Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

O fthe miferies which accompas worldly things. 171 we cues weare them out with fludyìng;and meat befl,when with a good flomacke we feed upon it ; and our neighbours befl,when we moue them to glorifie God in their faluation; becaufe thole arethemaine ends for which they were made. But the chiefe end ofriches is that we may glorifie God in their vfe; as when we imploy part of them to the neceffarie and fufficicnt maintenance of our felues, and thofe who are committed to our charge ; and that which rema ;neth,to the retuning, feeding and cloathing of the poore members of Iefus Chrill, which is the maine end of our pientieand frt- perflui tie; from which end allo they haue their name, being called goods, becaufe they finable vs to doe good, and are the inflruments of well doing : and therefore they who hin- derthemn of tbefe ends, and will not vfe them according to their owne nature, which is to do good,by being communi- cated to thole who Band in need, but keepe them fall locked vp (as it were) in dole prifon,not fuffering their gold and fil- m; to be at libertie,vhich were created and ordained to be (as we allo call them) currant money, paging from man to man, as need requireth, they can neither be laid to loue their riches, nor yet themfelues; becaufe altering their vfe and na- ture, they make them to degenerate, and ceafing to be good and profitable, they caufe them through their abufe to be hurtfull and pernicious.In which refpeël they are compared to bandogs, which are niofi fierce when they are tied vp, but gentle when theyarefetatlibertie; and to riuers, which if they be fuffered to haue their naturali courfe in their owne current, they runne quietly and do much good to the whole countrie, but ifany will flop their courfe, as defiring toin- groffe them to his owne vfe, they rage and fwell, breake: downe their bankes, and drowne all that are about them : or Chryfoft. is unto fpringing fountaines, which if they may purifie and Matth.13.' cleanfe themfelues by fending out their pining flreames, Hotoil.q.s. they continue cleare and Tweet, but if their iffue be dammed vp, and they made a (landing poole, their water putrifieth'.. and corrupteth : fo if we fuller riches to haue their natural' courfe, like firearms 'filling from vs,by communication and Chriflian liberalitie, and to fill the emptie places which are in