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The gayne of losse: or temporall losses spiritually improved in a centurye & one decad of meditations & resolves. By John Warner M.A. sometimes of Magd: Hall in Oxo: & one of the ministers of the London Brigade in the late western expedition 1644.
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- The gayne of losse: or temporall losses spiritually improved in a centurye & one decad of meditations & resolves. By John Warner M.A. sometimes of Magd: Hall in Oxo: & one of the ministers of the London Brigade in the late western expedition 1644.
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- Warner, John, b. 1612 or 13.
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- London :: Printed by M.S. for H. Blunden at the Castle in Corn-hill,
- 1645.
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"The gayne of losse: or temporall losses spiritually improved in a centurye & one decad of meditations & resolves. By John Warner M.A. sometimes of Magd: Hall in Oxo: & one of the ministers of the London Brigade in the late western expedition 1644." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A97181.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2024.
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said, nothing. A strange answer considering the length of their journey, the diversitie of their hearers, and the contrarietie of their new doctrine to flesh and bloud, yet that they should be ac∣commodated with every thing. No question but they were truly welcome to many, and it might appear so by their entertainment; yet such a worke as they went a∣bout, might want a supply of ma∣ny things. Christ told them, That the labourer was worthy of his hire; but many might thinke then, as now in our dayes, preaching to be scarce worth the hearing, much lesse paying. Surely in this worke of Christ, Christ was with them in a more speciall manner; His fulnesse was enough to supply all their wants, at least to make them content in all estates, & not mur∣mure at their pay, so their worke
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went on. Lord, as thou wast with them, so thou hast promised to be with thine till the end of th e world. Goe thou forth therefore with me thy servant, who is to goe forth emptie as they, and then at my return, their answer to thee shall be mine to others, I want nothing.