'T'hings fo: rsnrnereifull mien to confider flf the Phirifees teak clean the'outfade ofthe cup and the platter,6ut your inward part is full of ravening and wickedneff e3 ye cleanfe cups and platters and fuch things, and ye (land upon ceremoni- all cleanneLfes, and your own kind of rupertlitious cleanings e But rather give alines of finch things as ye have, and behold all things are cleane, rather look to what God requires in the are of your eflates, do not (land to cleanfe cups and Matters, to have them very neat,as many of you have your cupbords heads furniihed, your.plate shining, and furniture in your houfes,and you delight in that as much in one way as the Pharifees did in a fuperilicious way, you delight in it in a pompous way, but faith Chrift, rather give alines offach things asyou have, that is, loth God give you eftates beyond others, you have more then for neceffity, and you have for moderate delight ; now with the remainder relieve filch as are in mifery, and fo make the right ufe of your eflates that God hath given them to you for, and then all things will be cleane to you, you (hall fanttifie all you have by this means ; but if you have a bate, penurious and felhfh difpofition, to keep all for your felves, for pompe, bra- very, and delight to your felves, there's nothing clean to you, and however you may make things fo pompous and brave in your houles, they are all defiled, all curfed to you ; Therefore it's an evils thing to have an unmercifull heart towards o- thers. Sixthly, Further, Know that the mifery cf others,cryes con- tinually against you ; Thou art in thy houfe and haft all about thee well, and feeleft no paine, no hunger, no trouble thou meeteft withall,but how many fatherlefs children, and widows, how many of the Saints that are in great extreamities, have their miieries cry to heaven againft thee, as if they should fay, Lord, thou haft given to fuck and filch men euates,and here we want bread, and it's in thy caufe to ; we have poor children that are ready to flarve, and if we have one bit now, we know not where to have another ; and we are in nakednefle, there things cry to Heaven againft thofe that have fuperAuity here, chat have wherewithall to relieve others,and are altogether foz themfèives, and the maintenance of their tufts, A a a 2 Se-
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