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A45700	The charitable Christian, or, A word of comfort from the God of comfort, to such as are truly poor and a word of Christian counsel and advice to such as are worldly rich, stirring them up to the Christian duty and practice of charity : with some powerful motives and perswasions thereunto, drawn from the Word of God, to convince men of the necessity of this Christian duty, with the sore evils and calamities which are threatned in the Word of God against unmerciful men / published by a lover of hospitality.	Hart, John, D.D.	1662 (1662)	Wing H927; ESTC R40133	26,662	59

for yours is the Kingdom of Heaven But in the 24. werse Wu unto you that are rich for ye have received your consolation In Luke 16.25 When Dives cryed unto Abraham to have mercy on him saith Abraham to him Remember that thou in thy life time received● thy good things Thou madest thy Riches th● God and didst shut up the bowels of compassion against poor Lazarus therefore thou shalt have no mercy Judas was a hard-hearted wretch a covetnus Traytor that cared not for the poor I● every man would do themselves good by their Eftates it will be in laying them out for the poor for at the last day riches if not improved to the Glorgy of God will certainly rise up in judgement against men See what St. James saith Chap. 6. ver 1 2 3. Go to now ye rich men weep and howl for the miseries that shall come upon you Your riches are corrupted and your garments moth-eaten your gold and silver is cankered and the rust of them shall be a witness against you and shall eat your flesh as it were fire You have heaped up treasure together for the last day 7. Unmercifulness it puts in a Caveat and Bar in the Court of Heaven against our Prayers that they shall have no entertainment there Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the Poor he also shall cry himself and not be heard Prov. 21.16 Unmercifull men shall come to some great straight or other before they dye so as to cry either to man or God and when they cry they shall not be heard They would not hear the poor crying nor God who sent these poor and cryed to them in these poor therefore when they cry unto man for help God will stop their ears and turn their hearts from them yea stop his own ears and turn away his own heart from them Luke 6.38 With the same measure ●●at ye mere shall be measured to you again You ●●op your ears and God will stop his ear you ●ut up your bowels of compassion and God will ●ut up his you withhold Pence and God will ●ithhold his Talents The rich man cried for ●rop of water being in hell torments but neither Abraham nor God would hearken to his re●●uest he that would not give one crumb must of receive one drop Matth. 5.7 The merciful ●hall obtain mercy 8. Unmercifulness is a shrowd signe and ●adge of a Keprobate condition a mercilesse ●ans name will hardly be found in the Book of ●ife Col. 3.11 Put on saith St. Paul as the Elect of God bowels of mercy and kindness Those ●hat are the Elect of God have had mercy and being called they sinde and féel that mercy and cannot but put on bowels of mercy towards ●o ther 's which declarath their Election as God pittied them so they pittied others But where there is no bowels of mercy but churlishness har ●ness cruelty and unmercifulness there is a black sign and badge of a Keprobate Condition 9. Unmercifulness is a degrée of Murther some men hate and curse the poor and the Scriptures blushes not to call them murtherers 1 Joh. 3.15 Whoso hateth his brother is a murtherer And Job 24.14 The murtherer rising with the light k●leth the poor and needy He deviseth wayes ho● to oppress them and to suck and squéere them and this is a killing of them and he is a mu●● therer for it So when a man sées his brother or neighbour poor sinking and like to be ruine●● and will not relieve him being able to do i●● he falls into a degrée of murther An Heather could see this who said That he that hath power to succour a man being ready to perish an● succours him not he kills him Suppose a ma● in the water or fire you pass by and lend him not your hand which if you had dones his lif● might have béen saved are not you then guilt● of his death if you help him not When th● Priest and Levite passed by the man that going from Jerusalem to Jericho fell among Thieves and relieved him not it was their sin and had he died in that case and condition they had béen accessary to his death If the poor be our flesh then our goods are theirs as well as ours and if we let them perish we murther them and our selves too 10. The end of that man will be very sad who hath been merciless to the poor he must have the end of a fruitless and dead frée he must be hewen down and cast in to the fire James 2. 13. He shall have judgement without mercy that hath shewed no mercy All judgement meer severity and pure wrath shall be his portion The chief if not the onely sin that Christ mentions at the day of Judgement Matth. 25. 41 42. is unmercifulness To the righteous saith he Come ye blessed of my Father for I was hungry and ye gave me meat I was thirsty and ye gave me drink I was naked and ye cloathed me therefore I say unto you inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world But unto the wicked and ungodly saith Christ Depart some me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepred for the Devil and his Angels for I was hungry and ye gave me no meat I was thirsty and ye gave me no drink I was naked and ye cloathed me not Ye shewed me in my poor members no pitty no mercy therefore depart from me I know you not Unmerciful men will have no plea of excuse then for themselves it will not serve their turn then to say I had it not this will be but an ill answer before the Lord when they shall come to give an account how they have used and disposed of those Boods and Talents which he hath as Stewards intrusted them withall When God sh●ll as he will put the question to them how have you spend your wealth how have you advanced my glory by your estates how many poor Souls have you refreshed what answer will they have what can they say for themselves Even nothing at all Their own Consciences will then accuse and will hear true witness against them What have you done with your wealth saith Bod which way have you spent your Estates Saith Conscience then So much have J spent to please mine Appetite in supersluity of dainties and thus much have I spent to please mine Eye in curious and overc●stly cloathing and thus much have I spent to delight mine Ears and to satisfie my senses in vain delights and in worldly pomp and pleasure hundreds and thousands have I spent upon my own base sinful lusts and affections But what hast thou given to the poor saith God When I had any spare money now and then I gave a half ●enny or a brass farthing to a poor man ●h wretched man will God say hadst thou where withall to pleass thy carnal lust and hadst thou nothing more to spare for my poor members Thou unpresist able Servant thou shalt be

