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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

distresse and to poor Scholars in the Vniversities And my hope is That the next year you will double the summe above what you have given this year I am verily perswaded that what God said of Corinth is very true of London He hath much people in this City Though there are many wicked amongst us yet there are many yea very many both born andbrought up in London who truly fear God and for their sakes God hath hitherto spared us My prayers is that God would increasetheir number That this City may be a City of Refuge for distressed Christians not an oppressing or a bloudy City but a faithful and holy Citywherein God may delight to dwell and that Salvation may be appointed to her for Walls and Bulwarks So prayeth Your ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ and fellow servant in promoting the common good Edm. Calamy A SERMON PREACHED Before the Native CITIZENS OF LONDON The City Remembrancer Act. 21. 39. But Paul said I am a Man which am a Jew of Tarsus a City in Cilicia a Citizen of no mean City WE are here met this day not only as Christians but as fellow Citizens to bless the name of the Lord that we were born not only in England but in London That we are Native-Citizens of no mean City For the better Celebrating of this mercy I have chosen this suitable Text which contains Saint Pauls just and necessary defence of himself against the unjust accusation of the Chief Captain of the Roman Band The chief Captain accuseth him for being an Egyptian a Seducer and a Murderer Art not thou that Egyptian which before these dayes madest an uprore and leddest out to the wilderness four thousand men that were Murderers In this verse Saint Paul makes his Apology which consisteth of three parts 1. He describes his Original He was {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} I am saith he a man which am a Jew I am not that wicked and cursed Egyptian you speak on but I am a Jew of a religious and noble extraction For though the Jewes are at this day the scorn and contempt of the world justly odious to all good Christians because of their murdering of Christ yet the time was when they were the only people God had upon earth when they were a Holy Nation when they were naturally holy as it is Gal. 2. 15. We who are Jews by nature and not sinners of the Gentiles They were not sinners by nature as the Gentiles but holy by nature I do not mean with the holyness of regeneration but with a federall holyness They were all in Covenant with God and their very Land was holy It was Immanuels Land The time was when they were not onely a holy but a noble people The honourablest Nation under the whole heavens For to them as the Apostles saith pertained the adoption and the glory and the Covenants and the giving of the Law and the Service of God and the promises Whose are the Fathers those noble and honourable Patriarcks and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came who is over all God blessed for ever Jesus Christ was not only the Son of man but the Seed of Abraham This is the first part of Pauls Apology He was a Jew of a godly and noble original Secondly He describes the Country where he was born He was not only a Jew as to his original but as to his Country he was a Cilician which is a Province in Anatolia or Asia minor a Country saith Ammianus Marcellinus dives omnibus bonis wealthy and fruitfull of all necessaries He was born in a rich and fruitfull Countrey Thirdly He describes his Native City the dignity and excellency of it He was a Jew of Tarsus that is born in Tarsus of Cilicia so called in opposition saith Cajetan to another Tarsus in Bythinia He was a Citizen of no mean City {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} In these words there is a {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} where more is to be understood than is expressed He was a Citizen of no mean City that is He was a Citizen of a Famous City Josephus calls it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Stephanus {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} It was urbs celebratissima a most renowned and celebrious City It was the Metropolis of all Cilicia Solinus saith it was mater urbium The Mother of Cities Diodorus Siculus saith That for the kindness it shew-to Julius Caesar and after him to Augustus Caesar it was called Juliopolis In this famous City was Paul born The words thus expounded may be handled two manner of wayes 1. Relatively as they are purely Apologetical and satissactory answers to the unjust accusations laid to Pauls charge by the chief Captain I shall not meddle with them in this sense because it would lead me to a discourse Heterogeneal to the occasion of this dayes meeting 2. Absolutely as they are an Historical Narraration of Pauls extraction Countrey and native City In this sense I shall speak to them I shall sum up all that I have to say into this Doctrinal conclusion Doct. That to be descended from religious and noble ancestors and to be born in a famous Country and City are considerable privileges and passages of Divine Providence not to be slighted or disregarded This proposition consisteth offour branches of which I shall speak in order 1. To be descended from godly and religious Ancestors is a desirable privilege and no small honour This was Pauls prerogative He was a Jew descended from the holy Patriarcks It is a great happiness when a man can truly say O God thou art my God and my Fathers God as it is Exod. 15. 2. And with Jacob O God of my Father Abraham and my Father Isaac For God hath promised not onely to be the God of the righteous but of their Seed and David saith That the generation of the righteous shall be blessed There is a saying amongst some men Happy is the Child whose Father goeth to the Devil But this is a wicked and cursed Speech For God punisheth the sins of the Fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate him But I rather say Happy is the child whose Father goeth to Heaven For God sheweth mercy unto thousands of them that love him and keep his Commandements God promiseth to bless Isaac and to multiply his seed as the Stars of heaven because that Abraham his Father obeyed his voyce and kept his Statutes and Laws Gen. 26. 3 4 5. And the Apostle commends Marcus to the Colosstans to be regarded and respected by them because he was Barnabas Sisters Son he was the Sisters Son of a godly man 2. To be descended from noble and illustrious Progenitors is a considerable privilege This was also Pauls Prerogative He was of the stock of Israel of the Tribe

