2.3 z Queffions,andCafes ofConfieience Chapa6 fmall provifion, hungry fare, thincloaths , and hard lodging : children cry- ing for huner,and parents crying becaufe they have not food for them , &c. their eyewould affect the heart. 5. Herbywe may do them double good,by di(lributing fpiricual aswell as tem- poral alines to them, inliruEting the ignorant, blaming the faulty , admonilhing, counfelling and comforting them as God hath comfortedus, z CQr r.4.' and our words will finde more eahe entrance into their hearts, when as our good Works have prepared the way. 6. By feeing the wants of our brethren, we (hall be provoked to be thankful to God for his goodnefsand bounty to us, innot only fupplying our wants , but enabling us to b. helpful to others. 7. Hereby we lhall learn temperance, and fobriety in the ufe of Godsblef fins, and not to abufe them to fuperfluity and excefre, teeing many has goodas our felves do want them? but to husband them frugally thatwemay be thesnore able to relieve others. 8. Hereby we (hall have occafion given us to prepare againa the'. day of affliction and want , iyhigh may befall us as it hash done O- thers. 9. When we vifit the poor NYC vifit Chrift in them,and he accounts it asdone to hunfelf, Mat45.4o. Quell.,What are therì i.ó,-ht ends ofgwino; alines ? App.., Pirll, theprincipal end is godsglory,yvhichfhould be the chiefefl mo- tive to Chriftian duties, Mat.5.56. 2 Cor.9.i 3. Secondly, the fubordinare endsare, the good of our,brethren who are hereby refrelhed, the adorning of our profeffonby thefe fruits ofpiety ; the edifica- tion ofothers by our good example ; the flopping of the mouths of adver- faries when they fee our love to God manifefled by_our love to our brethren; ot.r own temporal, and fpiritual good, and the furthering and alluring our eter- nal falvation. Queft. what matt we.give ? e4nfw. We mull give onely that which is our own, by jufl and lawful means derived to us therefore tobe liberal of that which is not our own , is' to take goods from the right owners & togive them to others at our ownpleafure,which is no better then plain theft inthe fight ofGod : If the hire of an harlot , and price of a dog might not be confecrated to God,Deat,a3.i 8. Thenmay wenot offer that which we have gotten by Health, deceit, oppreílion, etc. If4.61.8 we mufl deal jxfily and love mercy, Mic.6,8., Hence, Ecclef. 5 i a rrov. 3.9.' Ifa. 58. 7. 1 Cor.56.z. The Civilians fay, Bonus ufusnon juftificat injus`ieyua- (na ; the good ufe juflifies not the unjuii gettingof goods : fuch fhould rather be reftored to the true owners, Lubçe 59.8. wale eft ¡llad mono, ¡uod alter cam gaudio accipit, alter cam Lachrymrs amtttit ? Aug. Hence will follow. t. That its not lawful for one partner to give alines out of the cointt on flock without the confent.ofthe other, except he fer it on his own particular ac- count. z. Its not lawful for him that isindebtedmore then he is able to pay, to give alìns,feeing he gives not his own, but anothers. ; 3. It's not lawful for a man to give that whichhe bath borrowed ofanother, or that which is left in pawne with hire , except in fuch things where the pro- perty, is altered with the ufe, as meat, money, corn,, &c. then we sissy give , when we purpofe to make fatisfaition by refloring the like to the owner. Yet all thefe cafes are to be underflood with this exception if the pooF be but in ordinary want ; not in extream neceflìty, and danger to perifh for., W;ant 'of
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