Thomas Gisborne, Anglican priest, comments on manufacturing, in an age when quicksilver was coming into industrial use. A practice that injures human health or morals cannot be continue continued with a safe conscience.
He’s not calling for a return to preindustrial, caveman-like technologies. He’s not calling for massive regulation. He is addressing a spritiual matter: the conscience.
How can you protect the health and morals of persons?
Richard Baxter, Puritan, equates love, and zeal for the Lord’s work, with deeds that save others from physical death. Do it now, else you or your friend may soon pass away. There will be cases where an act of mercy can be done today, but cannot be done tomorrow.
When most Christian presentations invoke a sense of urgency, how often is it for doing good deeds?
How can you do something expeditiously today?
Joseph Hall, Puritan, considers Proverbs 19:17, “Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will reward them for what they have done.”
Hall insists that God has good credit. God has given to us enough so that we may freely lend, and by grace instilled in us a heart that is willing to do so. This is God’s bounty and his justice.
How can you freely lend?
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