Be notJirange to the Poor. 389 is unfuitable to their Lords example , and to the workof their calling. The poor are far morenu- meroU than the rich ; and therefore our work is moreamong them. And death will quickly level all. And when we have all done, we (hall find, that thepoor receivethe glad tidings of the Gof- pel ; and the poor of theworld may be rich in faith, andheirs ofthe Kingdomer which God bath prepared for them that lovehim. Mat. IT. S. 746$. 2. ç,,6. And that the richdo hardly enter in- to the Kingdome of heaven. jam. 2.6, 7. B ye have defpifed thepoor :: Do not the richmen oppre you, and draw you before the judgementfeats? It is thepoor that muff be- the chief crown and com- fort ofyour labours: Therefore be nor .flrangers to them ; if you would not have thm account you lordly, worldly and felt feesmen : If you will leave them to themfelves, and think your felves too good to be their companions , or to come into their fmoaky Cottages , and then think that a lordly command or rebuke, íhould ferve the tarn to keep them from errour and fchifm and diforder, you may find your errour ro the Churches coil, when it is too late. And it will be but a pitiful excufe for your pride or lazinefs, to cry out of feducers for creeping into filch houfes, which you difdained to come into' your felves : what do you by avoiding them, but invite any others thither that will come, and leave them as it were fweptland garni.thed' for fuch evilfpirits ? E e 4 DIRECT.;
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