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a.
Prov.6.t
I.
Prov.x;.zr.
Doll.
All
whom
God
bleffeth
with
fubifante mutt
dot
good
to
others.
I.
r
Iohg.r7.
Whom it
be-
longeth
to
givealines.
How
we
are
to
give
aimes.
t
Cor.
&.g,
In
what
order
aimes
mu4
be
given.
Ephefian.r,
Chap.g..
`!T
s
R.
28.
that for
their
good God
doth
call
them to glorify him
by
patient
walking in
that eftate.
This mutt teach
idlewretches
what they
may
look for,
even
penu-
ry and
confufion;
Poverty like an armed man
invadeth
the
/lothfo
l;
it
hath
a
warrant from
God
to arreft them,The
flothfull
/had
a
¡loathed
in
ragges; as
many
as
might
have done
well,by this
have been brought to
live on
the basket.
2.
That
he may
have
to
diffribute.] Obferve hence,That
defeat
whom
God bleffeth
with
any
meafure
of
fubftanee,
we
mull
doe
good
to
others;even
this
is
required here
of
the labourer,
that with
his handy -work
did
get
his living.
God
hath givencharge
of
this,
G4l.6.
io.
i
robs 3.
17.
Luke
z
1.41. Beh.15.r6.This
is
the
bleffed
manspraétice,Pfal,
112.9.
Be diflributed,begave
to
thepoor,and
his righteoofireffe
enduretb
for
ever;
&
the primitiveChurch
did
not only
ordinarily
relieve
their own poor,
but
extraordinarily tent
reliefe
to other Churches, the
The
falonians,
Ails
I
I.z 5.
the
Macedonians
and
them
of
Achaia,
I Cor.
16.2. Rem.15
But for the better conceiving
of
this,three
things muft be opened.
T.
Who
are
to
giveaimes, and
whether the Commandement
doe
lie
alike
upon
all
perfons.
2. How
faare.
3.
In
what order.
For the
i.
this
is
not
given
to
all
,
but to
thofc
that
have goods
and
power to diftribute them,
If
one
bath
this worlds
(4
fiance,
faith St john,
either
of
themfelves
or
from
other; for
Come
have goods and power
to give
them,
as
the Matter
in his
family;fome haveneither goods
nor
power
to
dittribute them,
as
fervants
to
a man,unleffe
they
have
Lome
elate of
their owne which many have
not:Thirdly,fome
have
right
and
property
in
goods, but
have
not abfolute powerto
difpence,as
wives:
Now
the Commandement
is
firft and chiefly
given
to
matters
or
perlons that havegoods and power
to
difpofethem without
depen-
dance.
t.
It
is
given
to others,
but
fo
as
the
fixth Commandement
mutt
{land
with the fifth; they
muff give foas
honour the
fuperiour to
whom they
are
fubjeft, with
having his
warrant.
For
the fecond,we mutt
give
that which
we are able to
fpare.
Li-
berality
muff
not devour her felfe, Prov.
5.
15,16.
Let
thy
foustaines
raune abroad,bot
lot
them
be
thine,not
anthers:
the
ufe muff be fo
com-
municated,
thatour
property
in
them
muff
not
be
altered.
Yet
in
Come
cafe,
as
if
the body of the
Church
fhould
be
in lack,
for the common
good,
fuch
particular perlons
as
have
that
grace given them
and are
raifed
up
to
it
by God,
may impropriate all their fubflance
to
the re-
liefe
of
it.
If
we will
performe this duty acceptably; we
muff look
to
three
things.
.
To
the ground
of
our almes.
a. To
the end.
3.
The
manner.
r.
The
ground
of
it muff
be
a
loving
and
merciful' heart,
this
is
the