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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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THE True Way of Thriving.
Ecclesiastes XI.1, 2. Cast thy Bread upon the Waters; for thou shalt find it after many Days Give a Portion to Seven, and also to Eight; for thou knowest not, what Evil shall be upon the Earth.
Ecclesiastes XI.1, 2. Cast thy Bread upon the Waters; for thou shalt find it after many Dayes Give a Portion to Seven, and also to Eight; for thou knowest not, what Evil shall be upon the Earth.
Behold, a Duty of our Christian Conversation, which according to the Divine Heraldry of the Scripture, has a very High Place in Christianity belonging to it; a Duty than which there are not many, more Acceptable to God, more Profitable to Us, more Honourable to our Profession, or more Neglected and Omitted by multitudes, that will yet wear the Name which was begun ⟨p. 2⟩[…] Antioch. And it is Remarkable to se• what a broad Contradiction is herein given to the Dictates of that Common and Carnal Reason, which mankind is generally misguided by The Ordinary Notion of the World is, If I have Bread, my own Cupboard is the fittest place to keep it in. But the Holy Spirit of God will teach us otherwise, Cast thy Bread upon the Waters. The Customary Dialect of the World is, […] keep what I have, because I know not what Evil I may Live to see, I may Live to want it all. But we are otherwise Advised by the Holy Spirit of God; Give a Portion, because thou knowest not what Evil may be upon the Earth. 'Tis the God of Heaven, to whom we are beholden, for our Estates; our Possessions and Enjoyments, by which we are furnished against the Natural Inconveniences of Humane Life, are all bestowed upon us, by that God, whose Providence disposeth of all our Affairs; and as we have it, in