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

4. The fourth Motive and Inducement is the damage which may ensue upon the neglect of Alms-giving. Though it argue a kind of servile disposition to be moved with fear of loss or pain to a duty; yet of that disposition are many; and in that respect this may be added as an Inducement to the duty.

4. The fourth Motive and Inducement is the dammage which may ensue upon the neglect of Alms-giving. Though it argue a kinde of servile disposition to be moved with fear of loss or pain to a duty; yet of that disposition are many; and in that respect this may be added as an Inducement to the duty.

The damage that may arise upon the neglect of Charity, when it ought to be showed, is in the kind thereof as large, as the fore-mentioned benefits of performing the duty in the kind of it.

The dammage that may arise upon the neglect of Charity, when it ought to be shewed, is in the kinde thereof as large, as the fore-mentioned benefits of performing the duty in the kinde of it.

For neglect of the duty doth not only cause a forfeiture of all the forementioned benefits arising from the performance thereof, but also pulleth upon the neglectors head many evils. Where the Wise-man saith, The merciful man doth good to his own soul; he addeth,¹ but he that is cruel, troubleth his own flesh. Soul and Flesh are the two essential parts of a man; both the one and the other are Synecdochically put for the ⟨p. 304⟩whole man; even for the person, By a cruel man, is meant an unmerciful, or a hard-hearted-man; for he is opposed to a merciful man. The meaning then of the proverb is this; As a merciful man doth good not only to his poor Brother, to whom he showeth mercy, but also to himself: So an hard-hearted-man doth not only grieve his distressed neighbour in affording him no succour, but also brings much damage to himself.