, I 422 A Stormon at the .Funeral and alluring then1 to the reading of good • books, and fuch other n1eans as .might fcrrc both to ~e~lighten and purify then1. , And \V llen l~e heard of the good fruits of fuch defigns, hown1nch \vould he be cheer- • 4 , L ed · \vith it? hi~ love and venet_at_ion/ fer good _men was fingular and extraqrdinary; nothing he n1orc delighted in than their pious .converfation: and he could fo well reprefent their piety and good life to others, - as to make then1 ei1an1oured with it too. I-Iis love_and charity were en1incnt alfo in the bounty of his ahns, and the relief of the otitward neceffities·of others. The firft . · rponcy he ga(ned being at the . univ~rfity, he was ·careful to lay by a portion of it for :the poor; before he 1nade any ufe of it for .11irnfdf; devoting, as it were, the fidl: fruits unto -God. And this courfc he obferved throughout ·the reft of his life, laying afide , · always a portion of his inco1ne for the re– ·1ief of the neceffitous. This has been the praCtice of n1any charitable perfons, as the bdt 1nthod to fecure a ftock for charity; to make them give it with a liberal and willing n1in~; and f\ek out fit fubjecrs for ' it. . Were this praCtice n1ore frequently obferved, _it would undoubtedly .· mak9 Chrifiiansmore bountiful, and their charity· . I d ~ ~- - . an
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