If the clouds] They emptie themselves in showers for the good of the earth. So should rich men do, Psal. CXII. 9. And the showers fal upon all the ground, this as well as that. And so should the full and rich, not too solicitously enquire who it is to whom they give; He is a man, and needie man. and if the tree fall] Fall it must; and man must die. And as death leaves him, judgement findes him; and sentence goes upon him, for the right hand, or the left, according to his carriage towards the poor, Matth. XXV. 33,—46. Or, This seemes a vulgar Proverb touching things of small concerment, care, or choise. And to imply that our ordinarie almes should fall upon any, this or that poor, and be distributed as it were with a blinde hand, or hood-winkt eye, without any over-curious choise. He that observeth the winde] We must not stand scrupling and casting perils and objections and pretences to hinder or delay our Alms-giving; and come with our Talent tied up in a napkin. Whereas any pertext serves the covetous miser, not to give.