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11. Not omitting, or slighting the performance of small Charities. Mat. 10.42.
12. Not passing by regardless, but discoursing with poor; and being ready to be informed by him of his necessities; this being an excellent way to force your self to Charity, or to the enlargement of it: the tender-heartedness of many (which God hath given to man) escaping the relieving, only because they will not know, mens wants.
Digr. 1. Of seeking objects, and occasions, of Charity [what the eye sees not, the heart grieves not] and, Of the benefits we receive by objects of misery: That Hospi∣tals, and Prisons (those best Schools of Humiliation) are provided by God, always ready to offer us occasions of deeds of Charity; which Charities are so much greater, then others, by how much the object is more loathsome, and offensive; and the more necessary, because most men avoid them: Eccl. 7.3, 4.
13. If your imployments, or retirement affords you little conversation with the world, committing your alms into the hands of some other pious, tender-hearted, and discreet persons whose publick affairs afford them often occasion to meet, or also deal, with such objects of Charity; As to the Pastor, to a Physitian, or Surgeon, to the Officers ap∣pointed for the Poor, &c.