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Dog.
We
mulk give
aimesonely
of
what is
ho-
neRly gotten.
Prov3.9.
Deur.a318.
Luke
39.8.
Some things
not
awfully
gotten
may
ju-
lllybe kept.
nay
23.18.
Yfe
.
7)ao7.
The needy
are
to
be
relieved.
Pfal.r
t
2.9.
e
lohn 3.r7.
Efay
58.7.
Mat.zy.
Who
there
nee-
dy
arc.
z
The11.
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Ephefzans,
Chap.+.
V
s
R.
z8.
but labour
and
get rightfully,
and fo give.
Obf.
then,
That
we
molt
give
aimes
ofthat
which
is
our
owne
lawfully
gotten, or
at
leafs
fanc`lified unto
us;
Honour the
Lord,
but
with
thy
fubftance,with that
which
is
thy owne;
and we
fee
that
God
will
not
have
the
price
ofa
doe.,
nor
the
hire ofa
whore
brought into
his houfe,
and offered to him;and
that
is
to
be
marked
in
Zacaheus,
He
gave balfeofthat
which
was
his own:
for
to
give
that which
is
not
ours, were no deed
of
mercy, but
manifeff
injuftice,to
take
from
one
to whom
a
thing
is
due,and bellow
it
where
it
is
not
due:
God
will have mercy
and juftice coupled
together,
Mic.
6.8.
He
bath
fbewedthee
o
man what
is
good.
And what
cloth
the Lordre-
quire
of
thee,
but
todoe
juflly
and
to
love mercy,
&c.
We
cannot
give
that which
is
not
ours:
for
a man can never difpofe
of
that
which
is
not
his owneacceptably, but by reftitution:
Nothing buta
vomit will
heal
the Confcience
done
that
holdeth that which
is
not
his
owne,
nei-
ther
may he give aimes
of
it,
but
where reflitution
is
to
be made
by
way
of
aimes: now
it is
not
of
like neceffity
that
we fhould lawfully
get
that
we have; for
if
the owners
of
this or
that
have willingly
palled
the
title
of
any
thing to
us,though the
confederation was naught,
yet our repentance
doth
fanétify fuch
things
as
we have
juft title to,
though
the
meanes were
not good
:
As put cafe
Demetrius
fhould
have been
converted, who grew
a rich man
bymaking fhrines,
which
was as
bad
a
trade
,
as
if
one fhould make Crucifixes
and
images
ofour
Lady, to
fell
to devout
Catholiques,
yet feing they
blinded,
did
for thefe commodities willingly
give him
that
he received, there-
fore repentance
comming, the
finne
which
defiled
his fubftance
in re-
gard
oftl,e
trade,
is
tooke away, and the
poffeffion
fandifyed
:See
what
is
fpoken
ofTyruswhen
it
fhould be
converted,Her
merchandize,
and
her hire
flail
be
holineffeu
the
Lord4
-c.
This
being fo, we mutt not think
ro
over-reach and hold
back the
right
of
others,
and
think
to
make all
whole with
dealing fomething
in
way
of
almes,
or to force good
ufe.
Aimes
are like
waters, pure
ones
make all
cieane, but
he
that
wafheth
in
foule
water,
is
further
de-
filed.
Laftly,
it
is
to be marked,
Who
are
tobe
relieved,
fuch as are truly
nee-
dy:
thefe the Scripture
everywhere
bringeth in:
Difiribute
to
the
needy.
He
that
fbutteth,up his
bowels
from
him
that
bath
need. Break thy bread
to
the hungry.
I
was
ficke, naked,
in
Prìfon,
&c. You
are
to knowwho
are
needy, according
as
the Scripturedetermineth
,
that they might by
alines take
an
ordinary
reliefe:for men extraordinarily impoverifhed,
as
by Piracies, inundations,
fi
re
theevès,tii
there we
fpeak
not of.
Ordinary poore
perfons are,
r.
Such
as
have no poffe (lions no, fubitance.
2.
Such
as
have no friends able
to
relieve
them.
3.
Such
as
are
not able
to
labour for their
reliefe:
If
they be
a-
ble to werk
and
will not, let them
not
eat,
faith the
Apoftle.
And there
are
wholly to
be maintained
by the
devotion
of
others.
There