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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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And Thirdly, The Giving of what may supply the Necessities, and Relieve the Calamities of the Indigent, is among the Pious Uses of our Estates. It was the Speech of the Apostle, in 1 John 3.17. Whos• has this Worlds Goods, and see his Brother has Need, and shutteth up his Bowels of Compassion from him, how dwelleth the Love of God in him? We must Give of our Goods to our Brethren, when they have a manifest Need thereof.
There is a more Spiritual Beneficence, which our Giving is to be sometimes unto. Contributions for the Propagation of the Gospel, are most Pious Uses; and such are Subscriptions towards the Education of Poor, but Good Scholars in the University, or elsewhere; and the same is to be said concerning the Dispersion of Bibles, and Catechisms, and other Devout and Useful Books to such as will else be without them. Who knows, ⟨p. 9⟩but with a Shilling a man may so Save a Soul for ever? There is also a more Temporal Beneficence, which our Giving may sometimes be Exercised in. 'Tis among Pious Uses, for us to bestow upon the Distressed, That we may make their Circumstances more easy to them; To Comfort the Sick, to Nourish Widows and Orphans, to Redeem Captives, and Prisoners, and make mourning Hearts to Sing.
There is a more Spiritual Beneficence, which our Giving is to be sometimes unto. Contributions for the Propagation of the Gospel, are most Pious Uses; and such are Subscriptions towards the Education of Poor, but Good Scholars in the University, or elsewhere; and the same is to be said concerning the Dispersion of Bibles, and Catechism•s, and other Devout and Use•ul Books to such as will else be without them. Who knows, ⟨p. 9⟩but with a Shilling a man may so Save a Soul for ever? There is also a more Temporal Beneficence, which our Giving may sometimes be Exercised in. 'Tis among Pious Uses, for us to bestow upon the Distressed, That we may make their Circumstances more easy to them; To Comfort the Sick, to Nourish Widows and Orphans, to Redeem Captives, and Prisoners, and make mourning Hearts to Sing.