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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 is there not Secondly, sad cause of Reproof to too too many in the midst of us?
Many there are, That squander away a vast deal of their Estates, in Profane, Wicked, Wretched Uses; and in the pleasing of some Lust or other; but as to Pious Uses they do Little or Nothing at all; No, they make an hideous grumbling at all that should go that way, and feel as much Heart blood as Money, going from them. Yea, I have heard this Assertion Demonstrated, That what is needlessly Expended at the Taverns, in many Towns, would abundantly Defray all the Public Charges of Church and School, and Common-wealth too, which the Towns would be happier, if they were honester, in the payment of. Here, surely are persons that Forget that Proverb, in Prov. 11.24. He that withholdeth more than is meet, cometh to ⟨p. 34⟩Poverty And they Despise that Threatening, in Jam 2.13. He shall have Judgment without Mercy, that showed no Mercy. How Unlike are these to the Widow, whose Two Mites, went into the Holy Treasury? Or to the Martyrs, Wiseheart and Rogers, who would forbear One Meal in Three, for the Relieving of such as wanted Food? Or to that Noble and Worthy English General, of whom 'tis noted, He never thought he had any thing, but what he Gave away.
Many there are, That squander away a vast deal of their Estates, in Profane, Wicked, VVretched Uses; and in the pleasing of some Lust or other; but as to Pious Uses they do Little or Nothing at all; No, they make an hideous grumbling at all that should go that way, and feel as much Heart blood as Money, going from them. Yea, I have heard this Assertion Demonstrated, That what is needlesly Expended at the Taverns, in many Towns, would abundantly Defray all the Publick Charges of Church and School, and Common-wealth too, which the Towns would be happier, if they were honester, in the payment of. Here, surely are persons that Forget that Proverb, in Prov. 11.24. He that witholdeth more than is meet, cometh to