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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91789	The cause of the poor pleaded. By Samuel Richardson.	Richardson, Samuel, fl. 1643-1658.	1653 (1653)	Wing R1404; Thomason E703_9; ESTC R207141	17,303	15

do not know him 12. To shew mercy to the poor may be a lengthening of thy tranquility Dan. 4. 27. The mercifull man doth good to his owne soule Pro. 11. 17. 13. We should give because we may come to want our selves Give a portion to 7. and also to 8. for thou knowest not what evill shall come upon the earth Fire may come theeves oppressors sword famine overflowing waters c. may come therfore give for such measure as you meet to others shall be meeasured to you again Make frends by giving to the poor Lu. 16. 9 10. 14. If the clouds be full they empty themselves upon the earth Eccl. 11. 3. the very Indians Heathen wild Irish give freely such food as they have to all comers the very Lions Wolves c. will not devour the prey alone they call their fellows to what they get Will a Lion roare in the forrest when he hath no prey will a Lion cry out in his den if he have taken nothing at all Am. 3. 4. It appears when he hath taken something he cals by roaring and crying to his fellows to come and share in what he hath taken 15. If you omit this duty it will be a sin unto you Deut. 15. 7 8 9 10. Rom. 15. 26. 16. How do we love our neighbor as our selves if we take not care for them as we do for our selves 17. To give is a joy to the Saints We have had great joy and consolation in thy love because the bowels of the Saints are refreshed by thee Phile 7. 18. To give is a means to cause others to do so also Your ministring to the Saints the forwardness of your mind hath provoked very many 2 Cor. 9. 1 2. 19. To give is pleasing to God and man God loveth a cheerfull giver 2 Cor. 9. 7. To do good to communicate forget not for with such sacrifices God is well pleased Heb. 13. 16. An odour of sweet smel a sacrifice acceptable well pleasing to God Phil. 4. 18. It pleased them to give Rom. 16. 26. It pleaseth them that receive it pleaseth all good people that heare of it 20. To give is an honor glory to God He that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor Pro. 14. 31. They glorifie God for their liberall distribution unto them and unto all men 2 Cor. 9. 13. They seeing your good workes glorifie your Father which is in heaven Mat. 5. 16. Mat. 15. 8. Consider the evils and miseries they bring upon themselves who have this worlds good and doe not supply the wants of others 1. They are guilty of all the sorrows sufferings which their not giving hath occasioned consider what account wilt thou be able to give of that estate God hath betrusted thee withal to supply the wants to others whom thou hast neglected and hast and dost consume it upon thy lusts and pleasures ere long it shall be said unto thee Give an account of thy stewardship for thou maist be no longer steward Lu. 16. 22. dost thou think that if some other had the estate thou hast that they could not and would not do more good with it then thou dost many in these our days have had great estates now they have them not one cause is they did not supply the want of others therefore they are taken from them and are in great want themselves 2. So long as we omit our duty herein we cannot enjoy the sweet peace of a good conscience 3. All your religion is vain impure and false Pure religion undefiled before God is to visite the fatherless widow in their affliction Jam. 1. 27. Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry and to bring the poor that are cast out to thy house Isa. 58. 7 8 9. To love mercy Mica 6. 8. 4. It was the sin of Sodome that she did not strengthen the hands of the poor and needy Ezek. 16. 49. And if we commit the same sins may wee not expect to meet with the same punishment fire and brimstone or that which is worse hardness of heart and everlasting punishment Mat. 24. 46. I fear this nation lieth under a curse for this sin though many see it not or consider it not 5. We hurt our selves by keeping that we should give A sore evill I have seen under the sun namely riches kept by the owners thereof to their hurt Eccles. 5. 13. 6. The cry of the poor is against you God heareth their cry and will take their part Ps. 104. 1. Ps. 72. 12. Ps. 69. 13. If the oppressed be silent their oppression doth cry Ps. 12. 5. 7. Ye have not the love of God in you 1 Cor. 3. 17. Pro. 29. 7. Whoso hath this worlds goods seeth his brother in need and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him how dwelleth the love of God in him Whatsoever you or any think or say it is not in you at all 1 Joh. 3. 17. If you did love you would supply the wants of your brethren He that loveth not his brother abideth in death vers. 14. 15. 8. What you have is unclean to you Luk. 11. 41. 9. The Lord will not hear your prayer Whoso steppeth his ears at the cry of the poor he shall cry himself but shall not be heard Pro. 12 13. He hath forsaken the poor Lev. 20. 19. 10. Ye are not subject to the Gospel of Jesus Christ but ye oppose and deny the same 2 Cor. 9. 13 14. Taking vengeance on them that know not God that obey not the Gospel who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord 2 Thes. 1. 8 9. This is your portion for he that is not merciful hath not the spirit of Christ he that hath not the spirit of Christ is none of his Rom. 8 9. 11. You bring the judgment of God upon your selves and upon your posterity Let his days be few his children fatherlesse and his wife a widow let their children be vagabonds and beg their bread let the extortioner catch all that he hath let the stranger spoile his labour let there he none to extend mercy to him neither let there be any to father his fatherlesse children let his posterity be cut off let their name be blotted out Because he remembred not to shew mercy but persecuted the poor Ps. 109 8. to 16. For the oppression of the poor sighing of the needy now will I arise saith the Lord Ps. 12. 5. Because he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor sarely they shall not feele quietness in the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits Job 20. 19. to 25. If I have with-held the poor from his desire or have caused the eyes of the widow to faile or have eaten my morsel my self alone and the fatherless have not eaten thereof If I have seen any perish for want of cloathing if his loyns have not blessed me if he were not warmed with the fleece of my

