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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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There was a pious Widow once, that met with sore Losses in her Concerns; but you shall now hear her Opinion about the true Original of all those Losses; in Ruth 1.21. I went out fall, and the Lord hath brought me home again Empty; the Lord hath Testified against me, and the Almighty hath Afflicted me. Well-Thought on! 'Tis the Lord Almighty that Empties us, by all the Losses that come upon us. Mark what I say; A man will never be a Looser by any of his Losses, except he be Impatient under them. Now, the best Antidote against Impatience is, to Consider, 'Tis the Will of God, that I should meet with such Losses as I do.
There was a pious VVidow once, that met with sore Losses in her Concerns; but you shall now hear her Opinion about the true Original of all those Losses; in Ruth 1.21. I went out fall, and the Lord hath brought me home again Empty; the Lord hath Testified against me, and the Almighty hath Afflicted me. VVell-Thought on! 'Tis the Lord Almighty that Empties us, by all the Losses that come upon us. Mark what I say; A man will never be a Looser by any of his Losses, except he be Impatient under them. Now, the best Antidote against Impatience is, to Consider, 'Tis the Will of God, that I should meet with such Losses as I do.
Secondly, When we have met with Losses, we are to Consider the Ground for which those Losses com•. The God of Heaven sent one Wasting Plague▪ ⟨p. 7⟩after another upon the poor Jews, till at last they Lost all they had in the World; but then said He, in Ezek. 14.23. Ye shall know that I have not without a Cause, done all that I have done in it, saith the Lord. Our Losses are usually the fruit and sign of Gods Quarrels. Ordinarily our God is managing of some Controversy with us when He causes us to Loose those things that were Comfortable to us. [We may allude unto