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A42264	Profitable charity a sermon preached before the right honourable Sir Thomas Lane, Lord Mayor of London, and the honourable Court of Aldermen, &c. at the parish-church of St. Brides, on Easter-Monday, 1695 / by Robert Lord Bishop of Chichester.	Grove, Robert, 1634-1696.	1695 (1695)	Wing G2154; ESTC R16834	15,473	34

Governours have begun to rebuild some part thereof and have already laid out of their own Free Gift some Thousands of Pounds but cannot possibly finish what is further intended and absolutely necessary without the Assistance of Good and Charitable Persons the yearly Revenue of this Hospital being much less than will defray the constant Charge of those Persons that are sent thither for Cure 1969 Buried this Year after much Charge in the time of their Sickness 179 Remaining under Cure at the Charge of the said Hospital 323 Bridewel HOSPITAL REceived this last Year into the Hospital of Bridewel vagrants and other indigent and miserable People many whereof had both Cloathing and such other Relief as their Necessities required being in great Distress and sent by Passes into their Native Countries 969 Maintained in the said Hospital and brought up in divers Arts and Trades at the only Charge of the said Hospital Apprentices notwithstanding it pleased God the Hospital and all the Houses within the Precinct thereof which was the greater part of its Revenue were wholly consumed by the late dreadful Fire besides the great Loss sustained in the remains of its Revenue by two terrible Fires the one in June 1673. and the other in November 1692 which happened in Wapping 103 Bethlehem HOSPITAL THE Hospital of Bethlehem is of great Necessity for the keeping and curing distracted Persons whose Misery of all others is the more deplorable because they do not apprehend the same it disabling the Mind as well as the Body Brought into the said Hospital the last Year distracted Men and Women 61 Cured of their Lunacy and discharged thence the said Year 52 Distracted Persons buried the last Year 16 Now remaining there under Cure and provided for with Physick Diet and other Relief at the Charge of the said Hospital 112 The Charge whereof is great and the Revenue of the said Hospital so small as not to amount to one half part of the Yearly Expences thereof and the Building of the Old Hospital of Bethlehem being Ruinous and not Capacious to receive and contain the great Number of distracted Persons for the admission of whom daily Applications are made to the Governours thereof Upon a Christian and charitable Consideration of the Premisses the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-Council of the City of London did lately grant sufficient Ground to Erect a more commodious House for the keeping and curing the said Lunaticks and distracted Persons In the Building and Finishing whereof the Governours of the said Hospital have laid out and disbursed about Seventeen Thousand Pounds whereby not only the whole Stock of the said Hospital is expended but the Governours thereof have been necessitated to take up great Sums of Money for the Finishing the same and therefore the said Hospital is a very fit Object of all good Mens Charity to do as God shall enable them toward the Relief of the said poor Lunaticks and payment of their Debts there having been and daily are by the Blessing of God and the Charge of the said Hospital and the Care of those that are intrusted therewith divers reduced to their former Senses You see here how many indigent and calamitous Persons of several sorts have been plentifully Relieved by the standing Endowments and occasional Bounty of their pious Benefactors How many poor helpless Orphans have been carefully provided for liberally Educated and put out to honest Employments to the great Credit and Advantage of the Publick How many Thousands of Sick and Wounded have been perfectly Cured chiefly of those that have bravely ventured their Lives for the Service of their King and Country and to defend Us from the Fury of an enraged and Potent Enemy How many Vagrants whom pure Necessity it may be had driven from their Homes have been imployed and furnished with Conveniencies and returned to their respective Habitations in a far more comfortable Condition than they left them How many Lunatick and Distracted Creatures the most pityable Objects of all have been recovered and are now able to Praise and Worship God again with those Senses and Understandings which he at first gave them and to which by his Blessing upon your Endeavours they have been happily restored All these great these truly generous and Christian Things have been done And what remains more to be done but only that you would be pleased to take a due Care as I know you will that they may be transmitted down to Posterity without interruption The yearly Revenue of the several Foundations tho' very considerable is yet not any way answerable to the necessary Charge In some it scarce amounts to the Half The rest has beenhitherto from time to time constantly supplied by the voluntary Bounty of Eminent and Charitable Citizens And it must be acknowledged to the Honour of this renowned Body that very great accessions have been made in this way but great as they have been the Necessities of the Poor have been greater Their Rents have been exceedingly lessened by the dreadful Fire and the Expence of Building has lain so very Heavy that nothing but the Generosity would have undertaken it and nothing but the Wealth of sucha City as this could have born it so long But by thesemeans the Hospitals are become so far indebted notwthstanding the Prudent Management of those that have the Care of them that one of them in particular that was wont to maintain about a Thousand Orphans or more will not as I am certainly informed be able totake in one poor Fatherless Child this ensuing Year unless it receive some very unexpected and liberal Assistance What pity 't is that those Streams that have flowed so plentifully for so many Ages should be in danger of being dried up or at least of receiving a stop in ours But I cannot entertain any such Fear while you still retain the same pious Inclinations of doing Good which you have always expressed I need not use any Arguments to urge you to it I need not put you in mind of your worthy Ancestors I shall but desire you to imitate your selves do but as you have been wont to do and all other perswasions will be wholly superfluous Some there be that may be like enough to talk of the Charges of the War the Decay of Trade and their Losses at Sea and make this the Pretence for their not Giving But I know that your Charity will disdain to make use of such frivolous Excuses The more you have Lost the more you should Give of what remains that Providence may be engaged to preserve the Rest I belive it is the forwardness that many of the Members of it have shewn to succour the distressed that God has seemed to make this City a part of his peculiar Care that the Fire has but built you more convenient and stately Houses that the War has served but to whet your Industry and declare your Resolution and that notwithstanding the many sad and amazing Accidents that have befallen this Place within our own Memories it still continues God be praised in a prosperous and flourishing Condition if we were but wise and grateful enough to know it But if it should not make us Rich Charity will certainly secure us from Want For Truth it self has promised that He that giveth to the poor shall not lack And this is as much as any Man need to desire And it is a far better assurance than the most plentiful Fortune is able to give us for that we know may be presently snatched away and leave us absolute Beggars within less than an hour But why should I insist upon a Consideration that has respect only to this World when what we bestow on the Poor if it come from a hearty Charity shall be amply rewarded in that which is to come According to that of our Blessed Lord. Luke vix 12 13 14. When thou makest a dinner or a supper call not thy friends nor thy brethren neither thy kinsmen nor thy rich neighbours do not spend all thy Kindness upon these lest they also bid thee thee again and a recompence be made thee But when thou makest a feast call the poor the maimed the lame the blind the proper Inhabitants of the Hospital Be kind to them and thou shalt be blessed for they cannot recompence thee for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just When we place our Kindnesses where we may reasonably expect to have returns made us God looks upon these but as mutual Civilities betwixt Man and Man and it is enough if they be repaid in kind But when we do good without any hopes or prospect of secular Advantage when we give to the Poor who we know are never able to requite us this being done for his sake he is pleased to undertake the Payment he makes himself the Debtor and will be sure to see the Obligation satisfied to the utmost and that not as the thing it self does deserve but as becomes the Munificence of the Supreme Lord. He will give us Eternal for our Temporal Things and whatever we have thus done upon Earth he will Reward it in the Kingdom of Heaven Of which God of his infinite Mercy make us all partakers through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen ERRATA PAge 5. line 20. for Excessive read Extensive Pag. 12. lin 13. for expiate read to expiate FINIS