comfortable walking with God. 2I5 fpoyle : but the Lord will Metre, not thee, but him whom thou a Sedguanam Tacit haft undone, &c. Chryfottome ; a But what is the excufe n} mnitorum excu_ many ? I have indeed beene an `Trfurer, fay they, but Ihave alto Cuio? Ecenn atus Sum, aiunt; f<d beene good to the poore. A fweete pore¢ of matter fire ! But pauperì ob uli. God accepts notfuch fecrifice. It werefarre better to give nothingBona verbaquæ. to the poore atall, thangive it in that manner. chat wealth which o. ulinDncfta wonne by thy juf# labours, is many times quite mardwithfueb pit. Qtiod chins juftis laboribus wickd mixtures, &c. colle&umargen-. The very b Heathen man tells us,That thepoore are notto be turneit peopter ffed like the Whelpes ofwilde bea s withbloodand murther, rapine teas iniguos fm- )` Il , ! p tus pierunque andpile : but that which it moft acceptable to the receivers ; they contaminas,&c: fhould now, that that which is given unto them, is not to en prom Iiyn,.i7in .,tisse. J b Pauperes non any body e f . Ut {eraium c }culi, Nay, one of the bloodieft men that ever breathed, Sely -'b sgnutriendi: mur, aTurkithEmperour, yet upon hisbedofdeath, replied quódquc gratiifno mumellaecipien. thustohis Baja, moving him with the wealth taken from tibns,fcitentdar thePerfzan Merchants to build an Hofpitall for reliefeofthe fbi, quodnemini poore : e Wouldeft thou, Pyrrhus, that I fhould blowother gy;t ,, mens goods wrongfully tak, n fram them, upon works of char- num. C Riß..ofthe tie and devotion, for mine owne vaine glory and praife l 4f- Tu,(el in the léfe furedy I will never doe it : nay rather, fee they bee againe re- of selymus the flaredunto the right owners. Which was done forth-with ac- "tRs's6`. cordingly to the great fhame, faith the Author, of many Chriftians ; who mindingnothing leffe than rettitution,but making ex rapina holocauflssm, doe out of a world ofevill gotten goods, cull out fame [mall fragments to build fume pore Ho- ffiitall, or mend form blind way. A poore teftimony oftheir hot charitie. Wretchedly then doe they delude the World, and deceive their owne foules, who vainely thinke, that fome workes of mercy at laic, when theymutt needs Ieave all, will expiateand recompence thecrueltiesand unconfcionabledea- lings of their whole life before. Zacbetes penitent Procla- mation confiftedoftwobranches, Luke, 19.8. As well for re- ftitution, as didribudon. He that would findthe famemercy, mutt follow the fame method. 3. Let thy defireanddelight never fall, or be fattened im moderatelyupon any earthly thing, though never, fo excel- P 4 lent,
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