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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57598	Londons resurrection, or, The rebuilding of London encouraged, directed and improved in fifty discourses : together with a preface, giving some account both of the author and work / by Samuel Rolls.	Rolle, Samuel, fl. 1657-1678.	1668 (1668)	Wing R1879; ESTC R28808	254,198	404

to communicate laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come that they may lay hold on eternal life 1 Tim. 6.18 19. We mind men of our Saviours words Luk. 12.33 Give almes provide your selves bags that wax not old a treasure in the heavens that faileth not where no thief approacheth nor moth corrupteth We say unto men as Christ said Luke 16.9 Make to your selves friends of the Mammon of unrighteousness that when ye fail they may receive you into everlasting habitations We promise Heaven in Gods Name to those that are truly charitable and is it not worth accepting unlesse God will own it or we our selves can think it to be of debt and not of grace We deny that the infinite Justice of God will or can receive satisfaction or reparation for the evil deeds which men have done by the good deeds they may or shall do afterwards as by their works of charity for former acts of injustice for that satisfaction can be made only by the undertaking of our Saviour who bore our sins in his body upon the Crosse and who is held forth to be a propitiation for us through faith in his bloud Rom. 3. But withall we say that Zacheus having been an oppressing Publican did well and set others a good example when he gave half his goods to the poor Luke 19. which furely he did upon that consideration and that it was good counsel which Daniel gave to Nebuchadnezzar Dan. 4.27 Break off thy sins by righteousness and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor the meaning whereof may be that he should cease from unrighteousnesse and cruelty for time to come and practise the contrary with all his might viz. Justice and Mercy yea we stick not to quote that passage of Solomon Prov. 16.6 By mercy and truth iniquity is purged which may be construed thus where mercy is iniquity is purged that is it is a sign of the remission of sins as was Mary's love to Christ or that God of his free mercy not of their merit pardoneth those who abound with mercy as he hath said that with the merciful he will shew himself merciful and with the garment of his undeserved grace God covereth a multitude of their infirmities who are such 1 Pet. 4.8 We say that more of bounty and charity towards men than would otherwise have been required of us is necessary and a duty in case we have been injurious or uncharitable to others formerly for if so we are in arrears both of Justice and Mercy which as to men if we be able to pay can no otherwise be satisfied nor can remission be obtained without such a restitution As for the fire of Purgatory wherewith Popish Priests do melt down the gold and silver of ignorant people into their own Coffers we know it is but a device to keep their own Kitchins warm nor can any man give a reason why the charity of men should be less inflamed by this real fire of Hell made to flash in the faces of all that do and shall remain unmerciful and uncharitable than by the feigned fire of Purgatory Why should not yea will not men part with as much to keep themselves out of Hell when made sensible how damning a sin covetousness is as to get themselves out of Purgatory sooner than otherwise they would expect To him that considers these things it will be plain and evident that those Principles which all good Protestants do own and insist upon have as great an aptness and powerfulness in their own nature to awaken and excite man to works of charity as any that Papists do or can insist upon Neither ought it to be forgotten that all the fore-mentioned Principles of Protestants are real and Scriptural and being such must needs be of greater force and authority than those grosse Falshoods vain Dreams and Bugbears wherewith Popish Impostors delude their people But here it may be a Papist would reply to us How comes it to pass if the Principles wherewith you Protestants indeavour to excite men to works of Charity be in themselves as forcible as those we go upon that we in that case do prevail more than you That by our instigations people are ready to give all their goods to the poor and to say to their very Parents It is Corban or a Gift to the Church by whatsoever thou mayest be profited whereas you Protestants have much ado many times to extort even from dying people though rich some few pounds or shillings to any good uses I wish I could say that the matter of fact herein objected were true pudet haec c. but too true it is and the reasons of it or some-of them are as follow First Some Protestant Ministers whilst they are zealous in Preaching the Doctrine of Justification by Faith so much opposed by Papists are and have been too remiss in pressing good works according to the tenor of their own Principles And thus whilst the Papists bend themselves against our Faith they make us neglect good works Such Ministers should be put in mind of what St. Paul writeth to Titus chap. 3.8 These things I will that you affirm constantly that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works these things are good and profitable to men Secondly Protestant Preachers if I mistake not do generally harp less upon the duty of bounty and charity in particular towards the Church especially than Popish Priests do who do some of them it may be preach little else at leastwise that is the most they presse because the most profitable of all subjects though not to their hearers upon whom other duties are sometimes as necessary to be pressed yet to themselves Now Protestant Ministers being too much afraid of being so much as suspected of seeking themselves do I fear under-do as to pressing works of charity whilst Popish Priests are guilty of over-doing being like the Horseleech or Grave which are never satisfied but still do cry Give give Again Papists will venture to Promise more upon the bare opus operatum or meere act of giving to such and such good uses to be bound as it were body for body and soul for soul that they that give so much to good uses shall be saved I mean to warrant and ensure their Salvation than Protestant Ministers dare to do who knew that the end of the Commandement the fulfilling of which end is required in a saving charity is charity out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned and that a man may give all his goods to the poor and yet want that true charity without which the Apostle saith be is but as sounding Brasse or tinkling Cymball Moreover the Popes of Rome successively use to dispense pardons for the greatest sins and such as were never repented of for so much money as a late Book called the Protestant Almanack one that will never be out of date makes out by