The Confcience of Chttritie~ 197 To be fhort, it is one ofthegoQd mans Cap.14· Chara8:ers, Pfal.t 12. 5· That he i1 merciful/~ ---.. 11111d giveth ; and of the g011d womanr , That foe jfrttcbeth out her hlmd to the poor, a_nd inh,tr beart and mouth i1 the law of k!_ndne{i, Prov. · 31.2o, 26. Abr~ham and Lot, fo (amous of old for faith andpiety, were perfons as e:ni- , nent for their charity, iibertJlity, andhofPitality. ' What .lhould I fpeak of theAln1s of Corneliu.r• whobath aeompleat defcription of agod y man applied to him ? That hewal adevo~t man, one that feared Gcdwithall hi1 her:tfe, who gave much Almer to the People, and prayed to Godcslw.1y. ThefeAlms of his are faid to come into remembrance wilh God, AEt.s 10. 2,4. Yea, Every liberal! foul devijeth liheralt tbing.r , and by /iber'all thingJ Jbalt he JLmd , Ifai. 3 2. 8. Whm the lnftrumentl fJf th.e Cburle are evzt, l:e deviftthwic~uJdwicer a~ainft the poor, tn make empty the foul of the hungry, and to cauje thedrinft. 'of the thirfty tof.;i/, Ifa.32.6,7. Confcience knows it is bound in duty, as much to{hewcharitit to neighbour, a ~ l1ve to God; and to the poor neighbonr this love of beneficence and comp"-ffion , as to God the · love of obedience and complacency. This is indeedcumaliirJ~irr, to know '"nd feel the heart of a frranger and widow, and Exo.2 3·.9 · to faywith Adrian, \Vhat I would have the rich be to me \Vere I poor, that muft I do to him my felf being rich . .· Yea this is cum Deo fli rt! , who con fiders the poor andnc:edy" rel ieveth the ftcanger, 0 3 He
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