A Christian library, or, A pleasant and plentiful paradise of practical divinity in 37 treatises of sundry and select subjects ... / by R. Younge ...
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- A Christian library, or, A pleasant and plentiful paradise of practical divinity in 37 treatises of sundry and select subjects ... / by R. Younge ...
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- Younge, Richard.
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- London :: Printed by M.I. and are to be sold onely [sic] by James Crumps ...,
- 1660.
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- Christian life.
- Theology, Practical.
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Of the Prevention of Poverty.
VErtue is distributive, and loves not to bury benefits, but to pleasure all she can: And happy is he, that leaves such a president; for which both the present and future Ages shall praise him, and praise God for him. It was no small comfort (I suppose) to Cuthemberg, Anaxime∣nes, Triptolemus, Columbus, and other the like; whose happi∣ness it was to finde out Printing, the Dial, the Plough, to enrich the World with the best of Metals, with the Loadstone, and a thousand the like: But had they smothered their conceptions, as so many lights under a bushel; and not communicated the same for the publick, it had argued in them a great dearth of chari∣ty; whereas now (to the glory of God,) all men are the better for them.
Nor is any employment so honorable, as for a man to serve his generation, and be profitable to many: When like the Moon, we bestow the benefits received from God; to the profit and commodity of others. It is the Suns excellency, that his bright rayes and beamns, are dispersed into every corner of the Uni∣verse.
The Tragick, Buskin (as they say) would fit all, that should put it on: Here is that will much benefit thee, (being made use of) be thy condition good or bad, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, mental or manual. The which to conceal, would argue in the Authour, either too much lucre, or too little love. Even the Physician, that hath a sovereigne Receipt, and dieth unrevealing it: robs the world of many bles∣sings, which might multiply after his death: leaving to all survivors this collection, that he once did good to others, but to do himself a greater.
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