#puritan — Public Fediverse posts
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William Whately, Puritan vicar of Banbury, invites us to walk through any town and inspect its households: most, he says, are broken, encumbered, and stuck fast in the mud and mire of want. Open with that today and half your audience starts sniffing for an agenda. Whately's was scandalously simple: pity for families caught in the usurer's wax like insects, whether through others' scheming or their own lack of foresight.
But how can you show mercy?
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William Whately, Puritan vicar of Banbury, invites us to walk through any town and inspect its households: most, he says, are broken, encumbered, and stuck fast in the mud and mire of want. Open with that today and half your audience starts sniffing for an agenda. Whately's was scandalously simple: pity for families caught in the usurer's wax like insects, whether through others' scheming or their own lack of foresight.
But how can you show mercy?
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William Whately, Puritan vicar of Banbury, invites us to walk through any town and inspect its households: most, he says, are broken, encumbered, and stuck fast in the mud and mire of want. Open with that today and half your audience starts sniffing for an agenda. Whately's was scandalously simple: pity for families caught in the usurer's wax like insects, whether through others' scheming or their own lack of foresight.
But how can you show mercy?
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William Whately, Puritan vicar of Banbury, invites us to walk through any town and inspect its households: most, he says, are broken, encumbered, and stuck fast in the mud and mire of want. Open with that today and half your audience starts sniffing for an agenda. Whately's was scandalously simple: pity for families caught in the usurer's wax like insects, whether through others' scheming or their own lack of foresight.
But how can you show mercy?
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William Whately, Puritan vicar of Banbury, invites us to walk through any town and inspect its households: most, he says, are broken, encumbered, and stuck fast in the mud and mire of want. Open with that today and half your audience starts sniffing for an agenda. Whately's was scandalously simple: pity for families caught in the usurer's wax like insects, whether through others' scheming or their own lack of foresight.
But how can you show mercy?