at the S P I TT L E, jcdonewith a facility, with a readinejfe eafitJ. And good reafon, eAjily ;for ealily you may. W~chat want, cannot wuhouc dtfficu!cy; we would and we cannot: we bavc a heatt without a hand : though we be wtlhng,_ nothmg 1s done; why~ we are not able. You arc well able (Go o be thanked) tfyou be wdl wtlhng, there is no JliOre to doe ; it is done. This readineffe is a necelfary venue in our dayes : where ycr ahenptcome (nay many times, yer adebt) fo much ingenuity is fpent, fo man/Rego's, fucha rade& redi, go~and come fuch a time ; fu~h adAtll1fi1!g on thcthre}hold, Pro, p 8 • fuch afaitingofthe eyer, yertt can be feene ;fucha deavmg to the fingers, yer it will - · · come off,fuch inll:illation by now adrop and then a drop :asroa liberall nature,when it commeth, it is like to bread full ofgravell ; for hunger a man mull needs have it, and but for needs mull:,a man,had as leefc be withouiit. 0 beloved,mar not all you doe beforeGodand man for want ofthis one thing. You love afaire feed-timc,all of you: Hitaru datiu, (erenafatio; cheerefullgiving is like a fairefeed.ti,.e•. As you,for your feed,to burieit, wi{ha feafonabletime; fo and no lclfe GoD defirethfor His that Hisfeedmaynot be fowen with anoverfaft minde,but with the gladnelfe ofheart and fheerefnlnef!eof'i:ormtenance. Even as He doeh Himfelfe;who what He bell:oweth, bell:oweth fo,as He taketh as much, yea more delight ingiving,chanweinreceiving. So doe, andchenthisCharge is at an end: Beready to communicate. There is ofthis word,fome difference among Writers;but fuch as you may eafily reconcile. Some thinke, the vfpojlt( would have rich men eo be iv<>eJ.oJI<,, eafie to be fpoken with, and to be fpoken to.Some,that He would not onely have themgive rt•dily, bur tend freely, and noc practife the Dwits Alchymiflrie (as they doe)by rmd. tipli&~tioll in tending. Some, that they ihould not thinke their beneficence to be a ta– lting.from them without receiving hacke, inafmuch as thereis an en\ercourfe ofthe gi– vers grac~;and the receivers prayer. Some, ·that His mind is, chat they ihould·not doe good to fome few, but even to am"ltitude. All are good and godly;and agree– ;~ble t<>the anAlogic Q{f.Uth : and you by doing all,may verifieand agree all,and make ofa difcord in opinions,an harmonic in practice. Saint Himme.(mee thinketh) faith bell:, that Communi&are eft ,·omm11nit4ti dare, a"t adaliqt!idcommune, to be beneficiall to aSociety, or to bell:ow to Comecommon ufe. This is the perfection or pitch ofwelldoing, that me/1plenteouograce hy thethank(- • Cor. 4-' s. tiving ofmany, may redoundto theglory ofGud. TheAfoflle therefore isafurther fui. tor to you chat berich, and wJ!l not end his charge, t:ll he hath laid this on you coo, todoe good to Societies andFoundations, either necelfary to be erected, or more than necclfary to be maintained; Jell: through o11r evi/1-dotng, our fathers wel/.iiQingperiih. lt is not for every man to reach unco them ; there is no hope to have tbem upho!den but by you: that you wouldrherefoi:e have them in remembrance, and tO thinke up~ on them to doechemg~ad. . . . . But alas, whathope is theretohe~[('; that goodwill be this way done,fince it is thought, that many may be indicted for feeking to eate upCQmpilnies, and to convert that which was the goodand making of many, into their ownejingutare cemmodo,by out.hayingandsot-biddingall befides chemfelves, thatchey alone may ap_propriateci– villivings; turne common into private, the wh<Dle bod(es nouriihment into one for· growen member, and in the enddwell alone upon the earth. Ier. 49·l ~; That the world is toward an end, other men may be perfwaded by ot.her reafons; none more etfetruall to perfwademe,- than this one, that every man doth what in him lieth to Di(ermmon communities, and eo bring all eo the firll: privation. For the world being irfclfc amaincSociety; thefe.men,by difniembringunder-fscieties, fccke and doe what they can to dilfolvc the whole. So chat, .G o o mull: Qeeds come eo make an end ofthe world,or elfe, ifthis hold on, we ihould ihortly make an end oflt · ·our fdves. It is further complained,that whereas there hath beeti arid is given charitably tothe poore and their maintenance, that thepoore fuemfelves wane, and rhey that have tl:!e recei_vingofthe profits doe yet entreafe mighcily. Had not th~fe things needeobee put mtheChArge ? Are they not iil thecares oftheLord ? Is lt not a ji1119e crytngeo ·, heaven1".
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