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…

2. He that will do Good to all or many, must have an unfeigned Love to them. Hatred is mischievous, and neglect is unprofitable: Love is the natural Fountain of Beneficence: Love earnestly longeth to do good, and delighteth in doing it. It maketh many to be as One, and to be as ready to help others, as each Member of the Body is to help the rest. Love maketh another's wants, sufferings, and sorrows to be our own: And who is not willing to help himself? Love is a principle ready, active, ingenious and constant: It ⟨p. 9⟩studieth to do good, and would still do more: It is Patient with the infirmities of others, which men void of love do aggravate into odiousness, and make them their excuse for all their neglects, and their pretence for all their Cruelties. Could you make all the slanderers, backbiters, revilers, despisers, persecutors, to love their Neighbours as themselves, you may easily Judge what would be the effect; and whether they would revile, or prosecute, or imprison, or ruin themselves, or study how to make themselves odious, or suborn perjured witnesses against themselves.

2. He that will do Good to all or many, must have an unfeigned Love to them. Hatred is mischievous, and neglect is unprofitable: Love is the natural Fountain of Beneficence: Love earnestly longeth to do good, and delighteth in doing it. It maketh many to be as One, and to be as ready to help others, as each Member of the Body is to help the rest. Love maketh anothers wants, sufferings, and sorrows to be our own: And who is not willing to help himself? Love is a principle ready, active, ingenious and constant: It ⟨p. 9⟩studieth to do good, and would still do more: It is Patient with the infirmities of others, which men void of love do aggravate into odiousness, and make them their excuse for all their neglects, and their pretence for all their Cruelties. Could you make all the slanderers, backbiters, revilers, despisers, persecuters, to love their Neighbours as themselves, you may easily Judge what would be the effect; and whether they would revile, or prosecute, or imprison, or ruine themselves, or study how to make themselves odious, or suborne perjured witnesses against themselves.