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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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and ⟨p. 18⟩have after all, had more Fraudulence, than Fair-dealing, in their Compositions with their Creditors, do ordinarily so plunge themselves into further Losses, that (as we say) no Butter will ever stick […] their Bread afterwards. Yea, If any Thing have been Gotten by any Trade, offensive unto God; such a Trade, suppose, as that wherein by Strong Drink Sold unto our Indians, the Salvages have been hastened unto Hell before their Time; 'tis well if it been't Last, all in as little a while as it was G•t; and it may be, that some Good men have made the Unwary and Unhappy Trial of it. I would only add thus much, When we see a Corrosion upon what we have, Let us look whether there be no Moth •odged in it; and remember, that a Moth may be (if not in a Garment yet) in an Estate, for Twenty, Thirty, Forty Years together.
and ⟨p. 18⟩have after all, had more Fraudulence, than Fair-dealing, in their Compositions with their Creditors, do ordinarily so plunge themselves into further Losses, that (as we say) no Butter will ever stick 〈…〉 their Bread afterwards. Yea, If any Thing have been Gotten by any Trade, offensive unto God; such a Trade, suppose, as that wherein by Strong Drink Sold unto our Indians, the Salvages have been hastened unto Hell before their Time; 'tis well if it been't Last, all in as little a while as it was G•t; and it may be, that some Good men have made the Unwary and Unhappy Trial of it. I would only add thus much, VVhen we see a Corrosion upon what we have, Let us look whether there be no Moth •odged in it; and remember, that a Moth may be (if not in a Garment yet) in an Estate, for Twenty, Thirty, Forty Years together.
God forbid, that every one, who meets with Losses in his Este, should be Remarkably Chargeable with all or any of these Iniquities. Nevertheless, Losers, Consider your Ways.