Doni sui manifestè expressam observaretur That the intent and good pleasure of the omnipotent Donor plainly expressed in those sacred leaves of his revealed Will should be punctually observed a most clear and significant Precept take from Deut. 15.7,8 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy Brethren within any of thy gates in thy Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee thou shalt not harden thine heart nor shut thy hand from thy poor Brother but thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wanteth Deut. 26.12,13 about the third years tything will you have a comment read Dr. Hamond's Sermon I shall quote little from him and what I do leave it like Esops provident Fathers Treasure in the Vineyard who told his Sons it was hid there but said no more on purpose that they might dig and ransack every foot After that eminent Doctor has prov'd Charity to be like a Picture looking upon every one that comes into the great Room of the World he kills the Bugbear of old Age and the Patron of Covetousness against the most laudable disbursments namely the fear of want by asserting Davids Doctrine in several pious inferences They that give unto the poor lend unto the Lord and he will repay it To whom first To the Houshold of Faith Where chiefly To our Neighbourhood before places more remote When Whensoever we meet with an opportunity or by a prudent separation of this and the other Sheaf of our Revenue are inabled to seek one But let his own words administer advice against the spirit of Slumber that Chyragra of the Worldling as to Eleemosynary Land-marks The proportion to be observed by the Christian Almes-giver to speak at the least must be more in any reason then the thirtieth part of his Revenue or Increase Non magna loquimur sed vivimus He preach'd no more than he liv'd nor so much neither for he gave the tenth part to the Poor constantly besides the spring-tides of his extraordinary tender-heartedness and compassion I wish we could all as easily imitate his Life as procure a Treatise so called a Piece of strong lines and good complexion But if ever ye desire to converse with the Saint as well as visit the Shrine trace him by his own Counsel Offer unto God the Sacrifice of a contrite Heart and the sweet incense of universal Obedience The necessities of Men trivial Follies and that great one Perversness have produc'd a multitude of cases in Law of unlike features so that 't is not to be expected a Maxim should knock down every particular occurrence with a Thomas Aquinas fist Conclusum est contra Manichaeos that the Rule should ascertain positively either the Affirmative or Negative But from general Gounds and Eruditions a learned Inference a smart Deduction must state the matter in agitation VVe have in the Gospel Line upon Line and Precept upon Precept to command us to put on Brotherly Kindness and the Bowels of Compassion but should we disband our Vantguard of direct and demonstrative Texts the proceedings of the day of Judgement afford Instructions clearer than the Sun in his Mid-Summer-Glory and printed in such Elephantine-Characters that whoso runs may read them S Mat. 25.35 Giving Meat to the Hungry Drink to the Thirsty Lodging to the Stranger Cloaths to the Naked Visits to the Sick Redemption to Captives are assigned as the reason of that triumphant Invitation vers 24. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world Leaveing Pharaoh and his 600 chosen Chariots at the bottom of the Red Sea Ahab and Jezebel to the Dogs Judas to his Halter great and notorious Sinners to exemplary punishments here although Thunderbolts kill not often or at least unless the generation of Vipers repent and fly from the wrath to come to the horrid and racking expectation of the second death come hither harmless well-meaning Christian gather the bitter fruit of Omission and dissect the barren womb of Holiness with this Instrument vers 41. Then shall he say also unto them on his left hand Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Watch and pray for ye know not at what hour your Lord will come but it is evident what our Lord will say when he does come to judge every man according to what he has done in the Body whether good or evil Wife Virgins know the Bridegroom loves the Oyl of Mercy they will upon no terms shew such want of civility and vulgar manners as to have their Lamps to light when he passeth by especially since the fire of Charity devours not the unctious humour no more than the Prophet Elijah's Hunger emptied the Widow of Zarephath's Cruse Fear of a consumption of the Purse through that excellent and successful Phlebotomy is routed by the heavenly Host of Promises Questionless that inexorable Gluttons partner Luk. 16.19 who treated the Bruâ—e his Carcase sumptuously every day has onely Animam pro sale a Soul to keep his Body from stinking till Death locks up the Purple in the Wardrobe allowing onely the fine Linen of a Winding-Sheet and then serves him up to the Worms must at last change the frolick Scene to weeping and gnashing of teeth The sooty fumes ascending from an impure stomach causes the brain to want sweeping the whole unprofitable mass to want evacuation from whence naturally arises stupidity and unactiveness and then strutting about and yawning Pleno laudat Jejunia ventre The Churle is cramm'd his Parasite cann't carve One tempting bit Steal Poor be hang'd beg starve But there will come a time or rather an eternity when Lazarus who by reason of age sickness a charge of small Children losses by Sea or Fire c. was compell'd to imitate the disconsolate murmurs of the Turtle and being far beneath the ownership of a Couch water'd his straw every night with tears though he might not divide the spoyl with the Dogs in sharing part of the crumbs that fell from the Rich Mans Table shall be mounted up into Abrahams Bosom upon the Wings of glorious Spirits when sottish flint-hearted Dives shall not obtain with his earnest and vehement begging the tip of a wet finger to cool his Tongue that was tormented in the flame and perpetually frying in the bottomless Pit that inexhaustible lake of Fire and Brimstone Charity is a comprehensive word and like the Mediterranean Sea acquires several names from the adjacent shores Mercy Almes Liberality Beneficence all fall under that title and may not unfitly be look'd upon as onely several degrees of heat and alterations of the same inestimable Elixar Let the Understanding say There stands a deplorable Object Mercy from a cold Still presently melts into a drop or two of Silver If exquisite Education and a perception that the