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A89257	The crying sin of England, of not caring for the poor. Wherein inclosure, viz. such as doth unpeople townes, and uncorn fields, is arraigned, convicted, and condemned by the Word of God. Being the chief heads of two sermons, preached at the lecture at Lutterworth in Leicester-shire in May last, and now published in love to Christ, his country, and the poor. By John Moore, minister of Knaptoft in Liecester-shire.	Moore, John, 1595?-1657.	1653 (1653)	Wing M2558; Thomason E713_7; ESTC R207160	18,309	34

churle and a Misers name will hardly be found in the Book of Life This is a sweet evidence of such as have a true Call into the state of Grace 1 John 3.14 We know we have passed from death to life because we love the brethren This is not the cause of our passing from death to life but the cause of our knowledg thereof and a true mark wherby we know it and he that loveth not his brother abideth in death that is hath no evidence that he hath the life of the Spirit and the life of Christ in him Arg. 2 Secondly Such have nothing of a Gospel spirit in them for a Gospel spirit is a giving and forgiving Matth. 5. 42. 19.21 5.44 45 spirit giving to the poor forgiving our enemies A Gospel spirit is a self-denying spirit Matth. 16.24 They look not every man at his own things but every man also at the things of others Phil. 2.4 The care of their own Family doth not shoulder out Gods Family A Gospel spirit will be as careful for to put somewhat into Christs Treasury as into his own Treasury so far is he from robbing Christs Treasury the poor to fill his own Al th●ngs that the Saints have are communicative both Spirituals and Temporals and they know that their Heavenly Father hath made them Stewards and hath not given them all their good things for themselves alone but for others also so they are exhorted Heb. 13.16 To do good and to communicate forget not for with such sacrifice God is well pleased That speech savours of Heathenism and not of a Gospel spirit We may do what we list with our own Art thou Rich hear thy charge from Heaven what thou must do with thy Riches 1 Tim 6.17 18 19. Charge them that are rich in this world that they be not high minded that they do good that they be rich in good works ready to distribute willing to communicate laying up unto themselves a sure foundation against the time to come that they may lay hold on eternal life There is a twofold use of our Estates First A Natural use as to provide for our selves wives children families this use every worldly man and that churlish Nabal for fo he is stiled 1 Sam. 25.3 knew well enough for saith he ver 11 Shall I take my bread and my water and my flesh he is all in the Positive my my my that I have killed for my Sheerers and give it unto men c. He was all selfish This is sowing to the flesh and he that sowes to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption Such mens Charity begins at home and keeps at home too 2 There is a Spiritual use of our Estates to relieve Christs Members if good poor and our own flesh if evil poor which stand in need of our help and this is a sowing to the Spirit and they that sow to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting Thirdly They that care not for the poor are full of distrust that God wil not make his word good when as God hath said Prov. 28.27 He that giveth to the poor shall not lack And Luke 6. 38. Give and it shall be given unto you good measure pressed down and shaken together and running over They will not take Gods word you can never make a worldly man believe but that he shall lack what he gives to the poor Never tell an earthly minded man of full measure and running over he believes he shall have the less for what he gives away the reason is he lives by sense and not by faith and he cannot trust God over all Fourthly They may call God Father but they are never a whit like unto their Heavenly Father who is the Father of mercies and God of all Consolation 2 Cor. 1.3 They are not merciful as their Father in Heaven is merciful Luke 6. 36. They are the Divels children and none of Gods that care not for the poor 1 Joh. 3.10 In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the divel whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God neither he that loveth not his brother Fifthly Such as care not for the poor are worldlings covetous persons if a man may be justly called a Covetous a worldly man he is of the worst of men such are Spiritual Idolaters Ephes 5.5 Adulterers Jam. 4.4 God abhors them Psal 10.3 and they shall never go to Heaven 1 Cor. 6. 10. These Worldlings are the unprofitable burdens of the earth in whom there is no Charity Liberality Hospitality nor Humanity such are greedy gripes which by their inclosure would have no poor to live with them nor by them but delight to converse with Beasts and to this purpose turne Corne into Grasse and men into Beasts Sixthly Not to care for the poor argues not love to God nor love to Christ 1 Joh. 3. 