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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19556	The vvorkes of mercy, both corporall, and spirituall	Crane, Ralph.	1621 (1621)	STC 5986; ESTC S109020	8,592	60

time our charitie must be showne Not leaue it to be done after wee 're gone By the slow bountie of anothers aid Who perhaps too by thy example swaid Will part from nothing till his dying day So may thy Goodnesse be lost euery way And tost from ones Trust to anothers care Till there be nothing to trust to but Aire Christ is the Bread of life Dole then at death Is but dead charitie whilst God giues breath Be thou a giuer to those stand in need And with thine owne eye see the hungrie feede Then on the next thou canst not chuse but thinke Feeding the Staru'd thou 'lt giue the Thirstie drinke So by one step of Mercy thou 'lt ascend To the full height of goodnesse in the end Climbing the Corporall Workes there will appeare Then Iacobs Ladder the Spirituall cleere MERCIES SECOND VVORKE CORPORALL To giue drinke to the Thirstie ANother raging enemie like the first Sets vpon man afflicted and that 's Thirst Terror of Surfets and that plague his fell Vpon full bowles witnesse that wretch in hell Who shewes the torment best when all his song Was but for one poore drop to coole his tongue But Christ that sets reward to him that giues But a poore cup of water and releeues His Christian brothers want his thirst t' appease Held it too deare for that rich Gluttons ease What charitie can lesse then to afford A cup of water Yet with Christ thy Lord It has a rich acceptance which shewes plaine Mans poorest Almes are not bestow'd in vaine Marke but the Blessings that are showr'd from heauen On this the feeblest bountie can be giuen The Lord shall satisfie thy soule in Drought Make fat thy bones thy courage bold and stout And like a watred Garden thou shalt grow Nay like a Spring whose waters euer flow Thy Barnes shall cracke with plentie for the first For this thy Presses with new wine shall burst Here are two Steps if thou canst get so farre I know thou 'lt cloath Need when thou seest it bare MERCIES THIRD VVORKE CORPORALL To clothe the Naked HE that did first vncouer Nakednesse Had the first curse from man whose tongue did blesse At the same instant his two other Sonnes In whose acts the first modest Storie runs We 're taught by Gods Law we should not with-hold Our brothers garment his defence from cold And call'd his couering which instructs vs still How well this worke is pleasing to Gods will To clothe the Naked To incite vs more To this most seemely Mercy to the poore The Lord himselfe the first example show'd On our first Parents whom he naked cloath'd Humanitie instructs vs to this care And creatures that no name of Reason beare That gentle Bird tender and kinde to man Seeing the barenesse of a Christian Will couer him ore with leaues before it rest Then sing a dirge vpon his mossie brest Who can so dull a Charitie professe But will of all wants pittie Nakednesse If nothing stirre him vp this only can He sees his first Shame in an Vncloath'd man That thought I hope will raise him to this deed To which being mounted he will still proceed And hauing got three steps vp he will see In what distresse and wants poore Prisoners be MERCIES FOVRTH VVORKE CORPORALL To ransome Captiues THe more the charitable man proceeds Flow greater miseries to meet his deeds If he looke now with Mercies melting eye Into the Gaoles where wretched Prisoners lie Foure miseries ioyn'd in one he there shall see Hunger Thirst Barenesse and Captiuitie He then that truly cleeres this combinde griefe Fairely sets off foure workes in one reliefe This amongst all afflictions most extends When man lies lock'd both from his meanes friends Sure from th' infernall Lake 't was first deriu'd For so lost-Soules lie of all ioyes depriu'd 'T was the most cruell punishment indeed That euer was deuis'd to vex true Need To make Necessitie more helplesse Want More miserable Scarcitie more scant As who should say Wee 'll inuent plagues anew Wee 'll barre all meanes and see what heau'n will doe Such are the mercilesse Creditors that ioyne Miserie to want as they doe bloud to coyne Deuouring widowes houses vnder colour Of long lip-praying making their plague fuller Let Prisons swallow needie Soules no more But rich Trust-Breakers that haue made 'em poore On this thy Charitie may boldly venture Cleere 'hem of True-men that great Theeues may enter For now there is no roome nor would it hold To put vp Sheepe and Goats both in one Fold If thou desir'st this wrong but to redresse I le trust thy Mercy for the Harbourlesse MERCIES FIFT VVORKE CORPORALL To harbour the Harbourlesse THis hospitable Mercy stands in need Of small incitement it has beene a Deed So gloriously requited that none can Denie that succour to a Christian If he remember how the times of old Haue beene rewarded he will neu'r grow cold For Truth proclaimes it then to be beleeu'd In Strangers shapes Angels haue beene receiu'd So Abrahams Hospitalitie was blest And the like charitie in Lot exprest Which past not vnrewarded for next Morne From burning Sodome he was safely borne This were enough from all this worke t' extract Seeing such Blessings purchas'd by the act Say we receiue not Angels we are sure To entertaine Christ which is farre more pure In his afflicted members this too we win Letting in Charitie we shut out Sin And this good more if cheerefully thou impart Thy house to Christ hee 'll come into thy heart Then putt'st thou on all workes of blessed kindes Thou 'lt run to visit those whom Sicknesse bindes MERCIES SIXTH VVORKE CORPORALL To visit the Sicke THe motiues that should most perswade dull minds To offices of Mercy of all kindes Are to consider well how like they looke To all Gods Workes the Glasse the sacred Booke Which shewes 'hem cleerely to mans mortall eye That he might follow 'hem more effectually Here is a Mercy though it seeme a paine Which God begins to draw vs on againe The Sicke to him the healthfull to the Sicke Both for his glory to keepe Mercy quicke We say of them which haue a Sicknesse on 'hem These words Gods visitation is vpon 'hem Shall not we visit whom he visits then What worke can be a glory more to men Then reuerently to second yet most free Gods visitation with our companie To be a visitant there where God is chiefe And the first visitor can this be griefe Or Shame or Danger Say the last it be Thy comfort is the same God visits thee And when thy health 's restor'd more care thou 'lt haue Both of the Sicke and those that want a Graue MERCIES SEVENTH WORK CORPORALL To burie the Dead WIth this fit care did Abraham first begin And bought a Field to burie his Dead in And Ioseph was the first that honour gaue To the dead Corps embalm'd it for the Graue Nay God himselfe which should moue most of all Gaue Moses