26a 2 TheL 3.10,11 i Cor7..j 7,2o T'a!1,,r6s intrtile pandas. Detat.13.13. e9ui largiuntur tncltg.iis eaqu.e dignis confcrri cta$ebant,t;ia Conlmittu7at Rt- fK; da. I. Nam&irr jaaiaram fac3- unt: 2. Et in bones contrameliofi pat. 3. Et malos io- toraat materia vitio,um fnppc- Luke 6.3e. After what manner msfi wegive alms, Semi/. I. Their trade of lift: is no warrantable calling. It is a diforderly walking, which is exprelly taxed by the Apofle, for faith he, 5i /e4 we were with you, this we commandedyou, that if any would not world, neither fhould he eat. For we hear. that there are force which walk. among you diforderly, working not at all. It cannot be faid of thole, As the Lord hash called every one, fa It him walk; or, let every man abide in thefame Callingwhereig he WAS called. God bath called none co fuch a trade. 2. They are as drones in an hive of Bees ; they live of the labours of others, but bring in nothing to the Hock, as all the ocher Bees do. They are as barren Trees, which receive fap from the earth, but yield no fruit ; unprofitable burthens of theearth, whofe fad doom yemay read, Luke 13 7. 3. Manyof them areof no particular Church, norof any civil focie- ty, but out of all Government in Church and State. In this and the former refpe& they may jufly be filed Children of Bella?, without yoak.. ..They with-hold,and in a manner rob the [lace wherein they dwell, of their labour and pains. The State or Kingdom is as a body,. all that dwell therein are as fo many members; nownature teacheth every member r.o do Comewhat for the benefir of the whole. There doing no- thing thereto, fin againif the light of Nature. 5. They who are truly poor {hail by this Means be negle&ed and (canted, whiff thefe lazy drones devour that which of right helongeth unto them. 6. They. are a great fcandal and 4iame to the Government of the Nation wherein they are. For their courfe of life implieth that no good provilion is made for the poor ; nor order taken to fet fuch as are able to work,and to relieve fuch as are impotent. Now it is a great fin to be a fhame to ones own Country. 7. Their kind oflife is fenfual and ; for as brutes they fpend all their daies in feeking food for their bodies. From hence itfolloweth, that they who relieve fuch, make then-- felves accefl'ary to the fore-mentioned fins. There are forr.e allegations made for relieving fuch ; but they are undue allegations, and may eafily be anfwered; The chiefeli of them is this. z. Chrifi commandeth to give to everymare that asketh thee. 441,fiw. To this Ianfwer, that the Precept is to be taken in reference to a falfe Pofitionof the Pharifees, which was this, that their Country- 4111111111111 men
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