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 Ã bonis operibus yet not separata Ã 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 practâ—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

and have been horn in London or the Liberties thereof Here are four famous Chanels for your Charity to stream in four Excellent materials to build your Liberality upon And let me tell you That you are obliged this day both in Conscience and Honour and you can neither sasisfie God or Man unlesse you do something worthy your selves To move you consider 1. That you miscarried the last year and therefore you are the more ingaged this year When I say you miscarried I do not mean as to the faithfulnesse of the Stewards who were very carefull and exactly diligent in laying out the Money that was gathered in Testimony whereof you have 32. poor Youths here before you whom they bound out Apprentises But I mean in regard of the littleness of the sum that was gathered And this miscarriage was not for want of affection as is said of you in print but for want of contrivance not for want of liquor but Vent of matter but method c. Behold now a Method propounded Behold a Vent for your charity Let it appear this day that that which is said of you in print is true Let the Fountain of your liberality stream out in these four Chanels 2. You have most of you got your Estates here in this City Here is the place where God hath blessed you And therefore the light of Nature teacheth you to seek the good of this City where God hath prospered you in the first and chief place And there are many of you whom God hath blessed with great estates As you are Citizens of no mean City so you are no mean Citizens Now God requires of you not only to be charitable but a suitable proportion of charity according as he hath blessed you You that are rich in Estate must not only do good works but be rich in good works alwaies remembring that saying of Christ To whom much is given of them much is required 3. Your charity will be a pattern and president to other persons and places For though you must not do good works to be seen of men yet you must do good works which men may see according as Christ saith Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorifie your Father wâ—h is in Heaven 4. I might here take occasion to tell you what the Kentish men have done lately in their Meeting and what the Warwick-shire men have done but this would be too much to undervalue you you are the Mother city and it is not fit that the Daughters should be examples to the Mother but the Mother to her Daughters I perswade my self that you will this day exceed all former patterns and be your selves a pattern to all others 5. I might also here take occasion to put you in mind of one of the last years Stewards whom God hath suddainly taken out of this world He was a godly man and of good esteem His name was Mr. John Wallington The Egyptians in all their great feasts were wont to have a Death's head served in as one dish that thereby they might be put in mind of their Mortality and learn to be sober and temperate in eating and drinking I could heartily wish that the death of this precious Christian might serve this day instead of a Death's-head to stir up your Charity and Liberality forasmuch as you know not how soon God may take you from your Estates or your Estates from you how soon God may call you to give an account of your Stewardships or whether ever you shall live to have such another publick occasion to testifie the greatness of your love to Christ by your Charity to his fellow-members And therefore while you have opportunity do good to all but especially to the Houshold of Faith But why should I use any more Arguments For the City of London hath alwayes been one of the best places in the world for Deeds of Charity Let me speak it to the Honour of God and of this City that even at this very day the City of London is a Sanctuary for all the distressed Christians of the Nation and a man may sooner get a 100 l. at a Collection in London than an hundred pence in many other places As God hath given you large estates so also hath he given to many of you large hearts And therfore why should not believe and confidently conclude that you will this day answer expectation and that you will be charitable though not to be seen of men yet so as that men may see it and bless God for you I shall adde onely this one word more You are Citizens of no mean City and no mean Citizens of this City And therefore let not your Charity this day be low and mean but transcendent and superlative suitable to the place where you were born and to such persons born in such a place So much for the use of this Proposition as it is a considerable and desirable Privilege Vse 2. I shall now further improve it as it is but an outward temporall fleshly and carnal privilege common to the worst as well as to the best of men As it is the Prerogative of Paul even then when hee was a persecuting Pharisee as it is a Privilege which a man may enjoy and yet be in the state of damnation And here likewise if time would permit I should exhort you unto three things very seasonable and profitable 1. Let us not rest satisfied in being the Children of Religious Parents but let us labour to inherit the virtues of our Parents There are many Children who are blots and blemishes to their Parents as Manasseh was to Hezekiah Conmodus unto Marcus Aurelius Antoninus of whom it is said that he had been perfectly happy had hee not begotten such a Son And that he did injure his Countrey in nothing but in being the Father of such an ungodly child Hoc solo patriae quod genuit nocuit There are many Citizens amongst us who are the wicked sons of very godly Parents let such know That it is a fearful thing to sin against good education and to walk contrary to those religious Principles which they suck'd in from their very Cradle That that which is a great mercy in it self is to them a great judgement And that their very Parents shall rise up in judgement against them and be instead of a thousand witnesses to condemn them 2. Let us not rest contented in being born of noble Parents but let those that are nobly born labour to be nobly minded For it is the noble minde makes a man noble and not the noble title It is a notable saying of Gregory the great A King may command his Subjects to call a Lyon a Lamb but he cannot make a Lyon to be a Lamb A King may give a man noble Titles but he cannot make the man a noble man because he cannot give him a noble and vertuous minde And

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