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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32785	A consolatory discourse for the support of distressed widows and orphans of general use to all Christians who either are or may be left in such circumstances.	Camfield, Benjamin, 1638-1693.	1690 (1690)	Wing C378; ESTC R35835	24,183	35

principal grievance of good and religious Persons when reduced to a low Estate is usually this that they have not wherewith to doe the works of Charity which formerly they did or others doe Whereas from hence they may gather how graciously God will accept and reward the meanest of their offerings and take the Will for the Deed from them According to the condition and circumstances he hath brought them to 3. That he recommended such Guests especially to the Feasts of Charity I touched on this occasionally before but here I will transcribe the Text for it St. Luke 14.12 13 14. When thou makest a Dinner or Supper saith he call not thy Friends nor thy Brethren neither thy Kinsmen nor thy rich Nighbours lest they also bid thee again and a recompense be made thee This is only a Traffick or Merchandise and Exchange of Courtesies and Civilities But when thou makest a Feast call the Poor the Maimed the Lame and the Blind and thou shalt be Blessed for they cannot recompense thee for thou shalt be recompensed at the Resurrection of the Just This is the genuine Hospitality which makes God himself a Debtor to his Creatures and for which he undertakes that it shall not lose it's reward 4. That he took all opportunities to inculcate and enlarge upon the precepts of Charity 1. When some had Indignation at the good Woman's cost who annointed him upon a pretence that the ointment might have been sold for much and given to the poor he so vindicates her kindness as to allow also of that Charity which they pretended to Jesus said why trouble you the Woman she hath wrought a good work on me For you have the Poor with you always and whensoever ye will ye may doe them good but me ye have not always c. compare St. Matth. 26.10 11. with St. Mark 14.6 7. Where he seems to refer to what was said in the Law Deut. 15.11 The Poor shall never cease out of the Land therefore I command thee saying thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy Brother to thy Poor and to thy needy in the Land And in another place Give to him that asketh saith he and from him that would borrow of thee turn thou not away St. Matth. 5.42 Which was also the prescription of the Law Deut. 15.8 2. He often cites and approves of the great Commandment Thou shalt love thy Nighbour as thy self and he tells a particular story or parable to shew them that every one in necessity and not a Jew only was to be looked upon as our Nighbour and having therein mention'd a compassionate and merciful Samaritan bids all to imitate him Go saith he and doe thou likewise Saint Luke 10.30 c. 3. He gives an admirable Paraphrase upon this Command and such as would be a perpetual relief to the Widow and Fatherless particularly in that golden Rule of his St. Matth. 7.12 All things whatsoever ye would that men should doe unto you doe you even so to them for this saith he is the Law and the Prophets 4. He commends secret Alms with the assurance that our Father who sees in secret shall reward them openly St. Matth. 6.4 And elsewhere he asserts that whosoever giveth to any one of his Disciples a Cup of cold water only in the name of a Disciple shall in no wise lose his Reward St. Matth. 10.42 That is he that doth the least kindness on that score to them shall be sure of a Retribution for it 5. In other places he calls upon them that are rich and able to lay up their Treasures in Heaven where neither moth nor rust corrupt nor Thieves break through and steal St. Matth. 6.20 c. as St. Luke hath it To provide themselves bags which wax not old a Treasure in the Heavens that faileth not St. Luke 12.33 And as prudent Stewards of their aboundance to make themselves friends of the Mammon of unrighteousness which is truly so when with-held from Charitable uses that when they fail they may receive them into everlasting habitations St. Luke 16.9 6. And which is most of all considerable he acquaints us that in the last day when he shall come to judge the World and doom all men to their eternal and unalterable estate of Happiness or Misery he will proceed especially by their omission or practice of the Laws of Charity and interpret the doing or not doing of it to the least and most despised Christian as done or not done to himself St. Matth. 25. 7. Once more yet observe that while he was hanging upon the Cross and amidst his Torments there he was nevertheless mindfull of a comfortable Provision for his desolate Mother after his departure St. John 19.26 27. When Jesus saw his Mother and the Disciple whom he loved standing by he said unto his Mother Woman behold thy Son And to that Disciple behold thy Mother And from that hour saith the Evangelist that Disciple took her to his own Home And now in the next place for the Apostles of our Blessed Saviour it shall suffice to note that they appointed a daily Ministration for poor Widows and when the number of them increased ordained an order of men by the name of Deacons particularly to attend on that work Acts 6. And St. Paul hath left especial Rules concerning them 1 Tim. 5. As for them who had Children verse 4. or Nephews able to doe for them He requires that they learn first to shew Piety or Kindness at home and requite their Parents for that saith he is good and acceptable before God verse 3. But as for them who were Widows indeed That they should have an Honourable maintainance out of the publick stock After which I shall not mention those many Hospitals and Alms-houses and Funds of Charity which God hath excited several worthy Benefactors to erect and contribute to upon this account throughout the Christian World And will only add that the Liturgy of the Church hath in all ages been mindfull of them and recommended them by name unto God Almighty as we still retain it in our excellent Litany That it may please thee to defend and provide for the Fatherless Children and Widows and all that are desolate and oppressed We beseech thee to hear us Good Lord Now therefore so long as there is a God who with a Paternal Providence presides over and governs the World who is a very present help in Trouble Isa 25.4 and as the Prophet Isaiah speaks a strength to the poor a strength to the needy in his distress a refuge from the storm and a shadow from the heat a Father to the Fatherless as hath been shewed and an Husband to the Widow And so long as there are men of compassions or men truly and sincerely religious left a Church of God and genuine Christian upon Earth the Widows and Fatherless may rest secure of it that they shall not be utterly forsaken or destitute They have an Heavenly Father and