On Works and Alms
Cyprian of Carthage
Section 19
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19. Neither should you think that he is father to your
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On Works and Alms
Cyprian of Carthage
19. Neither should you think that he is father to your
[“The howse shall be preserved and never will decaye Wheare the Almightie God is honored and served, daye by daye.” This motto I copied from an old oaken beam in the hall of Rockingham Castle, with date a.d. 1579. In 1875 I saw the householder kneeling under this motto, with all his family and servants, daily.]
The original is variously read “fœnerat” and “commodat.”
Ps. xxxvii. 25, 26.
Prov. xx. 7.