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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enough to enjoy his gold, sil∣ver, spices, oyntments, unlesse also he might shew it to the servants of Merodachbaladan. So vaine are our natures, that we never know we have enough, till others know it so also. Such hath also been the abundance of many among us in times of peace, that their wealth & delectable things, have served onely to satiate their own eyes with reviewing, and others with viewing. Vaine men would not onely be rich, but be esteemed so. Now as in a Plethora of body, so of the soule, something must be taken from the whole, left the whole perish. Hezekiahs goods are shewed to the Babylonish Mes∣sengers, and therefore God threa∣tens, that they shall be taken a∣way by the Babylonians. When we cannot be content with much without shewing it to others,
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we must be content with lesse for shewing it to others. 'Tis not one∣ly justice, but wisdome in God to have that stollen from us, which otherwise would steale our hearts from God. If therefore the Lord hath dealt with thee as with He∣zekiah, get his patience, saying, Good is the Word of the Lord. Know that that is of most worth, which is not worth shewing. We cannot shew our fulnesse to others, with∣out discovering our emptinesse to God. Let not him that is rich, glory in his riches, for his glory∣ing in them, may be the onely meanes to deprive him of them.
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Isa 39.1