John Trapp on Proverbs 3:27

Verſ. 27. With-hold not good from them to whom it is due] Either by the Law of equity, or of charity: For there is a debt of love, Rom. 13.8. that wee muſt ever bee owing, and ever pay. And as wee ſay of thanks, Gratiae habendae & agendae, Thanks muſt bee given and held as ſtill due, ſo muſt this debt of love. Quicquid Clerici habent, pauperum eſt, ſaith Hierome; Its true (in a ſenſe) of others, as well as of Miniſters. The poor (Gods poor) are the owners of that wee have, wee are but ſtewards and diſpenſers of Gods bounty to his neceſſitous ſervants: Now if our receits bee found great, and our layings out ſmall, God will caſt ſuch bills back in our faces, and turn us out of our ſtewardſhip. They are fools that fear to loſe their wealth by giving, but fear not to loſe themſelves by keeping it.

When it is in the power of thy hand] When thou haſt opportunity and ability; for wee muſt not ſtretch beyond the ſtaple, that were to marre all: Neither when a price is put into our hands, may wee play the fools and neglect it: But whereſoever God ſets us up an Altar,Prov. 17.16 wee muſt bee ready with our Sacrifice of Alms: for with ſuch Sacrifices God is well-pleaſed, Heb. 13. See my common place of Alms.