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heaven_n	steal_v	thief_n	treasure_n	2,093	5	9.4580	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20717	The true friend, or A bill of exchange expressed in a sermon preached at White-hall: vpon Sonday the XIII. of December, anno Domini, 1629. By Iohn Dovvle, Doctor of Divinitie, and his Maiesties chaplaine.	Dowle, John.	1630 (1630)	STC 7101; ESTC S118447	17,369	80

the oppressed for their drinke deteine the hirelings wages and as the Prophets phrase is Sell the poore for shooes and the needy for a peece of bread Is not this thinke you farre from Facite vobis amicos Make you friends of your unrighteous Mammon Iudge againe I pray you your selves how they follow Christs sweete counsell here in my text who Ahab-like are ever sicke of the next field and have never elbow roome enough so long as anie poore Naboth dwelleth neere them nothing they possesse is worth the having if they have not all But above all thinke what shal become of those men who insteede of releeving the poore robbe the Spittle taking from them what others have alreadie given them Of this sort are those Executours and Overseers who being put in trust with the estates and portions of poore widdowes and fatherlesse children doe by some tricke in law or craftie distinction of their owne cozen and deceive them Such againe are they who take away from the poore what the law hath given in pios usus and mingle it with their owne Doe not these and such as they purchase to themselves the fearefull curses of the afflicted poore insteede of making them friends of the Mammon of iniquity I beseech you men of the world you that leane so stronglie on your God Mammon What is he in whom you trust Is he anie other than as Paracelsus saith of the Divell a beggarly spirit What can hee doe for you Can he make you honest wise healthie Can he make you live more merrilie feede more heartilie sleepe more quietlie Can he prevent care sicknesse sorrow death and th● paines of hell after death Or rather doth he not bring and cause all these If hee could be friend you so I should not blame you much to fall downe and worship him but if as the truth is hee rather bring all then otherwise then mee thinkes admirable is our Saviours counsell in my Text here Facite vobis amicos Make ye other friends make ye friends of your riches of iniquitie Bestow the superfluitie of your goods on the poore Honour the Lord with your substance Prov. 3. 9 And great shall Prov. 3. 9. be your reward in heaven Matth. Mat. 6. 6. 6. 6. That good Martyr Saint Laurenie being asked by Decius Caesar saith Lyra what hee had Lyra. done with the great treasure of the Church which was left by Sixtus his Predecessour made him this answere That it was safe enough for hee had sent it to heaven above by the hands of the poore on earth And our owne Warrham once Arch-bishop of Canterbury being on his death-bed sent his steward to see what store of coyne was remaining in his coffers he returning brought him word that there was either verie little or none at all for indeede the good man being a most charitable Prelate had given all away before the Bishop tolde his servant Nimirum sic oportuit When could I die better than when I am so even with the world Oh couldest thou doe so Lay up thy golde thy treasures thy garments there neither could theeves steale them from thee nor rust nor vermine consume them And thus thou maist doe if thou bestow them on the poore they will carrie them to heaven for thee and there thou shalt be sure one day to finde them againe Had that foolish rich man in the 12 of this Gospell found out this Luke 12. 18. way hee would have had roome enough to bestow his corne had his croppe beene farre greater than it was for of everie emptie bellie of his poore neighbour hee might have made a new little Barne wherein hee might have laid up part of his store In one word If thou wantest earthly riches saith Saint Jerome seeke not to get them by evill meanes if God hath already blessed thee with them send them before thee to heaven by thy good deedes The Saints of God are like Dorcas Acts 9. 36. Rich in good workes and almes which they doe not which they talke of not which they intend to doe not which they leave to be done by others but which they doe themselves they be their owne Executors Hee that gives nothing in his life time because hee meanes to leave all to good uses at his death is much like to him in the Poet that threw his apples to the hogges because he could not eate them himselfe I would not be mistaken I doe not I dare not speciallie in such an age as this speake against charitable deedes be they done in what kinde soever but I presse this point the rather to call to your remembrance how manie well intended great gifts thus given have miscarried and come to nothing See our owne Annales and you shall finde them onely recorded and passed over with this colde Close It was an ample and a large gift had it beene performed accordingly But I goe on Saint Gregorie in an Homilie of his as if he would directlie crosse that of holie Job Nothing brought wee into this world neither shall wee carrie anie thing out of it falleth upon this meditation That although wee brought nothing into the world yet it is possible for us to carrie something out of it How so Thus saith he If we hearken to the voice of the poore whilest we live and faile not to relieve them when they aske we carrie so much of our wealth with us hence as we gave away here Largiendo servamus quae servando amittimus What we give away so we keepe for our selves and what with a close hand wee keepe that wee lose for ever And another of the Ancients tells us but I tremble to repeate it that the purple glutton in this Gospell is in hell Non quia abstulerat aliena sed quia non donarat sua Not for taking anie thing from the poore but because hee relieved not their wants He would not heare the crie of the poore beggar on earth how should he look to be heard himself being below How could he that was mercilesse to others expect to receive mercie or thinke that Abraham or the Saints could be his friends in another world who had never taken anie the least care whilest he was in this to make him friends of his Mammon of iniquitie To conclude this point Oh let not those that drinke wine in bowles and stretch themselves on beds of yvorie forget the afflictions of poore Joseph Amos 6. 6. It is Amos 6. 6. yours that are rich and for my part I come not hither to denie it you to eate the fat and drinke the sweete but then you must remember also to send part to them for whom nothing is prepared Nehem. 8. 10. And this is Nehem. 8. 10. the verie next way I know for you in the midst of your mirth to make you friends of your unrighteous Mammon But the sonnes of men although they be manie times most unreasonable themselves yet they will alwayes expect