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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41657	The surest & safest way of thriving, or, A conviction of that grand mistake in many, that what is given to the poor, is a loss to their estate : which is so directly contrary as to the experiences of the charitable : so to the testimony of God's spirit in divers places of Scripture ... by Thomas Gouge ...	Gouge, Thomas, 1605-1681.	1673 (1673)	Wing G1377; ESTC R14065	59,429	70

Iames speaketh chap. 2. 13. Such shall have Iudgment without Mercy that shewed no mercy How do they think to find mercy from Christ who never shewed mercy to him and his I will not condemn all for unmercifulness God forbid I should many there are and I would to God they were more who do contribute bountifully to the necessities both of Ministers and other poor Saints of God But yet I have too great cause to say that the greatest part of rich men amongst us have their hearts hardened and their bowels shut up that they cannot compassionate their wants and their hands withered like his in the Gospel that they cannot reach them out to any good use Oh that such would consider that unmercifulness is a greater sin than they do imagine It was one of Sodoms sins which fetched down fire and brimstone from heaven upon them and all their children Ezek. 16. 49. Uncharitable men are cursed as in their life so at their death but most cursed will they be at the day of Judgment Being barren fruitless trees in Gods Orchard they shall with the barren fig-tree be surely cut down and cast into unquenchable fire More particularly to shew you the miseries of uncharitable persons 1. They are accursed here in every thing all they have is cursed So much is implyed in that expression of our Saviour Luke 11. 41. Give alms of such things as you have and all things are clean unto you but without alms-giving nothing is clean unto you that is nothing is blessed and sanctified unto you but all things are defiled and cursed Not only your crosses are curses but your blessings are curses unto you So God threatneth to curse their very blessings Mal. 2. 2. Though thou enjoyest abundance of this worlds goods yet so long as thou art hard-hearted to the poor and needy the curse of God cleaves to thy store and abundance Oh how sad and lamentable must thy condition needs be when those things which are not only blessings in themselves but likewise blessed unto others should be cursed unto thee Surely To be thus accursed is misery enough 2. As the unmerciful are cursed here so shall they be cursed hereafter Jam. 2. 13. He shall have Iudgment without mercy that hath shewed no Mercy Such as have shut up their bowels of compassion against the necessities of the poor God will shut up his bowels of compassion against them and let forth his fury upon them they shall have their portion in his plagues and indignation without the least drop of pitty or Mercy And at the day of judgment Christ will say unto them Math. 25. 41. Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels There 's their doom and why For I was an hungry and ye gave me no meat I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink Oh dreadful sentence every word whereof carieth much terrour in it and breatheth nothing but fire and brimstone What! must they depart from Christ the fountain of bliss and happiness and into everlasting fire Ah wretches cursed indeed For as the Prophet speaketh Isa. 33. 14. Who can dwell with devouring fires who can dwell with everlasting burnings An everlasting feaver or an but an everlasting tooth-ach were a misery unspeakable But what are these to the lying in that lake which burneth with fire and brimstone to all eternity Oh methinks the name of everlasting fire and everlasting burnings should awaken all uncharitable men out of their security and stir them up without any farther delay to bewail their former unmercifulness to beg the pardon thereof and unfeignedly to resolve willingly to give out of their store towards the relief of the poor proportionably to what God hath graciously bestowed on them It may be thou hast a plentiful portion of this worlds goods but oh what will it profit thee to live plentifully here and to be eternally miserable hereafter Seriously I cannot but stand amazed to consider how men who do believe the words of Christ to be true That all uncharitable men shall by him at the last day be sentenced into everlasting burning for their not feeding the hungry nor cloathing the naked and yet can be so hard-hearted as not to hearken to the cry of the poor 3. The misery of uncharitable persons appeareth in this That the wants and necessities of the poor cry loud to heaven against them God hath dealt bountifully with thee loading thee with his henefits as the Psalmist speaketh Psal. 68. 19. and hath given thee not only food and raiment things needful and necessary but an abundance an affuency of outward things even all things richly to enjoy but how many of Christs Ministers and members are in great want not having wherewithall to satisfie their own and childrens hunger whose miseries like the blood of Abel cry unto God for vengeance against thee saying Lord there are not a few who have enough and to spare a liberal portion of this worlds goods with Dives they fare sumptuously every day but what are we thy wanting servants the better for them who of us are warmed with their fires or clothed with their rayment or so much as partake of the crums or their table we are ready to perish for want when they are surfeited with their abundance Is the blessing of them that are ready to perish like to come upon them wilt not thou judge them O Lord Certainly these bitter and lamentable complaints cry loud in the eares of the Almighty against such unchristian and inhumane misers Beware of the cry of the poor against you If thou wilt not hear their cries unto thee God will hear their cries against thee 4. Thy unmercifulness to the poor will provoke God to reject thy most religious exercises Pro. 21. 13. Whoso stoppeth his eares at the cry of the poor he also shall cry himself but shall not be heard In which words Solomon hinteth to us two things 1. That unmerciful men such as turn away their ears from the cry of the poor shall fall into such miseries as will bring them to their knees make them cry sooner or latter Here in this world worldly men sometimes make many prayers and their religion they hope will make amends for their inhumanity at least And in the world to come they shall follow their fellow Dives in his infernal devotion 2. Though they cry yet they shall not be heard whether they cry here upon their death-beds for mercy or hereafter in Hel for ease they shall not be heard A notable instance hereof we have in Dives who though he cryed not here yet he cryed in hell saying Father Abraham have Mercy on me and send Lazarus that he may dip the top of his finger in water and cool my tongue for I am tormented in this flame Luk. 16. 24. But was he heard was his request granted 't was but a smal request but yet it is denyed Because he denied crumbs of bread here in