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MOses being commanded of God to make an holy anointing Oyl, was to take a certain quantity of some principall spices, such as Myrrhe, Cyna∣mon, Calamus,* 1.1 and Cassia, then to compound them after the Art of the Apo∣thecary.
And thus it is,* 1.2 that the oyl of our Charity must be rightly ordered; Every Christian Al••••s-giver must be a kind of spirituall Apothecary; First, his Alms must be like Myrrhe, which distils from the Tree without cutting or the least incision, so his Charity to be free without the least compulsion; Secondly, Cynnamon, hot in taste and hot in operation, so his Alms, neither stone-cold as Nabal, nor luke-warm as Laodicea, but hot as it was said of Dorcas,* 1.3 that she was full of good works; Thirdly, Cassia, as sweet as the for∣mer, but growing low, the Emblem of humility, so giving but not Vaingl ori∣ously: Lastly, Calamus, an odoriferous pouder, but of a fragile reed; so gi∣ving, but acknowledging his Weaknesse, thinking it no way meritorious; For periculosa dom••s eorum qui meritis sperant, saith St. Bernard, Dangerous is the state of that ••ouse which thinks to win heaven by keeping house, &c.
Exod. 30. 3.
J. Reekes, A Sermon at S. Mary-Spit∣tle, 1619. Charitas ad cuncta virtu∣tumfacta dila∣tatur, &c.
Greg. in cura pa••••oral••.