28o-. Geçerall direitions for a honks, felling thepoore for old fhooes,rackings, inhanfings; gripings, ufuries, immoderate takings, 8tc. r 3. Thirdly, Pro,Tane hypocrites are commonlyPharifai -- call in their acmes-giving; affea and p_rrfueobfervation, fin- gularitie, vaine-glorious cffientation in their contributions ofcharitie, Their fore-fathers thePharifes, when they gave theiracmes,made a Trumpet to be founded before them. So thefe follower, theirfollowers; and fucceeding Ai`tors upon the fame Stage of hypocrifie, left their good deedes fhould die intheir diftribhdon,andbeobfeurely buried in thebel'Iies of the poore, they alto get unto themfelves a kinde of tale-bearing Trumpeters too. They cunninglyobferve thofe opportunities, and tingle out Each obje&s of their commife- ration, and charitable devotions, whereby they may foo- netts and mot} compendioutly purchafe a name of being good to the poore, and have their bountifull difpofition blazed abroad, with molt circumftances, heft advantages, andpartiall enlargements. And thus it is a very carte thing for a Pharife to , be famous in this kinde: for fith.hegives more for commendation, than for confcience ; farre morefor praife amongftmets, than out ofa true-hearted compaffion to the party ; he dares difpence with a good con fcience, and take liberty unto himfelfe to place his good turnes there, where there is belt poffibilitie of being molt (poke of, and greateft hope of the richeft returne of applaufe and ad- miration. So thatInch an one ordinarily In his open-hearted neffe, and charitabledittributions, batha fpeciall eye and ins. clination to thofe that flatter him to hisface; and are like to prove the lowdeft Trumpets of his bountifulneffe abroad where they come. And he is fo farcefroma right and feafon- ableapprehenfon ofduecircumfiances, difference ofparties and thofe fpirituall difcretions, obferveableand neceffary in fnchChrifiiau exercifesof love; and from thepraaifeofthe Apoftles precept, Ga1.6.i o. Doegood unto all men, but e f ecially to themwhich are oftdu howlholdof Faith : that he would rather afford his helping band for the reliefe and railing up ofa de* cayed.geodfellow,than of adiftreffed Chriftian. + Fourthly
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