...companion are altogether neceflary in all our almf-giving. St. Paul, when he fays, * Though I beftow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing j implies, that it is poflible for a man to give all his goods away to charitable ufes, and...

...Good Works, as to lay the p roper Foundation, upon which they fhould be built. Though I beftow all my Goods to feed the poor, and have not Charity, it profiteth me nothing, $. 3. Charity, as the Principle of all our Thoughts and Deportment, is what he is labouring...

...fpring from, but do not, he makes ufe of the fame inftance, i Cor. xiii. 3. And though I be/low all my goods to feed the poor , and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. This, to appearance, is one of the higheft acts of benevolence; and yet when it is the offfpring...

...and Chriftian Temper of Mind, no fingle Action is valuable in the Sight of God : Though I beftow all my Goods to feed the Poor, and have not Charity, it profiteth me nothing : That is, Almjgiving, or the Acl: of any other Virtue, if it proceeds only from fome accidental...

...that the moft profufe profufe Alms-giving may be owing to indirect Caufes, when he tells us, Though I give all my Goods to feed the Poor, and have not Charity, it profiteth me nothing [ver. j/j But, if this be the Cafe, how mall we be able to judge concerning the charitable...

...commonly called charity, is evident from the third verfe, where it is faid, ' That although I beftow all my goods to feed « the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me no' thing :' So that here love is fet above all the chriftian From this principle of beauty, which...

...us upon a very ferious enquiry into the nature and value of our benevolence; " Though I beftow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing:" /. e. " If I have not a root and principle of love to God in my heart, that carrieth me out...

...the oVje>i of God's love, becaufe he is bountiful and liberal to the neeeflitous. But though I fhould give all my goods to feed the poor and have not charity,' I am nothing. One man is perfuadecl of his intereft in God's favour, becaufe he every day offers up...

...God's love, becaufe he is bountiful and liberal to the necefiitous.. ec/fitous. But though I mould give all my goods to feed the poor and have not .'charity, I am nothing. One man is perfuaded of his intereft in. God's favour, becaufe he every day offers up...

...confift in giving to the poor, is evident from what the apoftle Paul obferves : " Though I beftow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." Here is a plain intimation, that a perfon may manifeft great kindnefs to the poor, while...