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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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Know we not, that our Corn, and Wine, and Oil, and Silver, and Gold, is to be Laid out only so as may be for the Glory of God? If we don't know this, we shall know that He will Take it, and we must Loose it all. They that are Unprofitable Servants, do quickly hear their Doom, Take the Talent from him, saith the Lord! The Unfaithful Stewards are quickly called upon, Surrender what is in your Hands! Have we Lost considerably? Let us then think with our selves, How we have used what we have Lost. It may be that what should have Nourished our Devotion, and our Charity, has been made but a Fuel for our Lust. It may be that our Plenty has been Abused unto Gluttony, Drunkenness, Pride, and the Superfluity of Naughtiness. No wonder then, if the Jealous God, should say upon it, I'll trust them no longer with my Goods! When David could say of Nabal, In vain have I kept all that this Fellow has, he was presently for making him Loose all he had; thus, if our God must say, In vain have I let that Fellow have so much of the World, what is like to follow, ⟨p. 16⟩but a quick Ejection out of all?
Know we not, that our Corn, and Wine, and Oyl, and Silver, and Gold, is to be Laid out only so as may be for the Glory of God? If we don't know this, we shall know that He will Take it, and we must Loose it all. They that are Unprofitable Servants, do quickly hear their Doom, Take the Talent from him, saith the Lord! The Unfaithful Stewards are quickly call'd upon, Surrender what is in your Hands! Have we Lost considerably? Let us then think with our selves, How we have us'd what we have Lost. It may be that what should have Nourished our Devotion, and our Charity, has been made but a Fuel for our Lust. It may be that our Plenty has been Abused unto Gluttony, Drunkenness, Pride, and the Superfluity of Naughtiness. No wonder then, if the Jealous God, should say upon it, I'le trust them no longer with my Goods! When David could say of Nabal, In vain have I kept all that this Fellow has, he was presently for making him Loose all he had; thus, if our God must say, In vain have I let that Fellow have so much of the World, what is like to follow, ⟨p. 16⟩but a quick Ejection out of all?