Chap.' i. aceording toSr MAT T x IVY. 347 that w ®a evetf r thehand ofcharity toucheth, beit but a cup of coldwater, it turns the tame, not into gold, but into heaven it felt. He is a niggard then to himfelf, that is niggardly to Chrifts poor. Ifheaven may behad for a cupofcold water what abodkin at thechurlas heart will this be oneday ? Su-ely the de- vil will keep holy-day, as it were in hell, in refpeel of filch Vercl ,1fay tentoyoa, he!hall inno wife, &c.] By this deep afte- veration, our Saviour tacitely taxath the worldsunbelief, whiles they deal byhim, as by fome patching companion or bale bank rupt,trull him not at all,withoutether ready money,or a fufficient pawn. But what faith a graveDivine? Is not mercy as lure a grain asvanity ? Is God like tobreak, or forget ? Is therenot a book ofremembrancewritten before him, which he oftner per -. ufeth, then Ahafaerto did the Chronicles? The Butler may forget 7ofeph, and Iefeph his fathers laoufe : but God is not un- righteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have Ihewed toward his name, in thatyouhave miniflred to the Saints,. and doe minifter, Heb,6.io. CEAr, XI. Merle i. He departedthence to teach, &c.] "k1Ever out ofaftion : the end ofone good work was with our 1NSaviour the beginning of another. So muff it be with Mir niflers : let them never leek to raft, till they come to heaven but(as S. Petal, that Infatiabilii `èicultor, as Chryfoflom called him) teach Gods people publikely and from houle to houle, un AQa,ao: :©, e; ceflantly warningevery one night and day with tears, Dr 74- lour Martyr, preached not only every Sabbath-dayand holy-day, A6O. and Meg. but whenfoever elfe he could get the people together. So did f" 3 BithopRidley, Biflwop &c. So did not their fuse!fours, once a year was fair with manyof them,;(like the high-Priell in the Law) as ifthey had concurred in opinionwith that Popifh, Bithop, that Paid, Itwas too much for any man, to preachtvery. Sunday, and that Bithops were not ordained topreach : but to AEi. aaIAtc» fing maff: fometimes, leaving allother offices to their fufiragans.. jot, Y, 50. It is as rare a thingat Rome, faid Doaour Bafnet, to hear a Bi- fhop preach, as to fee an Affe flee. Oh what will thefe flow- riit ri bcllies de; when Chfeth up ? and when he vititeth, how Job 31' aá. w,<
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