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Lilmod Lelammed, we therefore ⟨p. 132⟩learn that we may teach, is a Proverb among the Rabbins. And I do therefore lay in, and lay up (saith the Heathen) that I may draw forth again, and lay out for the good of many.

Ah! Young men, Young men, as you would be useful and serviceable to many, begin to be good betimes, and to lay in, and lay up, and lay out betimes, for the profit and advantage of others. Augustin accounted nothing his own, that he did not communicate to others. The Bee doth store her hive out of all sorts of Flowers, for the common benefit. Tis a base and unworthy spirit, for a man to make himself the centre of all his actions; The very Heathen man could say, that a mans Country, and his friends, and others, challenge a great part of him; And indeed the best way to do our selves good, is to be a doing good to others, the best way to gather, is to scatter; Memorable ⟨p. 133⟩is the story of Pyrhias a Merchant of Ithaca, who at Sea espying an aged man, a Captive in a Pirates ship, took compassion of him, and redeemed him, and bought his Commodities which the Pirate had taken from him, which were certain barrels of pitch; The old man perceiving, that not for any good service he could do him, nor for the gain of that commodity, but merely out of charity and pity he had done this, discovered a great mass of treasure hidden in the pitch; whereby the Merchant in a very short time became very rich, at which very time God made that word good, He that soweth liberally; ¹shall reap liberally, and that word, The liberal soul shall be made fat, ²and that word, The liberal deviseth liberal things, ³and by liberal things shall he stand. It is fabled of Midas, that what ever he touched he turned it into Gold, it is certain that a liberal hand, a liberal