Chap. 2. CHAP. II. Que ions, and Cafes of Confience about our AEli- ons,Natural, Civil, Recreative, Religious,&c. 1ueI} ÿAG ¡' gr Fiat makes av AEfiongood ? flnfiv. Every truly commendable and comfortable A&ion mutt confitt of an abfolute integrity of all concurrents, and requifites. For though fome mix- ture of infirmities and imperfe&ions will cleave to the face ofthe faireft a&ion (an abfolute unttained purity being incompatiblewith mortality) yetevery feveral Ingredient muff be attended, and tempered with its own particular goodnelfe, and honetly, and feafonableconformity to the whole, or elfe the whole a&ion, though right in other refpe&s, is utterly difrobedof all true fplendor, acceptation, andgrace. Here a little leaven foures thewhole lump : and the iniquity, deft&, and exorbitancyof any one ingredient, denominates the whole action naught. weft. what are the Ingredients regaifte to make an eArition rood A Jiv. i. It mud+ begood in itsownnature, and warranted byCods Word, by whit hall things mull be fan&ified to us, t Tim. 4. S. Otherwife let the per fon be never fo pleatng to God, his intentions never fo good, his heart never fo zealous, the meanes, circumllances,and end never fo excellent, yet without this all is naught. The Objedt about which the A&ion is exercifed, mull be qualified according to the Rules ofRelilion. As works ofcharity are fweet facrtflces to God : but arnontt other cautions to feafon them, the Parties that are to partake of them, are tobe tingled out with godly difcretion : For if we bellow our charity upon a Hardybegger, idle roue, canting companion, we donot only lofe thehonour andcomfort of our charity , but incur much guilt, &c. Wemutt look to the matter, elfe all may be marred, As for inllance,the matter ofour beneficence mull be our own goods got lawfully, elfe in refpe&of divine allowance it willprove an abominable factifice. The perfon mutt be pleating toGod, elfe his bell deeds arebut beautiful abo- minations. If the perfon be not jullified by fairly, and accepted through Chrifl, allhisA&ions,natural, civil, recreative, and religious are turned into 'Prov. r s. 8, 9. So in the Phari fee, Luke x8. 14. B3 The 5 II IV.
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