These in one respect may be accounted workes of piety, namely as they are instructions, di∣rections and reprehensions gathered out of Gods word: but in another respect they are workes of mercy, namely as they tend to the reliefe of our brother in regard of his spirituall distresse and need of his soule. The matter of them makes them workes of piety, the end whereto they tend makes them workes of mercy.There is therefore a double bond to tye us to a diligent performance of all these on the Lords day, as we can finde any occasion of doing them: one, the bond of piety: the other, the bond of mercy. Yea as the soule is more excellent then the body, and the good of the soule more ne∣cessary then the good of the body, so these works of mercy which so much concerne the good of the soule, ought with more diligence to be done, then those which concerne the good of the body: which yet we must not neglect. These we ought to doe, and not leave the other undone.19 Q. What are the workes of mercy which concerne the body?A. 1 Visiting the sick, and such as are otherwayes re∣strained of liberty. Mark. 1. 29, 30. Mat. 25. 36.2 Relieving the needy with what they want. Isa. 58. 7. 1 Cor. 16. 2. Mat. 25. 35, 36.3 Pulling out of danger such as are therein. Mat. 12. 11. Luk. 13. 16.4 Affording all other seasonable succour. Mat. 12. 1, 4.These may be so ordered, as none of the fore∣mentioned duties of piety need to be omitted for them. If Christians rise in any seasonable time, they may performe both private and 0