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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
and we own it in that Covenant wherein we Choose Him for our Lord. It is therefore most highly Reasonable, That we should be at the Direction of the Eternal God, as to what we do with our Estates; esteeming our selves but Stewards of those Things, whereof our Neighbours call us the Owners, and preparing our selves for the Account which we must give of our Stewardship unto Him that is, The Lord of All Now the Orders which our Lord has given us, about our Estates, are principally Two. The First, is in 1 Tim. 5.8 If any provide not for his own, especially those of his own House, he hath Denied the Faith. Our Estates are in the first place, to Feed and Clothe and Cherish our own Families; and we may even Lay up for our Children a part thereof, if that may be done without the Defrauding of such other Objects as God has required us, as long as we Live, to be helpful unto. But then there is Another part of our Estates, that must be ⟨p. 4⟩Consecrated unto more Pious Uses; and about that we have the Command in the Text now before us.
and we own it in that Covenant wherein we Choose Him for our Lord. It is therefore most highly Reasonable, That we should be at the Direction of the Eternal God, as to what we do with our Estates; esteeming our selves but Stewards of those Things, whereof our Neighbours call us the Owners, and preparing our selves for the Account which we must give of our Stewardship unto Him that is, The Lord of All Now the Orders which our Lord has given us, about our Estates, are principally Two. The First, is in 1 Tim. 5.8 If any provide not for his own, especially those of his own House, he hath Denied the Faith. Our Estates are in the first place, to Feed and Cloath and Cherish our own Families; and we may even Lay up for our Children a part thereof, if that may be done without the Defrauding of such other Objects as God has required us, as long as we Live, to be helpful unto. But then there is Another part of our Estates, that must be ⟨p. 4⟩Consecrated unto more Pious Ʋses; and about that we have the Command in the Text now before us.