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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.
In the Context, you may read a Wise Monarch Reflecting upon the Vanities and Miseries which the Dead Flies, (and perhaps the Maggots) of Great Men, do oftentimes Plunge a Poor People into. 'Tis often seen, that a Poor People, by the Influence of Unhappy States-men, are brought into inextricable Troubles and Ruins; and our Text, is a Counsel given to such a People. The Counsel is, That Men should be Liberal of their Estates, to Pious Uses; especially at such a Time, as there is like to be▪ Evil on the Earth, or, when much Confusion is like to happen in the Land. The Doctrine to which I Demand your Attention, is only This,
In the Context, you may read a Wise Monarch Reflecting upon the Vanities and Miseries which the Dead Flies, (and perhaps the Maggots) of Great Men, do oftentimes Plunge a Poor People into. 'Tis often seen, that a Poor People, by the Influence of Unhappy States-men, are brought into inextricable Troubles and Ruines; and our Text, is a Counsil given to such a People. The Counsel is, That Men should be Liberal of their Estates, to Pious Ʋses; especially at such a Time, as there is like to be▪ Evil on the Earth, or, when much Confusion is like to happen in the Land. The Doctrine to which I Demand your Attention, is only This,
DOCTRINE,
That men ought with a Gracious Liberality to Devote a good Proportion of their Estates to Pious Uses.