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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87404	Oi eleemonez eleethesuntai, or Gods mercy for mans mercy. Opened in a sermon at the spittle, March 31. 1657. before the Right Honourable the Lord Major, the aldermen, &c. By Thomas Jacomb minister of the Gospel at S. Martins Ludgate, London.	Jacombe, Thomas, 1622-1687.	1657 (1657)	Wing J114; Thomason E912_13; ESTC R207554	30,501	46

nothing at all And so much for the objections also I hope you are now brought to ask me this question wherein would you have us to expresse this mercy or what object will you direct us to for our charity If so let me tell you here are famous objects before you this day the famous Hospitalls of this Citty the Corporation for the poor Here your charity is needed here it will be readily received and here it will be faithfully improved Here you see the high charity of them that lived before you Here you have foundations not to be parrallel'd in the whole world Vid. Aquin. 1 a. 2 ae Cajetanes Mons pietatis is but a Mol-hill to what you have here For shame when your Fore-Fathers have done so much do not you hold in your hands and do nothing at all These great lamps call for a great deale of oyle our misery is The Lamp grows greater and the oyle doth not increase with it We need go no farther then to these Foundations to prove the decay of charity Dr. Hackwels Apolog. for Provid A learned man writes a book to prove there is no decay in Nature but who can deny but that there is a decay in Charity Men before us had enough of it to build and we have scarce charity enough to support that with a little cost which they erected with vast treasures One tells us it was the use of the Roman Censors once a yeer to call the Cittyzens before them M. Rogers good Sama●it p. 80. to take an acount how the lawes were observed in all their Provinces A messenger being commanded to call the Good-men before them he goes to the Tombes of those who in their Life time was most renowned and calls them by their names summoning them to appeare before the Censors Being reproved for so doing he answered sickenesse and age had worn out all the Good-men of the Citty and there was none left that was worthy of that name The Application is too obvious should I be commanded to call in some charitable men before you I must go to the Graves of our old Benefactors for truly in our dayes there are very few such to be found amongst us I speak this to your shame and therefore you rich Cittyzens and others go home and open your purses and send in something to these Mercifull plantations of which you see there is so much fruit reaped I have pitched upon this because of the day I might instance in other objects but I must contract I have spoken to you as rich men Be mercifull Munetarius pauperum egentium candidatus sic festinet ad coe●ū Hieron In the practice of this duty go on towards glory you shall not be the worse on earth you shall be infinitely the better in Heaven for what you do to the poor 2 Cor. 9.8 10 11. I le conclude this head with that of the Apostle where he is treating upon the same Argument And God is able to make all grace abound towards you that yee allwayes having all sufficiency in all things may abound to every good worke As it is written he hath dispersed abroad he hath given to the poor his righteousnesse remaineth for ever Now he that ministreth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food and multiply your seed sown and increase the fruit of your righteousnesse Being inriched in every thing to all bountifullness which causeth thorough us thankesgiving to God And take that other place too 1 Tim. 6.17 18 19. in another Epistle Charge them that are rich in this world c. That they do good that they be rich in good workes ready to distribute willing to communicate Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come that they may lay hold on eternall life Branch of the Use I shall now address my self to you the Right Honourable Magistrates of this famous Citty And give me leave to presse the duty in hand upon you Be yee mercifull and very mercifull I beg mercy of you not onely as you are rich men but as you are Magistrates you must not onely open the purse but also improve your power in a way of mercy Do not mistake me I do not desire mercy of you for the guilty but for the needy I would not have you to blunt the sword of justice or to abate your severity in the punnishment of sin and offenders for here 't is * August Veniam prestare illicitis non est misericordiam praestare sed justitiam misericordia non tenere Hilar. Misericordia puniens crudelitas parcens Ther 's abundance of sin amongst us which certainely the Magistrate is to punnish Theft Drunkennesse Adultery prophanation of the Lords day Go on I beseech you and let those who are guilty of these abominations finde no mercy from you Omnes hominines qui de rebus magnis acturi sunt ab ira misericordiâ oporiet esse va 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cato in Sallust Job 29.15 Psal 82.3 4. Iob 29.12 And when you are upon the Bench in capital matters and notorious sins know no mercy but only to punish All that here I ask of you is that you would be merciful to the poor that you would be eyes to the blinde and feet to the lame that you would judge the cause of the needy defend the poor and the fatherless and stand up in the gate for them that have none to help them Take heed of oppressing the poor and of discountenancing the poor mans cause when ever it comes before you Many Widows and Orphans depend upon you to be faithful to your trust in reference to them will be a high act of mercifulnesse Exod. 22.22 23 24. Ye shall not afflict any Widow or fatherless childe If thou afflict them in any wise and they cry at all unto me I will surely hear their cry and my wrath shall wax hot and I will kill you with the sword and your wives shall be widdowes and your children Fatherlesse God doth in a speciall manner interest himselfe in the concernements of the widdows and Fatherlesse and they that wrong them he will certainely meet with in some remarkeable judgement either upon themselves or upon their posterity But as for you I blesse God and rejoyce in it I may herein speak to your commendation for your great care and fidelity in this businesse yet I hope you will pardon me for hinting this to you as an eminent peece of Mercy I could lay before you other excellent Channells for your mercy to run in but I will not be either too bold or too tedious 3 Branch of the Use But a word to you the Worshipfull Governours of the severall Hospitalls and the Trustees in these Corporations of Charity and I have done with this Vse As you are to improve and to receive the mercy of others so you are to put forth your own mercy