The /tnfulie/Je of enne. they fee, not the worke by.the intention which ch. y can not fee ; yet to God that teeth not as man 1.eeth,rt may be an aboannation, Luke 16.15 . Seconuly, we are to noce, That amengfl Criflians di vine wer fs mrl- be done morally and mecrely according to the course of, the places and tim. s which a man lives in. Such were Sant Pa < :ly fervices before his Conversion, which therefore he elleemed but dung, and fuffered the 1oí% of them,for a man may do.: good things, and yec when he bath done Joie them all, 2 John verle 8 Nay they may be done profanoly, aQ Balaams 6leffing of .0-ad, and the falfc biechrens preaching out of enviea:1d ill will, Phil. f 5, i 6. And moral; bang! may bee done- fp;ritua1l1 and ; loch were the Aimes of the Churches of Macedonia to the Saints, that which they did rile, did as unto God,which made them r ea :y co con - fecrate not only their tubltance, but then-delves to the fer. vice of the Saints. Such was the contribution of the Phi. lippiaxs towards the neceffities of Saint Paul,it was done with an eye to God, in which refpeci the ApofRle cals it a facrifice of a Tweet favour, well plcafi ng unto God. The good was intended unto Paul, but the lervice wasdire. eted unto God. Thirdly, we are to note That fome things are fo e jren- tially good in themfelves, as that they cannot bee done- but they -. mu bee well and Spiritually done ; Each are choie things which take in God into their vcry.perfor- mance, and doe intrinfecally and in the fubltance of the. work .refpe .t him. Such are to love, feare, beleeve, troll, depend upon God; which things, though in regard of the imperfet .manner of doing them they may have fin mingled with them, becaufe not done with all that ftrength as .the Law requires, can yet never be totally tinfoil, and fo unacceptable unto God. Ocher things may be good materially9 and in common acception, becaufe they are the things which God commands to bee done ; but 239 2. Cor.8.4. Phil. 4 18.
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