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A00816	Compassion towards captives chiefly towards our brethren and country-men who are in miserable bondage in Barbarie. Vrged and pressed in three sermons on Heb. 13.3. Preached in Plymouth, in October 1636. By Charles Fitz-Geffry.	Fitz-Geffry, Charles, 1575?-1638.	1637 (1637)	STC 10937; ESTC S102148	49,481	72

sold cauterized scared as wee doe beasts by those who are bipedum nequissimi of all too footed beasts most brutish yoaked together like oxen their owne oxen and horses keeping Holy-day while our miserable bretheren doe beare their burthens and plough the fields to favour them yet not allowed when they have thus laboured the whole day as competent sustenance convenient lodging as we doe our horses oxen but more cruelly beaten when they have done their worke then our beasts are by us when they worke not as wee would Sometimes layd flat on their bellies and receiving an hundred blowes or more on their backes sometimes on their backes and so belly-beaten that they seeme tympanous and bladders rather then bellies sometimes balled with tough cudgels on the soles of their feet untill their feet be swolne unto foot-bals and so left to crall away vsing as well as they can their hands insteed of feet how many upon slight suspition and false suggestion of a fault have beene dragged through the streets on the hard stones by ropes or coards fastned into their bored feet The very pictures of which torments what eyes save those which stand in Turkes heads can behold without teares I will not aggravate those grievances which are already too great by inserting reports how they are aggravated by some of our nation who should rather with every true hearted Christian endevour to ease them not adding more affliction to such heavie bonds Charity bids me to be incredulous of that which griefe and passion causeth some of ours boldly to divulge that there are among us who for their private gaine doe not a little advance the prevailing of the common enemy against their country-men and brethren that ours are surprised with our owne powder and shot and afterwards laden in Barbarie with English gyves and yrons God forbid that it should be so but if it be so may it not be probablie concluded at least conjectured that those incestuous arrowes which have dispersed the noisome Pestilence have come out of this quiver of not compassionating our woefull brethren but rather augmenting their woes God I hope will raise up some happie hand to exhibite to our gratious Soveraignes eyes eares Danmoniorum gemitus as our predecessors the old Brittons pressed by the Picts presented unto the Consul Boëtius Britannorum gemitus but with better successe Neither will that illustrious Peere the Oracle of Iustice in our land faile to performe what he is said to have promised at Plymouth with tearefull eyes the evidences of a tender and truly religious heart to the mournfull wives and children of these oppressed captives that when he returned to the Court he would become their advocate unto the Majestie of the King Remember him ô my God concerning this who is so vigilant in doing justice at home that he is not dormant in extending mercy to those who suffer extreame misery abroad If any doe aleadge that our owne wants will not suffer us to succour them in theirs I say so too I acknowledge it that our wants who are at libertie doe restraine us from releiuing our brethren who are in barbarous captivity But what wants Want of charity want of the bowels of mercy want of Christian compassion want of feeling our brethrens wants and consequently of true Christianity these these are the wants that doe hinder us How much hath beene lavishly expended in Pompes in Playes in Sibariticall-feasts in Cameleon sutes and Proteus-fashions besides other vanities and yet there is no complaining of want How many soules might have beene ransommed from that Hell on Earth Barbarie with halfe these expences Yet heerein doe men only complaine of want Of all others let us beware of this want of compassion toward our lamentable captived Brethren of whose insupportable bondage if wee have no feeling we our selves are in a farre worse thraldome as one passage in these ensuing meditations will shew us Neither am I singular in this sentence sweet Salvian doubteth not to affirme so much of the men of Carthage while Carthage yet was Christian who frequented stage-playes feasted froliked while some of the Brethren were slaine by the enemy others carried away into captivity As sometimes King Ahasuerus and Haman sate drinking in the Palace while the City Shushan was in perplexity so among them while the walles of their City were surrounded with the sound of the armour of the barbarous beseiger some of the Citizens yea of the Church were mad-merrie at the Theater Some were slaine without others committed fornication within Part of the people without the City were made captive by the enemy part of them within made themselves captives unto vices And these of the two deadly evills underwent the worst it being more tolerable to a true Christian to sustaine the bondage of the body then of the soule as our Saviour affirmeth the Death of the soule to be more formidable then the Death of the body Can we be perswaded that such a people was not captived in minde who could be so merrie in their brethrens captivity Is not he a captive in minde and understanding who can laugh among the slaughters of his brethren who understands not that his owne throat is cut in theirs who thinks not that he himselfe dyes in their Deathes Thus or to this purpose that elegant authour Whose words were they engraven as I wish they were in the hearts of our sin-enslaved Libertines there were some good hope that they would first strive to be freed themselves from their spirituall bondage and then they would be more sensible of their brethrens corporall thraldome In the midst of their myrth they would remember their mercy and account that they should dearely answere for every penny lavisht out in vanity which ought rather to have beene employed in procuring their Christian country-mens liberty And as the Elder Plinie said to his nephew when he saw him walke out some houres without studying Poteras has horas non perdere so would these say to themselves of their wastfull and commonly sinfull expences I might have chosen whether I would have lost this mony I might have saved it by bestowing it either towards the redemption of my enthralled brethren in Barbarie or on the reliefe of their wreched Wives and Children at home and so have made a more advantagious returne then any of our Merchants doe by their most thriving adventures into any parts of Barbarie To perswade men to this heavenly improovement of some part of their meanes are these poore meditations sent abroad by him who inlie compassionates his brethrens importable burthens wishing all blessings to those charitable soules who according to their abilities doe endevour to support them And for all his travells herein craveth nothing but your prayers for himselfe and your charity towards them for whom he intercedeth professing himselfe His distressed Brethrens dayly sollicitour CHARLES FITZ-GEFFRY COMPASSION TOWARDS CAPTIVES HEB. 13.3 Remember those that are in bonds as bound

