times, wh•n the Concerns of Religion were woefully disregarded, in 2 Chron. 15.5, 6 In those Times, there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in; for God vexed them with a•l Adversity. And methinks, to Repeat those words would be at the same Time, exactly to Report the Characters of the Black Times that are come upon our selves. There is indeed, a dreadful variety of Adversity, every Year ⟨p. 2⟩vexing of us; but among all our Vexations there is a special Remark to be put upon those Losses which attend us in our Estates; and those Losses are principally occasioned by the want of Peace to them that are Going out, or Coming in. An Infallible Expedient for the Preventing, or the Repairing of these Losses, would infallibly be welcome to us all; and I now pretend, unto more than one such Expedient. The great Use of Guard Ships and Convoys: and the yet greater use of Insurance-Offices, Established upon good Foundations for this purpose, with Methods to stop Fires, or cure B•asts, hitherto unpractised, I do somewhat know; but I am now to show unto you, A more Excellent Way.
IT was a true but a sad Report, which a Prophet once gave, concerning the Times, wh•n the Concerns of Religion were w•fully disregarded, in 2 Chron. 15.5, 6 In those Times, there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in; for God vexed them with al Adverversity. And mthinks, to Repeat those words would be at the same Time, exactly to Report the Characters of the Black Times that are come upon our selves. There is indeed, a dreadful variety of Adversity, every Year