eciauo fait!). 455 frven or eight poor people every day. How- ever that be, we (hould be much in Charity : Look on the Poor as Gods Altarx erected on purpofe, That upon their Backs and Bellies thou maya offer up thy Charity as an Odour of a Jrveet finell, a Sacrifice acceptable, well- pleafmg to God. Be ri :h in good Works, ready to di/tri- bute, wilr'ing to communicate, laying up a good Foundation againft the time to come. This is the way to Affurance : Works óf Mercy and Charity make Faith vifible, and withal put the Believer into a nearer capacity to have the Love of God manifef}ed to him. They make Faith vifible ; no Affurancc can be had, unlfs that (eery, Whether tme be in the Faith ? tie refolved in the Affirmative : That cannot be done, unlefs Faith become vifìble; and more vifìble it cannot be than in fuch good R Works ; which as the holy Bloffhrns of it prove that there is Life at the root,The Mercy and Charity, which hang upon it, may tell thee, That thou haft indeed clofed by Faith with the infinite Love and Grace above, and from thence brought down all thofe drops . and models of Goodnefs which thou fheddeft forth in thy C:onverfation : The Fruit may prove thy Banding in Christ: the true Root of farnefs and fweetnefs: The image of Good- nefs limrned and drawn out upon thy Life; (hews it fell to be from the pure Spirit. St.7obo exhorting the little children to a real pradical Love, adds this as a fingular Comfort, Tare, H 4 14
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