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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87404	Oi eleemonez eleethesuntai, or Gods mercy for mans mercy. Opened in a sermon at the spittle, March 31. 1657. before the Right Honourable the Lord Major, the aldermen, &c. By Thomas Jacomb minister of the Gospel at S. Martins Ludgate, London.	Jacombe, Thomas, 1622-1687.	1657 (1657)	Wing J114; Thomason E912_13; ESTC R207554	30,501	46

away and so their wives and children may starve if they be not relieved These are base wretches and I beg no mercy for such but what as I said before absolute necessity doth require Severity to these either to make them to take paines Benefacta malè locata malefacta arbitror Ennii dictum Commended by Tully l 2. de Offic. Severity to these either to make them to take paines or to let them be pinched under their necessities is the best mercy for them God never injoyned mercy to incourage idlenesse but to support weaknesse And therefore this is the first thing you that are poor if you have no Calling put your selves into one if you have a Calling walk in it with all diligence and honesty then see if God doth not raise up friends to help you Again the rich must be merciful to you then you must carry your selves humbly and civilly and respectfully to the rich To be poor and sawcy too is a very unlovely thing Mercy is a debt to you honour and due respect is a debt from you which is held out not only by the light of Scripture but by the very light of Nature You may expect mercy from them that are full but do it in a right manner and upon right principles Do not go and tell the rich there ought to be a parity and why should they have so much and you so little for God hath made a difference in the persons of the world in the things of the world and to level persons and possessions is directly contrary to the order and institution of God Do not go to set up a community upon the mistaking of that in the Apostles dayes when all things were common Acts 2.44 for the breaking up of the inclosure of property is sinful and tends to all confusion and cruelty Do not go to the rich and impudently demand relief from them Prov. 18.23 't is your due but yet the poor must use intreaties Importunity is tolerable but impudence is loathsome Are the rich merciful to you be ye merciful to them There 's mercy lying upon the poor as well as upon the rich Do they open their hands to you do you go to God in prayer and open your hearts for them Charity they give to you you must return prayer to them Lord such a man is good to me be thou good to him and requite him all his love seven-fold into his own bosom This is the best expression of your thankefullnesse and the best way to have their mercy yet to run out more freely upon you Do the rich deny you mercy do not curse and sweare and fret at them as two many profanely do but quietly waite tell God incline their hearts to shew favour to you And lastly whilest you would have others to be mercifull to your bodies be not ye unmercifull to your own soules Though you be very low do not sin put not forth your hands to steale Prov. 30.9 do not go to helpe your selves by any indirect wayes which is the Devills temptation to the poor do not fret and murmare at the providence of God Do not neglect your eternall salvation This is to be unmercifull to your own soules Whatever others do for the body do you minde the soul Mat. 5.3 Are you poor in estate be also poor in spirit Are you poor in this world be rich in faith and heires of the kingdom James 2.5 So be and so live that whatever becomes of you for the mercy of men here you may inherit the mercy of God hereafter unto all eternity FINIS Page 4. line 7. read rotten for written