Durable riches. Two brief discourses, occasioned by the impoverishing blast of heaven, which the…

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This is the Thing Enjoined in 2 Cor. 9.7. Let a man Give, not Grudgingly, or of Necessity, for God Loves a Cheerful Giver. We must Resign our Estates, with a most Hearty and Lively Cast, when we are called thereunto; the Pious Uses must not wrest & wring ⟨p. 12⟩them, no, but we our selves must Cast them out of our Hands. This is implied in Deut. 15.10, 11. Thou shalt freely give, thy Heart shall not be grieved, when thou givest; thou shalt open thy Hand wide. We are thus to Imitate the Bounty of our Heavenly Father; & it avails not, as the Apostle says, To bestow all our Goods to Feed the Poor, if we have not this Charity in our doing of it.

This is the Thing Enjoyned in 2 Cor. 9.7. Let a man Give, not Grudgingly, or of Necessity, for God Loves a Chearful Giver. We must Resign our Estates, with a most Hearty and Lively Cast, when we are called thereunto; the Pious Uses must not wrest & wring ⟨p. 12⟩them, no, but we our selves must Cast them out of our Hands. This is implied in Deut. 15.10, 11. Thou shalt freely give, thy Heart shall not be grieved, when thou givest; thou shalt open thy Hand wide. We are thus to Imitate the Bounty of our Heavenly Father; & it avails not, as the Apostle says, To bestow all our Goods to Feed the Poor, if we have not this Charity in our doing of it.