484 Chap. 3r. An Expa¡rtion upon the Books of J o L Verf.20. If they who have receivedgood by ow will not le thankful,' the verygoodwhich they have received, will thanke yea commend andpraife Ifwe doe good, we cannot lofe our thanks for it, though no rran thanke us.As the very doing of Good is a reward to it Idle ; fo it felfe will one way or other procure us a reward..Who would not beaiwayes doing good, teeing we are Allred that the good we doe, will doe us more good then thofe to or for whom we doe it. If the poore whomwe have fed will not bleffe as , yet their hungry bellyes will, if the naked whom we have clothed doe not bleffe us, yet their warmed loynes will bleffe us, whether they will or no. That good which we have done will bleffe us, though they doe not to whom we have done it. Let ud not be weary in wel-doing ( faith the Apofile, Gal. 6. 9. )for in duefeu- fon we (ball reape ifwefaint not. Is man ungrateful! to us ? will he not give no fo much as a good word , for whom we have done much good ? yet while he carrieth his belly and his loynes about him, they will Mae us. No fooner is that defcription ofa vertu- ous woman and ofher vertuous workes concluded, but prefently follower (Pro. 31. 3i. ) Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her owne worke.t praife her in the gate. Suppofe the hath noOra- tor to praife her there, yet her workes will praife her; vertuous acîions are themoli eloquent Orators. They fpeake heft who doe brfi. And as our goodworks will pralle, commend,and bleffe us when mendoe not; foour evill workes or our negleä of good workes will difpraife and complaine of us when men doe not ; though the poore who askefood and rayment of us and have been denyed, doe not cry againfi us, nor with a curie upon us, yet their naked loynes and hungry bellyes will. It is laid (Hab.z. r r. ) concerning houfes built by violence and oppreffion ( many have rayfed their own houfes upon the ruine of others) The(tone (hullcry out of the wall and the beam out ofthe titnher Jhall an- fewer it ; As if the Prophet had thus expreffed it ; All the materi- a.ils ofthe hoofe from fade to fide, from roome to roome, from the foundation to the roofe, (hall agree in this dolefull long, we were built by blood, and woe will be the portionof our builders It may bea poore oppreffed man knowsnot how nor where to eomplain,yet the (onesout of the wall know. Every worke doth cythet
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