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A28586 An exhortation to charity (and a word of comfort) to the Irish Protestants being a sermon preached at Steeple in Dorsetshire, upon occasion of the collection for relief of the poor Protestants in this kingdom lately fled from Ireland / by Samuel Bold. Bold, S. (Samuel), 1649-1737. 1689 (1689) Wing B3480; ESTC R15353 24,615 37

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Power Christ will own and approve and glorify us at the great Day The Lord Jesus at his glorious appearing will say Come ye Blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the Foundation of the World to those who seed and cloath and entertain and visit and refresh his hungry thirsty afflicted naked and imprisoned Servants But to those who shall refuse to administer suitable Relief to his needy suffering afflicted People He will say Depart from me ye Cursed into everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Mat. 25. 34 c. As for those Protestants who are come out of Ireland hither because they would not renounce the Protestant Religion nor concur with the open Enemies of our Faith and Peace to enslave and ruin us but have been forced to forsake their own Country by reason of the Insolence and Cruelty of their wild Neighbours and the Violence of a worse and more barbarous Foreign Force they ought most certainly to be very much respected by us It is our bounden and indispensible Duty to contribute all we can to their Ease and Refreshment And especially should we be bountiful unto and incourage to our utmost such amongst them who are come hither on purpose that they may be put into a Capacity to help forward the deliverance of those distressed and besieged People they have left behind them and who are willing to resist the most outragious Assaults of the common Enemies of their Religion and Country with their last Blood and to prevent the Romish and French Party from making this Land as very a Field of Blood as they have made or would make that Country Many if not all of these Persons had Houses and Lands and as great store of comfortable Accommodations a few Months since as it may be we have at present And if the Stroke we lately feared had not been miraculously prevented from falling presently upon us with its most formidable Force peradventure their Miseries would not so soon have prevailed in this manner over them And if Considerations of this Nature will not now prompt us to express our Charity towards them with the greatest chearfulness in some eminent and most suitable Instances what may we expect but that for our Ingratitude and Obduracy we our selves shall in a little Time be brought under the like Circumstances with them If we will not serve our God by a chearful distributing that abundance of all things he continues us yet in the possession of for the Supply and Relief of these his Indigent Servants he may very righteously make us serve their Enemies in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in want of all things and may suffer the same Enemies to put a Yoke of Iron upon our Necks until they have destroyed us God forbid that any of these poor Sufferers should perish should be starv'd or famish'd to Death by reason of the uncharitableness of any who call themselves Protestants in this Land now they are arrived into a Land of Plenty and Fulness Shall we gorge our selves and feed upon Delicacies whilst People of our own Religion are amongst us who have not wherewithal to provide necessary Food for their own sustenance Shall we hoard up Mony for the Rust and Cloaths for the Moth whilst poor Protestants want Mony to furnish themselves with the Necessaries of Life and have scarce Raiment to cover their Nakedness at most not to secure them from the Inconveniences of approaching Weather What plentiful Provision might be made for these and other afflicted Protestants without impairing our present Estates Riches and Wealth in the least Measure would the Inhabitants of this Land but retrieve and bring back again into use and fashion that plainness and modesty of Attire that simplicity and wholesomeness of Diet that temperance and sobriety in Conversation which prevailed formerly here when this Nation was both a sure Refuge and Sanctuary to the Oppressed and a Terror to all the Countries round about us when ever they adventured to behave themselves with Insolence and Rudeness towards Protestants Would the generality in this Land but set apart for charitable Uses what is unnecessarily yea extravagantly expended for strange Dresses superfluous Dishes and in other unjustifiable yet too common Excesses we should soon have an almost inexhaustible Treasure out of which those who suffer for Religion might on every occasion be plentifully provided with Conveniences and all this might be without any real prejudice to our Persons or our Fortunes God now calls us to Humiliation and the denial of our selves and shall we refuse to deny our Lusts If now when the Church of God is in trouble and great distress we will not deny our selves but prefer our Luxury Pride and Vanities before the afflicted Members of our Saviour If we shall now refuse to spare the very Excrescencies of our ordinary and usual Expences for the succour of our suffering Brethren what may we justly conclude the Issue and Event of these things will be Shall we not be justly deemed more uncharitable to these poor Protestants than Dives was to Lazarus Will not our Land be involved in such Guilt that we may too truly fear the accomplishment upon our selves of what the Prophet Isaiah relates in the 3d Chapter of his Prophecy Vers 24 c. It shall come to pass that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink and instead of a Girdle a Rent and instead of well-set Hair Baldness and instead of a Stomacher a girding of Sack cloth and Burning instead of Beauty Thy Men shall fall by the Sword and thy Mighty in the War and her Gates shall lament and mourn and she being desolate shall sit upon the Ground By being charitable now every one to our Power we may both greatly refresh and comfort these poor Protestants these suffering Christians and effectually secure our selves and our Country from the Indignation and just Judgment of God unto which Uncharitableness as well as Oppression doth expose People And as we should inlarge our Charity as far as we can in communicating what we have to supply the Exigencies of those who are strip'd and spoil'd of all their worldly Enjoyments on the account of the True Religion so we are obliged to do all that is in our power to weaken and overthrow the Potent and implacable Enemies of our Religion the present Persecutors and Oppressors of the Saints of God. There is One on the other side of the Water who hath so long gorg'd himself with Cruelty and with unheard-of Perfidy made havock of the Liberties Rights Interests Estates and Lives of sincere Protestants and so many ways involved himself in Designs to supplant and overthrow our Religion and all the Interests and Priviledges of this Nation as well as of all the other Protestant States that he seems to have forgot that he should be A Man yea to think that all the World is turned into Brutes and he the Beast of Prey to devour