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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45200	Contemplations upon the remarkable passages in the life of the holy Jesus by Joseph Hall.	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1679 (1679)	Wing H376; ESTC R30722	360,687	516

injoying them Jerusalem was grown a City of bloud to the persecution of the Prophets to a wilfull despight of what belonged to her peace to a profanation of God's Temple to a mere formality in God's services and yet here were publick works of Charity in the midst of her streets We may not always judge of the truth of Piety by charitable actions Judas disbursed the money for Christ there was no Traitour but he The poor traveller that was robb'd and wounded betwixt Jerusalem and Jericho was passed over first by the Priest then the Levite at last the Samaritan came and relieved him His Religion was naught yet his act was good the Priest's and Levite's Religion good their Uncharity ill Novatus himself was a Martyr yet a Schismatick Faith is the soul and good works are the breath saith S. James but as you see in a pair of bellows there is a forced breath without life so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation there may be charitable works without Faith The Church of Rome unto her four famous Orders of Jacobins Franciscans Augustines and Carmelites hath added a fifth of Jesuites and like another Jerusalem for those five Leprous and lazarly Orders hath built five Porches that if the water of any State be stirred they may put in for a share How many Cells and Convents hath she raised for these miserable Cripples and now she thinks though she exalt her self above all that is called God though she dispense with and against God though she fall down before every block and wafer though she kill Kings and equivocate with Magistrates she is the onely City of God Digna est nam struxit Synagogam She is worthy for she hath built a Synagogue Are we more orthodox and shall not we be as charitable I am ashamed to think of rich Noblemen and Merchants that die and give nothing to our five Porches of Bethesda What shall we say Have they made their Mammon their God in stead of making friends with their Mammon to God Even when they die will they not like Ambrose's good Usurers part with that which they cannot hold that they may get that which they cannot lose Can they begin their will In Dei nomine Amen and give nothing to God Is he onely a Witness and not a Legatee Can we bequeath our Souls to Christ in Heaven and give nothing to his Lims on earth And if they will not give yet will they not lend to God He that gives to the poor foeneratur Deo lends to God Will they put out to any but God and then when in stead of giving security he receives with one hand and pays with another receives our bequest and gives us glory Oh damnable niggardliness of vain men that shames the Gospel and loses Heaven Let me shew you a Bethesda that wants Porches What truer house of effusion then the Church of God which sheds forth waters of comfort yea of life Behold some of the Porches of this Bethesda so far from building that they are pulled down It is a wonder if the demolished stones of God's House have not built some of yours and if some of you have not your rich Suits garded with Souls There were wont to be reckoned three wonders of England Ecclesia Foemina Lana The Churches the Women the Wool Foemina may pass still who may justly challenge wonder for their Vanity if not their Person As for Lana if it be wonderfull alone I am sure it is ill joyned with Ecclesia The Church is fleeced and hath nothing but a bare pelt left upon her back And as for Ecclesia either men have said with the Babylonians Down with it down with it even to the ground or else in respect of the Maintenance with Judas Vt quid perditio haec Why was this waste How many remorsefull souls have sent back with Jacob's sons their money in their Sacks mouths How many great Testators have in their last Will returned the anathematized peculium of Impropriations to the Church chusing rather to impair their heir then to burthen their Souls Dum times nè pro te patrimonium tuum perdas ipse pro patrimonio tuo peris saith Cyprian Whilst thou fearest to lose thy patrimony for thy own good thou perishest with thy patrimony Ye great men spend not all your time in building Castles in the air or houses on the sand but set your hands and purses to the building of the Porches of Bethesda It is a shame for a rich Christian to be like a Christmas-box that receives all and nothing can be got out till it be broken in pieces or like unto a drown'd man's hand that holds whatsoever it gets To doe good and to distribute forget not for with such Sacrifices God is well pleased This was the Place what was the Use of it All sorts of Patients were at the bank of Bethesda where should Cripples be but at the Spittle The sick blind lame withered all that did either morbo laborare or vitio corporis complain either of sickness or impotency were there In natural course one receit heals not all diseases no nor one Agent one is an Oculist another a Bone-setter another a Chirurgeon But all diseases are alike to the supernaturall power of God Hippocrates though the Prince of Physicians yet swears by Aesculapius he will never meddle with cutting of the Stone There is no Disease that Art will not meddle with there are many that it cannot cure The poor Haemorrhoïssa was eighteen years in the Physicians hands and had purged away both her body and her substance Yea some it kills in stead of healing whence one Hebrew word signifies both Physicians and dead men But behold here all Sicknesses cured by one hand and by one water O all ye that are spiritually sick and diseased come to the Pool of Bethesda the Bloud of Christ Do ye complain of the Blindness of your Ignorance here ye shall receive clearness of Sight of the distemper of Passions here Ease of the superfluity of your sinfull Humours here Evacuation of the impotency of your Obedience here Integrity of the dead witheredness of good Affections here Life and Vigour Whatsoever your infirmity be come to the Pool of Bethesda and be healed All these may be cured yet shall be cured at leisure all must wait all must hope in waiting Methinks I see how enviously these Cripples look one upon another each thinking other a lett each watching to prevent other each hoping to be next like emulous Courtiers that gape and vie for the next preferment and think it a pain to hope and a torment to be prevented But Bethesda must be waited on He is worthy of his Crutches that will not stay God's leisure for his Cure There is no virtue no success without patience Waiting is a familiar lesson with Courtiers and here we have all need of it One is sick of an overflowing of the Gall another of a Tumour of