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23 and not to starve you: Our steward kens when to spend and when to spare. Christ kens well whether heaping or straking agrees best with our narrow vessels, for both are alike to him: Sparing will not enrich him, nor will spending impoverish him. He thinks it ill won that is holden off his people. Grace and Glory comes out of Christ's lucky hand. Our vessels are but feckless and contain little: His fullness is most straitened when it wants a vent. It is easy for Christ to be holden busy in dividing the fulness of his father's house to his poor friends; He delights not to keep mercy over night. Every day brings new mercy to the people of God: He is the easiest merchant ever the people of God yoked with: If ye be pleased with the wares, what of his graces makes best for you, he and you will soon sort on the price; he will sell goods cheap, that ye may spier for his shop again; and he draws all the sale to himself. I counsel you to go no further than Christ. And now when it is come to your door, either to sin or to suffer, I counsel you to lay your accounts for suffering; for an out gate coming from another airth may be prejudiced to your soul's interest. And for your encouragement, remember he sends none a warfare on their own chages. And blest is the