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ty, and our folly. Even bo should godly men be moved tnoat strongly according as the Condition of the object is more degraded and dis- graced. If the inner man have been despoiled by vice, whilt? the outer man hath been ravaged by poverty ; if the soul have lost her onmments of a mrek and quiet spirit, of virtue, of gratitude, 946 god's covTHovEitsr witu tiif. LAifn, IViti of B^ty ; vrhOc the body haUi lost her cheaper refitments, and more transiont beauty, and afflicted 'With foul diiea^e^ or hoiluw, tiu&ightl emaciation; why then it is & double object, object doubly clutched outwardly by neceisity'i gripCr inwardly by vices eurenonied ^ipe: an moreover, if there be no remorse of crime, llie consciGncc is scared, aiid the wretch more wretch ed ; and if there be no seed of knowledge, the lie J« not unly ]nii'ehed and Inirmt^ but in his bar- renness bath no stump nor root, which by tfa scent of water miKhl have revived^ of wbic fourfold combination of misery — want, crimen im4 penitence, and ignorance— there are thousands instances here, m the heart and capital of happ England. Unto those cases^ not hypothetical, b must frequent, it is our vocation, Cbnetians, l>e attracted by the very excess of their miscrj", and ^superabundance of their crime; for there is bahn in Gilcad for every malady of the soul, and a Physician there for every sinful sufferer upo the face of the earth i—<in bodily calamities, so i i^pirituaK the very excess of the diaeage being th« summons for prompt and efficacious applications. Tliero is another respect in which the kindneti that is like unto our baviourfi great surrcoder> differs from the kindness current amongst reen, that it should be stronger according as relum repayment is less likely, whether that return in reputation, or in gratitude, or in &ome morft solid equivalent. The most secret and unseen acts of kindness arc, according to Christ, always be preferred : "Thou, when thou dost thine alnu^' let itot tliy left hand know what thy right hap doeth; and thy Fattier, which soeth in secre d I » r> aen, , Til.] 00D*$ CONTnOVERAT iffTTfl TIfK LA^t>. 949 shall reward thee openly." For gratitude, it is so reasonable to expect it, and so delighifut to re- ceive it, that, if 1 except against ils being looked for or cared for, you will not mistake roe as pal* liating ingratitudCf which is shoclcing as impiety and blasphemy, and unbelief* but as commcDding the high and sublime spirit of this benerolencc of ours, heaven derived i and uttenng a vrord for the wretched pe