A Third rule.
There must bee sincere intention in giving, that wee doe nothing of ambition, but purely respect God to please him, and count it e∣nough that wee have him the witnes of our heart: this
Zacheus converted: or The rich publicans repentance. Restitution In which, the mysteries of the doctrine of conversion, are sweetly laid open and applyed for the establishing of the weakest. Also of riches in their getting, keeping, expending; with divers things about almes and restitution, and many other materiall points and cases insisted upon. By Iohn Wilson, late preacher of Gods word in Guilford.
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- Zacheus converted: or The rich publicans repentance. Restitution In which, the mysteries of the doctrine of conversion, are sweetly laid open and applyed for the establishing of the weakest. Also of riches in their getting, keeping, expending; with divers things about almes and restitution, and many other materiall points and cases insisted upon. By Iohn Wilson, late preacher of Gods word in Guilford.
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- Wilson, John, d. 1630.
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- Printed at London :: By T. Cotes, for Fulke Clifton, and are to be sold at his shop upon new Fishstreete hill,
- 1631.
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- Conversion -- Early works to 1800.
- Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
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"Zacheus converted: or The rich publicans repentance. Restitution In which, the mysteries of the doctrine of conversion, are sweetly laid open and applyed for the establishing of the weakest. Also of riches in their getting, keeping, expending; with divers things about almes and restitution, and many other materiall points and cases insisted upon. By Iohn Wilson, late preacher of Gods word in Guilford." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A15505.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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is set out by a metaphoricall speech: Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doth; do it so upright∣ly, as if the left hand (which is joyned in the worke many times with the right) had eyes and could see, wee should hide from it what we doe. It is not blamed that our almes bee seene, but that wee would have them knowne, no nor to will to have them knowne, if it bee not for getting mans praise; if it be willing for Gods glo∣ry, it is that which Christ willeth, Math. 5, 16. That men may see your good workes, and gloxifie your Father which is in heaven: That they may esteeme ye heavenly doctrin, be converted to the faith, & prayse the Lord? Otherwise
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a man must take no notice what hee hath given, how much, to whom, how of∣ten, lest hee be lifted up in pride and preferre himselfe to other men. The Apostle gives the rule, Rom. 12, 8. Hee that giveth, let him do it with simplicitie, with in∣genuitie, like a faithfull man, as Paul saith of Phile∣mon: It must bee done to Christ in his, to the name of God, Heb. 6. 10.