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and lowest offering of your love, give this day liberallyforthoirprcsentwant; remember- ing Him M'bo was rich, and for youraakes became poor, that yc, through hie poverty, might be rich; -- remembcringthi^Lord.who fed ii\othou!^and hungry people with such abundance thai they took up PPttwelvv buKkct^fullcif fragmt^nta. So gime, bi-ethren, liberally^ for your starving brethren, and their starving vrivo!^, and their starvin;; children, that it may be manifeat, that they who believe in the Lord JcsuB Christ are charitable unto ait men: shew this day a practical proof that you believe tho doctrine this day taught — timt yon arc tint stewards of all that Ood hath put into your hand. It were a monstrous sin that any ahoutd Uarve, and we have to «pare; a thin^ it were to call down God's judgments upon the land, that for lack of food poor sotiU ^vhould perish, when the land was full of corn, and wine, and oil : and I fear, alas I at this day tt is even found go ; that in secret aod bidden rccesficsof the mafiu&cturing citiea. -044 &Od'« COKTBOVKRSY WlTIt THE LAND. [DU, uiauy :4re perishing of cold and hungtr, while tlK*rc is witliin onr lumse sUtrv. of In^xd and pleiiLy of clothing, perhaps elegance aad luxury. Now,| br^tbren, yc have an opponunity of exercising your stewardship for the sake of tbo«e who are truly destitute; ^nd to " make uuto your^elvcA fricoda.^ of the marDinoD of righteousness, who may, wfacD yon failp receive you into everlftating biibitatJOQft.'*^ III. This bringeth us to the third part of our . subject^ which t^ to^hew' forth uuto the church vrbat is bcr part in the midst of thoae digresses,' and in what way wc ehould u&e the giils of profi- denc!e with which GolI haUi endowed itv All the^A men. dearly bvlovc^d, whose buckslidings webavoi exposed, and whose miseries we do now lament, are stiil our brcthrca in the bonds of the Lord Jesus; being baptized with the one baptism of^ Christ, pnvilegcd with all the privileges, atKl re*. sponsible for all the duties^ of the Gospel, l^j same church IK their mother, and the same God u their Fuilwr, declared in the solemn act of baptism. And now, as Christ is the great example unto his members of all the charities and duties of the Uospcl, i consider it right to ^^ derive this pan of my discourse wholly from hia^^ heavenly example: to which I am the more ea<- couraged, as 1 find it to be the way in which the Apostle proceeded when he engaged in Uio work of collecting for the poor saiats in Jerusalem. Si proposed to the Corinthians the ejEampte