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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

man thou wilt shew thy self upright With the pure thou wilt shew thy self pure and with froward thou wilt shew thy self froward This is but just and equitable that Men should be proceeded with by the Rules and Measures they have practised themselves And therefore the hard-hearted and remorsless wretch cannot complain if he be used with rigour and extremity nor repine when he sees the kind and compassionate Soul treated with the greatest Clemency and Sweetness This is a way of dealing that is but suited to every one's Actions The cruel and revengeful shall be severely punished but the pious and charitable shall be graciously pardoned Therefore To do good and to communicate forget not for with such sacrifices God is well pleased Heb. xiii 16. Our Almes are called Sacrifices here not that they have any proper expiatory Power to take away sins For the Sacrifices that were offered under the Mosaical Oeconomy had not that but they were accepted as they were Types of the Grand Propitiation to be made by Christ And through Him whatever Vertue the Legal Sacrifices had the Sacrifices of the Gospel shall be much more Effectual For even while the first Tabernacle was standing God had frequently professed that the blood of Bulls and of Goats and the fat of Rams that Incense and Oblations and whatever he had commanded them to bring to his Altar was nothing at all regarded by Him in comparison of Mercy Mercy is the thing which shall principally regulate the Proceedings at the great day of Judgment as I have already mentioned When the Dead shall be raised and all the innumerable Myriads that ever were born shall stand before the dreadful Tribunal then shall those that have been relieved by the Merciful Man appear as so many Intercessours for him As if they should say Lord This is the Man that refreshed our Bowels when we were pinched with Hunger that came in seasonably to support us when we were ready to perish that delivered us from the hand of our cruel Oppressour that had pity on our Children and gave them good Education when they were left poor distressed fatherless Infants On the other side those that have been forsaken or undone by the Covetous Miser shall look upon him as if they would thus implead him at that impartial Bar Lord this is He that suffered us to languish and pine away for want when a very little of that he never made any use of would have rejoiced our Hearts this is He that let us be exposed to Cold and Nakedness when the Moth consumed his unnecessary changes of Apparel nay this is He that has griped and oppressed us that has made himself drunk with our Tears that has wearied us out at Law and born down our righteous Cause by Wealth and Power and robbed us of the little that we had by Violence and Injustice Thus might they justly plead against him if his own Conscience did not prevent all other Accusers and pass the first Sentence upon him which shall be quickly followed by that of the great Judge who shall render to every Man according to his Works Then shall the Good and Merciful be taken up into the Regions of everlasting Joy but they shall have Judgment without Mercy that have shewed no Mercy Thus have I shewed what is that Charity that will make our Alms some way Profitable to our Salvation but that without it they are not so in themselves and now lastly I have laid down some Reasons that make them acceptable and advantageous when they proceed from such a Principle of true Charity It is because they nourish and preserve that Principle they are a Proof of our Love to God and our Trust and Dependance upon him and they do particularly incline him to be merciful to Us. The Design of all that has been said is to excite you to Give and to do it so that it may tend to the real Benefit of him that Gives as well as of him that Receives or in the Words of the Apostle I seek fruit that may redound to your account To this purpose I shall lay before you what Expences have been lately made in this way and what necessity there still is of further Expence what has been done already and what yet remains to be done that is fit Matter for the Charitable Benevolence of this great and honourable City And this I cannot do better than by Reading to you A true REPORT of the great Number of Poor Children and other Poor People Maintained in the several Hospitals under the Pious Care of the Lord Mayor Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London the Year last past Christ's-HOSPITAL CHildren put forth Apprentices and discharged out of Christ's Hospital the Year last past 104 eight whereof being instructed in the Mathematicks and Navigation are already placed out And two others well qualified to be placed out with the first convenience to Commanders of Ships out of the Mathematical School Founded by His late Majesty King Charles the Second of Blessed Memory 104 Children Buried the Year last past 25 Children now remaining under the Care and Charge of the said Hospital which are kept in the House and at Nurse elsewhere ●18 The Names of all which are Register'd in the Books kept in the said Hospital and are to be seen as also when and whence they were admitted Which being so many in Number and the Charge of keeping them very great and being still depressed by the very great Loss which was sustain'd by the late dreadful Fire 't is not doubted but many worthy and good Christians will liberally assist towards so useful and beneficial a Charity The stated and certain Revenue of the said Hospital amounting to very little more than a Moiety of their necessary and unavoidable Charge St. Bartholomew's HOSPITAL THere have been Cured and Discharged from the Hospital of St. Bartholomew the Year last past of Wounded Sick and Maimed Soldiers and Seamen and other Diseased Persons from several Parts of the Dominions of the King 's Most Excellent Majesty and from Foreign Parts many of which have been relieved with Moneys and other Necessaries at their departure tho' as it hath pleased God the greatest part of the Revenue of the said Hospital was consumed by the late dreadful Fire 1961 Buried this Year after much Charges on them 199 Persons remaining under Cure in the said Hospital 312 St. Thomas's HOSPITAL THere have been Cured and Discharged from St. Thomas's-Hospital in Southwark this last Year of Wounded Sick and Maimed Soldiers and Seamen and other Diseased Persons from several Parts of His Majesty's Dominions and from Foreign Parts many of which have been relieved with Money and other Necessaries at their departure tho' much of the Revenue of the said Hospital has been destroyed by several dreadful Fires in London and Southwark And most of the Buildings of this Hospital being very old low damp and incommodious for the reception of Sick and Wounded Persons The

