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heaven_n	moth_n	thief_n	treasure_n	2,143	5	9.3630	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46690	A sermon preached at Bugbrook in Northamptonshire, May 15, 1642, upon the collection for Ireland condemned in the morning, in the church, before the whole congregation for popery, and in the afternoone there, for having many lyes in it of a high nature / published by the authour in a just vindication of himselfe from that unjust scandall.	Jay, George.	1642 (1642)	Wing J496; ESTC R43310	9,513	29

them and sent them away naked not sparing women with childe and giving sucke though of the best ranke mercilesly exposing them to hunger and cold in the midst of winter sometimes in raine sometimes in stormes and sometimes in snow whereby some hundreds may I not say thousands have beene starved or frozen to death Neither hath the house of God beene safe from their fury Quis talia fando Temperet à lachrymis So as we may say with David Psal 79.1 2 3. O God the Heathen are come into thine inheritance thy holy Temple have they defiled and made Ierusalem a heape of stones the dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat to the fowles of the aire and the flesh of thy Saints unto the beasts of the land their blood have they shed like water on every side of Ierusalem and there was no man to bury them Wherefore it is time for us to pray with him Verse 9. Helpe us oh God of our salvation for the glory of thy name For they have not onely slaine thy people and thy Priests but have blasphemed thy name torne thy sacred word trod it under foote rolled it up and downe in durty and mirie places and then cast it into the faces of thy Saints with disdaine and scorne And shall not we that are Christians endeavor to our utmost to preserve the house of God the people the Priests the word the name the glory of God from such wickednesse prophanation and blasphemie You that are the best Christians shew your selves most forward in this worke by your bountie shew your zeale to Christian religion to Christs deere servants to the Gospell of Jesus Christ to the name and glory of God almighty Give me leave to alter Saint Pauls words alittle and to say Non quaero vos sed vestra 2 Cor. 12.14 I desire you not to venter the spilling of your bloods or the losse of your lives but your charity your benevolence for the releife of your bretheren your poore distressed brethren in Ireland and this I begg for the Gospell sake for Jesus Christ his sake for Gods sake Now shew your faith by your works you that bost so much of your faith otherwise we may suspect the life of it for faith without workes Jam. 2. is but a dead faith Not circumcision Gal. 5.6 nor uncircumcision sayth Saint Paul but faith that worketh by love Faith that workes not by love can no more save your soules then a dead man can protect your bodies shew then your faith by your love and your love by your bounty to cloath and feede the distressed servants of Iesus Christ Besides what I have alleadged already for this purpose there is a motive sufficient in the latter part of the precedent verse We shall reape if we faint not Let us not bee weary of well doing for in due season wee shall reape if wee faint not And that is the last part of my Text a motive to excite and stir us up to a timely and season able benevolence We shall reap if we faint not So you see I desire nothing but what tends to your owne good He that is mercifull rewardeth his own soule Prov. 11.17 saith the Wiseman Hee doth himselfe a curtesie he placeth his estate there where the hand of the worst fortune or enemy cannot reach it He that hath money goods house or land Quantum non milvus oberret may in a short time bee as much necessitated as ever Iob was Riches have wings and flie from us if the element of fire or water prove our enemie and set upon us in an instant it may make us poor enough but the sword is the roughest gamester of all and that commonly sweepes away the whole stake at once without leaving us any thing whereby we may set up againe Quas autem dederis semper habebis opes So as we are sure of nothing but what we give away Math. 19.20 Lay not up therefore for your selves treasure upon-earth where the rust and moth doe corrupt and where theeves breake through and steale but lay up for your selves treasures in heaven where neither rust nor moth doth corrupt and where theeves doe not breake through and steale Hee that pittieth the poore Prov. 19.17 lendeth to the Lord and looke what he layeth out it shall be paid him againe Let therefore the light of your charity and bounty shine before men that others by your example may bee stirred up to workes of pietie that so your Father which is in heaven may be glorified and your poore brethren in Christ Jesus relieved Remember what the Prophet David sayes Psal 41.2 Blessed is the man that provideth for the sicke and needy for the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble And the greater provision you make for them the greater shall be your deliverance in your necessitie For Saint Paul sayes that he that soweth little shall reape little and he that soweth plenteously shall reape plenteously But yet let every man doe according as he is disposed in his heart not grudging or of necessity for God loveth a cheerfull giver 2 Cor. 6.7 Be ready then and forward to give almes of thy goods and turne not thy face from these poore soules and then the face of the Lord shall not be turned away from thee As therefore you love your brethren in Christ as you love the Gospel of Christ as you love the name and glorie of Christ Jesus as you love your owne soules 〈◊〉 a liberall manner extend your compassionate charitie for the reliefe of your poor distressed brethren in Ireland so you shall gather to your selves a good reward in the day of necessity and in due season reape the fruit of it by the mercy of our heavenly Father to whom with the Sonne and the Holy Ghost be ascribed all power might and majestie both now and for ever Amen FINIS