An essay to revive the necessity of the ancient charity and piety wherein God's right in our estates and our obligations to maintain his service, religion, and charity is demonstrated and defended against the pretences of covetousness and appropriation : in two discourses written to a person of honour and vertue / by George Burghope.

§. III. The End of these Pa∣pers, with the Author's Design and Apology.

To convince you of this great Truth, and to direct you to the due management of your Estate, so that you may be acquitted, and re∣ceive the Reward of an euge bone Serve, &c. is the Design of these Papers. And the rather, because God hath given me (for Reasons best known to himself) but a very short Allowance; so that I can nei∣ther be Exemplary nor Serviceable, as I desire, in Works of Piety and Mercy, and mine own tyrannous Necessities wou'd fain engross all. I think it therefore my Duty to do what I can, tho' I cannot what I wou'd, and seek the Comfort of exciting others to do that which I am incapacitated to do my self. And if God accepts the Will for the Deed, this will be a sufficient Con∣solation. And this will the better

appear if you consider the other Thing, which is to shew what God doth expect at our Hands in this Particular. And in order to this I will beg your Patience to discourse of these two Things in their or∣der.

• 1. Of the Propriety and Title that every Man has to his E∣state, in respect of God the Supreme Donor.
• 2. Of the End for which God hath given Estates, and con∣sequently what he expects from the present Professors.