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…

When men are loth that their estates should remove from the Name and Family (for which there may be just cause) I take it for the safest way, (as aforesaid) to trust some (as men do their Children with Guardians) by the advise of Lawyers, to secure all from their unworthy heirs, for the next or some other of the name and lineage that proveth worthy.

There are many other good works by which some rich men may be very profitable to the Common-wealth, such as setting all the poor on work, and building Hospitals for the Impotent, &c. But these this City is happily acquainted with already, and tho still there be much wanting, yet there is much done.

V. But one more I will presume to name only to you that are Merchants, (For I am not one who have the ear of Princes who are more able), might not somewhat more be done than yet is, to further the Gospel in your Factories, and in our Plantations? Old Mr. Eliots with his helpers in New-England have showed that somewhat may be done, if others were as Charitable and zealous as they. The Jesuits and Friars showed us in Congo, Japan, China and other Countries that much might be done with care and diligence. Tho the Papal interest was a corrupt end, and all the means that they used was not justifiable, when I read of their hazards, unwearied labours, and success, I am none of those that would deprive them of their deserved honour, but rather wish that we that have better ends and principles might do better than they, and not come so far behind them as we do (if half be true that Pet. Massoeus, and the Jesuits Epistles and many other writers tell us of them.) I know that they had the advantage of greater helps, from Kings and Pope and Prelates, and Colleges endued with trained men and copious maintenance: But might not somewhat more be done by us, than is yet done?

V. But one more I will presume to name only to you that are Merchants, (For I am not one who have the ear of Princes who are more able), might not somewhat more be done than yet is, to further the Gospel in your Factories, and in our Plantations? Old Mr. Eliots with his helpers in New-England have shewed that somewhat may be done, if others were as Charitable and zealous as they. The Jesuites and Fryars shewed us in Congo, Japan, China and other Countries that much might be done with care and diligence. Tho the Papal interest was a corrupt end, and all the means that they used was not justifiable, when I read of their hazards, unwearied labours, and success, I am none of those that would deprive them of their deserved honour, but rather wish that we that have better ends and principles might do better than they, and not come so far behind them as we do (if half be true that Pet. Massoeus, and the Jesuites Epistles and many other writers tell us of them.) I know that they had the advantage of greater helps, from Kings and Pope and Prelates, and Colledges endued with trained men and copious maintenance: But might not somewhat more be done by us, than is yet done?