XL] CONCLUSION. 



life in which the children have been bred up ; 

 for, a man has no right to gratify his own vanity 

 or pride by dressing up his children in fine clothes, 

 by causing them to be waited on by servants, by 

 causing them to ride in carriages, and, then, 

 when they are grown up, to say to them, " work 

 for yourselves, as I have done ; for I have 710 

 fortunes to give you." He has no right to do 

 this : he should not have indulged his vanity or 

 pride by doing that which rendered them un- 

 fitted for beginning the world as he began it. 

 Still less is he justifiable, be he in what state of 

 life he may, if he, being able to prevent it, 

 suffer his family to experience actual ivant of 

 any thing necessary to their nourishment and 

 health : for, Saint Paul says, " If any provide 

 ^^ not for his own, and especially for those of his 

 '' own house, he hath denied the faith, and is 

 '^ worse than an infidel'' But, hy providing for 

 his own, it is by no means meaned, that, when 

 a man earns, or, from whatever source, possesses, 

 more than is sufficient for a just and suitable 

 provision, he is not called upon for works of 

 charity, or, for acts of duty towards his country ; 

 that is to say, acts, in the benefits of which his 

 neighbours, his countrymen, and particularly his 

 poorer neighbours and countrymen are to share. 

 '' Family,'' '^ wife and children^' his duty towards 

 these, is the standing excuse of every grinding. 



