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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42264	Profitable charity a sermon preached before the right honourable Sir Thomas Lane, Lord Mayor of London, and the honourable Court of Aldermen, &c. at the parish-church of St. Brides, on Easter-Monday, 1695 / by Robert Lord Bishop of Chichester.	Grove, Robert, 1634-1696.	1695 (1695)	Wing G2154; ESTC R16834	15,473	34

man thou wilt shew thy self upright With the pure thou wilt shew thy self pure and with froward thou wilt shew thy self froward This is but just and equitable that Men should be proceeded with by the Rules and Measures they have practised themselves And therefore the hard-hearted and remorsless wretch cannot complain if he be used with rigour and extremity nor repine when he sees the kind and compassionate Soul treated with the greatest Clemency and Sweetness This is a way of dealing that is but suited to every one's Actions The cruel and revengeful shall be severely punished but the pious and charitable shall be graciously pardoned Therefore To do good and to communicate forget not for with such sacrifices God is well pleased Heb. xiii 16. Our Almes are called Sacrifices here not that they have any proper expiatory Power to take away sins For the Sacrifices that were offered under the Mosaical Oeconomy had not that but they were accepted as they were Types of the Grand Propitiation to be made by Christ And through Him whatever Vertue the Legal Sacrifices had the Sacrifices of the Gospel shall be much more Effectual For even while the first Tabernacle was standing God had frequently professed that the blood of Bulls and of Goats and the fat of Rams that Incense and Oblations and whatever he had commanded them to bring to his Altar was nothing at all regarded by Him in comparison of Mercy Mercy is the thing which shall principally regulate the Proceedings at the great day of Judgment as I have already mentioned When the Dead shall be raised and all the innumerable Myriads that ever were born shall stand before the dreadful Tribunal then shall those that have been relieved by the Merciful Man appear as so many Intercessours for him As if they should say Lord This is the Man that refreshed our Bowels when we were pinched with Hunger that came in seasonably to support us when we were ready to perish that delivered us from the hand of our cruel Oppressour that had pity on our Children and gave them good Education when they were left poor distressed fatherless Infants On the other side those that have been forsaken or undone by the Covetous Miser shall look upon him as if they would thus implead him at that impartial Bar Lord this is He that suffered us to languish and pine away for want when a very little of that he never made any use of would have rejoiced our Hearts this is He that let us be exposed to Cold and Nakedness when the Moth consumed his unnecessary changes of Apparel nay this is He that has griped and oppressed us that has made himself drunk with our Tears that has wearied us out at Law and born down our righteous Cause by Wealth and Power and robbed us of the little that we had by Violence and Injustice Thus might they justly plead against him if his own Conscience did not prevent all other Accusers and pass the first Sentence upon him which shall be quickly followed by that of the great Judge who shall render to every Man according to his Works Then shall the Good and Merciful be taken up into the Regions of everlasting Joy but they shall have Judgment without Mercy that have shewed no Mercy Thus have I shewed what is that Charity that will make our Alms some way Profitable to our Salvation but that without it they are not so in themselves and now lastly I have laid down some Reasons that make them acceptable and advantageous when they proceed from such a Principle of true Charity It is because they nourish and preserve that Principle they are a Proof of our Love to God and our Trust and Dependance upon him and they do particularly incline him to be merciful to Us. The Design of all that has been said is to excite you to Give and to do it so that it may tend to the real Benefit of him that Gives as well as of him that Receives or in the Words of the Apostle I seek fruit that may redound to your account To this purpose I shall lay before you what Expences have been lately made in this way and what necessity there still is of further Expence what has been done already and what yet remains to be done that is fit Matter for the Charitable Benevolence of this great and honourable City And this I cannot do better than by Reading to you A true REPORT of the great Number of Poor Children and other Poor People Maintained in the several Hospitals under the Pious Care of the Lord Mayor Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London the Year last past Christ's-HOSPITAL CHildren put forth Apprentices and discharged out of Christ's Hospital the Year last past 104 eight whereof being instructed in the Mathematicks and Navigation are already placed out And two others well qualified to be placed out with the first convenience to Commanders of Ships out of the Mathematical School Founded by His late Majesty King Charles the Second of Blessed Memory 104 Children Buried the Year last past 25 Children now remaining under the Care and Charge of the said Hospital which are kept in the House and at Nurse elsewhere ●18 The Names of all which are Register'd in the Books kept in the said Hospital and are to be seen as also when and whence they were admitted Which being so many in Number and the Charge of keeping them very great and being still depressed by the very great Loss which was sustain'd by the late dreadful Fire 't is not doubted but many worthy and good Christians will liberally assist towards so useful and beneficial a Charity The stated and certain Revenue of the said Hospital amounting to very little more than a Moiety of their necessary and unavoidable Charge St. Bartholomew's HOSPITAL THere have been Cured and Discharged from the Hospital of St. Bartholomew the Year last past of Wounded Sick and Maimed Soldiers and Seamen and other Diseased Persons from several Parts of the Dominions of the King 's Most Excellent Majesty and from Foreign Parts many of which have been relieved with Moneys and other Necessaries at their departure tho' as it hath pleased God the greatest part of the Revenue of the said Hospital was consumed by the late dreadful Fire 1961 Buried this Year after much Charges on them 199 Persons remaining under Cure in the said Hospital 312 St. Thomas's HOSPITAL THere have been Cured and Discharged from St. Thomas's-Hospital in Southwark this last Year of Wounded Sick and Maimed Soldiers and Seamen and other Diseased Persons from several Parts of His Majesty's Dominions and from Foreign Parts many of which have been relieved with Money and other Necessaries at their departure tho' much of the Revenue of the said Hospital has been destroyed by several dreadful Fires in London and Southwark And most of the Buildings of this Hospital being very old low damp and incommodious for the reception of Sick and Wounded Persons The