comfortable walking with 604 363 to amufe weaker Chriftianswith Tome aTeaed ftraines, and artificiall fervency in Prayer (for by themeere power, or ra- ther poyfon of hypocrifie and vaineglory, aman may pray fometimes to the admirationof others, efpecially leffe judi- cious, havingcunningly colleaed the moft mooning paffa- ges for that purpofe, from the belt-gifted in that kind, and thengiving an enforcedanion and life unto them in the de- livery, as fotne in other cafes aet other mens inventions to the life.) I fay, for all this, if the holy heate of brotherly love dothnot warme thine heart, andupon occafionworks affeaionately and dreamily, I dare fay, thou art rotten at the heart-roote,there is no true love ofGod in thee,nograce, nohope of falvation. Let that terrible and flaming place a- gainft all covetous Pharifes. x lob 3.17. diffolve thy frozen. heartedneffe this way, and enlarge the bowels of pitty to- wards the poore brethren of Chrift Iefus, or elfe never lookc hereafter to looke him in the face with comfort, or to find mercy at that Day. Marke it well, and meditate upon it fohath thisworlds good, andfietbbk brother bath need, andAuttethup his bowels of compaffion fromhim, how dwelleth the love of God in him ? 3. But above all other motives of mercifulneffe to the poore, which in theBooke of' Godarevery many, and mof quickening ; me-thinkes that argument which Pati/preireth to this purpofe, 3 Cor. 8.9. fhould melt the moil flinty heart : For yee know, faith hee, thegrace of our Lord rem Chrift, that thoughhe W4'3rich, yetforyour fakes bee became pore, thatyee through hie poverty might bee rich. Shall the onely deare innocent Sonne of the All-powerfull and ever- bleffedLord, and Kingof heaven and earth, dif-inrich, as it WO Edo% were, and difrobe his heavenly Highneffe of that Royalty and Majefly above, andbecome fopoore, that whereas the Foxes haveholes, and the birds of thearehave nefts ; yet H Match.l.se. not where to lay hie head : that through thispoverty, and pow. ring out his hearts-blood, he might crowne us with the in- eilimable riches of heavenly glory ; with ioyes and pleafures more then the itarres of the firmament, even for ever and S 3 ever,- ebONMoMmal.'
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