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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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First, I have only this one Counsel to Subjoin unto all the Premises; 'Tis this,
First, I have only this one Counsil to Subjoyn unto all the Premises; 'Tis this,
Let us not imagine that the Pious Uses of our Estates, Deserve any Good at the Hands of the Holy God; but Let us Depend upon the Lord Jesus Christ alone for Our and Their Acceptance with Him. When some told the Dying Herbert of his many Good Works, he replied, Yea, These are Good Works, if Sprinkled with the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. When we have done our best, Let us be sensible of that in Luke 17.10. We ⟨p. 33⟩are Unprofitable Servants. One of the most Liberal men that ever was in the World, would say, I have often Turned over my Accounts, but I could never find the Great God Charged a Debtor there. So Let us think, and place the whole Repose and Solace of our Souls, in the Merits of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Let us not imagine that the Pious Uses of our Estates, Deserve any Good at the Hands of the Holy God; but Let us Depend upo• the Lord Jesus Christ alone for Our and Their Acceptance with Him. When some told the Dying Herbert of his many Good Works, he reply'd, Yea, These are Good Works, if Sprinkled with the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. VVhen we have done our best, Let us be sensible of that in Luke 17.10. We ⟨p. 33⟩are Unprofitable Servants. One of the most Liberal men that ever was in the VVorld, would say, I have often Turned over my Accounts, but I could never find the Great God Charg'd a Debtor there. So Let us think, and place the whole Repose and Solace of our Souls, in the Merits of the Lord Jesus Christ.