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V
s x.
28.
Epbefians,Chap.
q...
S'55
the fouleofan Alms
deed, it
we fhould
give
all
we have
without
love,
our
of
love.
it
were
nothing.
2.
Wee
muff
doe it onely
eyeing
Gods glory
and our neigh-
To
Gods glo-
bours
good
;
not
for oftentation.
He
that
díflributeth mull
doe
it
in
ry-
fimplicity
;
many will found trumpets
and
blaze abroad their deeds
of
Bom.ra.6.
this
nature.
3. For the manner
of
it,
it
mull be
readily
;
se
ready to
difirihute.
Rea,ily,cheer-
r
Tim.
6.18.
cheerfully; God
loveth
a
cheerfull
giver.
Liberally;
He
that i`'cor
9eß
ity
foweta
arángly,
(hallreape
daringly.
This
therefore thar God
will
have even
the labourerthat fetcheth
Vf
t.
his money
out
of
the
fire, that
of
his
little wherewith
he
is
bleffed,
he
Meer fnperfu.
fhalldiftribute,
it
do:h rvince of
Vanity,
many
fchoole
difcourfes
marreofhe
that
runne upon this
as
if
meer fuperfiuity werematter
of
mens
aimes.
aimes.
For
the labourer
was
not when now
he had
feathered himfelfe
and
got
his
crummes up, when
he was
come to
fome
good
eftate,
then to
give, but weekly, it
was
the Apoffies cuftome
to
ordaine coileétions
for
the poore,
t
Cor.
16.
Again, this doth
rebuke
the
hardnefl'e
of
heart
in
many,who
being
AV
s.
rich, will not
part with
any
thing,they
have
their
thefts
full
of
the
Against
the
lives
of
men,
that they
may be called
the
fepulchres
in
which the poor
neffe
of
fo
me
are
buried; though the Scripture
tels
you that
no
love
ofGod
is
in
fuch
in
not giving.
a
perfon, yet the
devill will whifper
many excufes.
Whys
that
we have
is
our owne, we take not our
(elves
bound
in
oil.g.
this cafe.
It
is
yours
at
the Common law, but
in
the
Court
of
Confcience,
it
e_i,
is
not
all thine,
for
thou art
but
a
Reward and receiveftit
from God,
Their
ezcufcs
not to
take it all
thy
felfe,
but
to
give part
of
it
to others.
ani
veerd.
We
may lack
too
our fclves.
obj.x.
And you
take
the
next way
to it,for
there
is one
that
fcattereth
6.
bath
Anf
abundance,
but he
that
f
arethmore
then
he
fhould,Jhall
corne to
want,Prov.
51.24.
Nay
this fhould make
us
give
to
the poore,
for
this
is
lent
to
God.
Prov.19.7.
If
hard
times
come
in
which
all
fhould be
gone,this ftock
would be
fafe
for
thee:
Sow
your
bread
upon
the
Waters,
Ecclef
rt,
r
.
we
know not
what
times may come upon the
earth.
We
have
a
charge
upon us,
fervants,
Children,&c.
object.
So had thefe poore labourers; this
is
an
obje6lion ofth©fe
that
are
:4.1t.
full
of
felfe love, void
of
love, fo
Paid
Nabal,
Shall
I
take
my
fervants
meat? But
though
he had
nothing
for
David,
yet he fealts
him felfe
like
a King, and
though the glutton
had no
crummes
for Lazarus
,yet he
could cloth himfelfe
in purple,and
fare
delicioufly
every day.
Luk®,6.r9.
We
are poore
(fay
fomc.)
object.
So might thefe have
Paid.
vfnf.
A
man
need not be
a Crcefus
to
give
an
aimes
,
remember
the wi-
dew,
Ifwehave
a
willing mind,
we
are
accepted according
to
that
we
have.
2
COLt.Is.
Look not
at
thefe windes,
and
cloudes, they will neither
let you fow
nor reap for
your
fouls
health.
3.
It
is
to
be marked
that
he
biddeth them not
fteale and
diftribute,
but