Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

The Light of Scripture was that which further and fully Satisfied him. Our Father Jacob said, The Lord shall be my GOD, and of all that thou shalt give me, I will give the Tenth unto Thee. He thought, one way of his owning the Lord for his GOD, & approving himself an Israelite indeed, would be, To give the Tenth unto Him. Yea, when he considered, That our Father Abraham did pay unto Melchizedek, the Tenth of all; And that our Lord JESUS is a Priest forever after the Order of Melchizedek; he felt the Force of this Argument upon it. The Rights of Melchizedek, belong to our Blessed JESUS, the Royal High-Priest concerned in the Heavens for us: The Tenths were the Rights of Melchizedek; Therefore the Tenths belong to our JESUS. I have heard the Doctor say, That he looked upon this as an Argument that could not be answered! Accordingly, he Conscientiously and Constantly Devoted a Tenth Part of his Income to Pious Uses. But this was the least: He often did much more than so. I find in one Paper of his Accounts, [For he kept unto the Maxim, Noli Decimas dare per Conjecturas:] That in One Year, he laid out upon Pious Uses, no less than Twenty four Pounds above the Tenth Part of his whole Income that Year, taking in Donations as well as his more Stated Salary. Besides which, the Generous Things which he often did for the Widows and Orphans of Ministers, by ordering them to be the Receivers ⟨p. 185⟩of the Gratuities, which the Bereaved Churches on whom he bestowed his Labours would have Presented him withal, times that cannot be numbered; and by Remitting what was owing to him from such, when the College allowed him some of their Debts, for a Recompense of his Labours there; These are Things that never came into his Reckoning. He knew, who's they would one Day come into! He had a Bountiful Eye, a Liberal Soul, a Tender Compassion for the Miserable. A Noble Demonstration did he give, That they who do Good Works BECAUSE they are already Justified, will not come short of those who do Good Works THAT THEY MAY be Justified; and, That they who Renounce all Pretence to Merit by their Good Works, will more abound in Good Works than the greatest Merit-Mongers in the World.

The Light of Scripture was that which further and fully Satisfied him. Our Father Jacob said, The Lord shall be my GOD, and of all that thou shalt give me, I will give the Tenth unto Thee. He thought, one way of his owning the Lord for his GOD, & approving himself an Israelite indeed, would be, To give the Tenth unto Him. Yea, when he considered, That our Father Abraham did pay unto Melchizedek, the Tenth of all; And that our Lord JESUS is a Priest forever after the Order of Melchizedek; he felt the Force of this Argument upon it. The Rights of Melchizedek, belong to our Blessed JESUS, the Royal High-Priest concern'd in the Heavens for us: The Tenths were the Rights of Melchizedek; Therefore the Tenths belong to our JESUS. I have heard the Doctor say, That he look'd upon this as an Argument that could not be answered! Accordingly, he Conscienciously and Constantly Devoted a Tenth Part of his Income to Pious Uses. But this was the least: He often did much more than so. I find in one Paper of his Accounts, [For he kept unto the Maxim, Noli Decimas dare per Conjecturas:] That in One Year, he laid out upon Pious Uses, no less than Twenty four Pounds above the Tenth Part of his whole Income that Year, taking in Donations as well as his more Stated Salary. Besides which, the Generous Things which he often did for the Widows and Orphans of Ministers, by ordering them to be the Receivers