A plea for alms delivered in a sermon at the spital, before a solemn…A plea for almes delivered in a sermon at the spital, before a solemn…

Answ. Answ. Let Basil. answer this. Wells (saith he) which have their water drawn, spring ever more freely. ^*Prov. 11. 25. the Liberal soul shall be made fat. Luther speaks of a Monastery in Austria which was very rich while it gave annually to the poor, ⟨p. 40⟩but when it left off giving, the Monastery began to decay. There is nothing lost by doing our duty; an estate may be imparted, yet not impaired. The flowers yield honey to the Bee, yet hurt not their own fruit. When the candle of prosperity shines upon us, we may light our neighbour that is in the dark, and have never the less light our selves; whatever is disbursed to pious uses, God doth bring it in some other way; as the loaves in breaking multiplied, or as the widows oil increased by pouring out, 1 Kings 17. 16.²

Answ. Answ. Let Basil. answer this. Wells (saith he) which have their water drawn, spring ever more freely. ^*Prov. 11. 25. the Liberal soul shall be made fat. Luther speaks of a Monastery in Austria which was very rich while it gave annually to the poore, ⟨p. 40⟩but when it left off giving, the Monastery began to decay. There is nothing lost by doing our dutie; an estate may be imparted, yet not impaired. The flowers yield honie to the Bee, yet hurt not their own fruit. When the candle of prosperitie shines upon us, we may light our neighbour that is in the darke, and have never the lesse light our selves; whatever is disbursed to pious uses, God doth bring it in some other way; as the loaves in breaking multiplied, or as the widows oile encreased by pouring out, 1 Kings 17. 16.²