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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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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 ⟨p. 6⟩Rulers of a Country, must keep up the Administration of Justice, and they ought also to see that School-masters and Soldiers, & other such Officers, do not want their Salaries. The Cheerful Payments of the Taxes needful in order hereunto, are some of the Pious Uses, in which our Estates must be Employed. There are also Sacred Payments which may be Annumerated unto the Pious Uses of our Estates. Thus 'tis said in Gal. 5.6, 7. Let him that is taught in the Word, Communicate unto him that teacheth, in all Good Things; Be not deceived, God is not mocked. Laborious and Religious Ministers, that spend their Time in Cares for the Souls of those whom God has made them Over seers unto, must be so handsomely provided for, that they may become neither Discouraged nor Contemptible in their Work; to pretend that we Love them and Prize them, and Get Good by them; and yet think much of their Having All the Good Things that we can help them to; the Apostle intimates, That this is a Mocking of the Almighty God Himself; and they that Reproach them as Hirelings for Expecting of it, are persons that have no more value for the Bible, than for the Alcoran; and seem to have Read both ⟨p. 7⟩alike. It was observable, That when God stated the St•p••ds of His Ministers, it was at such a rate as this: The Levites were not a fortieth part of the People, yet had they about thre• Times the Revenue of any one among the Twelve Tribes of Israel But, it seems, to many, that in the New Testament God has Left His Ministers wholly unprovided for! However we are as Loth to speak as any body else can be to bear of such things. Only it now Lies in my way to say, The Maintaining of Worthy Preachers, is another of the Pious Uses appointed for our Estates.