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…

TO THE TRULY CHRISTIAN Merchants and other Citizens OF LONDON.

AS my Disease and the Restraint of Rulers seem to tell me that my Pulpit work is at an end, so also my abode among you, or in this World cannot be long. What Work I have lived for, I have given the World more durable notice than transient words: It hath been such as Men in Power were against, and it seems will no longer endure. What Doctrine it was that I last prepared for you, I thought meet to desire the Press thus to tell you, not to vindicate my self, nor to characterize them, who think, that it deserves six months imprisonment; but to be in your hands a Provocation and Direction for that great Work of a Christian Life, which sincerely, done, will prepare you for that safety, joy, and glory, which London, England, or Earth will not afford; and which men or Devils cannot take from you. When through the meritorious righteousness of Christ, your holy Love and good Works to him in his Brethren shall make you the joyful Objects of that Sentence, Come ye blessed inherit the Kingdom, &c. This is the life that need not be repented of, as spent in vain.

AS my Disease and the Restraint of Rulers seem to tell me that my Pulpit work is at an end, so also my abode among you, or in this World cannot be long. What Work I have lived for, I have given the World more durable notice than transient words: It hath been such as Men in Power were against, and it seems will no longer indure. What Doctrine it was that I last prepared for you, I thought meet to desire the Press thus to tell you, not to vindicate my self, nor to characterize them, who think, that it deserves six months imprisonment; but to be in your hands a Provocation and Direction for that great Work of a Christian Life, which sincerely, done, will prepare you for that safety, joy, and glory, which London, England, or Earth will not afford; and which men or Devils cannot take from you. When through the meritorious righteousness of Christ, your holy Love and good Works to him in his Brethren shall make you the joyful Objects of that Sentence, Come ye blessed inherit the Kingdom, &c. This is the life that need not be repented of, as spent in vain.