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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63883	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable Sir Henry Tulse, Lord Mayor of the city of London and the court of aldermen, together with the governors of the hospitals at the parish-church of St. Bridget, on Easter Monday, March 31, 1684 by the Right Reverend Father in God Francis Lord Bishop of Rochester ...	Turner, Francis, 1638?-1700.	1634 (1634)	Wing T3284; ESTC R38919	18,664	40

be they Young or Aged as long as they are uncapable of subsisting by themselves our Saviour in the words of my Text effectually recommends them to be treated with all Humanity and Tender Mercy such Poor as these are the Wealth of a Christian Corporation as that holy Deacon S. Laurence Answered that Cruel and Covetous President who demanded of him the Gold and Silver rising from the great Oblations at the Altar where he Ministred he muster'd up a vast number of Poor Saints some without Eyes some whose Arms were quite wither'd away others decrepit with Age who had lost the use of their Feet and ranging all these miserable creeping things so as the Governour migh● have his full view of them Behold said he these are the Churches hidden Treasure but I may say these are not only as the Publick Stock of your City but as its Walls and Bulwarks and the mercy ye shew to such as these is as one of the Ornaments of your Power like one of your Gold Chains 't is Solomon's Comparison and not mine Let not Mercy forsake thee bind it about thy Neck Prov. iii. 3. as if Solomon himself for outward Glory had never been arrayed like one of those who shine within and without by their noble Acts of mercy And thus I am coming into my fourth and last part the Glories of this Grace or the great Reward of Charity so much the greater when it comes the longer it is a coming And thou shalt be blessed for they cannot recompense thee they whom thou choosest to Relieve in thy dis-interested Charity cannot if they would repay thee but he that Assuredly can Infallibly will so this is placing our Charity as Usurers do their Mony most willingly on good Security to those that will keep it longest so they shall be certainly paid Vse upon Vse for it and consider'd for the very forbearance of their Interest Not that the Charitable Man goes without a Blessing in this Life the Poor have a special Prerogative from God to Bless and as Rich as Job was before his Adversity he was highly pleas'd to receive their Benedictions When the Ear heard me then it blessed me because I delivered the Poor that Cryed and the Fatherless and him that had none to help him the Blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me And well may their Blessings be desirable when on the other side their Curses are so formidable for sure the Son of Syrach knew what he said Turn not away thine Eye from the Needy and give him none Occasion to Curse thee for if he Curse thee in the bitterness of his Soul his Prayer shall be heard of him that made him Strange that an Imprecation should be called a Prayer ● such a Prayer as is turn'd into Sin upon him that puts it up and yet is received by God as a Petition or Charge upon him that provokes and extorts it But on the other side how many are the Blessings that are even heapt upon the Liberal Soul that deviseth Liberal things and by Liberal things shall he be establisht If Blessing him in his Person that considers the Poor and Needy If delivering him in the time of trouble If preserving him and keeping him Alive that he may be blessed upon Earth if Comforting him when he lyeth sick upon his Bed and making all his Bed in his sickness if these are mighty Blessings all these are put together in one place and a Concordance would help me to a thousand more such places full of Blessings as great and as certain as these and all these on this side Heaven But the strongest motive of all is that in my Text the most unresistible Argument for giving Alms tho ' Hoping for nothing again in this world is That thou shalt be Recompenst at the Resurrection of the Just It is not said thou shalt merit Heaven by thy Good-Works the best the noblest Act of Charity must needs be that to lay down our Lives for our Brethren yet Martyrdome it self ought not to be put into the Scale as if it were Weighty or Worthy enough to deserve an exceeding and eternal weight of Glory for I reckon says St. Paul that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be Compared with the Glory that shall be Revealed in us yet says the same Apostle in an other place our light Affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory so our Doing Good as well as our suffering Evil are a sure means to Obtain though not to Merit and as the certain Recompense in the World to come is here made a most forcible Argument for Charity so the Charity that some Exercise without receiving their Recompence in this World is an invincible Proof of a World to come For now suppose a man with all this heap of pitiful Accidents upon him which our Saviour puts together in the Text Poor Maimed Lame and Blind add to these the Torments of Cramps and Stone to keep him perpetually on the wrack from his Child-hood to extream Old-Age and yet this poor man perseveres in the Fai●h and practises more Charity even that of Alms than do all the Rich parting with his two Mite● as the Widdow did with all her Living when he hears of one in more immediate danger of starving than himself he will trust to him that feeds the Ravens to supply his next days Exigence tho his patient Continuance in well-doing may qualifie and enable him to cry out Centuplum in hac Vita that God has given him a hundred fold in this Life of Joy in the Holy-Ghost and Expectations of Bliss yet it can never consist with the Goodness of God to suffer any perfectly good Man feeding himself with such Expectations to be at length defrauded and disappointed and the Justice of God requires that he be one day recompenst seeing it is a Righteous thing with God says the Apostle to recompense Tribulation to them that trouble his Saints And to those who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels And seeing it is a Stoical or rather a Chimical an Empirical Divinity that by making Virtue its own Reward prepares a great Dissolvent to Annihilate Virtue it self and bring it to nothing then since that God is Just and most perfect Justice it self there needs must be a Day of Recompense a Time of Refreshing a time when every Lazarus that received his Evil things shall be Comforted and when every Rich Man that has already Received and Abus'd his Good things shall be Tormented But this Time and that Recompense cannot be to a Man in such a Case as I have suppos'd till after this Life therefore it proves sufficiently that there is a Life to Come But if such a practice of Good Works in the midst of such almost insupportable Evils of this Life be a Reason strong enough to