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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41657	The surest & safest way of thriving, or, A conviction of that grand mistake in many, that what is given to the poor, is a loss to their estate : which is so directly contrary as to the experiences of the charitable : so to the testimony of God's spirit in divers places of Scripture ... by Thomas Gouge ...	Gouge, Thomas, 1605-1681.	1673 (1673)	Wing G1377; ESTC R14065	59,429	70

Inheritance to the value of a thousand pounds per annum to speak what I know to be certain For in the repute of some his estate at his death was no less than two thousand pounds of yearly value Dr. Edmond Trench likewise observed the same course as his wife and divers other friends of his do testifie And certain it is that this was no damage but a great advantage to him For he had as many Patients as his weak body would permit him to visit And though he lived at a full and plentiful rate frequently and cheerfully entertaining Ministers and Scholars at his Table yet did he gain a very considerable estate which he left to his wife and children in whom not only his memory but his Piety still survives I have good ground to believe that many other Physicians do make conscience of this duty but oh that all would do the like certainly they would be no losers thereby at the years end but find God's blessing upon their Calling and Estates prospering them in both And here to me occurs a Case of Conscience worthy to be enquired into viz. Whether Physicians may lawfully appropriate unto their own private use their Lord's-Dayes fees I mean those fees which they receive from their Patients on the Sabbath day I deny not but works of mercy may and ought to be done on that day for saith the Lord Matth. 9. 13. I will have mercy and not sacrifice that is mercy rather than sacrifice And I deny not but of the richer sort especially they may receive their fees for their pains But I much question whether they may appropriate those fees to themselves In regard the Lord hath afforded us six daies of seven wherein we may and ought to follow our Callings for our own livelihood and of those who belong unto us but hath sanctified and set apart the Christian Sabbath for his own honour and service And therefore it seemeth but reasonable that what accrews unto us on that day should be set apart and imployed for his more immediate use and service But I will not impose this as a necessary duty at least upon all in regard that circumstance may vary but leave it at present to the determination of their own consciences who are most concerned therein Samuel Dunche of Pusey in the County of Berks Esquire a person that according to the Apostle's rule did good to all but especially to those of the houshold of Faith His custom was to send monys yearly to several Towns as to Stow upon the Woolds in Glocester shire to Norliche to Lamburn and others not here mentioned for the relief of their poor And upon the last here named he settled Lands of Inheritance for ever for the same use And to Rumsey in Hampshire he gave by Deed upon the like account a Lease of 99 years to commence after his descease The poor also of the said Town whom he call'd his Alms-people had during his life weekly relief from him and many other Towns together with them were large sharers in the like bounty Several poor children of the said Town and likewise of those belonging to Farriugdon he set to School and did not only pay for their teaching but also furnished them with all such books as were fit and convenient for them He also caused several good books to be printed at his own charge which he freely gave to the poor that they might the better be encouraged to mad and to acquaint themselves with the concerns of another and better life He further gave considerable summs of money yearly for the constant supply of such godly Ministers as he knew to be in want And upon several of them he settled considerable Animities 10 l. 20 l. per annum for their lives besides such Legacies which were not small that he gave to some of them at his death Besides all this his hand was ever open and ready to distribute when ever any fit occasion was offered to him yea such was the enlargement of his heart and tenderness of his bowels that he could hardly pass by any whom he judged due objects of his Charity but he freely and bountifully contributed to their relief Thus did this pious Gentleman honour God with his substance and adventure upon the royal Prophet's words to cast his bread upon the waters which though the unbelieving world accounts but folly and usually reckon it amongst their losses yet he to his advantage according to the promise thereto annexrd found it again not after many daies This bread like the loaves with which Christ fed the multitude was multiplyed in his hands and his oyle encreased by pouring out He was but a younger Brother and the Estate settled upon him was but 800 l. per annum or thereabouts And yet notwithstanding I had almost said this excess of Charity his Estate was so far from being ruined or in the least impaired as that not only the same bare measure he received but much greater pressed down and running over was meeted out to him and his posterity So signally did God in this life reward his Charity wisely ordering by his good providence that one way or other large handfuls as over-measure were from several hands thrown into his bushel There is now left to his Heirs an Estate of more than the double value of what he received from his Father besides the portions which he gave to all his Daughters five in number which were very considerable to some of them more than 2000 l. And here I hope I may without offence or vain glory take liberty to mention amongst others the Charity and Liberality of my dear and hononred Father Dr. William Gouge late Pastor of Black fryers London who was eminent as in other graces so in that of Charity From him I first heard The tenth part of a rich mans estate to be a fit proportion to be devoted and dedicated to God for charitable uses But though he commended that to others yet by what I find in some papers written with his own hand I may truly say He gave the seventh part of all his yearly comings in towards the maintaining poor Scholars at the University and the relieving poor families and distressed persons And how wonderfully God blessed as his Ministry so his outward Estate is so well known to all who lived in his daies that I suppose it needless for me to say any thing thereof only I may truly apply unto him the words of the Psalmist He was ever merciful and lending and his seed is blessed Many more instances of the like nature might here be added some of persons who are now with joy reaping in the other world the blessed fruit of that seed which they had so plentifully sown in this Others of persons yet living amongst us some of which have acknowledged to me That God hath already rewarded them an hundred-fold for what they have lent to him by giving it to his poor But these already mentioned may be

