eomfortablc walking with Cod. 267 Earth ? Ifhee worke, hee makes a world : Ifhe be. angry, bee drowses the whole faceofthe Earth : Ifhee love, the hearts- blood of his dearest Sonne is not too deare : Ifhe Rand upon his peoples fide,hemakes theSun toRand flill,and theStarres to fight: If hee repay, hegiveshisowne All-fufficient Selfei with the over-flowing _torrents of all pleafures and glory through all etermitie. 6. Nay,the way to thrive and fare well in the World, if our moilwife God thinke it fit, is to be compaffionate this way. If thou draw out thyfolk to the hungry, faith the Prophet, Env.58.,o.8:1,ò and fatisfce the afflibied foule: then fall thy light rife in obfcuritie, and break forth at the morning, and thy darlkeneffc bee at the noone-day : and thy health (hall fßring forth ffieedily the Lord (hall guide thee continually, and fatisfie thy foule in drought, and male fat thy bones, and thoupate be like a watered Garden, and lie a Spring of water, whole waters faile not. Thine borne(hall Pao i i a.p be exaltedwith honour, and thou (halt not want. It will be then a profitable Inquifition amongft others ; when a man findes himfelfe togoe backward in his eftate,Gods fecret difpleafure to blowuponhiswealth,or aftli& his bodywith painefull dif- eafes,&c. toexamine well, whether bee was not ordinarily , /4. wont rather to Phut up his bowells of compaffion, than to powre out his foule to the poore. Ina thirdplace,take noticeof the order of thofe obje&s, uponwhich thy Chriftian love is regularly and feafonably to bedire&ed,and thyworkesof mercy difcharged. The Cata- logue of them runneth thus, as Iconceive. The publike State wherein thou liveft, andwhereof thou fhi, order hold! art a member, challengeth the firfiplace andprecedencie : If caceri <paribus,as it lived anaturall life, as thou doeft, and thou haddeft. bat one :hey fayy}eenother model' of bread, which would oney fuftainethe life ofone gtrhe7 they be like ofyou; thou wert to perifh, that it might flourifh : for it is inpoverty: elfe we muff relieve our B- ever better, that one member fh.ould be cut off, than the nervier to extreme whole body confumed. * In the next place Rands thy felfe ; nece(firie, bqeere our owne parents in ordinary want : like in pietie, elfe we 2Naft belpe holy men being farther of, before the fe who hate to be re- formed, though scorer unto us : like inmutuan relationsandobligations one unto another,ol f we mull efre- ferre a truefy religious brother, before a more religiosi panzer g akinfl,an,neighbour, either kin( man, or neighbour, Irabeneftaor alone. Ll?C
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