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A78766	The city remembrancer. Or, A sermon preached to the native-citizens, of London, at their solemn assembly in Pauls on Tuesday, the 23 of June, A.D. MDCLVII. / By Edm. Calamy B.D. and pastor of the church at Aldermanbury.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1657 (1657)	Wing C228A; Thomason E1676_2; ESTC R208432	25,502	90

his people till there was no remedy When Hanun the Ammonite abused Davids Ambassadors this affront made him to stink before David as it is expresly said 2 Sam. 10. 6. and brought destruction upon him and all his people Ministers rightly called and ordained are the Ambassadors of Jesus Christ when you despise them you despise Christ when you starve them for want of maintenance Christ takes it as an injury against himself and he will revenge their quarrel One great reason why God destroyed Jerusalem was because she killed the Prophets and stoned them that were sent to her And the reason why Heidelberg that famous City was laid wast was as I was told by a Reverend and learned Minister there dwelling for the contempt of the Ministry O Let not this be your sin lest you also perish as they have done 5. By your constancy in the faith in these Apostatizing dayes It will not it cannot be denied but that London is miserably infected and beleapred with errors and heresies And what is said of Poland and Amsterdam may be as truly said of this City That if a man had lost his Religion he should be sure to find it be it what it will be amongst as here We are a Cage of unclean Birds A receptacle for Hereticks of all kinds Heresie is gone forth from London into all parts of the Land Now you must know That Heresie will quickly bring ruine upon a City Pezelius upon Sleidan tells us that the dissentions of the Christians in the East brought in the Saracens and Mahumetans They were divided into ten severall Religions and their divisions did armare Saracenos in ecclesiae perniciem did Arm the Saracens to destroy the Christians and therefore if you would seek the good of the place of your Nativity you must be valiant for the truth you must indeavour according to the station in which God hath set you to purge the City of these Augaean stables to hinder the growth of Heresie You must not be like Children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of Doctrin You must in malice be children but in understanding be men You must be stedfast and immoveable in the truth that so at last God who is a God of truth may delight to dwell in the midst of us and this City may be called as Jerusalem was A City of Truth 6. By your Charity and Liberality This doth especially concern such of you upon whom God hath bestowed the Riches of this World A poor Citizen may do good to his native-City by his prayers and holy life but you must also do good to it by your bounty and liberality Charity is the Queen of Graces without which all other graces are but cyphers and shadows Faith without charity is nothing worth if a man gives his body to be burnt and hath not charity it profiteth him nothing The Protestant Religion as it teacheth us not to trust to good works so also it teacheth us to be full of good works you have often heard us say that though faith alone justifieth yet the faith that justifieth is never alone though faith justifieth separatim à bonis operibus yet not separata à bonis operibus though good works be not necessary in the act of justification yet they are necessary in the person justified though good works be not the cause why we go to heaven yet they are the way to heaven Thus wee Preach Let it appear this day that you are real Protestants by pract●sing this Doctrine Let the proud Papists trust to the merit of their works but let us Protestants trust in Christ onely and his righteousness and let us manifest the truth of our faith in Christ by our good works to the members of Christ alwaies remembring that laying of Christ Whatsoever you do to any of the least of my Brethren you do unto me You have many glorious precedents and put ternes left you by your predecessors whose hearts God hath stirred up to build many famous Hospitalls and to endow them with large revenews and to erect Free-Schools for the education of Youth and herein they become examples to you to follow their steps and as you inherit their Estates so also to inherit their vertues But I shall not press you any farther to charity in general I shall confine my Discourse to one little piece and parcel of charity towards your fellow-Citizens that are in want and necessity You are this day to dine together my hearts desire is that this dinner may be a Feast of Charity In the Primitive times the Christians had their {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} their Love-feasts on purpose to maintain Brotherly love these Feasts Jude calls according to our translation Feasts of Charity because in such Feasts the poor were alwaies remembred my humble sute is that this dinner may be a Feast of Love and Charity that some real good may be done at it that you may not onely feast as good Citizens but as good Christians and therefore you have a Sermon here this morning on purpose to prepare you for this Feast that so it may not onely be a civil but a religious meeting The Apostle Jude tells us of spots that were in the Primitive Feasts of Charity these spots were certain wicked and heretical persons which crept into their Feasts and defiled and polluted them I hope their will be no such spots amongst us this day The last year there were spots in our Feast of Charity mistake me not I do not mean it in Judes sense I am far from thinking that there were wicked and heretical men amongst us my meaning onely is that there were defects and blemishes in our last years meeting The Reverend Brother that Preach'd here the last year hath told the World thus much in Print But he addes very wisely and discreetly and I hope truly that this was not for want of affection but of contrivance not for want of liquor but vent not matter but method not conception but obstetrication you did not want a fountain of charity but onely a chanel cut out wherein your charity might stream it self This channel is now cut out for you there are indeed four chanels four glorious designes proposed by the Stewards for to draw out your charity and liberality towards your fellow-Citizens give me leave to read them to you as they were sent me in writing 1. For the relief of Ministers in distresse born in the freedom ofLondon 2. For relief of Ministers Widdows in want whose husbands were born in the freedom of London 3. For putting forth of poor Children to be Apprentises whose Fathers are or were freemen and which Children were born in the City of London or Liberties thereof 4. That relief may be made for poor Scholars Students in the Vniversity and there resident who are unable to subsist of themselves and who were Sons of freemen