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Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Playing with fridge magnets:
Do whats right, and you shall survive!
From hence it appears plainly that no man is made more honorable than another or more wealthy etc., out of any particular and singular respect to himself, but for the glory of his Creator and the common good of the Creature, Man (1). There was a proud and very profane young man, one of the seamen, [...] he would always be contemning the poor people in their sickness and cursing them daily with grievous execrations; [...] but if it pleased God before they came half seas over, to smite this young man with a grievous disease, of which he died [...] and so was himself the first that was thrown overboard (2). As if near to hell, Amongst the devils to dwell (3). Whence my father I do love (4). Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the peril and miseries thereof (2). So is it in all the labor of love among Christians. The party loving, reaps love again, as was showed before, which the soul covets more than all the wealth in the world. This love is a divine, spiritual nature, free, active, strong, courageous, permanent; undervaluing al things beneath its proper object; and of all the graces. this makes us nearer to resemble the virtues of our heavenly father. (1).

1. John Winthrop - A Model of Christian Charity
2. William Bradford - Of Plymouth Plantation
3. John Smith - The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles
4. Anne Bradstreet - The Flesh and the Spirit



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