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Phil. God forbid that any contrariety should be found in the words of so noble & worthy Apostle. In your flour he doth not forbid you, but that ye may with good conscience provide for your self & for yours But to admonish men of this so straitly as of the other, it was not needful nor expedient.¹ For we are naturally bent to seek our own profit, yea & that many times to the great hinderance & utter decay of our neighbour, neither need we a spur to prick us forward in this behalf. Which thing, S. Paul replete with God's spirit considering, exhorteth men rather to seek for their neighbours profit, than for their own, meaning that they should not be so bent to seek their own advantage,² that they should utterly neglect the profit of their christen brother. For the very same mind ought ⟨image 86⟩to be in us that was in Christ Jesus which being in the shape of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but made him self of no reputation, & toke upon him y• shape of a servant, became like another man, & was found in his apparel, as a man. He humbled him self, & became obedient unto the death, even the death of y• Cross. Here is your flour, Ready assistance. Here is an example that ye should be ready to assist & help your neighbour at all times. Howe did our most blessed Saviour Christ utterly neglect & caste away, as I may so speak, his own glory, honour and worship, to seek our health, comfort & salvation? This ready assistance & help ought also to be in us, if we pertain unto Christ. For we ought to have y• care for our neighbour, that Christ had for us, or else we walk not according to Charity. This ready assistance ⟨image 86⟩also see we in that Samaritan of the Gospel,³ which seeing a certain man spoiled, robbed, grievously wounded and half dead, had pity on him, came unto him, bound up his wounds, poured in oil & wine, & laying him on his beast brought him unto an Inn, & made provision for him. Here is another godly example of ready assistance. Here is a mirror for all men to look in. Here is a pair of spectacles for to show every man, what his duty is toward his neighbour.