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A33300	Christian good-fellowship, or, Love and good works held forth in a sermon preached at Michael's Cornhill London before the gentlemen natives of Warwickshire at their feast November the 30, 1654 / by Samuell Clarke.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1655 (1655)	Wing C4505; ESTC R26025	19,446	26

his house And Pro. 3 9 10. Honor the Lord with thy substance and with the first fruits of all thine encrease So shall thy barnes be filled with plenty and thy presses shal burst out with new wine 2. The Lord hath promised them safety and protection in perilous and dangerous times Ps. 41. 1 2. Blessed is he that considereth the poor The Lord will deliver him in time of trouble The Lord will preserve and keep him alive and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies Again Isa. 58. 8. The glory of the Lord shall be his rereward For his safety and defence against dangers Paulinus Bishop of Nola having consumed all his estate in redeeming poor Christian Captives at length having nothing left pawned himself for a certain widdowes Son but the Barbarians moved with his goodnesse and charity returned him home and many Captives with him freely 3. The Lord will support and comfort such with Divine consolations upon their bed of sicknesse when all worldly and creature comforts fail them and when such soul-ravishing comforts are more worth then all the world Psa. 41. 3. The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness Ps. 112. 4. unto such there ariseth light in darknesse v. 7. He shall not be affraid of evil tidings his heart is fixed trusting in the Lord Yea see that sweet promise Isa. 58. 9. Then shalt thou call and the Lord shall answer Thou shalt cry and he shall say here I am 4. You may hereby make God your debtor at death to send his blessed Angels to guard and transport your soules through the territories and regions of the Prince of the aier into Abrahams bosom According to the counsell of our Saviour Christ Luk. 16. 9. Make to your selves friends of the Mammon of unrighteousnesse that when you fail they may receive you into everlasting habitations Hereby indeed we shall do as the blessed Apostle Paul adviseth us 1 Tim. 6. 19. Lay up in store for our selves a good foundation against the time to come that ye may lay hold on eternall life And for our further encouragement let us remember what wise Solomon tells us Eccles. 11. 1. Cast thy bread up on the waters for thou shalt find it after many daies 5. Yea such liberall-hearted persons after death leave a blessed memoriall behind them and Solomon tells us Eccles. 7. 1. that a good name is better then pretious ointment yet that will leave a sweet sent in the room when it is removed How much more shall the name of such mercifull men be continued See it in the example of good Obadiah who took the Lords Prophets and hid them by fifty in a Cave and fed them with bread and water How sweet is the memoriall of that mercifull Proselit Cornelius whose prayers and Almes as they were had in remembrance before God So are they recorded in the sacred Scriptures to his everlasting commendations The like may be said of Dorcas and many others Our own Histories likewise furnish us with plentifull examples of this kind As of Master Bradford Georg Wiseheart Giles of Bruxels Doctor Tailor Master Fox Master Hooper and of later time the young Lord Harrington Mr. Wheatley of Banhury c. 6. Lastly God is made a debtor to such to blesse their posterities after them To such saith the Lord Is. 58. 12. They that shall be of thee shall build the old wast places thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations and thou shalt be called the repairer of the breach And Psa. 112. 2. His seed shall be mighty upon Earth the generation of the upright shall be blessed Neither do we want examples of Gods faithfull performance of this promise How well did Mephibosheth fare for the mercy which his Father Jonathan shewed to David And what said David to old Barzillai who had mercifully fed him and his wearied men when he fled from Absolon 2 Sam. 19. 38. The King answered Chimham thy son shall go over with me and I wil do to him that which shall seem good unto thee and whatsoever thou shalt require of me that will I do I shall onely adde one famous example of our own Queen Ann Bullen wife to King Henry the eighth was a very charitable woman she used to carry a little purse about her for the poor thinking no day well spent wherein some had not fared the better at her hand She also kept her maids and such as were about her in working and sowing garments for the poor and see how the Lord dealt with her in her onely child our renowned Qu. Eliz. whom the Lord wonderfully delivered from death in the Reign of her Sister Qu. Mary and after advanced her to the Throne preserved her from the rage of Rome Spain and the Devill giving her a long life and glorious Reign to the comfort of her friends and terror of her enemies And thus I have shewed you how by your charity and liberality you make God your debtor though non ex merito yet ex promisso not out of merit as the Papists teach yet by vertue of his promise which we use to say is due debt Now I proceed to give you some further Motives and arguments to quicken you to this duty 3. Wee should therefore take the present opportunity of doing some publick good for our Country because we know not how little a while we may enjoy our estates We have of late seen Civill Warr and plundering times wherein many of plentifull means have been suddenly brought to poverty and sure I am that the same sins which brought down those judgements are still common Yea I fear I may truly say that instead of amendment we wax worse and worse and our provocations are greater then formerly Why may we not then expect some sweeping and desolating judgement to be impendent over our heads and should we by a generall or some particular hand of God be emptied of that fulnesse which we now enjoy we shall then be disabled to do such good works though we would But me thinks I hear some objecting and saying that because we know not how little a while we shall enjoy what we have it s therefore good to make much of it whilst we have it and to lay up against a rainy day To which I answer that the spirit of God which is much wiser then we hath made the contrary inference Eccl. 11. 2. Give a portion to seaven and also to eight for thou knowest not what evill shall be upon the Earth And the Apostle Paul Gal. 6. 10. Bids us whilst we have opportunity to doe good to all men but especially to the houshold offaith 4. It 's the readiest and surest way to obtain mercy from God in our need if we carefully and conscienciously relieve others in their needs we have Christs own testimony for this Mat. 5. 7. Blessed are the

