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ople who, amongst their other losses, have lost this last stay agaiast declension, this last hope of recovery. For so long as the soul is to be touched with the 6cnsc of kindness, she is within the pale of Natures bcnclits, and may come round to honest creditable ways, by falling fortu- nately in with kind and generoos treatment: but when tha^ soul hath Io?<t that ^trin^ whirli vibrates to tile heart when touched with a kindly hand, and in her ingratitude drinks up ktodoess as the saad doth the dew ofbcavcUiWithoutyielding any rctuTDt then thai soul is as ^ood as cut off from the people, excommunicated from a portion at the tabic of natures bounty, and left to its own des]ierate ends. But that there might be no such outcasts, that there might be recovery, even for them, God made ChristiflQ kindness brooder than natural kiodness, and laid on us as our duly* when there noedeth, to supply their necessity; and if they thanklessly received, still again in their straits to supply them, to make uu difTereuce, but tnut Him, until the resurrection of the just, when he 'ould repay us alL '* When thou makest a feast, !a)l the poor, the maimed, the blind, and tbou (halt be blessed; for they cannot rccompcnce thcOt ir thou shall be recoinpcnced at the resitrrectioti the just/* A Christian hath warrant enough 95S OOD's CDNTftOVBnST VITB THE LAND. [. pimcvs or liiiman life, tn f^il the hungry, tu cloth the naked, to ri'liove llic (listrt-ssrcl; lo Iibts tl ignorant iustructed ; to take measures with tl atmndoncd; to open a8 it were a school of dii cipliDc for cTcry moral mischief, and a dispcnj for trery natural Want, Thid» I say, is Ewble.; this ifi Chrifitian ; and England is more ennobled having produced mcD of thia atamp than &he b; every thing beside. She is more ennobled the inventions she hath found out for well ejcj ing fortunes, than she is tor the inventions faith foundout for gathering them. For thcbcavi loaded with heavy clouds, ofi clear again, yean otit noThing fo the thirsty earth, but defeat! hopes ; but when the mantle of the cloud o\ and drops its precious burden upon the broad needful fields, then the heart of man is rejoici Even so accumulated wealth may dissipate itsdj intoranity, folly, and indulgence ; in vbJcb ci whatsoever good it may produce, is nothiDg di to the ex{>ender ! all the evil is justly chargeabi upon him; or it may be nicely din-cted where itii needed, in which case all the good, and none the evil falls to his share. These three (catnrcs of Christian char