Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachi the…Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the…

8. He who Fears God is given to works of Mercy. The Fear of God is always joined with love to our Brethren. Grace may have a Trembling hand, but it hath not a Withered hand, it stretcheth out its self to relieve the indigent. Jam. 1.27. Pure Religion before God and the Father is this, to Visit the Fatherless and the Widows in their Affliction. To Visit them is not only to go to see them in Affliction: our Saviour expounds what Visiting is, Mat. 25.36. Ye visited me; how was that? vers. 35. I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat. Good works are not the Cause of our Justification, but they are the Evidence. How far are they from the Fear of God, who are hard-hearted to Christs Poor! You may as well extract Oil out of a Flint, as the Golden Oil of Charity out of their hearts. Dives denied Lazarus a Crumb of Bread, and Dives was denied a drop of Water.

8. He who Fears God is given to works of Mercy. The Fear of God is alwaies joyned with love to our Brethren. Grace may have a Trembling hand, but it hath not a Withered hand, it stretcheth out its self to relieve the indigent. Iam. 1.27. Pure Religion before God and the Father is this, to Visit the Fatherless and the Widdows in their Affliction. To Visit them is not only to go to see them in Affliction: our Saviour expounds what Visiting is, Mat. 25.36. Ye visited me; how was that? vers. 35. I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat. Good works are not the Cause of our Justification, but they are the Evidence. How far are they from the Fear of God, who are hard-hearted to Christs Poor! You may as well extract Oil out of a Flint, as the Golden Oil of Charity out of their hearts. Dives denied Lazarus a Crumb of Bread, and Dives was denied a drop of Water.

9. He who Fears God had rather