Preached at Saint Pauls

              preached at saint pauls 2 COR 5520 5.20 20 WE PRAY YEE IN CHRISTS STEAD BE YE reconciled TO GOD YN BESTOWING of benefits there are some circumstances that vitiate I1anddepravethenatureofthebenefit aswhenamangivesonely in contemplation of retribution for then he is not dator but mercator this is not a giving but a merchandising a permutation or when he is cyminibilis dator as our canons speake one that gives mint and cumin so small things and in so small proportions as onely keeps him alive that receives and so issum ipsum if rum sum quod dat perlt pent perit & vitam producit ad miserism miseriam miseriarn miseria miser lam iam lum rn that that is given is lost and he be that receives it is but continued in misery and so the benefit hath almost the nature of an injury because but for that poore benefit hee bee might have got out of this life and then there are circumstances that doe absolutely annihilate a benefit amongst which one is if the giver take so expresse so direct so publique publique knowledge of the wants of the receiver as that he be shall be more ashamed by it then refreshed with it for in many courses of life it does more deject a man in his own heart and in the opinion of others too and more retard him in any preferment to be known nown to be poore then to be so indeed and he that gives so does not onely make him that receives his debtor but his prisoner for he takes away his liberty of applying himselfe himselfe to others who might be more beneficially beneficiall to him then he that captivated and ensnared him with that small benefit and therefore many times in the scripture the phrase is such in doing a curtesie curtesie as though the receiver had done it in accepting it so when jacob made a present 1