Black background quote card. On the left is a small engraved portrait of Thomas Gouge, a 17th-century Puritan minister, wearing clerical dress. Beneath the portrait: “THOMAS GOUGE (1605–1681)” and the title “The Surest and Safest Way of Thriving.” On the right is a long quotation in white text stating that rich men have the means to obtain a “good inheritance” if they had the heart to use it; that charity claims no merit (ex congruo or condigno), yet God will richly recompense it both in this life and the next.
William Gouge, #Puritan minister, argues that charity earns no merit before God, yet God still freely rewards it in this life and the next. He laments that the rich, though able to gain a “good inheritance,” often lack the heart to give. How will you use what you have?
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