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A43128	A sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the lord mayor of London, and the Honourable the Court of Aldermen, and governours of the several hospitals of the city at St. Bridget's Church, on Easter-Tuesday, being one of the anniversary spittal-sermons / by William Hayley./	Hayley, William, 1657-1715.	1700 (1700)	Wing H1215; ESTC R25422	17,723	38

THE DEAN of CHICHESTER's Spittal-Sermon On Easter-Tuesday 1700. Levett Mayor Martis nono die Aprilis 1700. Annoque R. R Gulielmi tertii Angliae c. duodedecimo THIS Court doth desire Doctor Hayley Dean of Chichester to Print his Sermon Preached before the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Governours of the several Hospitals of this City at the Parish-Church of St. Bridget on Tuesday in Easter-Week last Goodfellow A SERMON Preach'd before the Right Honourable THE Lord Mayor of London And the HONOURABLE the Court of ALDERMEN AND GOVERNOURS Of the several Hospitals of the City AT St. Bridget's Church on Easter-Tuesday 1700. BEING One of the Anniversary Spittal-Sermons By William Hayley D. D. Dean of Chichester LONDON Printed for Iacob Tonson within Grays-Inn-Gate next Grays-Inn-Lane 1700. MATT. XXV 34 35 36. Then shall the King say to them on his right hand come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the Foundation of the World For I was an hungred and ye gave me meat I was thirsty and ye gave me drink I was a stranger and ye took me in naked and ye cloathed me I was sick and ye visited me I was in prison and ye came unto me AS there is no Virtue more excellent in its Nature more honourable to our selves or more useful to Mankind than that of Charity so I do not know of any that has more Topicks to recommend it The Occasions of exercising this Duty are many and frequent and they are often such as call upon the Ministers of the Gospel to inculcate and press it and yet the Subject is not exhausted but affords still ample Matter for our Meditation This Anniversary Meeting which we now celebrate gives a succession of fit Opportunities for a Discourse of this Nature And blessed be God! it is a very noble Demonstration that these Discourses are not in vain that they do move the Hearts and Affections of the Hearers and that the Seed sown produces a plentiful Crop to the Relief of Multitudes some of which are the Ornament and Glory of the present Solemnity And it must needs be a solid Comfort to all that are truly zealous for the Honour of our Holy Religion to find that among all the Corruptions of the Age which are so justly complain'd of there is yet such a Spirit of Charity visible in this great City as plainly shews that Christianity has a Life and Vigor among us and that there are not wanting Numbers of those who make it appear that they love the Lord Iesus Christ by their Pity and Compassion to his suffering Members What I am now to read to you is an ample Testimony in this Matter viz. 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 225 ten whereof being instructed in the MATHEMATICKS and NAVIGATION were placed forth Apprentices to Commanders of Ships out of the Mathematical School Founded by his late Majesty King Charles the Second of Blessed memory 125 Children Buried the year last past 7 Children now remaining under the Care and Charge of the said Hospital which are kept in the House and at Nurse elsewhere 309 And 54 newly admitted amounting in all to 363 The Names of all which are Registered 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 sustained by the late Dreadful Fire it 's hoped many worthy and good Christians will liberally assist towards so useful and beneficial a Charity St. Bartholomew's Hospital THere have been Cured and discharged from the Hospital of St. Bartholomews the Year last past of Wounded Sick and Maimed Souldiers and Seamen and other diseased Persons from several parts of the Dominions of the Kings 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 2217 Buried this year after much charges on them 109 Persons remaining under Cure in the said Hospital 278 The difficulty of the times being such and the Contingent Charities exceedingly lessen'd the ordinary revenue is not sufficient to support above a Moyety of the charge of the whole by which means the numbers received in and cured this year are fewer than the preceding and without the charity of well disposed persons are not capable of being advanced St. Thomas Hospital THere have been cured and discharged from St. Thomas's Hospital in Southwark this last Year of Sick Wounded and Maimed Souldiers and Seamen and other diseased Persons from several parts of his Majesties Dominions and from Foreign parts many of which have been relieved with mony and other necessaries at their departure tho' much of the Revenue of the said Hospital has been destroy'd 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 rebuilt a great part thereof in which they have alredy laid out of their own free gift many thousands of pounds and have maintained the same number of Patients for cure whilst the same building has been carried on To compleat the whole there is some part now building which without the assistance of charitable persons cannot well be accomplished the yearly revenue being much less than will defray the constant charge 1952 Buried this Year after much charge in the time of their sickness 148 Remaining under Cure at the charge of the said Hospital 330 Bridewel Hospital REceived this last Year into the Hospital of Bridewell 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 1406 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 Iune 1673. and the other in November 1682. which hapned in Wapping 101 Bethlem Hospital THe Hospital of Bethlem is of great necessity for the