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death_n	body_n	hand_n	soul_n	5,920	5	4.8872	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67012	The duty of compassion to the souls of others in endeavouring their reformation being the subject of a sermon preached December the 28th 1696 at St. Mary-le-Bow before the Societies for Reformation of Manners in the city of London / published at their request by Josiah Woodward.	Woodward, Josiah, 1660-1712.	1697 (1697)	Wing W3515A; ESTC R26400	16,419	58

in the same Building where each Stone supports and is supported by some other 1 Pet. 2. 5. And in Truth we so often want not only the Counsels but the Rebukes of a faithful Friend that these are sometimes the greatest Kindnesses they can do us So then every Excellency in Man whether it be Spiritual Moral or Political infused or acquired is a Talent put into the Hands of that Person by the common Father of Men to be imployed for the Good of the Community like the Bulk of an Estate given to the eldest Son for the good of the whole Family Which is the first Consideration proper to move Men to do good to the Souls of others and to rebuke them upon Occasion Motive 2. We are to remember our near Relation to every Man He is thy Brother says the Text a sharer in thy Nature a partaker of thy Blood And except the Bowels of Humane Nature are perish'd in thee thou canst not but feel a painful Regret when thou beholdest one of thy own Kind going in the way of Destruction Can you find in your Heart any tendency to verify that severe Reflection upon Human Cruelty which some have made namely that one Man is many times a Wolf and a Fury to another This is a Carriage worse than that of Barbarians for they shew Kindness to the Miserable Acts 28. 2. Yea it is worse than the savage Brutes for the fiercest of them seldom prey upon their own Kind and the very Swine run at the Cry of their Fellows to help and succour them Can Man then that was made after the likeness of God be so much of a Devil to his Brother as to indulge his Sin and further his Course in the ways of Damnation Surely in such Persons Righteousness Charity Tenderness and Humanity it self is perished Motive 3. The Text further moves us to do all the good Offices of Piety one towards another that we can by minding us that he is our Neighbour Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy Neighbour He is your near Associate his Lot is providentially cast near unto you that you might help and succour him Friendly Assistance among Neighbours is a mutual Debt and every one with whom we converse is for that time our Neighbour We must therefore endeavour to put a stop to his Sin in order to prevent his Ruin If you see your Neighbour's House on Fire all the Neighbourhood will cry shame upon you if you get not out of your Bed tho it be at Midnight to help him quench the threatning Flames that he be not ruined by them And will you not be as vigilant to keep your Neighbour from falling into those Flames which can never be quenched If not there is a deplorable Defect both in your Faith and in your Charity Upon the whole Matter since God lays this Duty of suppressing the scandalous Sins of Men upon every Person 's Conscience according to his Station and Capacity Can any of us that have any sensibleness of Conscience evade the Charge and binding Force of it Will you like Gallio care for none of these things Or will you lull your selves to sleep with Felix his shifting excuse fancying that you may hereafter have a more convenient Season to do it Or will you turn short with churlish Cain and even ask God to his Face Whether you are your Brother's Keeper Yes truly God has so far made you the Guardian of your Brother that if you see him about to cut his Throat you must stay his Hand if you are able or if he be Blind and in his mistake be going directly upon the Mouth of a Pit you must discover his Danger and disswade him from it or every Body will deem you Accessary to his Death These are Cases in which every Body is convinc'd that he ought to succour his Friend yea his Enemy and needs no Casuist to determin the bounds of his Duty in so plain a Matter And what shall we have more Care about the Body of our Brother than about his Soul And shall we be more concern'd to prevent his Temporal than his Eternal Ruin And does not he whom Satan hath blinded need the Direction of those whom God has inlightn'd as much as he who has lost his Bodily Sight And has not that infatuated Soul whom Lust and Passion hath put out of his right Mind need to be bound with Chains and to be rigidly dealt with as much as any poor distracted Creature in Bedlam It is true neither of these sorts of mad People will at present give you Thanks for your Pains with them because during their Lunacy neither of them have Sense enough to discern that what you do is for their Good But you must wait the Recovery of their Senses and then they will be exceeding thankful to you and bless the Time in which they were acquainted with you and praise God who put it into your Heart to do them such a Kindness And if it shall so please God that by all our Informations Admonitions and Reproofs we become instrumental to gain but one Soul from the Power of Satan to God it will be an abundant Recompence for all our Labours and Sufferings in it For then all the Good he does and all the Glory which he gives to God will in a great measure redound to our Advantage in the other World which should mightily invigorate our Endeavours of this kind and if they be but hearty and diligent they cannot wholly miscarry But there are some who frequently make use of a proverbial Speech in this Case to hinder the progress of this blessed Work tho it be but little to their purpose which is That every Vessel must stand upon its own bottom And thus far it is true That every one must principally answer for his own Sins to God But it 's as true That we may be partakers of other Mens Sins 1 Tim. 5. 22. And that if we are sharers in their Guilt by Connivance or a sinful Silence and Neglect we shall also share in their Punishment Hence it is that we are advised Rev. 18. 4. That we partake not of the Sins of Babylon that we receive not of her Plagues And as to the Case of publick and scandalous Sins the whole Community is concern'd to bring the Transgressor to due Punishment for we are often assured in the Book of God that there 's no other way to put away the Evil from the whole Body of the People which is ever liable to the Vengeance of God where such Enormities are unpunished Deut. 13. 5. Deut. 19. 19. and 21. 21. So that we must conclude That such as frequently hear or behold those Vices and Impieties which the Laws of God and Man condemn and yet never endeavour to bring them to a just Rebuke and Correction are Sinners against God and Men and next to the principal Acters these Connivers at Sin are the Instruments of pulling down the Curses and Plagues of