Biographical introduction, 1658-1719. Proposals of a council of trade, 1700. 3 ed. Memoir upon expeditions against the Spanish West Indies, 1701. 2d ed. Dialogues upon the union of England and Scotland, at the Wednesday's club, in Friday street, 1706. 2d ed

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Page 87 - For the poor shall never cease out of the land : therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
Page 87 - If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren •within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother: but thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him. and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
Page 200 - The distribution of the persons to be chosen for Scotland and Ireland, and the several counties, cities, and places therein, shall be according to such proportions and number as shall be agreed upon and declared by the Lord Protector and the major part of the council, before the sending forth writs of summons for the next Parliament.
Page 87 - Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
Page 87 - And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge : in any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee : and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy God.
Page 87 - Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, ' the seventh year, the year of release, is at hand...
Page 192 - Scotland and other the dominions thereunto belonging, or any of them : or to have the name, title, style or dignity of King or Queen of...
Page 130 - ... of a prince or nation, and in respect to them all other things are but imaginary. This was well understood by the people of...
Page 191 - We might now be writing under the government of his Highness Oliver the Fifth or Richard the Fourth, Protector, by the grace of God, of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the dominions thereto belonging.
Page 129 - Portugal than they have conquered the Indies. For by their permitting all to go out and none to come in, they have not only lost the people which are gone to these remote and luxuriant regions, but such as remain are become wholly unprofitable and good for nothing.

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