The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

2. By this means thou wilt more readily and willingly, more freely and liberally contribute to the needs and necessities of others, having a stock by thee for that very end and purpose. All men naturally are hard-hearted, and close-handed, and thereupon are very hardly persuaded to part with any thing considerable for charitable uses. ⟨p. 298⟩But this consecrating before hand a part of thine estate for the use of the poor, will cause thy charity to flow out more freely and bountifully.

2. By this means thou wilt more readily and willingly, more freely and liberally contribute to the needs and necessities of others, having a stock by thee for that very end and purpose. All men naturally are hard-hearted, and close-handed, and thereupon are very hardly perswaded to part with any thing considerable for charitable uses. ⟨p. 298⟩But this consecrating before hand a part of thine estate for the use of the poor, will cause thy charity to flow out more freely and bountifully.

Now a sacred stock for the Poor may be raised two ways?

Now a sacred stock for the Poor may bee raised two waies?

1. By setting apart something every Lords day, out of thy comings in the week before, according as God hath prospered thee; which practise we find prescribed unto us, by the direction of the Holy Ghost, and warranted unto us by Apostolical authority, for saith the Apostle Paul to the Corinthians,