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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26753	A sermon at the Warwick-shire meeting, November 25, 1679, at S. Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside, London by William Basset ...	Basset, William, 1644-1695.	1679 (1679)	Wing B1053; ESTC R13214	18,472	35

A SERMON AT THE Warwick-shire MEETING November 25 1679. AT S. Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside London By William Basset Rector of Brinklow in Warwickshire LONDON Printed for T. Basset at the George near S. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street 1679. TO THE Right Worshipful Sir ROBERT VINER Baronet and Alderman of the City of London CErtainly this Meeting justly claims a place among the considerable Benefits our Country doth enjoy not only in regard of the correspondence the several members of it that are removed to this City hold one with another but especially that by this means so many Plants are yearly removed from the barren parts of it to this richer Soil where they are pruned and dressed and having depth and fatness of earth grow into Trees that yield Profit and Beauty to the whole Nor is the advantage small to those whose Lot doth not fall in this pleasant place since the Country is yearly eased of so many who by reason of ill Circumstances would be rather a Burden than advantage to their Neighbours especially those places that have more Hands than Work where Men stand idle perhaps for no other reason but because none have hired them And I have sometimes known a Town at great expence both of time and Mony to keep out it may be some single person from being an Inhabitant because they had more than they could employ before And where the younger do increase the more ancient while yet serviceable being left without employ are necessarily supported by the Contributions of the place And in Corporations and Market-towns where some might have crept into little Trades this is already divided into so many hands that some few in a Town excepted they have little else to do but to open and shut the Windows of their Shops and when they have shut are scarce able to set and keep them open Whence we may take some measures of the Benefit the Country doth receive from this Company For should they lay down so good a Work our poor and therefore our payments would increase more would die indebted to the world leave Charge behind them and each way oppress the living and the business of all private and publick Sessions would yearly increase Therefore certainly all the Inhabitants of that place are bound in point of policy and reason if not of duty too according to their several Capacities to encourage and maintain so good a Work Especially the Gentry whose Abilities Divertisements or other Concerns calling them so oft to Town give them so fair an opportunity especially considering these Benefits reach even the high places themselves are yet in For Landlords thrive best where Tenants prosper And Rents usually fall where the poor and therefore payments do increase I must therefore impute it to the non-consideration of these things and perhaps in some to the want of Generous and Publick Spirits or at least to the not kindling those Sparks of Virtue into a frame of Love and Bounty which however Titles go are essential to a Gentleman that we are in this Affair so far left by those whose presence would be an Honour to the Company a Glory to the place of their Nativity and would give new life and vigour to the business of this Assembly Great Bodies move the lesser And good Leaders in that Contribution which is not as some suppose for the Stewards Pockets but towards the Binding Children out to Trades by their very example gain more from others than the Sums themselves do give can amount to And the more is thus collected the more the Stewards are incouraged to a free and large addition that for their own Fame and the Childrens Good they may place them to the better Trades which often proves as great a kindness as the setting them out to any for sometimes ingenuity is forced to creep when it might run high if placed in a better Circumstance And since the want of publick Spirits prove a decay to a whole Society to particular Companies and smaller Bodies we are the more obliged where we sind them to pay them due respects and give a just applause And since such a spirit appears so eminently in your self not only from your publick Works and Monuments in the City and our County Town of Warwick in which your name shall live to future ages He loves our nation and hath built a synagogue c. But also from the Incouragement you are pleased to give this charitable Work in having formerly vouchsafed to be Steward of this Company and in the Yearly Honour you do it by your presence not suffering any business no not the Burden as well as Honour you sustain'd when Lord Major of this City to deliver you from it I thought my self in duty bound by this Dedication to let you know the Honour and Respects our Country ows you as well as him who is Your Worships Humble Orator And Servant W. Basset TO Mr. Richard Chandler Job Vere Thomas Grassingham Henry Marshal John Skipwith William Brown George Shettleworth Richard Elborow Stewards WEll your Charge and Trouble now is mostly over but your Honour and Rewards for having been Benefactors to your Country still remain and I hope may out-live the Funerals of Time For indeed you are able to give so good an Account of your Stewardship that as many as look upon this Meeting of our Country-men as an Ensample to all the other Counties of England so you are a fair Copy for all the following Stewards of the same Company to write after And such have been your repeated kindnesses to me that I am bound to subscribe my self Your Obliged Country-man And Servant W. Basset A SERMON PREACHED AT THE Warwick-shire MEETING November 25 1679. ROM 12.1 I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service IN the Foregoing Chapters the Apostle hath discoursed some things which the largeness of our Subject will not suffer us to look into and from which the Text is a conclusion and for that reason is ushered in with the Illative Therefore I beseech you therefore In the words themselves we shall observe 1. A kind and familiar compellation Brethren 2. An earnest Supplication I beseech you 3. A farther inforcement of the matter in hand By the mercies of God I beseech you brethren by the mercies of God 4. The subject matter of this Discourse That ye present your bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable to God And 5. The equity and meetness of the thing Which is your reasonable service I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable to God which is your reasonable service I begin with the 1. Brethren We once all lay in that common matter which Moses calls the void and formless earth and others express by their materia prima some by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and others by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