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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61669	A sermon upon I Kings 17, 15, of the widow of Sarepta preached at Eaton Coll. Octob. 10, 1666 : being a solemne fast in consideration of the dreadfull fire in the citie of London / by David Stokes ...	Stokes, David, 1591?-1669.	1667 (1667)	Wing S5720; ESTC R34622	15,086	44

A SERMON Upon 1 KINGS 17.15 of the Widow of SAREPTA PREACHED AT Eaton Coll Octob 10. 1666. Being a Solemne Fast in consideration of the dreadfull Fire in the Citie of London By DAVID STOKES D. D. OXFORD Printed by Hen Hall for Ric Davis 1667. 1 KINGS 17.15 Abiit fecit She went and did according to the word of Elijah BY His MAjESTIES Proclamation we are commanded to meete here this day Not onely to bewaile those sins wherein we have contributed to the common calamity and like incendiaries either kindled or increased the late dreadfull Fire in our great and noble City of London But besides that we are commanded to expresse our charity too in a Liberall Contribution to the poorest of the City that suffer most heavily Now for the first Duty of sad Repentance I think I shall need to say little at this time because I presume your many former Fasts in a sense of Warre and Infection have already showed that before Almighty God himselfe But in this Fast our most Gratious and Indulgent King in His tender love to His great city would have us to let him see our extraordinary Acts of Charity upon so publick and so sad an affliction Therefore He recalls to your memory a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Hellenists call it that is a fiery triall to see whether upon so great an occasion you are apt to admit large charitable thoughts and interpret them in the deare language of Contribution which will be this day used throughout all the Kingdome In which thoughts and acts and language of Charity that the poorest may be as forward as the rich to their power in such an exigence I have chosen a Text which will show you a rare Patterne of Charity in a poore Widow 1 Kings 17.15 Abiit fecit Of which words that we may so Speake and so Heare c. 1 KINGS 17.15 And she went and did according to the Word of Elijah and she and he and her house did eate many dayes If you aske of whom this is spoken It is spoken of a poore Prophet Elijah the Tishbite and a poore widow the Widow of Sarepta The Prophet is so poore that wanting the former supply of meat which he had by a Raven and the brooke Cherith of which he usually drunke being dried up he comes abroad now as a plaine Begger for a little water and a morsell of bread and the widow is so poore that if you believe her upon her oath she hath not a piece of bread to bestow upon her selfe and her onely sonne As the Lord thy God liveth saith she I have not a cake but a handfull of meale in a barrell and a little oyle in a cruse and behold I am gathering two or three sticks that I may goe in and dresse it for mee and my sonne that wee may eate and die Here is poore encouragemeut for Elijah and little hope of finding hospitality in her house and therefore sure he was hard driven now that he begins with her or at least they were all shrowdly put to it as they were indeed So ill it was with them that hee could hardly have begged of any that had much to spare But there is more in it then so Somewhat else there was that made our Saviour say of her to them of Nazareth Luk. 4. I tell you of a truth that many widowes there were in Israel in the dayes of Elijah when the heavens were shut up three yeares and six months but to none of them was Elijah sent save unto Sarepta a City of Sidon to a woman there that was a widow Some rare good woman she was whom God had thus singled out in this great famine to so high a favour of miraculous preservation and from all other selected and set apart to be the Hostesse and Benefactresse to the great Elijah That she was so it will easily be discovered in the whole force and vertue of the verse which referres especially to her And that two wayes which are the two parts of the Text. 1. In the high commendation of her Charity Abiit fecit juxta verbum Eliae There is a proofe of her charity in every word 2. In the present reward of her Charity in her meale and oyle miraculously increased She and he and her house did eate many dayes There is the Preservation of them all alive by the multiplying of the widows store whereof she had so charitably emptied her selfe upon the Prophet Or if you will have both these Parts of the verse like severall degrees to make up the height of her commendation In the first part of the verse it is but Charity In the second part it is charity and somewhat more it is improved and come up to Hospitality She grows rich with her vertues and being not able to furnish him at present with a piece of bread she now becomes like some body able to entertaine him at her house as a Prophet with a competent supply of all that he wanted And not any longer as a Begger with a little bread and water for him while he stood without at the gate For she went and according to the word of Elijah that is she fetched bread and water for him while hee stood without at the gate Then he and she and her house did eate together many dayes That is she lodged and entertained him in her house and shewed her selfe as hospitable then as she had been charitable before 1. The first thing then that offers it selfe to our view is her charity And many circumstances there be to amplifie that Some in reference to her selfe some in reference to the Prophet Some in reference to the action here done to the order and manner of it All these are considerable in this action of the poore woman and cannot without injury both to her and you be passed over in silence There are foure at least that refer to her self 1. She was a Woman 2. She was a Woman of Sarepta a Sidonian 3. She was a Widow woman 4. She was a Mother and she was not only Mater familias the Mrs of a family but Mater filii the mother of a son too And had she been eased of the rest of her family she had little enough to keep her selfe and her sonalive to the next day These referre to her selfe and notwithstanding all these she went first to supply the wants of Elijah Other considerations there are that referre to the Prophet And amongst these three that are most eminent and must not be concealed 1. That he was A stranger one of another country from her 2. That he was A Prophet and chiefly 3. That he was This Prophet Elijah the Tishbite That this man whom she thus entertaines was the very Prophet I doe not say that foretold this famine wherein they were all likely to perish But more then so The only man to whose zeale they wholly imputed this misery The maine instrument that brought it upon