N01600:181
Instructions to the living, from the condition of the dead. A brief relation of…
Instructions to the living, from the condition of the dead. A brief relation of remarkables in the shipwreck of above one hundred pirates, who were cast away in the ship Whido, on the coast of New-England, April 26. 1717. And in the death of six, who after a fair trial at Boston, were convicted & condemned, Octob. 22. And executed, Novemb. 15. 1717. : With some account of the discourse had with them on the way to their execution. And a sermon preached on their occasion.
Boston: printed by John Allen for Nicholas Boone, 1717
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I will declare one thing more unto you; Not only Unfaithful Treasurers, but also, Judges, who take Bribes, either to pass a wrong Judgment, or ••• passing a Right one: Lawyers who take Fees, for pleading a Case, which they know to be an Ill one; Rulers, who Sell the public Places of Trust, to which Merit should be the only Recommendation: These too, may get Riches: But when the World that groans under it, shall be delivered from the Bondage of Corruptions, what they do will be condemned, as Not by Right. You may Flatter your selves, in your own Eyes, O ye Greedy Ones, As doing only what is Customary: But your Iniquity will be found hateful, and it will ⟨p. 48⟩be found a Filthy Lucre, that you are […] Greedy of.
I will declare one thing more unto you; Not only Unfaithful Treasurers, but also, Judges, who take Bribes, either to pass a wrong Judgment, or ••• passing a Right one: Lawyers who take Fees, for pleading a Case, which they know to be an Ill one; Rulers, who Sell the publick Places of Trust, to which Merit should be the only Recommendation: These too, may get Riches: But when the World that groans under it, shall be delivered from the Bondage of Corruptions, what they do will be condemned, as Not by Right. You may Flatter your selves, in your own Eyes, O ye Greedy Ones, As doing only what is Customary: But your Iniquity will be found hateful, and it will ⟨p. 48⟩be found a Filthy Lucre, that you are 〈…〉 Greedy of.
[…] Stroke more, shall finish my […] of The Methods wherein Men get Riches and not by Right; It is done, when Men withhold more than is meet, and allow not a due Portion of their Estates unto Pious Uses. A Fault, which provokes the Holy One to withhold His Blessing from them. They fancy, they get Riches by this Parsimony; but it eventually tends unto Poverty!