#puritan — Public Fediverse posts

Thomas Watson, that wonderfully blunt Puritan, basically says: lovely speeches about compassion are useless if the poor are still hungry. You can drizzle honeyed words everywhere—but the wounded need bread, not poetry. Better to be a saint with a loaf than an angel with a microphone.

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Richard Baxter was an English #Puritan leader,says it’s a crime to equate humans and beasts, to buy and set to the same tasks. He was aware of slavery in Barbados.

Is the crime today, instead, to admonish this practice?

How can you think of how those who provide you with goods and services may be treated as beasts?
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William Secker, a Puritan minister, offers humorous metaphors to show that giving comes naturally to the Christian. Reservoirs of plenty should release their bounty without too much pumping. He says our benevolence should seek the poor, before they seek it.

Today, do we instinctively have the opposite view— if there are reservoirs of plenty, this is a reason to keep the poor away?

How can your benevolence seek out the poor?

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