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A40096	A sermon preached before the right honourable the lord maior of London, and the Court of Aldermen, &c., on Easter-Monday, 1692 being one of the anniversary spittal-sermons / by Edward Lord Bishop of Gloucester.	Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.	1692 (1692)	Wing F1723; ESTC R37351	17,587	40

Goodness and Charity it self alwaies showering down Bounty and Mercy on the whole Creation I might Shew too that nothing is so Amiable as this Vertue in the Opinion of the World that nothing procures such Love and Esteem and how it Perfumes mens Memories like Precious Oyntment when they are dead and gone Of which I need not tell you there are Innumerable Examples And it is impossible to Recount how many of these This Renowned City may make her Boast of whose greatest Renown is Owing to the great Numbers of most Exemplarily Charitable Christians who will be had in Everlasting Remembrance which from Age to Age She hath produced And thanks be to the Divine Grace This City with the Sub-Urbs is Blest at present as lamentably degenerate as the Age is grown with not a few whose works both of Piety and Charity do praise them in the Gates I am sure our persecuted and distressed Brethren of France and Ireland as well as Multitudes of Miserable Families in Our Out-Parishes have great cause to Praise God for them and to Remember them and theirs in their dayly Prayers For Abundance of them notwithstanding the Publick Collections and their Majesties Exceeding great Bounty must have Perished had it not been for the private Contributions of these good Christians And by the way I must needs put in a word here for our French Brethren whose Extreme sufferings you know are for the Best of Causes I Certainly inform you that their Condition is so deplorable at this time by the means of the Ceasing of the publick Charity that between three and four thousand of them and among these many Ministers and Persons of Quality must Starve or Beg about our Streets if Extraordinary and Speedy Care be not taken of them There is a Noble project newly set on foot by certain worthy and Excellent Persons for their dayly Relief and I promise my self that all those will gladly according to their Power close with it who are Sincere Lovers of our Blessed Lord whose Suffering Members they are and of His Religion for which they are next to Martyrs But to proceed There is One Sort of Charity which This City is deservedly very Famous for that the Present Occasion requires my particular Taking Notice of namely That of improving and from time to time Supplying Ancient Hospitals And most worthy Instances of this Nature are presented to you in this Paper A True Report c. WE see by these Reports Which have for a long time been Published Every Easter what a Vast Treasure of Charity hath been Deposited in Each of these Hospitals and Especially in that of Christ's Church As also how very faithfully and prudently it hath still been Employed by the Respective Governours We have a yearly Account of great Numbers of poor Orphans Extraordinarily well Maintained and as well Educated both in Learning and Piety and afterwards put forth to good Callings and the best Qualified sent to the Universities by that most Noble Hospital of Christ Church We have the like Account of Abundance of Sick Lame and Wounded People Restored to their Health and the use of their Limbs in the Hospitals of S. Bartholmew and S. Thomas Of Many poor Lunaticks whose Case is the most Compassionable of all Mortals Restored to their Understandings in the Hospital of Bethlem And of many idle and Vicious People taken out of Harms way and kept to Work and indigent Vagrants taken in and Relieved in order to their being returned to their Proper Homes as also poor Youths well brought up and Bound to Honest Trades by the Hospital of Bride-well All these I need not say are great Works of Charity and works most of them of the greatest Charity being so no less to the Souls than to the Bodies of Helpless Wretches So that the Charitably disposed among us can never be at a loss where Excellently well to bestow their Charity Where it may be secured from Embezzlement and from being conferred too upon the less Necessitous But to come to a Conclusion The only thing that can make more than a meer Competency for our selves and Families in the least desirable is the Advantage that 's gotten by Riches of having the great Pleasure in this World of being Benefactors and of Encreasing our Happiness in the World to come And 't is a Wonderful thing that so few mens Observation and Experience should convince them that nothing besides these two things can make any amends for the innumerable Troubles and Vexations that attend Riches And that Spending them in the Gratifying of Fleshly Lusts or on Pride and Vanity will make them far more Unhappy Even in this life than they can be made by the Want of them But 't is impossible that those should not be perswaded to Employ themselves in doing good Suitably to the Talents they are intrusted with who do so firmly believe as to bestow Every day a few Serious Thoughts on Such Texts as this God hath both Raised up the Lord and will also Raise up Us by His own Power THE END Books lately Printed for Richard Chiswel JACO BI USSERII Historia Dogmat. Controvers inter Orthodox Pontificios de Scripturis Sacris Vernaculis Nunc primum Edita Descripsit Digessit Notis atque Auctuario locupletavit Henricus Wharton A. M. Dr. PATRICK now Lord Bishop of E L Y His Exposition of The Ten Commandments and Lord's Prayer Private Prayer in Difficult Times Thanksgiving for our late wonderful Deliverance Two Prayers for the Happy Success of their Majesties Forces by Sea and Land Prayer for Charity Peace and Unity His Thanksgiving Sermon before the Lords on the 26th of November 1690. for the Preservation of their Majesties and the Reducing of Ireland and the King 's safe Return Dr. TENISON now Lord Bishop of Lincoln His Sermon of Doing good to Posterity His Sermon concerning Discretion in giving Alms. His Sermon against Self-Love before the House of Commons June 5 1689. His Sermon before the Queen concerning the Wandering of the Mind in God's Service His Sermon before the Queen of the Folly of Atheism February 22. 1690. Dr. FOWLER now Lord Bishop of Gloucester his Sermon before the Queen March 22. 1690. Dr. BURNET now Lord Bishop of Sarum His Sermon before the King and Queen April 29. 1691. Dr. FREEMAN now Dean of Peterborough his Sermon at the Assizes at Northampton Aug. 1690. His Thanksgiving Sermon before the House of Commons Nov. 5 1690. Some Remarks upon the Ecclesiastical History of the Ancient Churches of PIEDMONT By PETER ALLIX D. D. Treasurer of the Church of Sarum His Remarks upon the Ecelesiastical History of the Ancient Churches of the ALBIGENSES A Vindication of their Majesties Authority to fill the Sees of the deprived Bishops in a Letter out of the Country occasioned by Dr. B 's Refusal of the Bishoprick of Bath and Wells A Discourse concerning the Unreasonableness of a New Separation on account of the Oaths With an Answer to the History of Passive Obedience so far as relates to Them A Vindication of the said Discourse concerning the Unreasonableness of a New Separation from the Exceptions made against it in a Tract called A brief Answer to the said Discourse c. The present State of Germany by a Person of Quality 8vo The Judgment of God upon the Roman Catholick Church from its first rigid Laws for Universal Conformity to it unto its fast End With a Prospect of these near approaching Revolutions viz. The Revival of the Protestant Profession in an Eminent Kingdom where it was totally suppressed The last End of all Trukish Hostilities The General Mortification of the Parts of the Roman Church in all Parts of its Dominions By DRUE CRESNER D. D. 4to ANGLIA SACRA Sive Collectio Historiarum antiquitus Scriptarum de Archiepiscopis Episcopis Angliae a Prima Fidei Christianae susceptione ad Annum MDXL. Opera Hen. Whartoni A. M. in 2. Vol. Fol. Mr. RUSHWORTH's Historical Collections the Third Part in Two Volums in Folio from the Beginning of the Long Parliament 1640. to the End of the Year 1644. Wherein is a Particular Account of the Rise and progress of the Civil War to that Period The Bishop of ELY's Fast Sermon before the Queen April 8. 1692. His Letter to the Clergy of his Diocess