The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propoundedThe summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded

Secondly, It standeth in three noble fruits that flow¹ from this kind of affection:

Secondly, It standeth in three noble fruits that flow¹ from this kinde of affection:

1. 1and helpfulness unto other.and helpfulnesse vnto other.

First, To pity our Neighbour in his distress, lending our helping hand unto him, and ministering unto him in his necessity the comforts that God doth bless us with: ⟨p. 196⟩If he be an hungry, to give him meat; if thirsty, to give him drink; if a stranger, to lodge him; if naked, to clothe him; if sick, to visit him; if in Prison, to come unto him: as these particulars are reckoned up, Mat. 25. 35, 36. ^uFor he that hath this Worlds goods, and seeing his brother in want, shutteth up his bowels from him, how doth the love of GOD dwell in him? Let Job, a mirror of all virtue, be ever before our eyes, to stir us up to this duty, who ^xtestifieth of himself, I ate not my morsel alone, but the fatherless ate of it. If I saw one ready to perish for lack of clothing, and a poor man that had nothing to cover him, his loins blessed me: for he warmed himself by the fleece of my Lambs. For this cause, in the Law they were commanded, both before the Vintage or Harvest, to suffer the poor, for satisfying of his hunger, to gather Grapes, or pluck Ears of Corn, and in the Vintage to leave an after-gathering for the poor. Of the first, you have a Commandment,