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A89257	The crying sin of England, of not caring for the poor. Wherein inclosure, viz. such as doth unpeople townes, and uncorn fields, is arraigned, convicted, and condemned by the Word of God. Being the chief heads of two sermons, preached at the lecture at Lutterworth in Leicester-shire in May last, and now published in love to Christ, his country, and the poor. By John Moore, minister of Knaptoft in Liecester-shire.	Moore, John, 1595?-1657.	1653 (1653)	Wing M2558; Thomason E713_7; ESTC R207160	18,309	34

hungry thirsty stranger naked sick imprisoned c. the poor are such as are destitue of substance of friends of health of help of limbs of house of harbour the widow and fatherless c. I but there are so many wicked poor It s true there are good poor and wicked poor Gods poor and the Divels poor the Divels poor are those whom their own idleness ill husbandry lewdness or looseness of life hath made poor or such as are as poor in goodness as in goods in grace as in purse Gods poor are those whom Divine providence hath made poor both for the tryal of their patience and our charity These though they are poor in this World yet they are rich in faith For answer then the Spirt of God teacheth us to distinguish of poor but to leave no poor out of our care Galat. 6. 10. Let us do good unto all men especially unto them who are of the houshold of Faith We must take care of all but especially before all others and above al others of those who are of the houshold of Faith So then we must take care of the wicked poor as they are our own flesh Isaiah 58.7 To deal thy bread to the hungry and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house when thou seest the naked that thou cover him and that thou hide not thy self from thy own flesh We must take care for them then as they are our naturall kindred as they are men and women and not be cruel to our own flesh but nourish it and cherish it Ephes 5.26 There is nothing of humanity nothing of man in that person that hath not bowels to preserve mankind from perishing Solomon tels us Proverbs 22. 2 The rich and the poor meet together the Lord is maker of them all the Lord made them both and the Lord made them both to live together Matth. 26. 11. and therefore to live together that the rich might help the poor Deut. 15. 11. and the Lord did not only make them as men but as rich men and poor men and he that made thee rich and him poor might have made thee poor and him rich And therefore we must do good unto all c. especially to the faithful The faithful are of our spiritual kindred born of the same spirit The nearness and dearness of the Saints one to another will appear in their oneness For as there is oneness betwixt Christ and Christians so betwixt Christians and Christians Ephes 4.4.5.6 There is one body and one spirit even as we are called in one hope of your calling one Lord one Faith one Baptisme one God and Father of all c. All the household of the faithful are all one One body even fellow members of that mystical body whereof Jesus Christ is the head one Spirit all of them enlivened and enlightned by the same Spirit One hope of the common Salvation of Jesus Jude 3. One Lord in the head one Faith in the heart one Baptisme in the face and profession One God and Father of all even the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead 1 Peter 1.1.3 The faithful are all children of the same Father and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him that is begotten 1 John 5.1 We are called to an especial care of the faithful because children of our Heavenly Father because fellow-members of our Lord Jesus because we are all one in Christ Jesus Galat. 3. 28. As we must provide for our own especially those of our own house 1 Tim. 5. 8. So must we do good unto all especially them that are of the houshold of Faith Oh let us put these poor into our bosomes let these poor lie next to God our Father in our hearts and next to Jesus Christ in our neerest and dearest affections because they are Gods and because they are Christs Here be that hath two coats let him impart to him that hath none and he that hath meat let him do likewise Luke 3. 11. Woe be to him that hath such good poor neighbours and can eat his morsels alone and shall not warm them with the fleece of his Sheep Job 31. ver 17 to the 24. A Christian indeed cannot but take care of Gods familie as well as of his own family of Gods children as well of his own children of Gods servants as well as his own servants here is the difference indeed Charity begins at home but it doth not tarry at home But must we give to Beggers Questionlesse we must 1 It s Christs precept Matth. 5.24 Give to him that asketh thee c. Secondly Christ heals a Begger and never reproves him for begging Joh. 9.8 Thirdly good Lazarus was a Begger at the rich mans gate and he is in hell that denyed him the crumbs or scraps that fell from his Table that was left after meals But David speaks Psal 37.25 I have been young and now am old yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread as though there were no good Beggers David here speaks out of his own experience A good King he was in Israel to see put in execution Gods commands for the care of the poor and to keep them himself Deut. 15.9.10.11 that there might be no Begger in Israel A true hearted Israelite is merciful as his Father in Heaven is merciful and is ready to give where he knows there is need before they ask especially to the Saints and the seed of the Saints Oh these melt them all into bowels I do not here plead for Beggers For it is the shame of a well governed Common Wealth to suffer so many idle Beggers and Rogues and Vagrants to wander up and down out of a calling It is a greater shame for any Christian Society City or Town then to take no more care for the poor then that they be forced to begge But how great a shame is it for a Gospel Magistracie not to suppresse Make-beggers which make such swarms of Beggers in Countries Cities and Towns And here I cannot but cry aloud and spare not and lift up my voice like a Trumpet and tell these Make-beggers their sins and these greedy Gripes their transgressions that care not how many Beggers they make so themselves may be Gentlemen nor how many poor they make so themselves may be rich I mean the unsociable covetous cruel broode of those wretches that by their Inclosure do unpeople Towns and uncorn fields who fall under the Prophets woe Isaiah 5.8 that joyn house to house and field to field till there be no place that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth and be rid of all the poor Although Jesus Christ saith Joh. 12. 8. The poor you have alwayes with you I wish I could cry so loud in their ears that I could awake their