~·ft·2· Moti-ves m,GooJ works. What'i&a Good 1/Jork• . .7· Good wmks are a c~mfortable_ evidence th~t faith is finccre, and that the heart diffembleth net w1th God ' When as a faith that W\11 not prev01l for works of Charity, is dead and unelfectua] and the image or carkafs of faith indeed, and fuch as God will not accept. Jam. 2· ' 8. We have recci~ed fo much ou1 fdves from God, as doubleth our obligation to do good to others. Obedience and Gr-atitude do both rc.quire it. · 9· We are not fufficient for ourfelves, bur need otheJs.as well as they need us: And therefore as we cxpecfr to receive from others, we mull accordingly d? to them. l~ the eye will not fee for the body, nor the hand work for the body, nor <h< feet go for It, the body wdl not afford them nutriment and they {hall receive as they do. ' 10•. Good workpre much to the honour of Religion, and confcquently of God ; and much t<nd to mens convidio6, conVerfion and falvation. Moll men will judge of the doctrine by the fruits. Mat. 5• 16, Let jour light {o jhine before men, that they may fie your good wor}zl, and glo~ifie your Father wiJicb U in He.aven. . 1 h Confider how abundantly they arc commanded and commended in the word of God. Chrifl himfe!f hath given us the pattern of his awn life, which from his firll moral actions to his !all was nothing but doing good and bearing-evil. He made Love the fulfilling of hi• Law,and the wo;ks of Love the. gc:nuinc: fruits of Chriilianity, and an acceptable facri6ce to God. Ga1. 6. xo. As we b:Jvt opportunity let 111 do good to aUmen, tffiecially to them •f the boujhold of faith. Heb. •3· 16. 1o d, good and commHnicm forgll not: for with [t<oh focrific<J God if ..,,y pleafid<: Tit. ·3· 8. 1hi< i< a faithful foying and tiJtfe thing' 1wiU tha•tbo" conjlontly affirm, that they ,.hicb have believed in God might be careful tu mai~uain good w~rk.!; Thrfe things are good tmdprofitable to mm. Ephe( 2. ro. For we are hi< workmanjhip,created in Cbrif! Jefui to good"'""-'' which God bath bt[ort ordained that we fho•ld walk.. in them. Tit. 2• '4· To purifie to himfilf a peculiar ptople zealout of g,.d wor}zl. Act. 20· 35· ~0 labourinf. ye ouy,bt to [Hpport the wt'a!t, and to remember the word1 of the LortS Jefus, huw he {aid) It H more bleffed to give than to receive. Ephef. 4· 28. Let him that jtole ftu•l no morel but rather let IJim labe,r, workjng wi1h his hands the thing that if good, that be may b:~ve to givt to him tbarntedeth. You fee poor labourers are not excepted, from the command of helping others: In fo much that the firll Church fold all their poffdlions, and had all things common; not to teach levelling and condemn pro· priety, but to fi~tw all after them that Chriftian Love fuould ufe all to relieve their brethren as them· I elves. 12· Confider that God will in a fpeclaf manner judgetis at the lafl day according to our works, and efpecially our works of Charity : As in Matth. 2 5· Chriil hath purpofely and plainly {hewed ; andfo dothmany another text of Scripture. Thefcare the Motives to works of Love. Q!.l.cll. 2· Wh.t is ago•a work, evenfoch as G~d lwbpromifed ID reward? An[w. r. The matter mull be la\vful, and not a fin. 2· It mull tend to a good elfeCl:, for the be– nefit of man, and the honour of God. 3· It mull have a good end; even the pleafing and Glory of God, and the good of our fdves and others. 4• It mull come from aright princi!le, even from the Love of God, and of man for his Lake. 5· ft mull be pure and unmixed: If any fin be mixt with it, it is finful fo as toneed apardon: And if fin be predominant in it, it is fo far finful as ro be unac– ceptable to God, in refpc:d: to the pc:rfon, and is turned into fin it felf. 6. Ir mull be in fea[on ; or elfc: ir may fometir'(1(S'be'mixt with- fin~ 'and fomer.im~,beevil it (e")fa,nd no good work. 7· It muft becompuativcly good as wdl as fimply. lr mull: not be a ldfer good inll(ad of a greater, or to put otr agreater. As to be praying when we fhould be quenching a fire or faving amans life. 8. It 9- mufi be good in aCOE}Vfllicnr d_egre(. ~erne ,degrccp, arc ntc~.ffaty to thf"Moral bei~, o£a &oodwork and fqmc to the w~ll -bcing. G.qd l,llujl be loved _apd worlh1pped as Qod, and Hea'{en fought as Hef– vcn, and mens fouls and lives mull q~)ligply prize~ apd ferioully preferved : fome Ouggi{h doing of good is but undoing it. 9· It mull be done .in conJi4ence of the !"ctits of Chrilt, and prefented to God as by his hands, who is our M(diatof and lnt<mffour with the Father. -?- Q!ldl. 3•. Wbat work.,t of Cb.rity Jliould onech,.[t in th<[e timu, who f"OHid improve his maften t•lenu to his mtdf tomfontob~t qccount I • s~etbe Prc:.: bee to my Book calktl, Ji1~Cmi[Jiug ~ rh!WtrldAn[w. The diver6ty of mens ~!hilities ~nd oppnr1up,ities make that to be bell for one man which is impoffible to another. But I iha~l nanlC: fomc that arc in thcmfelves mofi bcneficiat to mankind, that every man may cho~fe the btll wl>ilh he tap reach to: • r. The mail c_minent wor)< of Charity, is the promoting of th_e,Converfion of the Heathen and In– fidel parts of the world : To this Princes ll,nd mt nof power and wealth might contribute much if they were willing: efpccially in thofe Cpuntreys in wfiicp they h~ve commerce and fen~ Ernbatf~dqurs: They might procure the choicdl Scholars, to go over with their E{n~tfadours and learn the b:qguages, and fet themfelv<S to this fervice a~cording to opportl)nity: Or they might erect~ Colledge for the lta.ii)(ng up of Students purpofely·for that work, in which they might t:naintain fome Natives procu– red from the: fev'eral]nfidel Counueys (as two or three Ec::rfians, ~s many Indians of b:doftan, as many ]'~;t1riahs, Cbin<nfes, Siamites, &c. ) which might pof!ibly be obtained : an<!: lhefe lhould teach ilpdents their Cqunrr<y language>. B.ut till the Chritlial) world be.fo happy as to h~v~/fuch Princ;J, fenmhing may"be done by VoiUJlteers of lower place and power: As !l:lr. Wheeloci{ .did in tranllating \ht 1 NowTtfia.ment,,at1d Mr. Pocoek..e by the Hono~rahle Mr. Robertffipilt)J procurement and charge, in t'aptf.ting Grotiut de Verit. Chrif!· Reli~. into Ar~bick, and fending it.to Indoftanan·d Ptrfia. And what <jl!.OOU<nt labour hath good Mr. John Eliott ( with fomc few ,affi.aan.k>) bellowed thefe twenty years and OJOr.c in New E1tgland I wbere now he hath tra~fhtcd aQj Printed the whole Scrip_rures in their AmcriCJnetongue, (with a Cltechifm and Call to the Unconynt<d ) by the 1\olp of a prcfs main– tajo.c.rl from hence. 2· The
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