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

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 LONDON Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1695. Lane Mayor Martis secundo Die Aprilis 1695. Annoque Regni Regis Willielmi Tertii Angliae c. septimo THIS Court doth Desire the Right Reverend Father in God Robert Lord Bishop of Chichester to Print his Sermon preached at the Parish Church of St. Brides on Easter-Monday last before the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Governours of the several Hospitals of this City Goodfellow A SERMON ON 1 COR. xiii 3. Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have not charity it profiteth me nothing THE Apostle having declared that all the extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit which God was pleased to bestow upon his Church in the first Ages of Christianity were of very little or no Consideration if they were not joined with Charity he describes that which only was able to give any real Value to all the rest by some of the most genuine and proper Effects of it As that it Suffereth long that it is Kind that it Envieth not and the like He then commends it from its Duration because that all the other Gifts and Abilities how necessary soever they might be for the propagation of the Christian Religion for the present should yet fail cease and vanish away as things that should be of no further use in the other World But this alone should never fail but continue with us for ever in that blessed State of Happiness and Perfection He then mentions the three most eminent Graces Faith Hope and Charity but gives the preference to the last and concludes positively The greatest of these is Charity In the beginning he had affirmed that without this the speaking with the tongues of Men and of Angels was no better than a loud and insignificant Noise And that Prophecy and the deepest Knowledge in the Mysteries of Religion and the glorious Power of working Miracles were in themselves of no more Account than the other He then proceeds to assert the same concerning the greatest Liberality to the Poor and the laying down our very Lives which seems to be the utmost that can possibly be required of us upon any Occasion But yet says he Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burned and have not charity it profiteth me nothing It is here manifestly implyed that a Man may part with his whole Estate and his Life too and yet that he may want Charity This may seem a very strange and surprizing Supposition to us that can see no further than the bare outside and appearances of things but God that is intimately acquainted with all the secret motions and imaginations of our Hearts knows that too often the most specious external Acts may proceed from a false or corrupt Principle And then tho' they may be highly esteemed and magnified in the Opinion of the World they cannot be acceptable to Him that is pleased with nothing that does not flow from a sincere and truly pious Disposition of the Soul I shall confine my Discourse to the former part of the Words and here I shall shew First What is that Charity that will make our Alms any way profitable to our Salvation Secondly That without this whatsoever we give it shall be of no Advantage at all as to our Eternal Concerns And Thirdly What are the Reasons that whatever we bestow on the Necessities of our poor Brethren upon the Principle of true Charity shall through God's gracious acceptance be Profitable to us in the great Day of Accounts I. What is that Charity that will make our Alms any way profitable to our Salvation For in this Sense we must understand the Apostie who was perfectly crucified to the World and therefore could esteem nothing really Profitable that had not some tendency towards the procurement of a better Life which was the only thing that he valued And when it is said here that without Charity all that we can bestow is not Profitable or Conducive to the promoting of that great End it must be implyed that with it it is Now the Charity that produces this excellent Effect is a Charity that arises from the Love of God that loves him as the supream and original Good and every thing else for his sake that admires and adores his infinite Fulness and esteems other things as the Streams and Emanations from that inexhaustible Fountain When we have not a due regard to this heavenly Standard of our Affections our Love will quickly degenerate into a silly Fondness or a covetous Desire or some turbulent uneasy and exorbitant Passion But when the Love of God rules in our Hearts when it presides over our very Thoughts and governs the most secret and inward Motions of our Spirits it will keep all steddy and even in a due composure without any excess or irregularity The Love of other Things whether it be of Pleasure or Profit or Honour or if there be any thing else that vain Men are wont to set their Hearts upon it is the universal Grievance of all the World the unhappy Occasion of all the Miseries that Mankind has groaned under ever since the Fall of our first Parents All the Fraud and Treachery all the Violence and Injustice all the Rapes and Murders all the Cruelties and Barbarities that ever were committed are owing to nothing but the excessive Love of some earthly Enjoyment The Divine Love as it is placed on a different Object so it has very different Effects it rejoyces the Soul and fills the World with a settled Calmness and Serenity it puts an end to all Strife and Contention all deceitful and undjust Dealing it considers that whatever it possesses is all received from the good Providence of God and in gratitude to him it makes some returns to any of his poor Creatures that it sees in a worse Condition than it self It has a tender and compassionate Sense of all Mens Calamities and is ready to the utmost of its Power to assist their Infirmities support their Weakness and relieve their Necessities and where it can do no more it will comfort them at least with its good Wishes and hearty Prayers It is like the Sun in the Firmament that enlivens all things that come near it and casts a chearful and pleasant Smile on those frozen Regions that lye beyond the influence of its Heat This excessive and universal Charity is the very Temper of Heaven the Image of the Divinity the Wisdom that is from above which is so gloriously described James iii. 17. It is first pure then peaceable gentle and easy to be intreated full of mercy and good fruits without partiality