Settling the Expenditure

“When a man hath allotted so 77iuch for bicildiitg a house, so long as he keeps within the bounds of his allotmeiit he parteth with his money freely; but wheji that is gone he parts with evejy penny with gricdging. It is good to make Christ large allowance at the first so that we do not afterwards grttdge our bargain a7idcontractP Good, Dr. Manton! Very good! When some of us began with the Lord Jesus we meant to place all that we had at his disposal, and ever since it has been a great joy to feel that everything we are and have belongs to him. What we can give to his cause we regard as children do their spending money; we lay it out with eagerness, and wish it were a hundred times as much. No silver slips from our hand so joyfully as that which goes to God. No gold is so readily parted with as that which is spent upon his cause. Grudging is far from us, when God’s cause is near to us. Surely, some of our friends started with other notions, and put the Lord on short commons at the first estimate, for they need to be hardly pressed ere they will give to his cause.

Dear reader, is this so with you? Do you look a score times at every sixpence you spend upon the Lord 1 If so, revise your contract. Make your Beloved a more liberal allowance. “He that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly.”