Amo~8 ·4· .Mich·3·3• er he Saintr eocontinuein tmne. In thispojnt hee wouid not fiand upon any worldly good, though' it were-a · thoHfimdBaNtfiJe.t~ ortentholtf<t?idiUverrof O)k: Nay, he~ou:dgivehi1fi!jf bornefor hiJ trafJ[grejfitJIJ; even· t hefru# of his brJiy )for theflune ofhi.tfouk. He would beexact andunreproveable in t;tll outwardfervice~ ~P{at.5o. But though hefhould give thefe, and the wholeworidbefioes> ··ifitwe.rehis .owne; tho11g~ . he[ho11ldgiveallthat ht hotlito thepoore, tlndhis /;ofl.Jt' he bun:t ·: Yer wirhout love unto God, exP.reit itl , .. yecldingto the power and praCtiCe of his Word; and ChrHHanaffeetiontogodlymen, becaufe they ·keepe agood confcieDce, and labour tofave their ' foules, all w~e nothing. It is the heart, and the finceriry·thereof, which1s a lacrifice, and fervice ·· well pleafing untoGod. · I have imerpofed this point no way to hinder - the releevingofthe poore, or to Clop the current ' of bounty and goodaetfe~in well ditpofed mindsJ God forbid. 1had more need in thefe fiony and flinty times, in thi3age ofcruelty andoppreffion, to flrike at wich the rod of judgements, the rockie hearts of wi eked worldlings,and eovetoMs Corrno· rants, that fome fprings of mercy and compaffion -might breake out, that ·they might caft their hread 11pon thewaters~ lefi: they perifh in rhe Lake of fire, I had more need to minifier a fharp potion, com– pofed and mingled all of plague~ and woes, to the endofing, ingroffing, and oppreffingCannibals of · our times ,that they might cafr up againc the poore that thyhapefwallowed dor111eJ 'a?Jd the flifhof-Godt peo– ple whkhtley hJveeatt1J ; lefr die rufr of that Gold and. : - '
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