4. Make Prayer your daily Exercise.

1. We must serve GOD daily, S. Luk. i. 75. 2. The Sacrifices of the Old Teftament were daily, Num. xxviii. 3. Act. iii. 1.

3. Chrift directs us to ask our daily Bread, S. Matth. vi. 11, 33.

4. The Saints in all Ages prayed daily, Pfal. lv. 17. and cxix. 164. Dan. vi. 10. 1 King. viii. 48. S. Luk. ii. 37.

5. The Heathens and Turks do it.

6. We daily need Mercies.

7. We daily receive Mercies from GOD. Object. I have oft prayed, but am never heard; Job xxi. 15.

1. However, we are bound to ferve GOD.
2. If we get no Good, it is our own Fault.
1. As to the Matter, 1 S. Job. v. 14.

2. Means, S. Jam. i. 6.

3. End of Prayer, S. Jam. iv. 3.

3. Perhaps, you never expected it.

4. Or have not used the right Means for it. 5. You have not prayed long enough, 2 Cor. xii. 9. S. Luk. xviii. 1.

6. Tho' you have not received that required, you have other Mercies, 2 Cor. xii. 9.

7. You may be answered, and not know it.

USE.

Continue inftant in Prayer.

1. Otherwise ye live in continued Sin. 2. Prayer is the most honourable Work. 3. The most pleasant, Pfal. lxxxiv. 10. 4. The only way of getting real Mercies, S. Jam. i. 5.

5. Right Praying is a Sign of a true Convert, A&t. ix, 11.

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2. All that profefs to believe in Him, Phil. i. rẻ Col. i. 2. Rev. vii. 9.

II. What Neceffities?
That they need,

1. Our Advice.

2. Prayers, 1 Tim. ii. 1. 3. Our Estates.

III. What is it to diftribute? 1. To give them freely.

2. To communicate with, becaufe Christians, 1 Cor. xii. 26, 27. Ταϊς χρείαις εν ἁγίων κοινωνοντες.

IV. Who ought to give?

1. Every one is to be willing to give, 2 Cor. viii. 13.

2. They only are actually to give, who have any thing of their own to give, 1 S. Joh. iii. 17. Ifa. Ixi. 8:

3. Hence Men of a lower Estate are bound to give too fomething, Eph. iv. 28.

V. How much is every one bound to give? 1. In general, Bountifully, 2 Cor. ix. 6. 2. Proportionably to our Eftates, xvi. 2.

I Cor.

3. More

3. More than we spend on our Lufts.

4. As much as is not neceffary for ourselves, 2 Cor. viii. 146

. 5. Sometimes what is neceffary, 2 Cor. viii. 3.

VI. How ought we to give?

1. Out of a Senfe of Duty, not for VainGlory, S. Matth. vi. 142.

2. Out of Love and Pity to our Brother, 1 Cor. xiii. 3.

3. Willingly, 2 Cor. viii. 10, 11, 12.

4. Chearfully, Rom. xii. 8. 2 Cor. ix. 7.
5. Readily, without delay, Prov. iii. 27, 28.
6. Thankfully, 1 Chron. xxix. 13, 14.
7. For a right End.

1. Not for Praife from Men.

2. Much lefs Salvation from GOD.
3. But for His Honour, Prov. iii. 9.

USES.

1. Repent of your Neglect of this Duty. 2. Perform it for the future.

Confider,

1. The Law of GOD commands it.
2. The Law of Nature, S. Matth. vii. 12.
3. GOD hath made it our Brother's Due,
and fo we rob Him, unless we give.
4. There is a Bleffing entailed upon it, Act.

xx.' 35.

5. Hereby we imitate GOD, S. Matth. v. 48.

S. Luk. vi. 36.

6. Unless we give, we have no Love for GOD IS. Joh. iii. 17.

7. Nor true Religion, S. Jam. i. 27.

8. What we have, is not our own, but GOD's, to be laid out according to His Will, S. Luk. xvi. 12. 1 Chron. xxix. 11. 9. Yet

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9. Yet Himself will repay us what we have fo disburfed, Prov. xix. 17.

10. Hence this is the way to lay up our Treasures in Heaven, 1Tim. vi. 17,18. 19. S. Matth. vi. 19, 20.

11. It is the best way to profper and fanctify what ye have here, Prov. xxviii. 27. Deut. XV. 7, 8, 9, 10, IL.

12. You fhall be judged according to your Performance or Neglect of this Duty, S. Matth. xxv. 34, 35, 41, 42.

Roм. xii. 13, 14, 15, 16.
Given to Hofpitality.

Ver. 13. Ver. 14. Bless them which perfecute you: blefs, and curfe not.

Ver. 15. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. Ver. 16. Be of the fame Mind one

towards another.

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Τα φιλοξενίαν διώκοντες.

WHAT is Hospitality?

implies,

1. Our Indifferency about the World.

2. Willingness to communicate what we have to others, 1 Tim. vi. 17.

3. Our fupplying Strangers as well as others. with Neceffaries, 1 S. Pet. iv. 9.

REASONS.

REASONS.

1. A Priori. We fhould do to others, as we would have them do to us, S. Matth. vii. 12.

2. A Pofteriori. Because of the Good we may get by it. Some have entertained Angels, Hebr. xiii. 2. Gen. xviii. 3. and xix. 2. And Prophets, 1 King. xvii. 10, 12, 14, 16. 2 King. iv. 8, 16, 17, 34. S. Matth. XXV. 43.

II. Bless them which curfe you.. 1. We must expect Reproaches.

2. We must not recompenfe Curfes for Curfes, S. Matth. v. 44. 1 Cor. iv. 12. 1 S. Pet. ii. 23.

3. But pray for a Bleffing upon them, S. Luk. xxiii. 34. 1 S. Pet. ii. 21, 22, 23.

III. Rejoice with them that rejoice, and weep with them that weep.

That is,

1. Rejoice at others Profperity.

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Spiritual, S. Luk. xv. io. Act. xi. 23. Phil.

i. 3.

2. Temporal.

2. Be troubled at others Loffes and Troubles, Job ii. 11. and xlii. 11.

REASON.

We are Members of one another, 1 Cor. xii. 26, 27.

IV. Be of the fame Mind one towards another. 1. So as to love one another, S. Job. xiii. 34. 2. To be at Peace together, Rom. xii. 18. Hebr. xii. 14.

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1. Peace