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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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In Answer to a Case, which I suppose, few or none, can count unseasonable, there are these things to be offered.
I. The first Counsel proper for them that have met with Losses, is that which we have, Repeated in our Context here. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, Consider your Ways. Consideration under our Losses, is as needful as ready a way, to the Sanctification of those Losses. And there are especially two things to be thereupon Considered.
I. The first Counsil proper for them that have met with Losses, is that which we have, Repeated in our Context here. Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, Consider your Wayes. Consideration under our Losses, is as needful as ready a way, to the Sanctification of those Losses. And there are especially two things to be thereupon Considered.
First, When we have met with Losses, we are to Consider the Hand from whence those Losses come upon us. Briefly, We are to Consider the Hand of God in all our Losses. It was well Considered and Confessed, by the Holy Job, when be had Lost a fair Estate, and there were Sabaeans & Chaldeans as well as more Natural Accidents, among the Authors of his Losses, in Job 1.21. It is the Lord that has taken away. We shall be very Fretful under our Losses, if we are not very Thoughtful under them. Yea, but our Thoughts will only increase our Frets, if they should only be Employed upon Second Causes. This is the First Rule for us under our Losses; Let us acknowledge a Wise, and a Just God as the First Cause of all. It has been sometimes the Good Speech of a Good Man, I can take any thing ⟨p. 5⟩well at the Hand of God. As for our Losses, they will all Prove well if we can Take them well; but now, behold how That is to be attained. Let us consider, what we are told, in