A25470:1042
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers, September 1661.
London: printed for Joshua Kirton and Nathaniel Webb, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
5. That they have no assurance that God will accept of their deathbed charity: what St. Austin speaketh of death-bed repentance, that it is seldom true and hearty; The same may I say of death-bed charity, it is seldom true and hearty, but for the most part rotten and Hypocritical, proceeding from ill grounds, as vain-glory, conceit of merit, and the like.
5. That they have no assurance that God will accept of their deathbed charity: what St. Austin speaketh of death-bed repentance, that it is seldome true and hearty; The same may I say of death-bed charity, it is seldome true and hearty, but for the most part rotten and Hypocritical, proceeding from ill grounds, as vain-glory, conceit of merit, and the like.
6. That they have no assurance of the true performance of their will, that the poor shall be the better for what is thereby given them. For how many Executors have proved most unfaithful to their trusts, whereby many charitable gifts have been clean perverted. And if friends be so unfaithful, to us in our life time; how can we but ⟨p. 283⟩question their fidelity after our deaths? Oh therefore that all, whom the Lord hath blessed with an estate, would in their life time become their own administrators, making (as one saith) their own hands their Executors, and their own eyes their Overseers. For questionless that charity which is exercised in a mans life time is the best, and most acceptable unto God.
6. That they have no assurance of the true performance of their will, that the poor shall bee the better for what is thereby given them. For how many Exeoutours have proved most unfaithful to their trusts, whereby many charitable gifts have been clean perverted. And if friends bee so unfaithful, to us in our life time; how can wee but ⟨p. 283⟩question their fidelity after our deaths? Oh therefore that all, whom the Lord hath blessed with an estate, would in their life time become their own administrators, making (as one saith) their own hands their Executors, and their own eyes their Overseers. For questionless that charity which is exercised in a mans life time is the best, and most acceptable unto God.