Holland that there may be no begging in England nor just complaint by reason of want this were a good work a blessed work very comfortable of great necessity attainable honorable to this Nation very acceptable to God and to those in want and to all good men The Lord preserve those precious and blessed men who have power and hearts to do so great good for those who cannot help themselves God shall give them a full reward 2 John 8. Surely God wil greatly bless them that further so blessed a work God delights in mercy more then in sacrifice A merciful man is strucken to the heart with the miseries of others and is compelled to help them if he can Let no man seek his own things but every man anothers wealth 1 Cor. 10. 24. Mordecai seeking the wealth of his people Est 10. 3. When this Nation shall seek the wealth thereof that each may enjoy the same mercies and comforts which they desire for themselves England shall be indeed a Common-wealth Many say they have little enough for themselves wives and children all seek their own thing● Phil. 1. 2. They are lovers of themselves 2 Tim. 3. 2. The wicked rich man was all for himself Soul take thou thine ease thou bast goods laid up for many years Luk. 12. 19. he laid up all for self they leave their substance to their babes Ps. 17. 14. They put wife and children into their Wils but leave out Christ and his children because they love wife and babes more then Christ but know He that loveth father or mother more then me is not worthy of me and he that loveth son or daughter more then me is not worthy of me Lu. 10. 37 38. If any man come to me hate not his father and mother and wife and children yea and his own life also he cannot be my disciple Lu. 14. 26. Behold we have forsaken all and followed thee Mat. 19. 27. 29. Knowing in our selves that we have in heaven a better and an induring substance Heb. 10. 34. 2 Cor. 4. 18. He that provideth not for his family is worse then an infidell If thou art a believer Christs family is thy family Eph. 3. 15. Heb. 2. 6. They are thy brethren and sisters brethren and sisters are ever counted of one stock kindred and family and brethren are to provide for their brethren Lev. 25. 25. Num. 27. 11. Lev. 27. 35. If we be all members of one body we should think the discomodities of our brethren pertain to our selves men do wel to provide for wife and babes but not then when the present necessities of others cannot be supplyed without the same how did they in the 2. and 4th of the Acts provide for their families wives and babes when they sold their houses and lands and gave away all the money Were they worse then Infidels because they were more carefull to supply the present wants of the Saints then to provide for themselves wives and children 2 Cor. 8. 14. The leaving great estates to children makes them so much the greater sinners to spend their dayes in pride pleasure idleness uncleanness tyranny and oppression and in all excesse of wickednesse but this the rich father will not believe If men be not able to give it is excepted according to that a man hath 2 Cor. 8. 12. We should labour working with our hands to have to give to him that needeth Eph. 4. 28. Many spend so much on their lusts that they are not able to supply the wants of others The lusts of the flesh the lust of the ey● and the pride of life are chargeable they devour all and make poor they are able to spend thousands a year One said I have 12000. a year yet I want money as much as another man One sinner destroyeth much good Eccl. 11. 18. Rom. 18. 18. They have sought out many inventions Eccl. 7. 29. to consume their estates Obj. None doe their duty herein Answ. That will not excuse any we are to follow the word of the Lord and not men that walk contrary to it if none obey God the greater is thy sin not to do it Obj. I would give but I feare I shall want my selfe Ans. If you keep what you have you may want the comfort of it and the blessing of it and the peace of conscience You had better give and want it then keep it and sin but the Lord saith He that giveth to the poor shall not lacke Pro. 28 27. In the dayes of famine they shall have enough Job 5. 20. If you cannot trust him for your bodie how do you or how can you trust God with your soul which is the greater trust It 's only the unbelieving heart wch saith Can God furnish a table in the wilderness Can he give bread also Ps. 78. 19 20. Take no thought saying what shall we eate or what shall we drinke or wherewith shall we be cloathed Your heavenly father knoweth that ye have need of these things all these things shall be added unto you Take therefore no thought for the morrow for to morrow shall take thought for it selfe sufficient to the day is the evill thereof Mat. 6 31. Some say they know none in want but it will not be sufficient to say so so they will say Lord when saw we thee hungry and naked 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 25. They knew no such thing nor did they enquire nor come wh●re they might have seen it Luk. 9. 23. They were willingly ignorant The righteous considereth the cause of the poor but the wicked regardeth not to knowe it Pro. 29. 7. Many say professors of Religion are as covetous and miserable as others some have two or three great places of profit besides their owne estates but little good they do Alas what answer shall we give to this save only that there are many professors of Religion that are not possessors of it they have not heard Christ and so not learned of him as the truth is in Jesus therefore they have not known God nor the power or Religion If indeed they were converted and had the spirit of Christ they could not but be mercifull and liberall witness Zacheus and they in the 2d and 4th of Acts. These are the last times indeed men generally are all for themselves and some would set up such Having a forme of Religion without the power of it deceiving themselves and others whose end is destruction who minde earthly things Phil. 3. 19. They pant after the dust of the earth Amos 2. 7. After these things seeke the Gentiles Mat. 6. 23. Those who are risen with Christ set their afections on things above and not on things on the earth Col. 1 2. The power of religion and godliness lieth in the practise of it Jam. 1. 22. By this shall all men know yee are my Disciples if ye love one another Joh. 13. 25. Every one that loveth is borne of God 1 Joh. 4. 7. Where love is there is