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While we have time, let us do good unto all men; and especially unto them who are of the household of Faith. Gal. 6. 10.

Whofo hath this World's Good, and feeth his Brother have need, and fhutteth up his bowels of compaffion from him; how dwelleth the love of God in him? 1 Joh. 3.

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He that hath pity on the Poor, lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given, will he pay him again. Prov. 19. 17.

In as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my Brethren, ye have done it unto me. Matth. 25. 40, 45.

God is not unrighteous, to forget your work and labour of Love, which ye have fhewed towards his Name; in that ye have miniftred to the Saints, and do minifter. Heb.

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Wherefore, let my counfel be acceptable unto thee. Break off

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thy fins by Righteousness, and thine iniquities by fhewing mercy to the Poor. Dan. 4. 279 6

Sell that ye have, and give Alms: Provide your felves Bags which wax not old, a Treafure in the Heavens that faileth not; where no Thief approacheth, neither Moth corrupteth. Luk. 12. 33.

And make to your felves Friends of the Mammon of Unrighteoufnefs; that when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting Habitations. Luk. 16.9.

Bleffed is he that confidereth the Poor; the Lord will deliver him in time of Trouble.

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The Lord will preferve him, and keep him alive, and he shall be bleed upon the earth; and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his Enemies..

The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing thou wilt make all his Bed in his Sickness. Pfal. 41. 1, 2, 3.

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Come ye Bleffed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the World.

For I was an hungred, and ye gave me Meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me Drink: I was a Stranger, and ye took me in:

Naked, and ye clothed me: I was Sick, and ye vifited me: I was in Prifon, and ye came unto me. Matth. 25. 34, 35, 36.

Pure Religion, and undefiled be fore God and the Father, is this, To vifit the Fatherlefs and Widows in their Affliction, and to keep bimfeif unfpotted from the World. Jam. 1. 27.

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and have my Being. Thou haft plentifully provided for me ever

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Perfons. fince I came into this World. I enjoy not only the Neceffaries, but the Comforts and Conveniencies of this Life.

Bleffed be thy Name, for this thy Goodness towards me.

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Almighty Father, thou gaveft me all my Worldly E-lewell. state, that I frould employ it for the convenient fupport of my Self, and of my Family, and of the Poor and Needy.

And when I come to Thee, I can have nothing to carry along with me, but a ftrict Account how I have laid it out.

I must now, in a very little time, give an Account of iny Stewardship, for I must be no longer Steward.

BUT I acknowledge, I have

been a very unprofitable,

and ungrateful Steward.

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I have not only wafted thy Goods, by Luxury and Excefs But I have often neglected to Relieve thy Poor Members, when it hath been in my Power,

Lord, I Repent; and am heartily forry that I have thus offended thee.

Lord, Pardon and Forgive me, for the fake of Jefus Chrift. A

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ND fince I can no longer poffefs my Eftate, (for when I am gone, I fball return no more to my Houfe, neither fhall my Place know me any more.) Let me now be fo wife to make fome Provifion for my Self, as well as Cthers, by Diftributing to the Foor, who are thy Re

ceivers.

What I give to them, I give to thee; and thou hast graciously. promifed to Pay it again.

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