17. He that hath the worlds good and seeth his brother hath need and shutteth up his bowels of compassion how dwells the love of God in him The question is put here to put it out of Question that such do not love God It s no great matter what such profess and talk of the love of God truth is that they of all the rest in the world have no love to God For he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen 1 John 4.20 They have no love to Christ for Christ will censure of our love to him at the day of Judgment by that love we shew unto his Members the poor upon the earth Matth. 25. And there all flesh shall be proceeded against Secundum probata alligata and this shall be just and good proof In as much as you did it not to one of the least of these ye d●d ●t not to me by these little ones is not meant little in statute like Zacheus but little in estate little in esteem As Christ said Matth. 18.10 Despise not one of these little ones for in heaven their Angels do alwayes behold the face of my Father which is in Heaven so take care of one of these little ones for their Angels c. Arg. 7 7. Such as care not for the poor have no hopes that God will hear their prayers and grant their requests In prayer we expect our wants to be supplyed from free grace and rich mercy Now Christ tells us who they are that shall get mercy Matth. 5.7 Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy The merciful are such who are so inwardly moved with the miseries of others that they do outwardly receive them according to their abilites Luke 6.36 38. Such shall obtain mercy in their miseries sometimes with men but alwayes with God Sweet is that of the Prophet Isaiah 58. read the 7 9 and 10. verses which are to this sense if thou feed the hungry harbour the houseless cloth the naked and satisfie the afflicted soul ver 9.

THE CRYING SIN OF ENGLAND Of not Caring for the POOR WHEREIN Inclosure viz. such as doth unpeople Townes and uncorn Fields is Arraigned Convicted and Condemned by the Word of God Being the chief Heads of two SERMONS Preached at the Lecture at Lutterworth in Leicester-Shire in May last and now published in love to CHRIST his Country and the POOR By JOHN MOORE Minister of Knaptoft in Liecester-Shire Luke 16. 14. And the Pharisees also who were covetous heard all these things and they derided him London Printed by T. M. for Antony Williamson at the Queens Arms in Pauls Church Yard 1653. To the Supreme Authority of this Nation the PARLIAMENT of the Common-wealth of ENGLAND MAy it please your Honors to pardon my boldnesse in presenting these lines unto your Honorable Assembly Because the love to our Lord and Master Jesus Christ and to his poor Members hath set it upon my spirit to make my addresse unto your Honors For who knoweth Ester 4. 14. Whether ye are come to the rule of this Nation for such a time as this even to cast out that Judas-like spirit amongst us Of not caring for the Poor I durst hold my peace no longer because I found none to plead the Cause of the Poor and Needy against these Oppressors set forth to the life in these Papers I may be blamed by your Honors I have done it so bunglingly but shamed I ought not to be because I have done my best in a good cause even Christs cause and his poore's when abler men would not meddle True is that of Solomon Prov. 14-20 The poor is hated even of his own neighbour hath hardly one good man or neighbour to speak or plead for him but the rich hath many freinds I am perswaded Christ stands and looks on your Honorable Assembly what you wil do for him and his poor Members and I hope it 's none of your least design To take care of the poor to loose the bands of wickednesse to undo the heavy burdens and to let the oppressed go free Isa 58.6 I beseech your Honors ever to remember that divine truth Prov 29.7 The righteous considereth the cause of the poor but the wicked regardeth not to know it I bow my knee to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ that ye in every thing may shew your selves to be the freinds of the Bridegroome and Bride Chamber too and that this Honorable Assembly may be stiled the poor mans Freind so shall the blessing of the poor who are ready to perish come upon you Job 29.12.13 And Christ wil take it kindly as done unto himself Matth. 25.40 In as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren ye have done it unto me I strive to God for your Honors in my prayers that he would make you serviceable to God his Church the Publick and the Poor in your generations and am Your Honors Humble Servant and the Churches in Christ Jesus JOHN MOORE Minister of the Church of Knaptoft JOHN Chap. 12. ver 6. This he said not that he cared for the Poor WE have here to do with Judas an Hypocrite a Traitor a Devil both to his Master Christ and his Poor members An Hypocrite to his Master he kissed him when he would have killed him Matth. 