Gods rising, his enemies scattering

Fifthly, Rise in your bounty, you have done much, do more; you have gone high, go higher still; Say as David, I will be more vile, &c. So you, I will be yet more liberal, I will be yet more for God, Away with those shifts and carnal pretences (what shall I leave for my wife and children) I have so much owing me, and cannot get in my debts: trading is not as it hath been; I am out thus much already; They are (for the most part) but the Churls Instruments of which the Holy Ghost speaketh. ¹The Instruments of the Churl are cruel, he deviseth wicked devises to destroy the poor with lying words. Hear this Oh ye covetous Mammonists, who withhold your money and estates, when it is in the power of your hands to help, to help the Lord and the Kingdom, against the mighty; The holy Ghost puts you amongst Thieves and Murderers; you are listed among the Anti-christian ⟨p. 42⟩Enemies of Jesus Christ who destroy his poor people: he that doth not save life when he may, destroys it: While in the mean time, of the willing people hear what God speaks: But the liberal man deviseth liberal things: he deviseth how he may serve the Cause, he studies which way he may do most good: You would think that were the next way to be undone, but mark what follows, by liberal things he shall stand, &c. Christians be of good cheer, you that have been liberal to the Cause, even not only to your power, ²but beyond your power; This is not the way to undo your families, but to preserve them, by liberal things shall England stand, by liberal things shall London stand, be of good cheer, who ever thou art that hast spent thy self for God and his Cause, you have not only the public faith of the Kingdom but the public faith of Heaven also, for repayment with advantage (by liberal things he shall stand) time may come, when what thou hast lent to Christ and his Cause, may be all the livelihood for thee and thy family to subsist on: when the rest may be plundered or burnt or taken away by violence, this may be thy stock; and behold then it shall not repent thee of thy Liberality.

Fifthly, Rise in your bounty, you have done much, do more; you have gone high, goe higher still; Say as David, I will be more vile, &c. So you, I will be yet more liberall, I will be yet more for God, Away with those shifts and carnall pretences (what shall I leave for my wife and children) I have so much owing me, and cannot get in my debts: trading is not as it hath been; I am out thus much already; They are (for the most part) but the Churles Instruments of which the Holy Ghost speaketh.