use to provoke one another to love Answ. 1. Propter praeceptum Because of the command of God and were there no other reason for it this should be instar omnium instead of all Because God will have it so Indeed I may say of this as David doth of Goliaths sword There is none to that We see how peremptorily our Apostle requires it here Provoke unto love and our Saviour Christ is not lesse urgent Joh. 13. 34. A new commandement I give unto you that yee love one another and this precept he backs with the best president As I have loved you that ye also love one another And that beloved Disciple that seems to be wholly composed of love doth often inculcate it 1 Ioh. 3. 16. He would have our love so ardent as to lay down our lives for the brethren and ver. 18. Let us not love in word neither in tongue onely but in deed and in truth and ver 23. This is his commandement that we love one another and Chap. 4. 7. Let us love one another for love is of God and every one that loves is born of God and knows God and verse 11. If God so loved us we ought also to love one another and ver. 12. If we love one another God dwelleth in us and his love is perfected in us and in diverse other places of his Epistles But to this diverse other arguments may be added As 2. Propter unitatem Because of that unity and Onenesse that is amongst us we are all men therefore of the same kind and the Apostle tells us Act. 17. 26. that God hath made of one blood all Nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth Yea more We are all Christians and therefore should love one another Yet more We are all English men and therefore should love one another Once again We are all the same County Warwickshire men and therefore should love one another To all which unities may be added one more if we are the same in truth as we are in profession we are all members of the same mysticall body whereof Christ is the head Rom. 12. 5. We being many are one body in Christ and every one members one of another 3. Propter bonitatem pulchritudinem Because of the goodness and comlinesse of it Love is an amiable Grace as afterwards I shall shew It 's lovely in the eyes both of God man Yea they which want it themselves yet admire and love it in others Psa. 133. 1. David set's an Ecce before it Ecce quam bonum c. Behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity 4. Propter firmitatem Because it strengthens us against adversaries the old Maxim is Divide impera They are easie to be ridden by every Usurper who are first divided amongst themselves Hence it was that Micypsa lying on his death-bead called all his sons together and caused them to write this sentence in Golden letters Concordiâ parvae res crescunt Discordiâ magnae dilabuntur By concord small things are encreased and strengthned But by discord the greatest are overthrown And you know the story of Scillurus who likewise calling for his eighty sons upon his death-bed told them that whilst they continued knit together in brotherly love like a bundle of darts or sheaf of Arrows they would be altogether invincible but if once disjoyned or severed by hatred they would quickly become a prey to their adversaries 5. Propter similitudinem Because of that likenesse that is amongst us And similitudo gignit amorem Likenes breeds love We see it in all tame and profitable creatures who loving each other in regard of likenesse feed and flock together similis gaudet simili Like loves his like And truly we are more brutish then they if this moves us not to love one another Indeed it 's the property of wild beasts as of Lions Bears Tygres c. to love solitude in howling Wildernesses and to walk abroad alone and if they meet to intertear one another But though the great Tyrants of the world joyne house to house and field to field that they may dwell alone Yet seeing God hath made us sociable creatures and Religion hath made us Christians Let us provoke one another to love 6. Propter propinquitatem Because of that near alliance and kindred that is amongst us If we be reall as well as Nominall Christians we have all one Father God One Mother the Church One Redeemer Jesus Christ One Sanctifier The Holy Ghost Are nourished at the same breasts The sincere milk of Gods word Are heirs to the same Kingdom The Kingdome of Heaven and are often told by Gods word that we are all brethren Hence the Apostle Peter inferrs that we should love as brethren 1 Pet. 3. 8. 7. Because it is the best Ornament that we can put upon us Better then a chain to the neck or a Ring to the finger Yea we should cloath our selves with love as with a Garment Col. 3. 14. Above all put on charity which is the bond of perfectnesse But alas It 's now almost out of fashion Many talke indeed of love but shew no fruits of it as some boast of costly Garments in their Wardrobes or Chests but wear them not whereas God hath given us this Garment of love to wear neither need we fear wearing of it out as we may other Garments For it 's the better for using as Gold is for rubbing that shines the brighter yet as we are not born with cloths on our back nor with chaines about our neck So neither are wee borne with this Grace of love in our hearts but are by nature hateful and hating one another Tit. 3. 3. 8. The sacred Scriptures heap up many motives to stir us up to love as 1. It will prove us to be true Disciples of our Lord and Master Jesus Christ not spurious nor bastards Ioh. 13. 35. By this shall all men know that you are my Disciples if ye have love one to another 2. It will be a great ornament to our profession and will beautifie the Gospell of Jesus Christ Tertullian tells us that in his time the mutuall love amongst Christians was so eminent and remarkable that the Heathens taking notice of it could say Ecce quam invicem se diligunt Christiani Behold how loving the Christians are one to another 3. It will declare and demonstrate the truth of our Faith Gal. 5. 6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision but Faith which worketh by love 4. It shewes that we are translated from death to life 1 Ioh. 3. 14. and hereby we may know that we are so Yea fifthly Love is the life of God Angells and Heaven Of God for God is love 1 John 4. 8. Of the blessed Angels for there is nothing but love and concord amongst them Of Heaven for that wil perfect our love put an end to all the