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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14645	The poore-mans preacher A sermon preached at S. Maries Spittle in London, on Tuesday in Easter weeke, being April. 7. 1607. By Ro. Wakeman Bachelar of Diuinitie, and fellow of Ballioll College in Oxford.	Wakeman, Robert, 1575 or 6-1629.	1607 (1607)	STC 24951; ESTC S101713	35,727	96

that the poore of the people might eate Exod. 23.11 and it was the expresse will of almightie God that in the time of haruest they should leaue the gleanings of their corne and after their Vintage the remainder of their grapes for the poore Leuit. 19.9.10 Nay the precept of the Lord was generall Si fuerit apud te egens quispiam de fratribus tuis If anie of thy brethren be poore within the land thou shalt not harden thine heart nor shut thine hand from him but thou shalt open thy hand vnto him and lend him that which is sufficient for his néed thou shalt giue him and let it not grieue thine heart to giue him Deut. 15.7.8 10. And for this purpose in the same chapter the Lord said there should euer be some poore in the land because they might euer haue occasion to exercise their charitie and beneuolence This was that doctrine which Esay laid downe vnto the Iewes frange esurienti panem tuum deale thy bread vnto the hungrie bring the poore that wander into thy house when thou séest the naked couer him hide not thy selfe from thine owne flesh Es 58. O what a forcible argument is this to euerie Christian to stretch out his hands vnto the néedie considering that he who asketh our almes be he neuer so base is not a stranger vnto vs but flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone a poore member with vs of that mystical body wherof Christ Iesus is the head hide not then thy face from thine owne flesh This was the duty which Ezechiel taught his hearers for describing a iust man he speaks not of his strength and power his dignitie and honour his wealth and riches but of giuing his bread vnto the hungrie and couering the naked with his garment Ezek. 18.7 and he taxeth it as a capitall sinne in Sodome in that shée did not strengthen the hands of the poore and néedie Ezech. 16.49 This was that which Iohn Baptist preached vnto the people 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he that hath two coats let him part to him that hath none and he that hath meate let him doe likewise Luc. 3.11 This was that which our Sauiour so often pressed Giue almes of those things which are within Luc. 11.41 and Sell that you haue and giue to the poore Matth. 19.21 all which places are parallel to this of Salomon in my text Cast thy bread vpon the waters What shall I say more but as Iob speaketh Aske the beasts and they shall tell thée aske the fowles and they shall teach thée speake to the earth and it shall shew thée and to the fishes of the sea and they shall declare this vnto thée Naie looke O man vpon the heauens aboue and on thy selfe below and tell me whether all the creatures of God doe not after a sort preach this doctrine of casting and distributing vnto thée the heauens cast thée their swéet influence the Sunne his light the Moone her light and the starres their light the clouds cast thée their fatnesse the aire her swéetnesse the fire his warmnesse the sea casts thee his water to wash thée his fish to féed thée and many rare things to delight thée the earth casts thée her herbes the herbes cast thée their flowers the flowers cast thée their séedes and the séedes cast thée their increase euerie thing casteth something vnto man to teach one man to cast somewhat vnto an other and if all this doth not mooue thée then looke O man into thy selfe the little world doth not thy hand cast meat into thy mouth doth not thy mouth conuey it vnto thy stomacke and is it not from thy stomacke distributed indifferently to the other parts and all for the preseruation of the whole haue not all the members in the body néed one of another can the mouth say vnto the eie I haue no néed of thée or the eie to the hand I haue no néed of thee or the hand to the eares I haue no néed of thée or the eares to the féete I haue no néede of thée or the whole bodie to the heart I haue no néede of thée nay doe not each of these members affoord their best helpe and furtherance vnto the rest to teach vs who are all members of the same bodie by giuing our charitable almes to supplie the seuerall wants and necessities one of an other and whereas as one obserueth omnia animantia manus habentia illis terram attingunt praeter hominem nature or rather the God of nature hath so framed fashioned all other creatures that with their hands or forelegs which are instéed of hands they touch the ground man onely carrieth his hands lifted from the earth to shew that he should not imploie them in earthly affaires but rather in distributing of his goods and diuiding of his substance and giuing of his riches vnto the poore and casting of his bread vpon the waters Such a caster was holy Iob If I haue restrained saith he the poore of their desire or caused the eies of the widdow to faile if I haue eaten my morsels alone and the fatherlesse haue not eaten thereof if I haue séene any perish for want of clothing or any poore without couering then let mine arme fall from my shoulder and mine arme be broken from the bone Iob. 31. Such a caster was good Zacheus he was no doubt a very rich man and yet he gaue no lesse then the one halfe of his goods vnto the poore Luc. 19.8 Such a caster was faithfull Cornelius who is registred by the spirit of God to all posteritie for a deuout man and one that gaue much almes vnto the people Act. 10.2 such casters were those two renowned women the one in the old Testament the other in the new the one was the widow of Sarepta who relieued the prophet of the Lord with all the substance she had euen a little meale in a barrell and a little oile in a cruse 1. Reg. 17.12 the other was that charitable Dorcas in the Acts of the Apostles who was rich in good works and almes which shée did Act. 9.36 Finally such casters were those woorthie instruments of Gods glorie men and women of famous memorie whom the Lord hath raised vp in this citie as especiall founders and benefactors in many woorthy works Héere report was made according to the custome of the place of the number of poore children and souldiers and other impotent people that this last yéere were maintained cured by some meanes relieued within the Honorable citie of London in the Hospitals of Christ S. Bartholmew S. Thomas and Bridewell which amounted in all to 4258. These are excellent things beloued brethren so that as S. Paul said of Rome in the time of her ancient puritie that her faith was published thorow the whole world Rom. 1.8 so we may pronounce of London for these her singular déedes of charitie that her faith and the fruit of her faith her many good works