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A00816	Compassion towards captives chiefly towards our brethren and country-men who are in miserable bondage in Barbarie. Vrged and pressed in three sermons on Heb. 13.3. Preached in Plymouth, in October 1636. By Charles Fitz-Geffry.	Fitz-Geffry, Charles, 1575?-1638.	1637 (1637)	STC 10937; ESTC S102148	49,481	72

of the Lord to the publick service of God to the Word and Sacraments from all which I was because mine were debarred You did that for them and in them as farre as you could for me which I did for you I redeemed you and you in them redeemed me I you by taking on me your bonds you me by freeing them from bondage I you from the bondage of hell you me from the bondage of hell-hownds I you by my blood you me by your benevolence Iudas his treason was not more grievous and odious unto me then your compassion is acceptable He sold me to the Iewes you have bought me from the Turks Your redeeming me lesse chargeable more easie by infinite degrees then my redeeming you but no lesse acceptable to me then if you had shed your blood for me as I did mine for you What an honour will it be when the King himselfe sitting in his Maiesty shall publish in the large Amphitheater of the whole world his former misery for your greater glory and make known his owne sufferings to proclaime your kindnesse holding himselfe to have beene beholding unto you when you have done but your duties Though this acknowledgment be an ample recompence yet this recompence you will say is but verball acknowledgment But this verball acknowledgment shall be seconded with a reall recompence that shall not be as a lease for yeares determinable upon lives but an inheritance and that inheritance no lesse then of a Kingdome and that Kingdome not newly erected but long prepared so long as from the foundation of the world and consequently to continue after the dissolution of the world and prepared not by man but by God the Father and for none other but for you for you who by your deedes of mercy have evidenced the sincerity of your faith O what a joy what a crowne of rejoycing will it be when you shall heare from the mouth of the Iudge himselfe that comfortable call 〈◊〉 yee blessed of my father inherit the Kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world Vnto the which Kingdome he bring us who hath prepared it for us not for our merits but out of his owne mercy and by the merits of his deare Sonne Iesus To whom our gracius redeemer together with him the glorious Father and the blessed spirit the only Comforter three Persons in one Godhead blessed for ever be ascribed all Praise Power Might Majesty Dominion and Glory now and alwaies AMEN AMEN AN EPISTLE OF THAT BLSSED MARTYR S t CYPRIAN SOMETIME Bp. OF CARTHAGE TO The Bishops of Numidia concerning the Redemption of the Brethren from the bondage of the BARBARIANS Wherein 1 He deploreth the Captivity of the Brethren signified unto him by the Bishops of Numidia and sheweth what ought to be the duty of Christians in this regard 2 To this end he proposeth sundry arguments 3 The effects of them in regard of the Church of Carthage confirmed by other arguments 4 The Charity and liberality of that Church towards these Captives and S t Cyprians pious petition Cyprian to Ianuarius Maximus Proculus his beloved Brethren wisheth health WITH very great griefe of minde and not without teares we have read your letters most deare brethren which out of the tendernesse of your love you have addressed unto us concerning the captivity of our Brethren and Sisters For who cannot grieve in such occurrents Or who cannot esteeme his brethrens griefe to be his owne seeing the Apostle Paul doth say If one member doth suffer the other members doe suffer with it and if one member doe rejoyce the other members doe rejoyce with it And in an other place Who is weake and I am not weake We therefore must now esteeme our brethrens captivity to be our owne captivity The sorrow of those who are endangered is to be accounted our sorrow seeing we are all united in one body and not love so much as religiō ought to instigate encourage us to redeeme the members of our brethren For the Apostle saith againe Know you not that you are the Temple of God that the spirit of God dwelleth in you If charity did not urge us to succour our brethren yet we should here consider that they are the Temples of the Lord who are captived and that we ought not by long delay and neglected griefe suffer the Temples of the Lord to be long detained captives but speedily labour and endevour the best we may by our best services to procure Christ our Iudge our God to be favorable unto us For seeing the Apostle Paul saith As many of you as are Baptized into Christ have put on Christ in our captive-brethren we must contemplate Christ himselfe And he is to be redeemed from the danger of captivity who hath redeemed us from the danger of Death that hee who drew us out of the jawes of the Devill and remaineth and dwelleth in us should now himselfe be deliuered out of the hands of Barbarians and be ransomed with some part of our mony who ransomed us with his Crosse and his Bloud who in the meane time doth therefore permitt these things to come to passe for the triall of our faith whether every one of us will doe for his brother that which he would have to be done for himselfe if he were now in bonds under the Barbarians For what man who is mindfull of humanity and well advised of Christian Charity if he be a Father doth not thinke that his sons are there If he be an husband doth not with griefe and blush of the matrimoniall band esteeme that his wife is there held captive But how are wee all in common greived and vexed for the danger of the Virgins who are there detained In whom not only the losse of liberty but depriuement of chastity is to be bewailed and not so much the bonds of Barbarians as the impurities of baudes and brothels are to be bemoned with teares lest the members dedicated unto Christ should bee defiled with the contagious lusts of their insulters All which things we here as brethren takeing into consideration according to your letters and diligently examining have readily willingly and largly sent supplies of mony to our brethren being alway forward in the worke of God every one according to the firmenesse of his faith but now much more enflamed to such saving workes by the contemplation of so great sorrowe For seeing ou● Lord saith in his Gospel I was sick and you visited me How much more will he say in this case and that for our greater reward I was a captive and you redeemed me And whereas againe he saith I was in prison and you came unto me how much more will it be when he shall beginne to say when the day of judgment shall come wherein you shall receive a reward from the Lord I was closed up in prison of captivity I lay bound among the Barbarians and from that prison from that bondage