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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63883	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable Sir Henry Tulse, Lord Mayor of the city of London and the court of aldermen, together with the governors of the hospitals at the parish-church of St. Bridget, on Easter Monday, March 31, 1684 by the Right Reverend Father in God Francis Lord Bishop of Rochester ...	Turner, Francis, 1638?-1700.	1634 (1634)	Wing T3284; ESTC R38919	18,664	40

needs say in the second place That some extraordinary Object of Compassion may be so pressing and lye so hard on the Conscience of any Christian as to bear it down and the feed of Grace the Vital Act in the Heart may be utterly destroy'd for the present if he turns away his Face and does not put forth his hand to save his Brother for whom Christ was pleased to Dye The Priest and Levite who past by the Poor Man that had fallen among Thieves and left him there weltring in his Blood they drew it no doubt upon their own heads and are Condemn'd by the Mouth of our Blessed Lord for so not loving their Neighbour as if they had been Accessories to the killing of him nay Principals not only in mortally Wounding his Body but their own Souls But I must also offer this as my Third Conclusion That a Passionate a Vehement an Affectionate or for want of an English word to hit my Conceptions fully give me leave to call it an Affectuous setting the Heart upon Wealth and worldy Goods more than upon Heaven and the way to Heaven by Charity is a state of Sin and of Death tho the Conscience like his who had great Possessions be so partial to its self as being not throughly Examined to make a Return not Guilty of any Gross Omissions in this kind or of any notorious Act of Uncharitable dealing or of any Habit to make one appear Hard-hearted yet if your Treasure be upon Earth and your Souls be set upon it they must needs be stak'd down here too and mount no higher for it is a Judg'd Case and with all the Reason in the world That where your Treasure is there will your Hearts be also But it may be Objected and Thoughts may arise in your Hearts if there be so much danger of doing too little and too slender Alms then What is enough for the Rich to bestow upon Charity shall I say whatever they can spare from their own Occasions that will not advance one foot toward stating the Question 't is only raising another a harder Question which the best Casuists will never be able to settle De abjiciendo Superfluo of the parting with our superfluity to relieve those in need or necessity But what is superabundance to some is scarce a Competency to others in different Circumstances Upon the whole matter no precise bounds and limits can be set for all Men nor for any two Men in the World tho we could suppose them exactly alike in Minds Bodies and Estates It must be when all is done in taking the measures of this or any other Christian Graces prout vir prudens definiverit as Old Philosophy could never otherwise assign the constant Exercise of moral Virtues its just Ampliations and Restrictions but only as Prudence should define them in particular Cases indeed to suit this with Divinity it must be Christian Prudence that is well guided Piety or Conscience wisely directed Nor do's the Apostle St. Paul go very much farther towards fixing the definite Proportions of Charity in the almost infinite Circumstances of men than the Masters of our morals had gone before him in describing the Lines and Limits of what they called Mercy only St. Paul seems to enjoyn one thing necessary to Enter and Engage good Christians in a Course of Charity that they all should have set times as they are the Stewards of God to make up their Accounts for Pious Vses that these set times should be so near one another as to keep the Trade of Charity quick upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store But when it comes to naming the Sum that every one must allow St. Paul himself could not offer any common measure he does not decimate or call upon them for a Temh nor yet for a Twentieth Part or Exact upon them at any determinate Rate But let every one lay by him in store as God hath prospered him If it be Reply'd that this is to leave our Duty at such Uncertainty as makes it hard to know when our Righteousness that is our Charity exceeds theirs who shall by no means enter into the Kingdom of Heaven my Answer is All such Scruples are easily removed if insted of disputing how much 't is our Obligation to give we fall to practising and abounding in the Work of the Lord this is to take the safe and the high-way to Heaven And this falls in with my second Part Here is a matter of Precept mixt and joyn'd with matter of Counsel and Advice concerning the Manner the Measures the Rules of Proportion and Decency to be observed in doing our Alms-Deeds Here are excellent Directions given us to do them presently and with our own hands rather than leave them to be done by others after our Deaths to do them Diligently Chearfully Plentifully nay Openly sometimes as well as Secretly at other times to do them with all the Condescending Kindness of Entertainers for such good natur'd Qualifications as these are implyed in these words When thou makest a Feast Call the Poor This saying differs much from that other saying Sell what you have and give to the Poor so says our Blessed Saviour St. Luke xii but it is a plain Case That was only propos'd and advis'd to some never impos'd by Christ upon any but one that Rich Young Man we spoke of His Case was singular Our Lord discerned him to be as worldly as wealthy therefore it was necessary for his Eternal Salvation to part him and his Great Possessions But good Amends would have been presently made him he would have been admitted to be one of the Peculiar Followers of Jesus and probably the Power of working Miracles would have been given him But for the Generality of Mankind they are left free and forced upon none of these Extraordinary Attainments whether they will or no He that lyed to the Holy-Ghost in the matter of Alms was told by St. Peter While the Land remained was it not thine own and after it was sold was it not in thine own power that is to do what he pleas'd with the Money paid fot it And yet such as sould their Lands and laid the prices at the Apostles feet and Distribution was made unto every man according as he had need these have that Character immediately given them that Great Grace was upon them all Notwithstanding which to say that our Saviours words in St. Luke Sell what you have and give to the Poor obliges the Rich to part with all or as Zacheus did and it was well done of him with the one half of his Goods to the Poor this was one dangerous part of Pelagius'es Heresie Therefore Christ did not pr●ss that Publican to so vast a Proportion of Alms as he gave unaskt and then Christ Graciously Accepted it nor does Christ Labour the Pharisee in my Text to devest himself of his whole Estate at once But implies sufficiently that