How to do good to many, or, The public good is the Christians life…How to do good to many, or, The publick good is the Christians life…

Consider well these following motives, and you will see why all Christians must be zealous of doing all the good they can.

1. It rendereth a man likest to God, to be good, and to do good: On which account Christ requireth it even towards our enemies, Mat. 5. That we may be perfect as our Heavenly Father is perfect, who doth good even to the unjust: And he that is likest God is the best man, most holy and most happy, and shall have most Communion with God.

1. It rendreth a man likest to God, to be good, and to do good: On which account Christ requireth it even towards our enemies, Mat. 5. That we may be perfect as our Heavenly Father is perfect, who doth good even to the unjust: And he that is likest God is the best man, most holy and most happy, and shall have most Communion with God.

2. And when Christ came down in flesh to call man home by making God better known to the world, he revealeth him in his attractive goodness, and that was by his own beneficence to Man: He came to do the greatest good; to be the Saviour of the world, and to reconcile revolted man to God, and all his life, yea his death and his Heavenly intercession, is doing good to those that were Gods Enemies. And to learn of Christ, and imitate his example, is to be his true Disciples. And what else do his Laws Command us? They are all holy, just and good; and our goodness is to love them and obey them. By keeping these we must show that we are his Disciples. When he tells you who you must do good to in the instance of the Samaritan, he addeth, go thou and do likewise,