The art of giuing Describing the true nature, and right vse of liberality: and prouing that these dayes of the gospell haue farre exceeded the former times of superstition in true charitie and magnificence. By Thomas Cooper.
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The art of giuing Describing the true nature, and right vse of liberality: and prouing that these dayes of the gospell haue farre exceeded the former times of superstition in true charitie and magnificence. By Thomas Cooper.
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Cooper, Thomas, fl. 1626.
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London :: Printed [by T. Snodham] for T. Pauier, and are to be sold in Iuy Lane,
1615.
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Charity -- Early works to 1800.
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"The art of giuing Describing the true nature, and right vse of liberality: and prouing that these dayes of the gospell haue farre exceeded the former times of superstition in true charitie and magnificence. By Thomas Cooper." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19280.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 14, 2024.
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descriptionPage 98
CHAP. XXVII.
Hereunto appertayneth that Tentation.
That because,
1 VVE sinne in the best wee doe,
Stherefore we will doe no good
at all, least we should sinne.
To which we may answere,
1 That it is a sinne to omit wel-doing,
as well as to doe euill.
2 That sinne which accompanies well-doing
shall not be imputed, if there be a
willing minde.
3 Our persons are accepted in Christ,
and therefore our faylings are couered
with his righteousnesse.
4 This life is not a time of perfection,
but of growing and hastening thereto,
and therefore though we be not perfect
without sinne, yet if we doe it truly with∣out
hypocrisie, it shall be accepted.
5 The sinne which accompanies wel-doing
is not ours, and therefore we shall
not answere for it.
descriptionPage 99
And yet by
6 Sinne we are still humbled to giue
glory vnto Christ.
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