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A46690	A sermon preached at Bugbrook in Northamptonshire, May 15, 1642, upon the collection for Ireland condemned in the morning, in the church, before the whole congregation for popery, and in the afternoone there, for having many lyes in it of a high nature / published by the authour in a just vindication of himselfe from that unjust scandall.	Jay, George.	1642 (1642)	Wing J496; ESTC R43310	9,513	29

tearmes The houshold of Faith Fourthly the time when Whilest we have opportunity Fifthly the motive or reason perswading us thereunto intimated in the illative particle of my Text Therefore which referres us backe to take a view of what hath been sayd before and there we shall finde a reason given in the verse immediatly preceding my Text because wee in due season shall reap As if hee should have said If we sow our good workes with a charitable hand upon all men especially upon the houshold of Faith we shall in the time of gathering at harvest when the Wheat shall bee gathered into the Garner and the Chaffe burnt with unquenchable fire reap a plentifull crop a full ample and gracious reward of our Charity In due season we shall reap if we faint not So as for the sprinkling and scattering of a small portion of our goods in a convenient seed-time for workes of charity wee shall have a large returne of the principall with interest in the season of harvest at the last day As we have therefore opportunity let us doe good unto all men especially to them who are of the houshold of faith I begin with the first parts the act and the quality of it Let us doe good Above all things saith the Apostle put on Charity which is the bond of perfection Coloss 3.14 Now abideth Faith Hope and Charity but the greatest of these is Charitie 1 Cor. 13. ult David calls that man happy whose sins are covered Beatus vir cujus tecta sunt peccata Blessed is hee whose unrighteousnesse is forgiven and whose sinne is covered Psal 32.12 And Salomon sayes That love covers all sinnes Prov. 10.12 And St. Peter sayes that Love covers a multitude of sinnes Multitudinem peccatorum operit charitas above all things have fervent Charity for charity covers a multitude of sinnes 1 Pet. 4.8 Though I speake with the tongues of Men and Angels and have not Charity saith the Apostle I am but as sounding Brasse and a tinckling Cymball And though I have the gift of Prophesie and the understanding all mysteries and all knowledge and though I have all faith so as I could remove mountaines and have not Charity I am nothing Therefore whilest wee have opportunity let us doe good unto all men especially to those of the houshold of faith Hee that shall say I have quieted my thoughts through the merits of Christ Jesus and my faith in him and that I am reconciled and have made my peace with God and therefore from henceforth I may say with Saint Paul 2 Tim. 4.8 that J know a crown of righteousnesse is laid up for me and hath not charity deceives himselfe and the truth is not in him It was most excellent counsell which the Prophet Daniel gave King Nebuchadnezzar Breake off thy sinnes by righteousnesse Dan. 4.17 and thy iniquity by shewing mercy to the poore The man that stood before Cornelius in bright cloathing told him Act. 10.30 that his praiers were heard and that his almes deeds were had in remembrance in the sight of God Therefore while we have opportunity c. To doe good and communicate forget not Heb. 13 16. for with such sacrifice the Lord is well pleased Esurivi saies our Saviour Christ I was an hungery and yee gave me meate I was thirstie and yee gave me drinke I was a stranger and yee took me in naked and yee cloathed me Matt. 25.35 I was sick and yee visited me I was in prison and yee came to me therefore venite benedicti patris mei come yee blessed of my father possidete regnum take possession of an eternall kingdome the declarative reason is Quia esurivi J was an hungred and yee gave me meat Therefore whilst we have opportunitie let us doe good unto all men c. And so I come unto the object All men What unto our enimies that is a hard matter that goes against the haire a taske that will startle flesh and blood to undertake but this is a law which our Saviour Christ doth impose upon us But I say unto you Mat. 5.44 love your enemies Antiently lex talionis was in use with the Jewes and the Gentiles as may be gathered out of the 38. of the same chap. And this to many seemed a naturall and a iust law as we find in Arist A. Gellius Alex. ab Alexan. and others Plutarch reporteth that the first of the house of the Cornelii that was burned after his death was Sylla fearing the same punishment lege talionis should bee inflicted on him which his enemy Marius had suffered whom he pluckt out of his grave But our Saviour crossing this law saith Mat 5.38 this was a law of old an eie for an eie and a tooth for a tooth But I say unto you doe good to those that hurt you blesse them that curse you pray for your persecutors as in the same Chap. verse 44. I confesse that this is the greatest temptation and the hardest encounter that flesh and blood is put to Saint August making a repetition of all the commandements sayes that there is none harder to be kept then that of loving our enemies and restraining the appetite from revenge against them that shall defame and persecute us Quis cum invenerit inimicum dimittet eum in via bona saith Saul who when he hath taken his enemy at an advantage will let him goe in safetie What a hard matter will it bee then according to the command of the Apostle heer in my text to doe him good Redime me a calumniis bominum ut custodiam mandata tua keep me from the slanders of men that I may runne the way of thy commandements whereby it seemes that David having set before him all the commandements of God the slander of his enemes did so cow his resolution that he did as it were say oh Lord if thou dost not redeeme me from this temptation I shall hardly bee able to serve thee as I would Psal 92. Paulò minus saith David againe upon the same occasion habitasset in inferno anima mea a little more and my soule had dwelt in hell the motions of revenge put me into such speed that if the hand of the Lord had not forcibly held me back I had run in my fury headlong to hell But that which to man seemes impossible God makes easie and therefore our Saviour Matt. 11. saies jugum meum suarve onus leve My yoake is easie and my burthen light He that gives the commandement will give us ability to performe it in some measure Nolentem per venit ut vellet volentem subsequitur ne frustra vellet Aug. He will give us his preventing and his subsequent grace to make us both willing and able to obey his command in doing good unto all men even our enemies Iudicium sine misericordiâ qui non faciunt misericordiam Let him saith Saint Iames Jam. 2.13 looke for no

