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323. Я приведу здесь соответствующие места на английском языке, в том же порядке, в каком я их в извлечениях привел в тексте: «Now little do the wealth and honours of the world concern a soul than is going into another world, and knows not but it may be this night. Then keep the wealth or take it with thee, if thou canst» (Baxter. Christ Dir. (1670), 218). «Labour to feel they greates wants, which wordly wealth will not supply» (Ibid.). «Thou art dead in sin and polluted and captivated by the flesh and money will sooner encrease the bondage than deriver thee» (Ibid.). «Will honest poverty or over — loved wealth be sweater at last?» (Ibid.). «Remember tha Riches do make it much harder for a man to be saved» (Ibid.).
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What so much hindereth the Conversion of sinners, as the love and cares of earthly things? They cannot serve God and Mammon (1. 220). «In a word as you heard, the love of money is the root of all evils, and the love of the Father is not in the lovers of the world» (ibid.). «Remember that riches are not part of your felicity. Less, remember that riches are not the smallest temptation and danger to your Souls. It is not for nothing that Christ giveth so many terrible warnings about Riches and so desoribeth the folly, the danger and misery of the worlds rich… and teleht you how hardly the rich are saved» (Ch. XXVIII, II).
324. «…he that is greedy of gain, troubleth his own house, but he that hateth gain, shall live. Do you know that a godly man contendet with his daily bread hath a far sweeter and quieter life and death than a self-troubling wordling?» (Baxter Christian Directory 1, 219). Христос был нищим. — «In Christ did scrape and care for Riches, then so do thou: in he thought it the happiest life, do thou think so too. But if he contemmed it do thou contemnit». (Ibid.). «If you had believed that the gain of holy wisdom had been so much better than the gaining of Gold, as Solomon saith. Prov. 3, 14, you would have laind out much of that time in labouring to understand the scriptures and preparing for your endless life». «Piercing sorrows here and damnation hereafter are a very dear price to give for money» (Ibid.) «…take heed lest the success and prosperity of your affairs do too much please you, as him: Luc. 12.20». Baxter (Christ. Directory 1, 229).
325. «When men are not content with food and payment, but would still heap up more, it is just with God go leave them not so much bread: and to suffer men to have an evil eye upon them and to pluck at them, even so long as they have meat». Hutcheson, Exposition of the book of Job. p. 296. «Ye may seek more, if he will be rich, and will have superfluities then ye shall fall into many temptations, snares and hurtful lusts which shall drown you in perdition…» (Binning, Sermons, 3, 359).
Buckle, Gesch. der Civ. 2^, 388. «And certainly to crave and be desirous of more than what is competent for the main tenance and support of our lives, is both inconsistent with the dependence and subjection we owe to God, and do h also bespeak a great deal of vanity, folly and inconsiderateness.». Cockburns. Jacobs Now or Man's Felicity and Duty. «Why would man rack their heads with cares how to provide for to-morrow, while they know not if they shall thou need anything?» (Bostons, Human Nature in its Four-fold State, p. 300).
326. «Men are loth to lend their care to the World, when they abound in prosperity». Abernethy, Physike for the Soule, p. 448, Buckle, 387. «Such is the weakness even of godly mens that they can hardly live in a prospeous condition and not be overtaken with some security, carnal confidence, or other miscarriage» (Hutcheson. Exposition of the Book of Job. P. 387).
327. Baxter, Christ Dir. 1, 237, 245.
328. Burnest. Hist. of its own time 1, 108; ср.: Buckle, a.a.0; Mackintosh. Hist. of Civil. in Scotland, 3,269.
329. «Take nothing and do nothing meerly because the sence or appetite would have it, but because you have Reason so to do» (Baxter. Chr. Dir. 1. 229).
330. «…we should govern and regulate according to very strict and severe laws all faculties of our soul, all the members of our body, all internal motions and all external actions proceeding from us; that we should check our inclinations, curb our appetites and compose our passion; that we should guard our hearts from vain thoughts and bad desires; that we should bridle our tongues from evil and from idle discourses; that we should order our steps in the streight way of righteousness, not deflecting to the right hand or to the left» (A Isaac Barrow, Of Industry, 104).
331. «By Industry we understand a serious and steady application of mind, joyned with a rigourous exercise of our active faculties in prosecution of any reasonable, honest, useful design in order to the accomplishment or attainment of some cinsiderable good; as for instance, a Merchant is industrious, who continueth intent and active in driving on his trade for acquiring wealth» (L.c., p. 3).
332. «Shall we alone be idle, while all things are so busie? we may easily observe every creature about us incessantly worling toward the end for which it was designed inde-fatigably exercising the powers with which it was endewed; dilingently observing the Laws of its creation…» (Is. Barrow, Of Industry, 78).
333. «Idleness is indeed the nursery of sins, which as naturally grow up therein as weeds in a neglected field or insects in a standing puddle; Idleness teacheth much evil» (Eccl. 33, 27…). Она — западня, в которую дьявол ловит души. (Is. Barrow, Of Industry, 62).
334. 1. Barrow, Of Industry, 94, 9, 94 (и след.). Ср. Alb. С. Applegarth, Quakers in Pensylvania solitude, 1697 (1892), 10; Fruits W. Of Selections from the Record of the Kirk-Sessions of Aberdeen. P. 32.
335. Ср. у Mackintosh, Hist. of Civilisation in Scotland 3,265; ср. P. 273 (и след.).
336. Le Negociant patriote, 240.
337. Источники у Buckle, а.а. О., 23, 381.
338. Alb. С. Applegarth, Quakers in Pensylvania, 10, 16, 28 (и след.).
339. S. Thorn. S. th. lla Пае qu. 134 a 1.
340. Символическими для чувствований пуританизма являются выступления John' Knox в приходской церкви Петра II мая 1559 г., где возникло иконоборство. Его же «The first Book of Discipline» отвергает всякую «Idolatry» со всеми ее памятниками, аббатствами, монастырями, соборами и т. д. (3 head) John Knox, Works, 2, 183 (и след.); ср. 1, 320 (и след.), 361 (и след.).