Spiritual-Peace and Comfort. 25 7 Commonwealth ; and how you may do good to mens bodies ; beginning with your own, and thole of your family, but extending your help as much further as you are able. Ask your Pelf every morn-, ing, Which way may I this day , tnofl further my Mailers bufinefs, and the Good of men ? Ask your felfevery night, What Good have I done to day ?, And labour as much as may be, to be Inílruments of fome great and ftanding Good , andOf forne Pub- ligue and Univerfal Good ; that you may look be- hind you at the years end, and at your lives end , and fee the Good that you have doge. A piece of bread is loon eaten, and a penny or a fhilling is food fpent : But if you could win a Soùl to God from fin , that would be a vifible everlafting Góod : If you couldbe Inftruments of letting up a Godly Mi.. nifter in a Congregation that want, the everlafling Good of many_ Souls might in part be afcribed to you : If you could help toheal and unite a Divided Church, you might more rejoyce to look back on the fruits of your labour , then any Phyfician may Rejoyce to fee his poor Patient recovered tohealth. I have told Rich men in another Book, what opporm tunities they have to do Good, if they had hearts R Howealle were it with them to refrefh mens bodies, and to dovery much for the faxing of fouls ! o re- lieve,the poor, to fet their Children to Trades ; to cafe the oppreffed. How eafe to maintain two,,òr three poor Scholars at the Univerfities for the fer- vice of the Church ? But I hear but a few that do ever the more in it , except three or four of my friends in thefe parts. Let me further tell you, God loth not leave it to them as an indifferent thing, U Mat.
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