too neare thee Did not others watch for us while we sleep and did not he watch over us who neither slumbereth nor sleepeth we might have beene surprised by them while we are sleeping on our beds See we not how audacious they are growne How their shalops brave us at our harbours mouthes What threates have they sent us of late that ere long they will make some of us see Algier And who were these but some of our owne nation turned Turkes threatning to bring us unto their owne condition because wee would not free them in season Can we forget that Tragicall transportation of our brethren from Baltamore into that Babilon Barbary All of them English most of them Cornish suddenly surprized in the silence of the night They dreaded no disaster they supposed themselves safe they went to bed and laied themselves downe as they hoped to sleepe in safty When suddenly their houses were broken up they haled out of their beds the husband wife and children every one fast bound carried away in three or fowre howres and afterward so seperated as not suffered to meet againe but every one left to lament others misery as well as his owne It was not with them in that night as the Iudge saith it shall be at his comming Two in one bed the one taken and the other left But two or three in one bed Father Mother Child seaven or more in an house all taken and not one left What heart at this houre bleedes not at the remembrance of that nights Tragedy The wife calls on her husband to helpe her How can he help his Other selfe who cannot help his owne selfe The poore child cries O Mother keepe me O Father keepe me when Father and Mother are kept fast enough themselves from keeping and helping theirs Oft had the poore litle ones when they were pettish being terrified with The bug-beare comes to carry thee away Now not bug-beares but Barbary beares are come to carry away Child Mother Father and all they can finde in the family Some lost their lives fighting but in vaine to save their wives and children herein happy that death prevented in them those miseries which theirs surviving to greater sorrowes doe endure For of the two better it is to fall by the hands then into the hands of those Tyranous Turkes whose saving is worse then slaying who if they grant life it is but to prolong griefe May not the same or the like betide us if God shall so appoint it And are our merits better then theirs that God should not so appoint it But what speake I of might have beene or may be Are we not already in a farre worse bondage then they if we have no feeling no remorse of theirs They are in corporall bonds we without this compassion are in spirituall They under Turkes we under the Devill They bought and sold by men we sold under sinne They under the tyranny of others we under our owne tyrannous lusts and affections Our barbarous inhumanity is a worse bondage then theirs in Barbary In such a captive condition are they who have not this compassion towards their captived brethren But had I words to expresse though but in part the excellency of the worke it would be most powerfull to incite us to the performance of it Every worke is the more excellent by how much the obiect thereof more excelleth The worke is Redeeming for therefore we are to remember them that we doe our best to redeeme them And who are those who are to be redeemed They are not only the Temples of the Lord as hath beene shewed but the Lord of the Temple himselfe is held captive in them It is not only our brethrens case it might have beene ours it is ours already by the Vnion of charity or if not then are wee our selves in a worse slavery but that which should more nearely touch us then if it were our owne case it is his who should be nearer to us then our selves it is our Lord and Masters our Saviour and Redeemers case For doth not he himselfe complaine that they who neglected his in this very case neglected him I was in prison and you visited me not The head and members cannot bee separated I was in prison because mine were I because they were in whom I am and they in me As there is no good which any of mine doe but I doe it in them so there is no evill which they suffer for my sake but I suffer it with them Otherwise I would not have cried out from heaven to Saul persecuting my Church upon earth Saul Saul why persecutest thou me If then we will not redeem our brethren let us redeem our Father if not our fellow-members yet our head if not men yet God if not Christians yet Christ. Let us redeeme him from bonds who redeemed us from Death Him from corporall servitude who redeemed us from the slavery of sinne Let us redeeme him with a small portion of our perishable substance which this way imployed shall not perish who redeemed us not with corruptible things as silver and gold but with his precious blood more worth then a million of worlds Should we leave our native country and sayle into Barbary and there offer our selves to bondage for our brethren saying unto their Pateroones Free these men and take us we will be your slaves in their steeds we could doe no more nay God knowes nothing neare so much for them as he who is captive in them hath done for us If therefore we will not remember them for their sakes let us remember them for his sake let us remember them for our own sakes that the great redeemer who is also the great rewarder to every good worke especially of this may one day in mercy remember us which shall be the last but should not be the least incitement unto us Certaine it is that the more excellent the worke is the more excellent shall be the reward This then being so excellent a worke as the redeeming of our redeemer himselfe in his captiv'd members shall not want a most excellent recompence And were there no other recompence then the acknowledgement of this kindenesse regarding the disparity betweene the persons yet this were neede enough to any noble minde If it be an honour to a subiect for the King to acknowledge with his own mouth in the presence of all his nobles that sometimes he was beholding to him what will it be when the King of Kings shall one day acknowledge and publish that he was in a manner beholding unto man O how comfortable will it bee in that great day of Iudgement and of Mercy of Iudgement to Turks and Tyrants of Mercy to charitable Christians when the Iudge himselfe shall say I was in prison 〈◊〉 you came to me Yea more you by freeing me procured tha● I might come to you might come unto mine owne family to the Temple