unbelief discovers it self Saith God give to the poor and thou shalt never lack saith the hard-hearted man Give to the poor and thou shalt lack and so gives God the lye Eccles 11.1 Cast thy bread upon the water and after many dayes thou shalt finde it No saith the unmerciful man I shall never see it again and so makes God a Lyar and declares himself an unbeliever 3. Unmercifulness is an argument that there is no love of God in that man 1 John 3.17 Whoso hath this worlds goods and seeth his brother hath need and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him how dwelleth the love of God in him He may think and others may think and say that he loves God but there is not one dram of Gods loves in that man for if a man loves God he would love man who is the Image of God Christ commanded us that we love one another as he hath loved us John 15.12 He testified his love by giving his life his blood for us and we will not give a little bread an old garment a little silver it is a clear demonstration that there is no love of God in us 4. Unmercifulness it hath much cruelty and unnaturalness in it Isa 58.7 saith the Lord Deal thy bread to the hungry cover the naked and hide not thy self from thine own flesh The poor are our own flew Mal. 2.10 Have not we all one Father Hath not one God created us Prov. 22.2 The rich and the poor meet together the Lord is the maker of them all Now if we hide our eys from them if we will not consider their necessities and relieve them we are cruel and unnatural if a man be naked or hungry he will seek to cloathe and feed himself he will not hate his own flesh Ephs 5.29 No man ever yet hated his own flesh but nourisheth and cherisheth it When men therefore refuse of strengthen the hand of the poor and needy they despise and hate their own flesh they are unnatural and to prevent this God hath laid a command to be merciful where the strongest reason and plea may be against it Prov. 25.21 If thine enemy hunger give him bread to eat if he be thirsty give him drink much more then to the Poor 5. Unmercifulness it brings a curse yea many curses upon men and their estates Prov. 28. 27. He that hideth his eye from the poor shall have many a curse The poor will curse him and not onely man but even God himself curseth them Psal 41.1 Blessed is he that considereth the poor If a man do it not shall he have a blessing No Depart from me ye cursed Marth 25.41 For I was hungry and ye fed me not And Prov. 3.33 The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked Sometimes they have not a heart to eat and take the comfort of their Estates sometimes they are perplexed with fears and ceres and for rows about their Estates sometimes they are wasted at Law sometimes by Fire or Robbery sometimes by such secret wayes that none can give any rational account of but know that the curse of God is there 6. Unmercifulness it makes men altogether unlike God who is the Father of mercy and the God of all compassions 2 Cor. 1.3 He makes his Sun to arise on the evil and the good and sendeth rain upon the just and upon the unjust Mat. 5.45 He giveth food to all flesh Psal 136.25 To each his sufficing food in due season fills every living creature with his blessing He giveth liverally and upbraideth not as St. James saith Jam. 1.5 He bears the destres of the humble and the poor Psal 10.17 He is kinde to the unthankful and to the evil Be ye therefore merciful as your heavenly father is merciful Luke 6.36 But now that man that is near pinching and miserable and doth not regard the condition of the poor to comfort their hearts and to strengthen their hands in filling their hungry vellies and cloathing their naked bodies he is unlike and contrary to God who is all love and bowels of mercy pitty and compassion and ever mindful of the poor and hath made a Law for their relief which standeth recorded in the Word of God unalterable and can never be repealed or made void Deut. 15.7.8 9 10 11 14 15. If there be among you a poor man one of thy brethren within any thy gates or the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee thou shalt not harden thine heart nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother but thou shalt open thy hand wide unto him and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need in that which he wanteth Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart saying the seventh year the year of release is at hand and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother and thou give him nought and he cry unto the Lord against thee and it be sin unto thee Thou shalt surely give him and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto For the poor shall never cease out of the land therefore I command thee saying thou shalt open thine hand wide to thy brother to the poor and to the needy in the land Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flocks and out of thy floor and out of thy wine-press of that wherewith the Lord thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him And thou shalt remember that thou was a bond-man in the land of Egypt and the Lord thy God redeemed thee Therefore I command thee this thing to day And to this very purpose is that in Levit. 25.35 36 37 38. If thy brother be waxen poor and faln to decay with thee then thou shalt relieve him yea though he be a stranger or so sorner with thee that he may live with thee thou shalt not give him thy money upon usury nor lend him thy victuals upon encrease take thou no usury of him or encrease but sear thy God that thy brother may live with thee Here is two Statute And of God himself that are of more force and greater authority then all the Acts of men or Parliaments which shall never be altered but shall be in full force and power to the end of the world yea shall be a Law to condemn the gainsayers and neglecters thereof in the day of judgement Christ saith Luke 14.13 VVhen thou makest a Feast call the poor the lame and the blind and thou shalt be blessed And Luke 14.18 God anointed Christ to preach the Gospel to the poor And in another place he saith The poor receive the Gospel And hath not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in Faith and Heirs of the Kingdom which he hath promised to those that love him In Luke 6.20 saith Christ Blessed are ye poor