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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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But, Secondly, The Ready Lending of what may Assist those that want Means and Helps for their Trades, is likewise one of the Pious Uses which our Estates are to be placed in. It is mentioned as the Property of a Good Man, in Psal. 37.26. He is ever merciful & Lendeth; and in Psal. 112.5. He shows Favour and Lendeth. Indeed, A Lending to Idle Vagrants and […], or those whom we may suppose to borrow with the mind of the Wicked man, which the Scripture tells us, is, Never to Pay again; this is not among the Pious Uses, but the Indiscreet Abuses of our […]; our ⟨p. 8⟩Lending should be to such, as are likely thereby to come into a way of what they may call their own; and in that case we have that Precept, in Deut 15.7, 8. Thou shalt open thy Hand wide un•o thy poor Brother; and shalt surely Lend him sufficient for his Need.
But, Secondly, The Ready Lending of what may Assist those that want Means and Helps for their Trades, is likewise one of the Pious Uses which our Estates are to be placed in. It is mentioned as the Property of a Good Man, in Psal. 37.26. He is ever merciful & Lendeth; and in Psal. 112.5. He shows Favour and Lendeth. Indeed, A Lending to Idle Vagrants and 〈…〉, or those whom we may suppose to borrow with the mind of the Wicked man, which the Scripture tells us, is, Never to Pay again; this is not among the Pious Uses, but the Indiscreet Abuses of our 〈…〉; our ⟨p. 8⟩Lending should be to such, as are likely thereby to come into a way of what they may call their own; and in that case we have that Precept, in Deut 15.7, 8. Thou shalt open thy Hand wide un•o thy poor Brother; and shalt surely Lend him s•fficient for his Need.