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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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What are those Pious Uses, that a Proportion of our Estates must be Devoted unto? And under these Four Heads may they be Enumerated, Paying, Lending, Giving, and Forgiving.
First, then, The Paying of our Duties, to the Public Charges of the Place in which we Live, is one of those Pious Uses, which our Estates are to be put unto. Something must be paid by us, for the Support of the Government, and of the Ministry, which God has blessed us withal; the Public Servants of the Place, must by our Estates be made Capable to Discharge what. Obligations we have Laid upon them; and tho' these be Pious Uses, yet we may not place them under the Head of Alms-Deeds ▪ they are Debts which Honesty rather than Charity binds us to the Payment of.
First, then, The Paying of our Duties, to the Publick Charges of the Place in which we Live, is one of those Pious Uses, which our Estates are to be put unto. Something must be paid by us, for the Support of the Government, and of the Ministry, which God has blessed us withal; the Publick Servants of the Place, must by our Estates be made Capable to Discharge what. Obligations we have Laid upon them; and tho' these be Pious Uses, yet we may not place them under the Head of Alms-Deeds ▪ they are Debts which Honesty rather than Charity binds us to the Payment of.
There are Civil Payments, which may be Enumerated under the Pious Uses ▪ of our Estates. Thus 'tis said in Rom. 13.6. Right. Magistrates are the Ministers of God; Render therefore to all their Due, Tri••te unto whom Tribute is Due. The