Essays about the poor, manufactures, trade, plantations, & immorality and of the excellency and divinity of inward light, demonstrated from the attributes of God and the nature of mans soul, as well as from the testimony of the Holy Scriptures / by John Bellers.

Title

Essays about the poor, manufactures, trade, plantations, & immorality and of the excellency and divinity of inward light, demonstrated from the attributes of God and the nature of mans soul, as well as from the testimony of the Holy Scriptures / by John Bellers.

Author

Bellers, John, 1654-1725.

Publication

London :: Printed and sold by T. Sowle ...,

1699.

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Subject terms

Poor -- Employment -- Great Britain.

Spirituality.

Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 17th century.

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Contents

• title page
• quotations
• TO THE Lords and Commons IN Parliament Assembled.
• To the Intelligent and Thinking Reader.
• The CONTENTS.
• ESSAYS About the POOR, &c.
  • How the Poors Wants will be best answered, and the Nations Strength and Riches increased.
  • Essay, to shew, That 500 Labourers, Regularly Imploy'd, are Capable of Earning 3000 l. a Year more than will keep them.
  • Essay, to shew how 500 Thousand Poor are capable to add 43 Millions value to the Nation.
  • The Increase of Regular Labouring People is the Kingdom's greatest Treasure, Strength and Honour.
  • Of Manufactures. Imploying the Poor upon any one Manufacture constantly, will run out the Stock they are imploy'd with.
  • The uncertainty of Fashions doth increase Necessitous Poor.
  • Of Trade.
  • Of Traders.
  • Of Foreign Trade.
  • Of Mony.
  • Of English Plantations.
  • A Word to the Rich.
  • Essay for abating Immoralities.
  • Some Reasons against puting of Fellons to Death.
  • Of God.
  • Of Man's Soul.
  • Of Christian Virtue.
  • Of Divine Worship.
  • A Cloud of Witnesses recorded in the Holy Scripture.
  • Of God's Manifestation in Men.
  • Of Christ's Manifestation in Men.
  • Of the Holy Spirits Manifestation in Men.
  • Some Considerations for them that reproach the Light.