keeping and curing Distracted Persons whose misery of all others is the most 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 60 Cured of their Lunacy and discharged thence the said year 45 Distracted persons buried the last year 10 Now remaining there under Cure and provided for with Physick Dyet and other Relief at the charge of the said Hospital 131 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 Bethlem 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 Premises 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 above 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 several great Summs of mony 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 Beside what is done toward the Relief of so many in these several Hospitals the President and Governours of the Corporation for the poor of the City of London lately erected have begun an admirable design for the employing the common Poor and clearing the Streets of idle Beggars and Vagrants and for carrying it on they have advanc'd a considerable Loan of Money out of their own private Cashes wherewith they have provided Work-houses and neceassry-Implements and have already taken into their care out of the several Parishes in the City above 200 Children whom they provide with Dyet Cloathing and Instruction and bring them up to work at our Manufactures and they have contracted for the teaching about 800 more whom they will likewise constantly employ and take their Work off their hands for the best Price And they hope that by the generous Contribution of Charitable Persons they shall be able in a short time to set to work all the Poor of the City of London and the Liberties thereof and likewise to employ all poor Mechanicks in the several Employments they have been bred to or shall be capable of and to take off all the Work they make tho' they should lose thereby that so they may prevent any of their Inhabitants from living idly and wanting Work whereby many are forced to beg steal or to have recourse to other dissolute vicious and unlawful Practices This being a work of so great Use and of such excellent Example they trust all good Men will lend their Assistance toward it especially since it is now in its beginning and most wants Encouragement And should it fail would probably discourage other Parts of the Nation from attempting the like but if it succeed and flourish it may in time spread over the whole Kingdom to the unspeakable Advantage of the Publick not only in increasing our Manufactures but in bettering the Manners of the poorer sort of People These are indeed very good Tokens of a Christian Disposition among us and it is the continuance the growth and the propagation of this Christian Disposition that is the main End of this Day 's Assembly And it must be confessed that the Assembly it self is a very forcible Motive to it where the Beauty the Comfort and the Usefulness of it appears by those numbers of poor Creatures who are relieved by it And this cannot but have its effect upon all that see it and must be felt without my Direction But the great Festival now depending determines my Thoughts to Arguments of another nature and the Commemoration of the Resurrection of our Lord which must enliven the Hopes of our own urges me to press you to Charity and Compassion at this time rather from the Fruit you your selves shall reap from it in another World than that Support your indigent Brethren shall receive from it in this And for that reason I have made choice of these words which are a part of the account that our Saviour himself gives of the great Resurrection and of his coming to judgment at the end of the World Which he begins at the 31. Verse telling us that When the Son of man shall come in his glory and all the holy Angels with him then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory And before him shall be gathered all nations and he shall separate them one from another as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats And he shall set the sheep on his right hand but the goats on the left And then follow the Words of my Text Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand come ye blessed of my Father c. Now these Words contain the most noble Arguments for mercy and pity that can possibly be applyed to the mind of Man All acts of compassion done to our wanting Brethren are represented here as done to our Saviour himself and are declared to be so taken and accepted This acceptance is farther illustrated by the glorious Reward that attends them a Kingdom prepared from the foundation of the world and that will last when this World shall be no more And further yet by the particular place these works have in the reason that is given for this wonderful retribution for I was hungry and ye gave me meat thirsty and ye gave me drink c. Where 't is observable that no other good works are mention'd but those of Charity and Mercy from whence though we must by no means gather that good actions of other kinds will not be regarded yet the least we can conclude is that these will have a peculiar degree of acceptance and that the Charitable Man shall have a distinguishing share of the Character The blessed of the Father Now if Charity at the Resurrection shall be before Angels and men thus accepted thus rewarded and thus distinguish'd and that by our Saviour himself sitting in all the pomp of the last judgment 't is not easie to imagine any thing that can be so persuasive to move us not only to exercise this Virtue but to be zealous in promoting it and desirous to excel in it 'T is a Consideration that will work on our Reason our Gratitude our Interest and our Ambition the most vigorous and active springs in human Nature and it must be either not well illustrated by the Preacher or very ill considered by the