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death_n	die_v	good_a	life_n	16,696	5	4.8534	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87404	Oi eleemonez eleethesuntai, or Gods mercy for mans mercy. Opened in a sermon at the spittle, March 31. 1657. before the Right Honourable the Lord Major, the aldermen, &c. By Thomas Jacomb minister of the Gospel at S. Martins Ludgate, London.	Jacombe, Thomas, 1622-1687.	1657 (1657)	Wing J114; Thomason E912_13; ESTC R207554	30,501	46

mouthes of many against this duty To reckon up all would be endlesse I will only pick out some of those that are most common Object 1 First say some we live in uncertain times 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Basil l. 1. Ho. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and all that we can get is little enough to lay up to secure our selves against dayes of trouble Wars may come again and trading may cease what will become of us then if we have not a good stock before I confesse God hath cast us upon dayes of distraction and what time may produce we know not But I say the rather be charitable Give a portion to seven Eccles 12.2 and also to eight for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth Would you be wise to provide for a time of tryal in your prosperity remember the poor come what will come do thus God will see you shall not want Luke 16.9 This is to make friends of the Mammon of unrighteousness thus you make God to be your friend and can you fear so long as God is your friend Object 2 But alas We are not able None more willing then we but we are not able Answ Not able Indeed you are to be pitied simplexne furor sestertia centū Perdere et horrenti tunicam non reddere servo Juven Sat. l. 1. not for the scantness of your estates but the coldness of your charity Not able Take heed of saying so lest God make you so indeed Not able What so many hundreds it not thousands per annum such stocks such trading such purchasing and yet not able You can finde a thousand pound for a purchase Non habet in foelix Numitor quod mittat amicos Quintillae quod donet habet Juven Sat. 6. Vid. Bafil Ho. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Very elegantly Necessitates infi●atae sunt tribu●a sunt gravia fiscalia explicare non possumus c. Ambros ' Ov 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost Habet semper unde det qui plenum pectus habet charitatis Aug. and if we come for Twenty Shillings for a poor Christian then not able Ye can throw away a great deal prodigally upon a Feast a Suit a House a Hawk may be upon a Whore but when it comes to a businesse of charity then you can pretend inability Ambrose speaks to this Come to some men Pray give something to the poor Alas we cannot Taxes are high and Customes are high we have many occasions for our money These do not consider saith he that The salvation of the soul is to be preferred before all Away with all these excuses there 's money enough in the Coffer if there was but more charity in the heart but the short and the long on 't is this you are covetous and sordid-spirited men Object 3 But we have a great charge and many children to provide for and we should wrong them by this bounty Answ No Vid. Cyprian de Op. Eseem fully to this Object not so God will blesse your children for your mercy they shall have the more for it Would you secure and improve their Portions put something into Gods hands for them what ever becomes of the rest that shall be safe Object 4 But this is the way to waste and diminish our estates Answ That 's false Esto intrepidus esto securus finir● non potest unde in usus Christi impenditur unde opus caeleste celebiatur Cypr. de Op. c. as I have shewn you already No man shal be the poorer at the yeers end for what he laies out upon the poor you shall have your money again and improvement for it too I have read of Tiberius the second Partner with Justinus in the Empire this man was very famous for his bounty to the poor insomuch that his Wife was wont to blame him for it and speaking to him once how he wasted his treasure this way he told her Cluver Epit. P. 405. Non defuturam dixit fisco pecuniam quoad ipse secutus Christi praecepta in coelo thesauros colligeret egenorum fovendo defectus Fertur de Rege quodam Anglo c. Bonav in 6. Luc. Fullers Eccl. Hist He Should never want money so long as in obedience to Christs command he did supply the necessities of the poor And presently see how Providence ordered it immediately after he had given much in this way Vnder a Marble Table which was taken up there he found a great treasure and newes was brought him too of the death of one Narses a very rich man who had given all unto him Shall I tell you a fine Popish story which Bonaventure relates more generally but you have it particularly and fully set down in a late Writer of our own King Oswald sitting in his Palace on Easter day and being at dinner with a Bishop with him he was told that there were many poor waiting at his Palace-Gates Upon this he commands all his meat from his Table to be carried to them and a great silver Charger to be broken in pieces and given to them The Bishop laying hold on the Kings hand saies thus May this hand never be consumed And say the Papists believe them if you will so it fell out for the Corpse of this King being long after taken up when all his other parts were consumed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost his hand was as found as ever I judge this to be one of their Fables but my Application is true Sure I am that estate shall never wither that is improved in wayes of charity to the poor But I refer you to what was laid down in the Doctrinal part Object 5 The last shift is this We will do thus and thus when we dye then wee 'l build Hospitals and then wee 'l give such Legacies to the poor But pray let us alone till then Ans Then dye as soon as you will and the sooner the better if you 'l do no good in your life-time we have then more reason to pray for your death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Basil then for your life But is it not better to be like the Tree that stands and yet yeelds fruit Is it not better to be like the Sheep that do good whilst they live rather then like the Swine that are good for nothing till they dye Is it not better fot you now to bestow your charity when you your selves may see it running in the right channell then to stay till you be dead when perhaps the Executors may be nothing but the Executioners of your wills But the Truth is we look but for little from you Pliny speakes of a Tree the Leaf whereof was as big as a Target but the fruit no bigger then a Bean. And such a businesse is death-bed-charity They that will do great things then it often falls out they do nothing at all or as good as