And that you may do so,
1. Suppose their condition to be yours, and yours to be theirs; and what you would that they should then do to you, that do you now to them.
2. Consider you are also in the flesh, and that which is the condition of others, may you know not how soon be your own. Heb. 13. 3. Remem∣ber them that be in Bonds, as bound with them: And them that suffer adversity, as being your selves also in the Body.
3. How do you know, but God hath made a difference between you and others, in these out∣ward dispensations of his Providence, that you may be a help and relief unto them?
4. Hereby you will prove your self a real li∣ving member of Christs Mystical Body, when you have a fellow-feeling of the miseries that others are urged with; especially, when you do it out of love to God, and in obedience to his command, and think it not below you to con∣descend to any mean Office of Love (for Christs sake) to the meanest, or the poorest of Christs Members, no more then the nobler parts of the Body Natural do to preserve the meanest, and the most ignoble.
5. So shall you give a better account of your estate unto God, who hath made you but a Steward of what you do enjoy.
6. Consider it is better to give, then to re∣ceive; to help, then to be helped. It is Gods mercy to you, that you are in a capacity to give; and not reduced to a necessity to receive. And