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A45805	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable Lord-Mayor, the Aldermen, and governours of the hospitals of London, at St. Bridget's Church, on Wednesday in Easter week, MDCC by Z. Isham ...	Isham, Z. (Zacheus), 1651-1705.	1700 (1700)	Wing I1071; ESTC R15563	18,740	35

A SERMON Preached before the RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD-MAYOR THE ALDERMEN AND Governours of the Hospitals of London At St. Bridget's Church On Wednesday in Easter Week MDCC By Z. ISHAM D. D. Rectour of S. Botolph Bishopsgate London LONDON Printed for Walter Kettleby at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard MDCC To the Right Honourable Sir RICHARD LEVETT LORD-MAYOR of LONDON THE HONOURABLE The COURT of ALDERMEN AND THE GOVERNOVRS of the several Hospitals This DISCOURSE is humbly Presented by the AUTHOUR With his Earnest Prayer For the Peace and Vnity The Righteousness and Prosperity Of this IMPERIAL CITY And that every Magistrate and Sharer in the Government of it May have this Retribution from the King of Kings Because thou hast been faithful in a little Have thou authority over ten Cities Luke 19.17 Levett Mayor Martis nono die Aprilis 1700. Annoque Regni Regis Willielmi Tertii Angliae c. duodecimo THIS Court doth desire Doctor Isham to Print his Sermon Preached before the Lord-Mayor Aldermen and Governours of the several Hospitals of this City at the Parish-Church of St. Brides on Wednesday in Easter-Week last Goodfellow ACTS XX 35. Ye ought to support the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus how he said It is more blessed to give than to receive I. WHEN David in an Assembly of his Great Men had encourag'd their Oblations towards the building of the Temple their extraordinary Munificence fill'd him with pious Joy And Now saith he O God 1 Chron 29.13 14 16. we thank Thee and praise thy Glorious Name But who am I and what is my People that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort For all things come of Thee and of thine own have we given Thee Such a Religious Address may well become this Solemnity especially from you that have been liberal Offerers with your own hands And we ought to begin with Thanksgivings to God for enriching this Great City with so many Structures of Charity and to bless him for enabling the Raisers of them to offer so willingly and to acknowledge with humble Gratitude All this store cometh of thine hand and is all thine own 'T is not for Ostentation and Pomp that these Benefactions are now display'd for that would be to offer Violence to Charity it self but for the exciting of our Sacrifices to God who is the chief Donour of all these Gifts and for a Memorial of the Righteous Psal 112.6 that are worthy to be had in Everlasting Remembrance and for an Incentive to all those that have hearts to follow them Let us accordingly answer these Ends and pursue this Spiritual Traffick with an Earnestness equal to the Advantages of it And let us be assur'd that the Strength of a City lies in God's Protection and the Riches of it in Works of Piety and Mercy To which effect Ye ought to support the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus how he said It is more blessed to give than to receive II. The Maxim here mention'd from the Mouth of our Blessed Lord is not deposed in any of the Gospels received by the Church but was transmitted as I conceive by Tradition and commonly known amongst the Christians which therefore they are call'd upon to remember as what they had often heard S. John tells us That if all that Jesus did should be set down distinctly in Writing even the World it self could not contain the Books that should be written Joh. 21.25 By which hyperbolical Expression the Evangelist seems to intimate That the Intention of his Writing was not out of a Partial Affection to Christ to set forth all that he did and to compile a Volume meerly for his Glory but to relate onely so much as was necessary for the Instruction of the World in the Fundamental Principles of the Christian Faith Whereupon he saith before Joh. 20.30 31. Many other Signs truly did Jesus in the Presence of his Disciples which are not written in this Book But these are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God which was the grand Article for the Conviction of the Jews who disclaim'd his being the Messias and of the Hereticks who then impugned his Divinity and that believing ye might have life through his Name Wherefore as Christ endeavour'd the Conversion of his own People and evinc'd his being the Promis'd Redeemer by innumerable Miracles which are not convey'd to the Knowledge of Posterity the Wisdom of God ordering it thus and having given us otherwise sufficient Confirmation of our Faith so likewise many of the Heavenly Speeches deliver'd by him in the Course of his Preaching are unrecorded in our Authentick Gospels and yet some of them have been occasionally preserv'd as also a few Remains of the Apostles like Gold wash'd off from the Mountains and left upon the Shoar Of this Nature is a Saying of our Lord met with in many of the Ancient * Origen Clem. Alex. Hieron c. Fathers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be good Exchangers of Money that is Distinguish well between true and counterfeit Doctrine And so again this is ascrib'd by * De Orat. § 2. Origen to our Saviour Ask for great things and the little shall be added to you ask for heavenly things and the earthly shall be added From a like unknown Source we have by S. Paul this excellent Aphorism before us which might well be joyn'd to those admirable Beatitudes in the Sermon upon the Mount For an equal Blessedness is here declar'd and promis'd to the charitable Giver by him who is able to make good his Promise It is more blessed to give than to receive III. For the Explication of which Words as they are apply'd by the Apostle to the supporting of the weak and indigent I shall endeavour to clear these Four Points First Vpon what grounds we are oblig'd to Works of Charity Secondly In what proportion our Charity is required by God Thirdly Vpon what Objects our Charity is most usefully employ'd And Fourthly Wherein the Blessedness of being charitable consists First I am to explain the Grounds upon which we are oblig'd to Works of Charity And these I should not insist upon in a Duty to uncontested though too frequently shifted off were they not also Enforcements to Alacrity and Forwardness herein And the Grounds which I shall argue from shall be these Two 1st The Principles of Natural Justice And 2dly The Light of Revelation 1st Let it be consider'd that relieving of the Poor is exacted from us by the Rules of Natural Justice Because though they have no particular and perfect Right to what any of us possess yet having a share in God's Donation of the Earth to Man they have hereby a general Claim to the Bounty of the Rich which is to be actually exhibited as their Wants are discover'd to us For our Incitement hereunto there are natural Motions wrought within us