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A59805	The charity of lending without vsury, and the true notion of vsury briefly stated in a sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, at St. Bridget's Church, on Tuesday in Easter-week, 1692 / by William Sherlock ...	Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.	1692 (1692)	Wing S3278; ESTC R8222	11,444	34

The Dean of St. PAUL's SERMON BEFORE The Lord MAYOR AT St. BRIDGET's Church on Tuesday in Easter-Week 1692. Stamp MAYOR Jovis xiv die April ' 1692. Annoque Regis Regine Wiliel Mariae Angliae c. quarto THIS Court doth desire the Reverend Doctor Sherlock Dean of St. Paul's to print his Sermon preached at St. Bridget's Church on Tuesday in Easter-Week last before the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Governors of the several Hospitals of this City GOODFELLOW The Charity of Lending without Usury AND The True Notion of Usury briefly stated IN A SERMON Preach'd before the RIGHT HONOURABLE The Lord MAYOR AT St. BRIDGET's Church on Tuesday in Easter-Week 1692. By WILLIAM SHERLOCK D. D. Dean of St. Paul's Master of the Temple and Chaplain in Ordinary to Their MAJESTIES IMPRIMATUR April 23. 1692. GEO. ROYSE LONDON Printed for William Rogers at the Sun over-against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet street MDC XC II. VI. LUKE 35. But love ye your enemies and do good and lend hoping for nothing again and your reward shall be great and ye shall be the children of the Highest for he is kind to the unthankful and to the evil OUR Conformity to the Death and Resurrection of our Saviour consists in dying to sin and walking in newness of life which St. Paul tells us is represented by the External Ceremony of Baptism the baptized Person being buried with Christ in Baptism and rising out of his watry grave a new born Creature 6. Rom. 3 4. For in that he died he died unto sin once but in that he liveth he liveth unto God Likewise reckon ye also your selves to be dead indeed unto sin but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord 9 10. And the principal Exercise of this Divine Life which is our conformity to the Resurrection of Christ is a Divine Conversation If ye then be risen with Christ seek those things which are above where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God Set your affections on things above not on things on the earth 3. Col. 1 2. And to set our affections on things above does not only signify to think sometimes of Heaven and to desire to go to Heaven when we dye which very worldly-minded men may do but to lay up for our selves Treasures in Heaven which are durable and eternal in opposition to those perishing Treasures on Earth which are subject to Thieves to Moths and Rust. 6. Matth. 19. 20 21. To make to our selves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness that when we fail they may receive us into everlasting habitations 16. Luke 9. Now ye all know what this means viz. To purge our minds from the love of Riches and from all covetous Desires to improve our Estates in Acts of Piety and Charity for the Service of God and to supply the wants of the poor and miserable to return our Money into the other World where it will encrease into Eternal Life and Glory for this is truly to have our Conversation in Heaven to live above this World to sit loose from all the Enjoyments of it to live to God and another World to improve every thing we enjoy here to secure and advance our future Happiness when men are Charitable upon these Principles and these designs they must live a very heavenly Life For where our Treasure is there our hearts will be also This our Ancestors who appointed this Annual Solemnity seem to have been very sensible of That there is no particular Grace or Vertue the exercise of which is a more visible demonstration of a Divine and purified Mind which is risen with Christ and lives to God as Christ doth than the Grace of Charity and therefore that there was no time more proper to exercise Charity and to exhort Christians to Charity and to show Charity in all its Pomp and humble Bravery than the Feast of the Resurrection wherein we commemorate the Love of our Lord in dying for us and his triumph over Death and in full assurance of a blessed Immortality of which the Resurrection of our Saviour was an ocular Demonstration send our Hearts and our Eyes after him to Heaven and contemplate that Glory to which he is advanced and to which he has promised to advance us This then is my proper work at this time to exhort you to Charity proper both to the nature of this holy Feast and to the original Institution of this Solemnity and it may reasonably be hoped that the Annual Returns of it wherein all the Arguments to Charity are so earnestly pressed on you should keep this Divine Fire always burning and glowing in your Breasts You have so often heard all the Arguments to Charity that it is impossible you should forget them and there is one that is worth all the rest which no Christian can forget who remembers that there is a Heaven and a Hell and which no Christian can resist without despising his Soul and Eternal Life and Death and that is That Heaven is the Reward of Charity that Hell is the Punishment of Uncharitableness which is so plainly and expresly taught and so frequently repeated by our Saviour that it is as certain and unavoidable as that there is a Heaven and a Hell and if Heaven be not a sufficient Encouragement to Charity nor Hell sufficient to deter us from Uncharitableness it is to no purpose to use any other Arguments which can never persuade if these can't or if they could would neither carry us to Heaven nor keep us out of Hell for to be charitable only for temporal reasons is to give our goods to feed the poor without a true Divine Charity which St. Paul tells us will profit nothing 1 Cor. 13. For such a Charity as does not raise us above this world can neither carry us to Heaven nor keep us out of Hell And therefore instead of drawing together all the Arguments for Charity which you have so often heard and shewing them in a new dress my design at present is to recommend to you a very excellent but a very neglected part of Charity which our Saviour presses on us in my Text viz. The Charity of Lending Do good and lend hoping for nothing again In speaking to which Words I shall 1. Shew you what this Duty is 2. What an excellent Charity it is to lend And how this may be improved to the most excellent purposes 1. What this Duty is or what our Saviour means by lending hoping for nothing again And it can signifie but two things and I see no reason to think but that our Saviour might mean both 1. To Lend without hoping for any encrease or to lend freely without Usury 2. To lend where the very Principal may be in danger when we have little reason to hope that we shall ever see our own again 1. To lend freely without Usury for our Saviour commands this as an Act of Charity Do good and lend And tho to lend even upon Usury may in