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In a word: Every Action of Cha∣rity we do here is recorded above, and hath its Reward apportion'd there, even to Interest upon Interest, and all the possible Degrees of Im∣provement; which the Divine Pre∣science can easily foresee, and will adjust according to the Measures of his Mercies. And this Reward is as far above the inherent Worth of the Work as Heaven is above the Earth, or the Regions of Bliss above this Vale of Tears. Whatsoever we do for our selves, or our Rela∣tions,
we leave behind us, as Du∣ties we owe to Nature, for which she pays us here. But what we do for God, and his Servants for his sake, follow us into the state of the dead, and into the Tribunal of our Judge, and plead for us; where they cannot but have a benign Au∣dience, from him who is the Fa∣ther of the Fatherless, and who pleads the Cause of Orphans and Widows; even God in his Holy Habitation. And with this I will conclude the second Head of this Discourse, and prepare to speak of the Third in that which follows.