26.49 To his Poor members he pretends here giving to the poor when he cared not for the poor A Traitor to both he betraies one Luke 22.48 and is a thief to the other John 12.6 and no less then a Devil to either To his Master Joh. 6.70 Have I not chosen twelve and one of you is a Devil to his poor members a child of the Devil 1 Joh. 3. 10. because he loves not his poor brother We have nothing to do here with Judas as he was all these to his Master Christ though my soul be like Ezekiels roll of a book full of lamentation mourning and woe to see every where such Ezech. 2. 10. a brood of Judasses Hypocrites Traitors Devils to Jesus Christ the Lord of Glory This he said not that he cared for the poor c. Here you see Judas hath the poor in his mouth but not in his heart It s the Character of a Judas then to love a little in word and tongue but not in truth and indeed 1 Joh. 3.18 would you have a Judas stigmatized burn the Hypocrite in his forehead with this inscription in Capital letters He cares not for the poor Take notice this is the brand that is set upon the stinking goats by which Christ will discover them at the great day They care not for the poor Matth. 25. 35 36 37 c. This is the mark set upon Judas the Son of perdition He cared not for the poor What I intend and this Scripture plainly speakes and this hard hearted Nation and age hath need of is this Doctrine That they are not ordinary sinners but Judas like sinners that care not for the poor It is no little sin but a wrath provoking sin not to care for the poor yea God and Christ care not for those Nations those places those persons that care not for the poor And therefore it must be the care of the Ministers of Jesus Christ to preach and pray more against this sin of not caring for the poor then ever they have done We shall open the text and so the doctrine Judas is not here taxed for doing injurie or wrong to the poor for oppressing or vexing them for taking away their means of subsistence or turning them out of their houses or taking away their Tradings and treading them under foot he is worse then a Judas that is so barbarous Judas is barely taxed for not caring for the poor But I know it will be questioned what poor who are those poor we must care for like him in the Gospel Luke 10.29 that was loath to love his neighbour as himself who presently falls a questioning Jesus and who is my neighbour and so who are these poor A mercieless miser hath so many tricks evasions distinctions put offs to keep his purse strings tyed his cubbord shut his garments to himself and his charity at home that he would make you beleive that there is hardly such a poor man living in the World that he is bound to take care of What poor is meant then Jesus Christ gave an answer to him that could not find out a poor neighbour to love as himself in the parable Luke 10. 30 31 32 33 34 c. The drift of which parable being this that we must take care of every poor neighbour that stands in need of our help Jesus Christ tels us what poor we must care for upon pain of proceeding in Judgement against us at the great day where we shall be arraigned convicted sentenced and execution done upon us too meerly for not caring for the poor Matth. 25. ver 35. to the end of the Chapt. The poor he there names are the

the Name of the poor in their mouths as it was for Judas They talke much of the poor but they do nothing to the purpose in respect of that they rob them of and usually they give to the poor with one hand and take it away with the other and their gratuity usually as it reacheth but a few and in some smal trifle so it lasteth but for a while For depopulation comes by degrees and the next generation usually knowes neither Tennant nor Cottier in such inclosed places for Towns we must call them no longer I but they plead further we get a great deal of corn in pasture grounds I grant they may get five or six crops once in thirty or fourty yeares but where are those every years crops and all those Tennants Cottiers and servants that were wont to be kept there let them answer this question I but yet they have another Plea Albeit this inclosure there is now abundance of Corn and that very cheap too Answ Blessed be the God of the Poor that hath of his goodness prepared for them Psal 68.10 and that the valleys these two yeers have been covered with corn they shout for joy they also sing Psal 65.13 It s no thanks to them that we have plenty Oh that this abundance of all manner of provisions might make poor and rich abound in thankfulness duty obedience to the Father of all our Mercies from whom we have every good thing But if the Lord should slack his hand but a little and with-hold this more then usual increase