An Essay On the Sin And the Evils of Covetousness: And the Happy Effects ...
An Essay On the Sin And the Evils of Covetousness: And the Happy Effects ...
Thomas Dick
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... Evety .professing' Christian, likcwii^e, in whalev- er station be is placed, when be regards the interests of religion. as merely a secondary object, and refuses to come cheerfully rorwahi with a fiBrir proportion of his substance, according as God has prospered him, for pi^jMjcioting the advancement erf the Redeemer's king- dom-^tnust^ be considered as, a sacrilegious robber, de* privipg the Moat H^h of "the tithes and offerinss he demands^ and ^nsequeatly W>j^ts himself to tie in* Digitiz...ed by Google -' mOM G0VB90tr«NBSS. ISl ffictioji of ii curse, similar to that whidi wat denosflh ced upon the cbvetoos Jews in the days of Malachi. In the • next place, the covetous mttnroft* thepoer't the distressed, the 'widow and the fatherless. He robS them of their enjoyments, by withholding that assist- ance which is requisite for enabling them to procure 4he comforts and necessaries of life. The Creator has di^layed his boundleiss liberality in the abundant treas- ures of the earth and seas, in the ample space afforded for the habitations of man; and for the production of iRjod and the materials for clothing, and m giving rain from heaven and fruitfiil seasons^ that the hearts of men may be filled with food and gladness.
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