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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43672	A sermon preached at the Church of St. Bridget, on Easter-Tuesday, being the first of April, 1684, before the Right Honourable Sir Henry Tulse, Lord Mayor of London, and the Honourable by George Hickes ...	Hickes, George, 1642-1715.	1684 (1684)	Wing H1866; ESTC R12554	22,023	39

more Wherefore plead not the number of thy Children against the Duty of Charity as the Men of this World are wont to do say not in thy Heart to the Poor as the Wise said unto the Foolish Virgins in the Parable We have not enough for us and you but remember Job who had ten Children seven Sons and three Daughters and yet his Charity was so great that as we read in the 29th Chapter He was a Father to the Poor Eyes to the Blind and Feet to the Lame And besides his great Expences upon this account as Cyprian well observes in answer to this unworthy Plea he dayly offered up Burnt-offerings according to the number of his Children and therefore if thou wouldest have God bless thy numerous Off-spring the Pledges of his Love which he hath given thee oblige him to take care of them by thy dayly Oblations by setting something aside of thy dayly income for Charitable uses for such are the Sacrifices under the Gospel and with such Sacrifices God is well pleased I am very confident that one great cause of the usual infelicities which attend those the World calls Great Fortunes is to be ascribed to the worldly-mindedness of their Progenitors who as they increased in Wealth did not increase in Charity never considering that he that hath mercy on the Poor honoureth his Maker and he that giveth Alms sacrificeth praise There is saith Solomon that with-holdeth more than is meet but it tendeth to Poverty Which I desire those to consider who neither living nor dying will spare one out of ten or twenty thousand Pounds to Charitable uses from their Children it may be but from one Child who by that means comes to Inherit the unsanctified Riches of his Father without the blessing of God But more especially I desire those to consider the great Obligation which lies upon them to do good Works Who heap up Riches and cannot tell who shall gather them I mean those to whom God hath given great Estates and no Children and among them more especially such as have no reasonable hopes of Issue haveing dead bodies as the Apostle said of Abraham● and who perhaps are yet unresolved who shall Inherit after them the Next of Blood as Heir at Law or it may be a Stranger whom they do not yet know as Testamentary Heir God seems by his special Bounty and Providence to call and invite these Men above all others to give their Estates to Charitable uses as to Found or Endow Hospitals for the Nurture of exposed Infants or the ingenuous Education of poor Orphans or the Reception and Cure of Sick Maimed or Wounded Persons or for the Maintenance and Consolation of the Incurable and Aged or for the Government of poor Lunaticks and Distracted persons or for the Correction of vagrant sturdy and idle Beggars to whom it is an abuse of Charity to give because as St. Basil observes in his discourse of Alms-giving We shall minister by our Alms not to their necessities but to their idleness and lusts To these I ought to add the Erection of Work-houses which are yet wanting in this great City to compleat the Oeconomy of her Hospitals And because there are different inclinations among Charitable Men to different sorts of Charity give me leave to recommend unto you the endowment of poor Vicariges and Erecting of Hospitals for Poor Clergy-mens Widows which would atone God in a great measure for the Sacriledge of former Ages for which among other causes of his displeasure I verily believe these three Nations do yet smart I will also put you in mind of establishing a Found for Endowing of poor Maids who have lived so many years in Service and of building Schools or Colleges for the Education of young Women much like unto those in the Universities for the Education of young Men but with some alteration in the Discipline and Oeconomy as the nature of such an Institution would require Such Colleges might be so ordered as to become security to your Daughters against all the hazards to which they are exposed at private Schools and likewise a security to the Government that the Daughters of the Land should be bred up according to the Religion now established in it to the unconceivable advantage of the Publick in rooting out Enthusiasme with her Daughters Schsime both which are upheld by nothing among us so much as by the Women who are so silly and deceiveable for want of Ingenious and Orthodox Education and not for want of Parts Methinks the Rich and Honourable Ladies of the Church of England the Elect Ladies of her Apostolical Communion should be Zealous to begin and carry on such a work as this which upon more accounts than I have mentioned would make the Daughters of Israel be glad and the Daughters of Judah and Jerusalem rejoyce Hitherto I have spoken to the Rich of the first and second Rank not to excuse those who have the good things of this World in a less proportion but because they are not of Ability to do Works of standing and perpetual Charity as the others are However God excepts his Quota of every one of them For the administration of this Service according to what he hath and not according to what he hath not If thou canst not spare a Talent thou canst spare a Pound to a work of Charity or if thou canst not spare a Pound thou canst spare a Crown or a Shilling or as the poor Widow who ought to be mentioned wherever the Gospel is preached a Penny or a Mite If thou canst not Found a Church or an House of Charity thou canst Contribute to the building or repairing of it thou canst spare a Gift now and then to a poor House-keeper or to a poor Debter to set him out of Prison or thou canst Present a poor Minister who is a man of Parts and Piety and yet sits privately mourning in his Study for want of necessary Books To these good ends and purposes thou mayest Erect a Private Bank for Charity out of thy own Frugality and Temperance and make thy Back and Belly give Alms if thou hast not a mind to set aside a part of thy ordinary Gains for good Works But if thou art Perfect thou wilt do this that is to say if thou hast tender Bowels of compassion as thy Saviour had Who said it was more blessed to give than to receive This is thy Duty and if thou shalt do it with a chearful heart Blessed shalt thou be in the City and blessed shalt thou be in the Field Blessed shall be the fruit of thy Body the fruit of thy Ground the fruit of thy Cattel the increase of thy Kine and the Flocks of thy Sheep The Lord shall command a Blessing upon thy Store-houses make thee plenteous in Goods and bless in all that thou settest thine hand unto To conclude the whole matter Charity is the most speedy and effectual means to reconcile God to a Church or Nation as well