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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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The First Reason is, Thou shalt find it after many days. There will a Glorious, yea, an Eternal Recompense be made unto us, for all our Liberality. Some think, that here is an Allusion to Ventures at Sea; Our Liberality sends Ventures forth, upon the Waters, and there are very Great and Rich Returns made thereof. But Let us a Little descant upon this Recompense.
The First Reason is, Thou shalt find it after many days. There will a Glorious, yea, an Eternal Recompence be made unto us, for all our Liberality. Some think, that here is an Allusion to Ventures at Sea; Our Liberality sends Ventures forth, upon the Waters, and there are very Great and Rich Returns made thereof. But Let us a Little descant upon this Recompence.
The words may be Rendered, Thou shall find it in Multitude of Days. This is indeed one Recompense of Liberality; there is a Multitude of Days, or a Long Life, which the God of Heaven often favours a Liberal man withal. It was a Speech once used unto a cruel Churl, in Dan. 4.27. Show mercy to the Poor, and it may be a Lengthening out of thy Tranquillity. Behold, a Receipt, pro prolonganda vita; Let us be Liberal, as our Father Abraham was; and that's the way for us, Like Abraham to Live, ⟨p. 22⟩till a Good Old Age, till we are Old men, and full of years. It has been often observed, that very Liberal men, use to be Long Lived men. 'Tis the full and firm word of our God, in Psal. 41.1, 2. Blessed is he that Considers the Poor; the Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive. Thus we shall find our Bread after many Days; we shall have many Days; this Bread will keep us Alive, till many Days have passed over us. But I dismiss that Sense of the words; and only Lay down this Conclusion.
The words may be Rendred, Thou shall find it in Multitude of Dayes. This is indeed one Recompence of Liberality; there is a Multitude of Dayes, or a Long Life, which the God of Heaven often favours a Liberal man withal. It was a Speech once used unto a cruel Churl, in