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Who must give charitably: it seems this charge belongs only to the rich.^f Charge them that are rich in this world, &c. There is none simply rich, but God. Crassus thought himself not rich, till all Rome was poor to him: yea unlesse Ex fructibus, he could maintain an army of forty thousand men, out of the very revenues and surplusage of his estate. But as Nemo miser nisi comparatus; So none is properly rich, but in regard of the poor. Some think they are called Divitiae Iniquitatis, quasi Inequalitatis; The riches of Iniquity, that is, of Inequality: some have more, some less: let them that have most, give most; let them that have little, give of that little. A rich Pharisee may give abundantly, but the poor widow must cast in her two mites. A man may be, not Dives in seculo, yet dives in Domino. ^gSo he is that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich towards God: Whereas other may be rich in good works, 1 Tim. 6.18. If there be a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, not according to that he hath not, 2 Cor. 8.12. Therefore the labouring-man is not privileged from this duty;^h Let him labour with his hands, that he may give to him that needeth. Though he may plead, that wife and children are bills of expenses; yet Luke 3.11. Let him that hath two coats, impart to him that hath none: Not one out of a whole wardrobe, but one of two. If thou have little, be not afraid to give according to that little, Tob. 4.8. Thy family shall not want, but be kept warm with the blessing.

Who must give charitably: it seemes this charge belongs onely to the rich.^f Charge them that are rich in this world, &c. There is none simply rich, but God. Crassus thought himselfe not rich, till all Rome was poore to him: yea unlesse Ex fructibus, he could maintaine an armie of fortie thousand men, out of the very revenues and surplusage of his estate. But as Nemo miser nisi comparatus; So none is properly rich, but in regard of the poore. Some thinke they are called Divitiae Iniquitatis, quasi Inequalitatis; The riches of Iniquity, that is, of Inequality: some have more, some lesse: let them that have most, give most; let them that have little, give of that little. A rich Pharisie may give abundantly, but the poore widow must cast in her two mites. A man may be, not Dives in seculo, yet dives in Domino.