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A63883	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable Sir Henry Tulse, Lord Mayor of the city of London and the court of aldermen, together with the governors of the hospitals at the parish-church of St. Bridget, on Easter Monday, March 31, 1684 by the Right Reverend Father in God Francis Lord Bishop of Rochester ...	Turner, Francis, 1638?-1700.	1634 (1634)	Wing T3284; ESTC R38919	18,664	40

Tulse Mayor Curia special tent die Mercurii in Hebdomad Fest Pasch secund April 1684. Annoque Reg. Regis Caroli Secundi Angliae c. xxxvi THIS Court doth desire the Right Reverend Father in God Francis Lord Bishop of Rochester to Print his Sermon Preached in St. Bridgets Church on Monday last before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of this City Wagstaffe A SERMON Preach'd before the Right Honourable Sir Henry Tulse LORD MAYOR OF The City of London And the COURT of ALDERMEN Together with the Governors of the Hospitals AT The Parish-Church of St. Bridget on Easter Monday March 31. 1684. By the Right Reverend Father in God FRANCIS Lord Bishop of Rochester and Almoner to His Majesty LONDON Printed for Be●j Tooke at the Ship in Saint Paul's Church-yard 1684. To the Right Honourable Sir Henry Tulse LORD MAYOR OF THE CITY OF LONDON And to the Honourable Court of ALDERMEN My Lord AS I show'd the just Deference I had and must ever have to your Lordship and to all the worthy Governours of this great City when upon the first Intimation of the Choice you had done me the favour to make of me I was ready to serve your Devotions so upon the signification of your pleasure that I should publish this Discourse tho' fitter for a Popular Audience than for the Press it would ill suit with the Office I have the Honouor to bear of Distributing the Royal Alms should I any longer delay so slender a Contribution as This to the City-Charity to be one of your Remembrancers and Solicitors in that behalf My Lord While I Exhort you to do what is not only your Duty but your Practice I take the only course that is proper for One in my Station to Adorn you and yet not Flater you nay to Commend you without any Complement especially for your perpetual and most Loyal Care of the Publick Peace which does so mightily befriend all Publick Works of Charity you that preserve it by duly Exercising your Authority tho' you are far from Affecting the style of Benefactors yet you are such and more in subordination to His Majesty who as from His First Wonderful ●nd Happy Restauration He may justly Wear That Glorious Title The Repairer of the Breach So upon the Late no less happy and perhaps all things consider'd no less wonderful Re-Establishment of the Government and Re-Settlement of so many Disorder'd Corporations He may be truly styled The Restor●r of Citys to dwell in For a Great City grows an Inhospitable if not an Inhabitable Place and may be properly called a Great Wilderness when the Bonds of Civil Government which is so absolutely Necessary to keep Humane Society together are broken asunder Your Names will be famous in our Story who under God and the King have been so Instrumental in bringing back Excellent Order where Confusion or which is all one the Multitude began to Reign That it may please God to Prosper and Perfect all Your Honourable and Charitable Vndertakings is my Hearty Prayer My Lord I am Your Lordship's most Obedient and most Humble Servant Fran. Roffens A SERMON PREACHED On St. Luke xiv 13 14. But when thou makest a Feast call the Poor the Maimed the Lame the Blind And thou shalt be Blessed for they cannot recompense thee for thou shalt be recompensed at the Resurrection of the Just WELL and Wisely has the Piety of those that went before us a Piety worthily follow'd by the present Noble Senators of this Great City Ordain'd and Appointed that these Holy Festival-Days which wait upon Easter-Day should be Honour'd with these solemn Assemblies and that in order to these two Great and Good Ends in the first place That of Praising God with the rest of the Christian World for the Glorious Resurrection of our Blessed Lord and Saviour in the second place That of stirring up our Affections to such Good Works and Alms Deeds as shall not fail to obtain their Ample Recompence at the Resurrection of the Just Now both these weighty subjects the Resurrection and Charity which shall then receive its Everlasting Rewards are joyn'd in my Text and it will challenge your best and most awful Attention if you will but consider how Christ has put them together in another Text where he gives us the same comfortable Expectation as he does here but also a terrible warning that the particular Test and Tryal of all men at the General Resurrection shall be their having perform'd or neglected these Offices of Charity to the Poor the Hungry the Naked or any way distressed Christians To find out and shew you the full extent and design of our Saviour's words in the Text 't is necessary to look back and lay before you the Occasion upon which they were spoken Our Lord you know was so Charitable so Condescending as to make himself Familiar and in a manner Domestique to those that were none of the best because he was still in hopes of doing them some good and having been reflected upon by the Pharisees for Eating with Publicans now to prevent their Murmuring he suffers himself to be over-entreated and invited by one of the Chief of the Pharisees to Eat Bread in his House where it quickly appear'd they had at least as much need of his Advice to Cure the Distempers of their minds as had those whom they contemptuously stiled Sinners for presently 't is sed that against all the Laws of Hospitality they watcht Him that was to steal His Words or to find somewhat in his Actions to Accuse and Defame him the Bait they had laid as most likely to take him was a Work of Charity A Man to be healed of a Dropsy But it was their Saboath-Day and when he puts them the Case of Conscience Whether it were Lawful to heal him then or no they held their Peace but with intent to make noise enough of it afterward in case he proceeded to work the Miracle of Mercy which nevertheless he did with a generous undaunted freedom and then what he had done he maintain'd with that strength of Argument as he reduced them to an absolute Incapacity of Answering him again to these things Now though they had utterly spoyl'd the Grace of the Treat they had given him by making his Table a Snare to him yet he whose Meat it was to do the Will of him that sent him and to finish his Work resolves to make a Spiritual Entertainment for them who had pretended to oblige him by Inviting him to partake with them their Corporal Food and first he gives them to understand That he would not Abridge their just Liberties of Entertaining nor even of Feasting one another but he would Regulate these Civil Meetings of theirs when he markt how they chose out the Chief Rooms he directs them how they may turn such Commerces and Correspondences as are necessary to support the Dignity and Comfort of Human Society into the Exercises of Virtue of that fundamental Virtue profound Humility if

