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So far is he from casting off, and disclaiming his people in their poverty, and tribulations, as that at no other time in this life, he doth more professedly acknowledge them, and publish the tenderness of his affection towards them. As what greater testimony can there be of love and kindness, then this, that their enemies be his enemies: their friends his friends: their benefactors so graced and esteemed of, as if they were become his creditors. We have seen in some other place before, that he which oppresseth the poor, reproacheth him that made him, but he ¹honoureth him that hath mercy on the poor.

So farre is he from casting off, and disclaiming his people in their pouertie, and tribulations, as that at no other time in this life, he doth more professedly acknowledge them, and publish the tendernes of his affection towards them. As what greater testimonie can there be of loue and kindnes, then this, that their enemies be his enemies: their friends his friends: their benefactors so graced and esteemed of, as if they were become his creditors. We haue seene in some other place before, that he which oppresseth the poore, reprocheth him that made him, but he ¹honoureth him that hath mercie on the poore.

1. 1Prou 14. 31.

And our Saviour himself professeth, that he presently observeth every where, all the mercy that is showed by any to his poor servants: and how he will requite the same hereafter, in calling them as blessed ones to the fruition, with him, of his¹ celestial kingdom, and why he will render them so great a reward, because they fed him in his hunger, gave him drink in his thirst, and clothed him being naked, &c: and after what manner they performed these duties unto him, by exercising the same towards one of the least of his brethren.