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Excerpt from Essays to Do Good: Addressed to All Christians, Whether in Public or Private Capacities
This being the case, it is not difficult to under stand the general duty of doing good. Vve en deavour to do good to others when we aim at secar ing their final introduction into heaven. This it is which distinguishes and marks the benevolent charac ter, according to the discoveries made by revelation of the nature and destinies of man. If we have made it an exclusive object in exercising love to our neighbour, that he may at last sit down in the king dom of God, we have pursued, with respect to him, that good which the Scripture tells us to pursue for ourselves, as comprehending in it all that is fit and desirable for us; and to love our neighbour as our selves is the great and divine law of charity. But if we have neglected that object, or given it only a subordinate place, then, so far as we are concerned, he has not received from us any thing that is good - he has not received a single benefit that will sur vive the few years of his pilgrimage, or that he can recollect with gratitude when he is closing his pro bationary course, or that can prevent him from ao ensing us of positive crueltv to his soul, in that.
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