of Corn from us it is such inclosure would make it a flat famine as within these few years what crying for bread and complaining in our streets of such inclosure if then what will become of us now since when there hath been so much inclosed and even at this present they are so mad upon it as though it was their very project one time or other to famish the poor But I proceed to the fourth sort which they make beggers and they are those honest hearts who out of a tender conscience take so much care for the poor as they dare not comply with them in their uncharitable Designs nor consent to such inclosure Against these they fret and storm and tell them in plain termes they will undo them and make them beggers and so they do indeed in bringing multiplicity of Law Suites Actions of Trespass for nothing or at least for trifles as for coming over their ground c. and vex them all with long tedious Suites in Chancery to force them to do against their consciences which they have brought to pass too often times upon which some Parties have growne distracted and others forced thus to consent have never lived a comfortable hour after all the dayes of their lives Oh this is a cruel Oppression and not to be suffered in a Land of Uprightness and yet is done in the face of the Sun Alas how many amongst us are now persecuted in this manner because they would keep Faith and a good Conscience pure and unspotted both before God and man and are threatned to be undone utterly except the Lord raise them up Deliverers for which I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ But the Lord speaks to these by the Prophet Micah chap. 2. ver 1 2 3. Wo to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds When the morning is light they practise it because it is in the power of their hand and they covet fields and take them by violence and houses and take them away So they oppress a man and his house even a man and his heritage Therefore thus saith the Lord Behold against this Family do I devise an evil from which ye shall not remove your necks Let them read their dolful Lamentation as it is called in the subsequent verse I must tell these Make-beggers that have such a spirit as is spoken Amos 2.6 7. That sell the Righteous for Silver and the poor for a pair of shooes that pant after the dust of the earth upon the head of the poor that is would be rid of all poor good poor and bad poor too for profit and a little gain and that do so pant thirst and are inflamed with Covetousness that filthy Lucre must be had upon the head of the poor though they break the head yea the very heart of the poor they usually upon such inclosure treble the price of their Land and this they get by flaying the skin off the poor They get it they shall one day give an account how out of the hide of the poor Tenant Cottier and poor servant Yea I must tell these that thus sell the poor for trifles That I am suspicious they wil sell their God for Gold and Judas like their Christ to fill the bag their profession is nothing if they care not for the poor A Gospel spirit is a giving spirit c. Thus having shewed what poor we must care for as that also those that do unpeople Towns and uncorn Fields are so far from caring for the poor that they make beggers of the poor I will briefly hold out what is meant by caring for the poor Christ shewes us what it is to care for the poor in that Parable Luke 10. from ver 30 to the end of ver 37. where he tells us of a man in misery that had fallen amongst Thieves which stripped him of his rayment and wounded him leaving him half dead The Priest and Levite they saw him and passed by him as though it nothing concernned them and had no bowels towards him he might have been starved there and might have perished of his wounds but the good Samaritane is said ver 34 to take care of him Why because ver 33 34 35 When he saw him he had compassion on him and went to him and bound up his wounds pouring in Oyl and Wine and set him on his own beast and brought him to an Inn and took care of him And on the morrow when he departed he took out two pence and gave to the Host and said unto him Take care of him and whatsoever thou spendest more when I come again I will repay thee You see here what it is to take care of the poor viz. to have such compassion on them as to provide for them in their miseries to relieve their wants to make a supply of what they stand in need of c. but Judas nor the former Make-beggers which I especially aim at in this Discourse are not of this Spirit This he said not that he cared for the poor We shall now lay downe some Arguments to shew you the greatness of this evil of not caring for the poor I will but name what was delivered at large Arg. 1 First It s a shrewd Argument that such belong not unto God For love is of God and every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God 1 John 4.7 A