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A42041	Agape, or, The feast of love a sermon at the Oxford-shire feast, kept on Thursday Nov. 25, 1675 at Drapers-Hall in London : preached at St. Michael's Church in Cornhill / by Francis Gregory ...	Gregory, Francis, 1625?-1707.	1675 (1675)	Wing G1886; ESTC R7516	16,597	34

recommended to your Charity as proper Objects indeed who are like to make good Men and good Scholars too Should we but enquire from the Publick Schools of our own County or from the Colleges and Halls in our own University we should quickly hear of such and such Lads of slender Fortunes but Vertuous Inclinations and Rich Endowments industrious Youths that would be at Work but have no Tools Children that would be Scholars but cannot for want of a Tutour to instruct Books to read and perhaps bread to live Doubtless there is scarce any greater object of Charity than such a Child as this a Child that 's Pregnant and Promising to train up such a Child as this in a course of Religion and Learning is such a Service to God and his Church that 't is scarce within the reach of any private Man's Charity to do a greater For tell me who knoweth what a rare Man such a poor Child may prove hereafter Were it fit it were but easie to name some Persons that have been choice Instruments of Honour to God and Service to our Church who in their Minority lived on Alms. And if our bounty this day shall be placed on some such lucky Object who can tell but we may train up a Person of that Worth and Excellence for whom the whole Nation may be obliged to bless both God and Us Perhaps a few Books now bestowed on such a Child may render him hereafter a walking Library a little Money given him now may make him Rich hereafter our Cap may be changed one day into a Mitre our Cloth may be turned into Sattin and our Linnen may become Lawn-sleeves And methinks there is no sort of Men more obliged to this kind of Charity than We doubtless we are more concerned to endeavour the promotion of Learning than other men this is the great Profession of that Famous University which is the Glory of that County whereunto we owe our birth For whereas other Counties Glory in such and such Commodities and Manufactures 't is Ours that Glorieth in Liberal Arts and Nobler Sciences 'T is the Glory of some Counties that they can furnish the Chimnies of this vast City with constant fire 't is the Glory of other Counties that they can furnish your River and Cisterns with constant Water 't is the Glory of some Shires that they furnish your Shambles with Meat and your Shops with Cloth Well and what 's the Glory of our Shire Hath Oxford nothing to oblige London with Yes 't is our Counties Happiness and Honour that it can furnish your Inns of Court with Learned Lawyers to secure your Estates your City with Learned Physicians to preserve your Lives and above all your Pulpits with Learned Preachers to save your Souls And if so what Man amongst us that hath any Value for himself or his Native soil will not contribute something towards the Advancement of that Learning wherein the Honour of his Country and the safety of his own Estate Life and Religion are so much concerned 2. Such poor Children deserve to be recommended to your Charity this day as are like to make Vertuous Men and good Citizens too if you train up some eminent Scholar you will do an Honour to the place of your Birth and if you breed up some eminent Citizen you will much oblige the Place of your Habitation Past all peradventure there 's many a Child to be found whose Natural Genius doth lead him rather to the Shop than to the Study their Parts do very well dispose them for Mechanical Trades but not at all for Nobler Arts your Scarlet Gown may become that back on which our black one would be ridiculous 'T is certain that many a Child may make a Golden Lord Mayor who would have made but a leaden Bishop And is it not a thousand pities to see such poor Children stand at the door and beg who might have done so bravely within the Shop Were it not pity to see such persons in Rags and Tatters who with a little help might have worn a Chain of Gold Were it not pity to see such become the Nations shame and burden who with a little encouragement might have done a great deal towards its support and credit To prevent such a spectacle as this give me leave this day in their stead to become the Beggar though I would not be the Receiver of your Charity yet for once give me leave to ask it Doubtless amongst the many poor Children of our County 't is easie to pick out some that are promising and hopefull Lads of plodding heads and active hands Lads that might do far better in the Shop than at the Plow To place out such Lads as these to find them Work and Wages an honest Employment a Religious Master and a fitting Maintenance is that great Act of Charity which I would beg this day And for your Encouragement in this particular do but remember what brave Citizens have already been made even of Alms-boys to name Persons is needless and would be unhandsom too Only consider what hath been the happy issue of other Mens Charity may as well be the blessed event of yours who knoweth but some poor Apprentice trained up by the bounty of this day and fed by your Feast of Charity may prove a man of those Parts that signal Prudence Estate and Honour as to become the Governour of this Great Metropolis Who can tell but a Lord Mayor of London may for once be made even at Drapers-Hall there by your private Purses now and elsewhere by Common Votes hereafter But notwithstanding all this lest any Man's Charity should yet prove more cold than the very dish that should receive it give me leave to propound some proper considerations that may revive warm and make it fresh and that 's the business of our third and last Particular 3. Consider we what great Inducements man hath to be Charitable give we must and that considerably too but what 's our incouragement surely the greatest that can be see what it is in Four Particulars 1. The Commands of God do oblige us Commands that are express frequent and urgent too so the Evangelist Be ye mercifull as your Heavenly Father is mercifull and so again Give to him that asketh and yet again Charge them that are rich in this world that they be rich in good works c. We cannot be uncharitable to Man but we must be disobedient to God too 2. The Example of Christ doth much oblige us Learn of me saith our Blessed Saviour but what must we learn Certainly amongst other Lessons this of Charity is one so reasons great St. Paul who presseth the Corinthians to Acts of Mercy by this very Motive Ye know the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ who though he were rich yet for your sakes he became poor c. So charitable was the Son of God as for our sakes to give himself and shall not we so far tread in