The rich mans charge delivered in a sermon at the Spittle upon Monday in…The rich mans charge delivered in a sermon at the Spittle vpon Monday in…

4. Enemies themselves, If thine enemy hunger, feed him, Rom. 12. 20, 21.

In one word, All that are in misery and distress amongst them: First, The most helpless, widows, fatherless, sick, maimed, aged, exiles, captives. Secondly, The most hopeful, useful, and painful; as pregnant wits for learned education, or other necessary employments.

In one word, All that are in misery and distress amongst them: First, The most helpless, widows, fatherless, sick, maimed, aged, exiles, captives. Secondly, The most hopeful, useful, and painful; as pregnant wits for learned education, or other necessary imployments.

For the manner how, the Apostle directeth us. First, To do good works richly: They who are Divites opibus, must be Divites operibus too; their fruit must be plentiful, as well as their estate. There may be a narrow Heart, a starved Charity, where there is a large estate, as in Nabal: And there may be a large and bountiful heart, where there is but a poor and narrow estate, as in the poor widow, who as our Saviour tells us, Cast in more then all others into the Treasury; more in proportion, quia nemo sibi minus reliqui•; more in affection, she cast in her bowels, she cast in her prayers with her two Mites, Mark 12. 43. So the Apostle testifieth of the Macedonians, That their poverty was deep, and yet their liberality was rich and abundant, 2 Cor. 8. 2. Though they could not draw much out of their Purse, yet they drew out their very Soul to their Brethren,