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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43555	A sermon preached at the spittle upon Tuesday in Easter-Week, anno dom. 1672 by Thomas Hackett ...	Hackett, Thomas, d. 1697.	1672 (1672)	Wing H174; ESTC R5972	24,655	54

that has it but he mourns that lost it and which of those two think you will God first hear God bids thou shouldst give of thine own not anothers How canst thou cloath Christ and rob a Christian But I find a strange invective against a peculiar mode of this sin which I think worth the mentioning because falling within our sad past late times and perhaps may be adapted to future And that is Against those that made use of Gods Judgments to Rob their Fellows as in times of Wars Plagues and Fires And O that in our great Fire no man had burnt his fingers with this Sin Like Thieves that steal when they see others on the Gallows for it Who should have cause of joy where so many have of mourning or gain in a greater loss God will tear up their Intrails with his hook for swallowing this Bait. The Arabs cloath it with a pretty Apologue c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e The Wolf had one time forc't away a young Pigg presently comes the Lyon and rends it away from him Ha sayes the Wolf how could I hope another should not take that from me which I first took from another The Civil Law determines who shall be guilty of the Case I mentioned last if within a year discovered should pay fourfold if after quantity for quantity singly But there is another more retired and honest way of doing this as men think because secret and that 's Fraud and Cheating of doing which there are so many forms and methods as by false weights measures and the ignorance of Buyers wrought upon that I cannot number them and need not tell them I fear too many in this large and Opulent City Bear I beseech with my open honesty in this for we have long and I fear must longer notwithstanding all our powerful Laws and Care of some vigilant Magistrates with the secret Knavery of such Let those who have a gall only wince here the sound are not hurt by this touch Trades and Occupations are call'd indeed by the name of Crafts I hope it is not for this mystery There lye great Temptations upon them I confess as the gain and unpunishableness by Law where this sin is undiscernable and I doubt there is some practice of it that People exclaim they can hardly safely go into any Shop to Deal but they are either cozen'd of their mony or better of their expectation if they be not The Prophet in Nahum 3.16 calls the Merchants of Niniveh by the name of Locusts for their devouring all and then flying away with it VVould not he that does thus steal rob openly if he durst both proceed from the same principle of mind No wonder that so many Estates are blasted moulder away in a short time that are thus purchased It must be so Jacob was couzen'd into a Marriage with Leah before Rachel and so Rachels Children were cozen'd of the benefit of their Primogeniture But Divine Justice and Vengeance will in a short time do right in this case For in Gen. 48.5 you find Reubens Prerogative reverts back to Rachels Off-spring Terra Restituit quod accepit Gen. 1.11 homines saepe decipiunt The Earth is faithful in restoring the seed which the Husbandman lent her but men are unfaithful How gravely boldly will some men discourse of Princes and exclaim they invade their Subjects Rights waste their Fortunes c. And we our selves do this one to another but because Incognito we think we are blameless Nay do not we more not only because unlawfully but in value A Prince raises a Tax for some one difficulty but this Subject does for all his life long Neither let any man think to palliate his Crime with this ridiculous Salvo That this is an insensible hurt being done to so many and but in a little to them a great gain and to others but a small loss For so the Mouse does but nim and nibble away a little and yet for this is rankt by God in the list of unclean Creatures Levit. 11 Petty-Larceny is Fellony in Divinity though not Laws of man In Giving is there not Charity whether it be much or little and then in taking away is there not Vncharitableness You would have God reward the two mites put into the Treasury as much as a Talent and then should he not punish as much for two mites withdrawn Nay in some regards the small cheat out ballances the great For who takes great things will many times not stoop to small but who takes small will never despise great Though there be disparity in the Persons the Law calls it Murther to kill a Beggar as well as Burger and so 't is of Theft But I read of a worse devise to palliate such dealing to violate Religion upon the account of Religion They cheated only the Pagans excusing themselves in St. Austins daies That is in the Idiom of latter daies we make bold only with some men we spoyl the Wicked To whom the Father gravely Replyes But while you spoil a bad man you breed such an aversation in him to your way that you hinder him from turning to be a good man The 2. mistake to be prevented about Laying up your Treasures in Heaven is That some may hence not think themselves obliged to do their Charity on Earth or but in the very article of Parting which how troublesome and imprudent and fallacious such wayes are oft I leave to many here able to inspect such things to determine He hath dispersed abroad and given to the Poor Dedit non reliquit Dari He gave it himself left it not to be given is observed by an Ancient on this place God was pleased to ordain Levit. 19.6 that the relict of the Peace Offering should be eaten the same day or to morrow to shew as the Jews comment that we should not be dilatory in our Charity not like dung do no good till we are carryed out We should rather be said then To be left by these things than to leave them They to be called our spoils rather than our gifts our Testaments than our Wills when thus extorted In the 25 of St. Matthews Gospel our Charity is compared to Oyle because it should be on the top of all He that is Charitable in his life has his Lamp carryed before him it yields him fair light though at death behind him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And yet on this emergency not to encourage such Givers but to honour such Receivers I should not only count my self Vncharitable whil'st I am speaking of Charity but likewise unjust to the Fathers of the Heads of the Tribes in this City before me and all others who hear me speak this day if I should not deposit with you this measured honourable Truth concerning them That among all the chanels wherein these Interests of the Dead run none do I believe flow more purely none