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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26753	A sermon at the Warwick-shire meeting, November 25, 1679, at S. Mary-le-Bow in Cheapside, London by William Basset ...	Basset, William, 1644-1695.	1679 (1679)	Wing B1053; ESTC R13214	18,472	35

Much less then should we be unwilling to part from something of our time and other good things that God shall be pleased to give us for the Glory and Advantage of our Native Soil And truly our County of Warwick is a Place so famous for Antiquities and Marks of Honour adorned at present as well as in former Ages with so many Noble and Gentile Families hath given breath to so many others famous in their Generations as even this Assembly in some good measure testifies whose Piety and good Works so eminently appeared in former times from the vast number of Religious Houses and still doth from the many Hospitals Free-Schools and Augmentation of poor Vicaridges that in these things we act by the measures and follow the Footsteps of our generous Ancestors and speak our selves Warwick-shire Men in Nature as well as Name Nor is it our Praise only but our duty too to do all the good we can Therefore S. John 1 Ep. 4.11 argues from God's Bounty to us to that Bounty and Kindness we owe to others Beloved if God so loved us we ought also to love one another Now as God's Love discovered it self not in a fruitless pity but in doing those good things to us which were most suitable to our wants as the Redemption of the World thereby rescuing Mankind out of the hands of misery and death so our love ought to evidence it self not barely in compassionate Speeches and unprofitable wishes like him in S. James 2.16 Depart in peace be warmed be filled without giving those things that be needful for the body But in doing those good Offices which are most conducive to mens ease and comfort so far as opportunity and abilities will well allow These are returns we make to God and expressions of our thankfulness to him for all the benefits he hath done unto us This is the way to increase our present Enjoyments and to secure them to posterity for S. Paul compares this to sowing thereby teaching us that what we part from in such ways will bring us according to what we sow whether more or less a plentiful Harvest and a blessed Increase And truly every man that is born into the world hath a natural right to a maintenance here one as well another for the world was made not for some few persons or Families but for mankind in general And though Providence hath wisely ordered divers distinctions as to Honours and Estates for if all were equal none would serve or obey others which would necessarily run a Society into distractions a State of War and perhaps into final Confusions Yet this doth not take away any mans natural for still a subsistance remains due else many must be sent into the world either to trespass upon other Rights or else to perish at other mens pleasure which neither Nature nor Religion can allow Therefore if any cannot help or maintain themselves they ought to be assisted by them that may Whence Alms are somewhere called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our Righteousness thereby shewing we do but what is just and right in giving them And hence that Judge of the world shews these works are so acceptable to God that they shall receive from him an everlasting Recompense I was an hungry and ye gave me meat thirsty and ye gave me drink naked and ye cloathed me inprison and ye visited me Therefore come ye blessed of my Father inherit the kingdom prepared for you To which place God of his Mercy bring us for Jesus Christ his sake To whom with God the Father and God the Holy Ghost be all Honour and Glory Amen FINIS ERRATA IN Epistle 1. page 3. line 3. for yet read set l. 10. f. frame r. flame p. 4. l. 17. f. deliver r. detain Epistle 2. l. 7. take out the second as In the Sermon p. 4. l. 6. f. wage r. urge p. 5. l. 14. f. truth r. proof p. 19. l. 7. f. o r. or p. 25. l. 29. after natural r. right l. 31. after other r mens