mercy in the world to come that shewes no mercy in this life One of the reasons why Hamon King Assuerus great favorite found no pitty in Queen Hesters nor the Kings brest though he begged it on his knees with teares in his eies was for that he had plotted such a mercilesse villanie as to destroy all the Iewes Hest 1.3 both men women children at one blow and therefore hee was thought to deserve no favor Nathan propounding unto David that parable of him that having many sheepe of his owne had robbed his neighbour of his onely sheep having no more besides in all the world was so incensed against this so great an injurie that he held him for the present unworthy of pardon 2. Sam. 12. As the Lord liveth he shall die The word of God cannot faile Heaven and earth shall passe away Matt. 24.35 but my words saith our Saviour shall not passe away And the Prophet Amos threatneth cruell persons with most severe punishment Am. cap. 4. cap. 6. And Salomon saies that the hard heart shall have many a shrewd pang when hee lies upon his death bed But our Saviour bestowes a blessing upon those that are ready to do good and to shew mercy unto others Mat. 5.7 Blessed are the mercifull for they shall obtaine mercy As we have therefore opportunity let us doe good to all men especially to them who are of the household of faith And so I come to the particular object the houshold of faith especially to them who are of the houshold of faith It was the custome of the primitive Church to have their goods in common that the necessities of every man might be supplied As many as were possessors of lands and houses sold them Act. 4.34.35 and brought the prices of the things that were sold and laid them down at the Apostles feet and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need But now men are so farre from doing so that distribution might be made according to the wants of other men that they doe not only rob them but the Apostles also nay God himselfe Will a man robbe God sayes the Prophet in the Lords name Yet ye have robbed me Mal. 3.8 but ye say wherin have we robbed thee in tythes and offerings Mark what followes Ye are cursed with a curse for yee have robbed me I make no application of what I have said if any man here present be guilty of this sinne let him take heed that he partake not of the curse The words are Gods Yee are cursed with a curse the reason is Mal. 3.8.9 because yee have robbed the Lord and it is plainly set downe wherein yee have robbed him ye have robbed him in tythes and offerings Saint Paul sayes that they which minister about holy things live of the sacrifice and they which wait on the Altar are partakers of the Altar even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel 1 Cor. 9.13.14 And here in my text hee doth enjoyne us to doe good unto all men especially to those who are of the houshold of faith preach the Gospel and faith in Jesus Christ All are to be relieved especially the faithfull It is a cruell hard-heartednesse to see a Christian in want and not to relieve him If I should see a true professor of faith in Christ Jesus beg his bread or walke unclothed and should not feed him and with mine owne garment cover his nakednesse I were worthy to eate the bread of affliction and drinke the water of bitternesse and to want a worse garment then Adam had to cover his nakednesse But alasse charity now adayes is cold Probitas laudatur alget Where are the Hospitals and the goods bestowed in pios usus which were frequent heretofore Where is hee that cryes out with Zacheus Behold Luke 19.8 if J have done any man wrong I am ready to returne him satisfaction and halfe my goods I give unto the poore What followes hereupon but the blessing of all blessings salvation Verse 9. And Iesus said unto him this day is salvation come into thy house Therefore while we have opportunity let us doe good unto all men especially to those that are of the houshold of faith While we have opportunity Why not to day To day if you will heare his voice harden not your hearts This is the day wherein you may exercise your charity and shew your love to the Gospell doe not neglect it for perhaps you may never have the like We are not sure to live another day Luke 1● 20 Remember how the foole in the Gospell was deceived in his expectation And therefore I exhort you to do it to day while it is yet called to day lest yee dye before to morrow And truly I never knew greater reason for it Res ipsa loquitur if I should bee silent the knowne wants of our poore brethren in Ireland were motive sufficient to put heat and life into a cold and dead pitty into a frozen benummed and soulelesse charity Now is a time to shew your love to the Gospell you that in shew are the great professors of it now you have an opportunity to manifest your love to Christ Jesus and your zeale to his flocke to the people of his pasture and the sheepe of his hands who have not onely lost their greene pastures and waters of comfort but their wooll skin and flesh by the pawes and teeth of the papisticall Jesuiticall Irish Wolves I feare we are not all so valiant as with our swords with David to endeavour to rescue and deliver these harmlesse Lambes out of the mouths of these Romish Beares and Lions 1. Sam. 17.35 to take them by the beards and smite them as he did yet let us labour by supplies maintenance by our benevolence to preserve those from the sword and hunger and cold that have escaped their fury I have read many sad stories of the miseries of Christians but never the like to this of our brethren in Ireland Whole families nay whole parishes nay whole townes nay whole Counties and in them besides thousands of the Plebeians and poorer sort many of the Gentry and some of the Nobilitie and best ranke have been robbed and tortured and murthered nay worse then this for there is a cruelty beyond death their naked bodies have beene throwne out into the open ayre no man being suffered to bury them and left a prey for Swine Wolves Dogs Vultures and Crowes and other beasts and birds of raven and prey Nay I can tell you greater cruelties yet for there may be more cruelty shewed to the living then to those that are murthered in a usuall way either at their death or after their death When they have spoiled the professors of the Gospell of all their goods who were worth thousands a little before they have stript and ravisht and whipt