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…

The word seemeth to import, first, To do good so, as that many may be the better for it, that it may be a common and a public good: Such are the works of God; his Sun-shines, his Rain falls on good and bad; on the barren Rocks, as well ⟨p. 38⟩as the fruitful Valleys. Such public works are building and endowing of Schools, of Churches, of Lecturers, of Work-houses, of Hospitals, of Manufactures, furnishing of Libraries, maintaining of public Professors, Legacies to the poor, repairing Ways and Bridges, Loans to set up poor Tradesmen, and other the like Benefactions which have a common and public influence.

The word seemeth to import, first, To do good so, as that many may be the better for it, that it may be a common and a publick good: Such are the works of God; his Sun-shines, his Rain falls on good and bad; on the barren Rocks, as well ⟨p. 38⟩as the fruitful Valleys. Such publick works are building and endowing of Schools, of Churches, of Lecturers, of Work-houses, of Hospitals, of Manufactures, furnishing of Libraries, maintaining of publick Professors, Legacies to the poor, repairing Ways and Bridges, Loans to set up poor Tradesmen, and other the like Benefactions which have a common and publick influence.

Secondly, To do it as in communion, as Members one of another, communion Natural upon principles of humanity, and communion Spiritual upon principles of Christianity. To remember them that are in Bonds, as bound with them, and them which suffer adversity, as being our selves in the body, Heb. 13. 3.