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…

Reas. 5. The Common good is better than the plenty of a sinful Child: Yea it is to be preferred before the best Child, and before our selves. And therefore much more before the worst.

Reas. 6. Its a dreadful thing to be guilty of all the fleshly sins, which your ungodly Sons will commit with your estate; when they shall by it maintain the sins of Sodom, Pride, Fullness of Bread, and abundance of Idleness: If not to strengthen their hands for oppression or Persecution. To think that they will spend their days in voluptuousness, because you gave them provision for the flesh.

Reas. 6. Its a dreadful thing to be guilty of all the fleshly sins, which your ungodly Sons will commit with your estate; when they shall by it maintain the sins of Sodom, Pride, Fulness of Bread, and abundance of Idleness: If not to strengthen their hands for oppression or Persecution. To think that they will spend their days in voluptuousness, because you gave them provision for the flesh.

Reas. 7. It is cruelty to them that are already so bad, to make their temptations to sin much stronger, and their place in Hell the worse, and to make the way to Heaven as hard to them as for a Camel to go through the eye of a needle: To prepare them to want a drop of water in Hell, who were clothed richly and fared sumptuously on Earth. To entice them to say, Soul take ⟨p. 43⟩thine ease thou hast enough laid up for many years, till they hear, Thou fool this night shall they require thy Soul; to cherish that love of the world, which is enmity to God, by feeding that lust of the flesh, and lust of the eyes, and Pride of life, which are not of the Father but of the world.