8 Generall direiiioras for 4 Greesbos. charitie, into the bofonìeofGods chille. And indeede hee is fo pre(1 by the Commandement; Doe good unto all meta, but effrecisly unto them who are of the houfoold of Faith. And there was never more neede : For howfoever worldlings may bebountiful) one toanother, and exercife manymutual) of- fices of kindneffeand carnali love among (1 themfelves ; yet for the molt part,they are veryuncompaflionate, firaite -laced and hard-hearted toward diflreffed Chriftians. Nay, ordi- narily, they are rather ready to combine and contribute their malices, policiesand purfes, to throw themdowne lower in- to outward want and mifery ; then toput to theirhelping hands for theirrecovery, comfort, and enlargement ; though it were in their fufferings for Gods canfe, and teflimony of agood confcience. So that, as Chriftians difireffes are the principal) obje&ofthe Chrifrians compafiion and bountie So worldlings are onely heartily kinde and open-hearted ro the men of the World. Now, that you may rightly under- ' (land thepoint, youmuff conceive, that the good deedes and commendable parts ofan unregenerate man, are ever carried moreboifterotifly andwithgreater noife, are ever entertained of the World witha farre more general) applaufe andnotice, then the godly a&ions and divine Graces of Gods children. The Worlddealer withmen in this cafe,faith a worthy Divine, as it dealer with Witches and Phyfatians; the Witch,tbougb fbee faile in twenty things, yet iffhe doe forre one thing aright, though it be but (mall, the world loveth, and commendeth her for a good and wife woman. But the Phyjitian, ifhe works fixehun- dred cures ; yet if, through the maywardnef of his Patient, or for the punifhment ofhis Patients finne, bee falles but inone, that one fade doth more turne to his difcredit, then his manifold, goodly and notable cures doeges himpraif. In this manner, faith he, doth the world dealt withmen : Ifaworldly man have but a Gedtehildren co- outward gift offlrength, ofjeeecb, or of comelinef , bee fha!! be ver runny ;infirnw- ties in etberrrode? greatly praifid, and counted a goodly man, though be bean Ido- ,ne geee sift : the later, or aprophane pertn; and though heíwim andflora over in s o aty bury nanny geedgifts en ether, all manner of vices : But kt the childe of Godbe true!), zealous in wider the inf"'- true Religion, let bim be honeji and holy in converfation, yet Ss se Y
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