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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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- 1645.
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fulnesse, hath an universall sove∣raigntie over all, an independent royaltie in all things; so that whatsoever man doth injoy, is by his dispensation. Now if among men, estates are incident to such forfeits, as their Land-lords may by Law deprive them, and reen∣ter; why may not the supreame Lord of heaven and earth deprive us of that which is his, when we break our Covenants with him, and run into so many forseits and arrearages? And if in such a case, none dare aske a Prince or Land∣lord, why he doth it, so here nei∣ther dare any one open his mouth against his Maker, seeing he may doe what he please with his own. To him that hath, that is, useth well what he hath, shall more be given, and from him that hath not, i. e. u∣seth not, or abuseth what he hath, shall it be taken away. O Lord;
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what I have is thine by right and dominion, thine by my forfeit and self-deprivation, mine onely by usurpation, at most by dispensa∣tion. I blesse thy mercy, for the forbearance of thy right so long, I blesse thy justice for depriving me of that right at last. The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of the Lord.