Afraid to let thy Light shine before Men since all manner of Good-Works that happen to be seen of Men are not therefore unpleasing to God but only such as are done with so vile a principal End as to be seen of Men and not with a primary Intent that those Men may Glorifie thy Father which is in Heaven Lastly When thou makest a Feast Call the Poor that is Call them to be thy welcome Guests thy humble Friends thy Spiritual Kindred since Christ has Call'd them his Brethren since he has made them Heirs and Coheirs with himself and thee Lay aside thy supercilious Demeanour toward them nay put off now and then that Awful Distance which Decency requires thee to keep at other times Let some of them at these good Times be seated at thy Table with thee thy Betters have us'd them more familiarly they have girded themselves and served them with a Real not an Affected Humility The Greatest Kings and Queens have not thought it too little for them to wash and kiss their Feet in Imitation of him that introduc'd the same significant Ceremony proposing it for a Pattern to his Followers and where can even Royal Dust and Ashes lay themselves low enough in an Office of Devotion to him in the Proxies or in the Persons of those that are his when he the Son of God he who thought it no Robery to be Equal with God yet took upon him the form of a Servant and was content to Abase himself even to kiss the Feet of the Traytor Jud●s But tho we are not obliged to fall so low to the Poor as always to set them above us yet there is one Complement essential to make it a Feast in all thy Gifts shew a Chearful Countenance says the Wise Man for God loves a Chearful Giver says the Apostle and then there is felt and enjoy'd true pleasure in the Act of Charity when Chearfulness dilates and enlarges the Heart of the Alm'ner as well as the Soul of the Alms-Man But now 't is high time for me to interpose one Caution and that Caution will naturally meet me upon my third Head of Discourse That fit Objects for the Charity of the Rich must be such as are Poor indeed for such they are not nor are they properly so called that are in condition to help themselves they must be really helpless Creatures the Maimed the Lame the Blind For to nourish Idleness the certain fore-runner if not the Companion of Wickedness is but mistaken Charity and those that have two hands left them to feed one Mouth are to be counted with those that are Rich enough if they are no way disabled from such our Alms would be more kindly withdrawn than extended to them or rather instead of these External Works of Mercy those which the Schoolmen call Internal should be applyed to them such as Good Counsel with Assistance toward their Settlement to make them some way useful to their Country or at least no longer Burthens of the Earth or if Advice be lost upon them another Office of Charity to their Souls at least even Castigation and Compulsion upon them is but their Due as well as our Duty to solicit it I must have leave in this place to lament the miserable Abuse of so vast a Fund for Charity as perhaps no Kingdom under Heaven can boast the like I mean that Yearly Treasure rais'd by virtue of that exceedingly well meant and ill manag'd Act for every Parish in the Nation to maintain their Poor who thereupon make themselves such on purpose and are become perfect Oppressors in the Land which they will not set their Hands to Cultivate how low soever the Husband-man's Trade is grown for want of Labourers that Honourable thriving Profession heretofore but now decayed and fallen together with your Rents which is all for want of Executing with that wholsome Statute-Law the same in substance with that Apostolical Canon If any one would not Work neither should he Eat But on the other side I must needs highly commend and congratulate this City so many Work-Houses to Chastise and Reduce the Vagrant and Vicious Poor so many Late useful Inventions to Employ the Willing-Poor and to put even such as are half Cripples in a way of getting their Bread so many worthy Active Undertakers to find 'em work that they may Eat the Labour of their Hands whoever they are that Engage in this Labour of Love to Gather the Dispersed from door to door and to make 'em live by themselves and their own handy-works they do as it were treat them every day and may the good Conscience of their own deeds be to themselves a continual Feast But the most goodly sight of all in this noble City are so many fair Hospitals either to i●close those whom the Hand of God has toucht with Lunacy or to breed up poor Children abandon'd to the narrow mercy of the wide World or to keep those from starving that are poor indeed the Maim'd the Lame and the Blind Let me but Read you a true Report c. Now I hope Strangers when they survey these M●numents of Antient and Modern Piety will not say that the Church of England owns any such Solifidian Doctrine as tends to the Disparagement of Good Works none will imagine that our Reformation is not a Soil for Charity to prosper upon where has it grown or flourisht more than it has among us both heretofore and of late I have been Askt abroad by way of Reflexion Who Built our Churches in London I have Answered The Old ones were most of them built before the Corruptions of Rome and since the Fire of London we know who Rebuilt ' em But no where does the City-Charity look more hopefully nor promises greater Advantages to the Publick as well as to the Poor than it does in those several Royal and Ample Foundations lately Repair'd and Restor'd to receive those wretched Infants expos'd to a Condition well nigh as deplorable as that whom the Prophet describes to these the King is insted of God and not only says unto them when they are as it were in their Bloud Live ●ut takes such honourable Care of their Education that they may not live in vain may God Almighty add to the King's Life those Years which the King by his Bounty and Goodness has prevented from being cut off from the Lives of these Little Ones or from being so misemploy'd as would in all likelihood have brought 'em to shameful Deaths And may his Majesty live to perfect his other most Royal most Christian Design in the Neighbourhood of this City that stately Pile whose Walls are now happily rising for the reception of Lame and Maimed Souldiers that after Brave Men have serv'd the King in his just Wars they may not want a provision and place of Retirement in their Old broken Age where they may end their Days in serving God and still praying for the Life of the King Such as these