George in Southwork another in St. Mary Newington because in those Parishes he observed there were many blind lame distressed poor people and never an Alms-house in them He likewise built a Chapel neat one of his Alms-houses for the poor people to serve God in daily Having built his Alms-houses with the poors stock he bought Lands and Houses of Inheritance which he settled upon the Company of Drapers as for the relief and support of his Alms-people after his decease so for the performing other charitable gifts mentioned in his last Will and Testament While he lived he was wont to go himself once a month to his Alms-houses in his worst clothes that he might not be suspected to be the Founder of them and gave unto the poor people their promised allowance Doubtless that is the best Charity which Nilus like hath the several streams thereof seen but the fountain concealed Having built his Alms houses and endowed them with a good revenew then with the remainder of his poor's stock which daily encreased through God's blessing upon his pains and endeavours in his calling he relieved poor people and families with considerable summs of mony and gave much bread weekly to the poor of several Out-Parishes All this he did whilest yet living besides what he gave upon the like account at his death which was also very considerable as further appears by his Will Nothwithstanding all which he gave and left to his Wife and his two Daughters about ten thousand pounds This questionless is the surest way to have our WILLS performed to see them performed in our life-time in regard that many Executors prove Executioners of WILLS William Pennoyer Esquire Citizen and Merchant of London a person wholly composed of Mercy and goodness bounty and liberality which he expressed in the whole course of his life even from his first setting up in the world Many years before his death he turned great part of the stock wherewith he traded into Lands of Inheritance to the value of four hundred pounds per annum and being eminently charitable he lived as frugally as he could spending about two hundred pounds a year upon himself wife and family and the remaining part of his incomes he wholly bestowed on charitable uses as I have been informed by those who lived long with him and were nearly related to him To give you a clear demonstration of his Christian Charity and of God's recompencing the same unto him here in this life with temporal blessings I shall recite some of his Legacies bequeathed in his last Will and Testament to charitable uses passing by such as he gave to his rich kindred and acquaintance To poor Ministers Widdows and others in distress about 150 l. To four of his poor Tenants 20 l. Likewise 800 l. to be laid out here in Wollen Cloath or other commodities to be sent to New-England for the use of his poor kindred there He gave to certain Trustees Lands to the value of twenty pounds per annum to pay for the teaching of forty Boys at School To Bristol 54 l. per annum towards the maintenance of a School-master and Lecturer to preach a week-day Lecture there and to other charitable uses He likewise settled 20 l. per annum on Trustees for the teaching of forty poor children in or near White-Chappel And 40 s. yearly to buy Bibles for some of the children He gave 12 l. per annum for the maintaining a School at the Hay in Brecknockshire And 40 s. more yearly to buy Books for the Scholars As also 10 l. per annum for the maintenance of poor distressed people in the Hospital of Bethlehem in London And 10 l. per annum to ten of the blindest oldest and poorest Cloath-workers at the discretion of the Masters Wardens and Assistants of the said Company for the time being He gave 40 l. per annum to Christ-Church Hospital for the placing out four children yearly And 40 s. more yearly to buy each of the children a Bible Besides these he gave to his poor kindred above two thousand pounds by his Will And by a Codizel annexed thereunto he bequeathed to certain Trustees a thousand pounds to be given to honest poor people as also 300 l. for releasing poor prisoners which summs have been paid into the hands of the Trustees by Mr. Richard Loton and Michael Davison Esq who to their honour approved themselves faithful Executors to this charitable Will Thomas Arnold Citizen and Haberdasher of London At his first setting up for himself his stock was not great but being charitably disposed and ready to every good work his estate through God's blessing very much encreased His Charity in his life-time appeared not only by his forwardness to communicate to the relief of such whom he saw in want but likewise by his frequent enquiring of others after such poor people as were over-burthened with children or otherwise distressed Yea he hired men with money to make it their business to find out honest poor people on whom he might bestow his Charity and likewise did entrust others with considerable summs of money to distribute amonst the poorest sort charging them to have special respect to the honest poor such whom they conceived did truly fear God That he was no loser but a gainer by his liberality appeareth in that God so blessed him in his Calling that he attained to an Alderman's estate and was chosen to that Office Yea he gave over his Calling in the City and withdrew himself into the Country that he might the better mind God and the concernments of his soul more and the world with its concerns less Iohn Clark Doctor of Physick one of great repute for his Learning Piety and Charity Some while President of the Colledge of Physicians His custom was to lay by all his Lord's-Day fees as a sacred stock for charitable uses devoting that entirely to God which he received on his day acconting it a piece of sacriledge to appropriate it to himself or any common use whereupon the Lord was pleased so to prosper him in his Calling that though at first his practice was little and his estate not very great yet afterwards his practice so encreased and the world so flowed in upon him that he lived plentifully comfortably gave to his children liberal portions The like also was practised by Iohn Bathurst Doctor of Physick with whom I was very well acquainted His Lord's-Days fees were constantly kept as a bank for the poor and wholly devoted to and imployed for their use which was so far from lessening his incomes that by the blessing of God upon his practice they were greatly in few years augmented by it For though at his first coming to London he brought little estate with him and here had small acquaintance Yorkshire being his native Country where he had spent his former daies yet the Lord was pleased so to prosper him in his Calling that in twenty years time he purchased Lands of