· - folfe..,inriching ext~mination. ·I 1 IJI– che poqre. When they ar~ rau_ght that they m~fi: ) joyne goodworks to their fatth, they prefently / chinke_,that only almes-deeds are them.Whereas if aman fhouldftedthepoorewithttllhitgootlt,I Cor.13.· and yetwant a true hearted& zealous love toGod, his Word, his Minifi:cr;;, his fervants, his Sacraments, his S~bbaths , hisKingdome, his comming, ·&c. itwould profit him nothing.Ifaman were ne- · ver fo famous & glorious for his aimes-deeds,·and fhould not have a due refpefr, and fince-re obe– dience to all tqe duties, both towards God and _man, enjoyned by the Commandements, they . would 'bmd him in no fiead at the day of triall. 1 And yet rhefe men harbouring fuch oddeopini. ons,and idleconceits)by reafon oftheir ignorance, are wont to vaunt and bragge much ofthe times of Popery, what aworld ofgood works_, and open .houskeeplngwere in thofe dayes,and thinke with- . :ip themfelves, that" they onely live worthy their prpfeffioo, that love is -onely lodged in their bo– forlles, and that they have .clipt ibe wings ofcha– rity, to keepe her at home with them, whenas fhe ' 'isflowne away from the mofl: places and parts of ' the world befides. And whence rifeall thefe glo– rious concelts, becaufe they give now and then· 'fomething more liberally and bountifully to the poore. Andtbat: - ,.. - 1. Perhaps which they give is but part of the · price of the blond) for by inclofi1re th/ey drive . · -them both out'of their houfes and from the Mi- . riiflerie)both ofthebodies anafoulesofihepoere• .. Irmay be they got i~ byoppreRion~ e~tortiotJ or M 4 · ufury,
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