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lord_n	city_n	london_n	mayor_n	10,714	5	9.7889	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47028	A sermon of the absolute necessity of family-duties preached to the united parishes of St. Mary Woolnoth & St. Mary Woolchurch-Haw in Lombard-Street / by David Jones ...	Jones, David, 1663-1724?	1692 (1692)	Wing J936; ESTC R11711	21,102	40

well as he that spends his Estate upon Ease Luxury and Pomp. Men shall be damned not only for Cheating and Oppressing and grinding the Face of the Poor but also for not Assisting and not Relieving the Poor for not giving them Meat Drink Cloathing and Lodging when they stand in need of it as too many of them do in this cold Season of the Year as you heard this Morning from His Majesty's Gracious Letter to the Lord Bishop and the Lord Mayor of London on the behalf of the Poor in and about this City Which I would have you all Effectually to lay to Heart And therefore I beseech thee yea I beg of thee for Christ his sake and for thine own sake too that when thou hast taken so much care to keep thy self from Sins of Commission do not suffer thy self to be damned for Sins of Omission Thou that hast kept thy self from Doing Evil do not suffer thy self to be undone for not doing Good Thou that hast kept thy Family from Sin do not suffer thy self to perish for not bringing it up to Vertue It is the height of Misery to have watched for the Bridegroom till he was just coming and then in the very nick of Time to fall asleep and to be shut out for ever from the Marriage-Feast It is the utmost disappointment to fall short of the Prize within a step of the Races end There are Proverbs made on 't 'T is a disappointment beyond Expression beyond Thought beyond all things to go to the Devil in the sight of God and to be tumbled into Hell from Heaven-Gates And therefore thou that hast taken so much care with thy Family do not make thy self eternally miserable for not taking a little more care with it Thou that hast gone so far do not damn thy self for not going one step farther Do not forfeit Heaven for one bad Action Do not forfeit Eternity for nothing for one Sin of Omission the Omission of Family-Duties Seventhly Self-love and Self-preservation oblige a Man to bring up his Family in the Service of God tho he himself has not God in all his Thoughts For Self-preservation obliges a Man to avoid a Pest-House or an House infected with the Plague It obliges him to avoid all violent Torments such as the Rack the Wheel and the Gallows and it never makes him over-fond either of Sword Fire or Faggot And yet the very same Principle that obliges a Man to avoid these and such like fatal Messengers of God's Wrath does much more oblige him to bring up his Family in the Service of God and to empty his House of all Bad Livers For if thy Servant be sick of any Catching Distemper dost not thou presently get him out of thy House lest Thou and thy Wife and thy Children and the rest of thy Family should catch that Distemper And yet is there any Distemper half so catching and half so mischievous as that of Sin And wilt not thou then much more get rid of a Sinful than a Sick Servant Especially seeing all his Sickness is only the effect of his Sinfulness And it is Charity and perhaps thy Duty to entertain thy sick Servant which thou art never bound to do to thy sinful Servant Dost thou harbor a Company of Thieves or Robbers in thy House if thou hast any thing by thee that is worth their stealing Dost thou harbor a Company of Adulterers or Fornicators in thy House if thou hast either a Chaste Wife or a Chaste Daughter or a Chaste Maid living with thee And yet wilt thou harbor a Company of Wicked Servants in thy House that will rob thee of thy very Soul and will bring the Curse and the Plague of God upon thee and all thy Family Yea wilt thou harbor a Company of Incarnate Devils in thy House For what our Saviour said of Judas I have chosen Twelve Disciples and behold one of them is a Devil is but too true of every other Wicked Man he is a Devil he is led or rather violently hurried on by the same Spirit that the Devil himself is led by And art not thou afraid to keep a Company of Incarnate Devils in thy House when a little Fire or Water or a few Thieves shall be ready to make thee at thy Wits end Eighthly Self-Interest obliges a Man to bring up his Family in the Service of God though he himself careth not for God And Interest certainly will do much in such a place as This when all other things fail Where Robbing of Orphans Oppressing Widows Grinding the Face of the Poor Griping Vsury and Suing out Pardons from the State for Extortion Where these and such like abominable Sins do reign at such a rate certainly Interest yea the very Name of it will pass for a stronger Argument than all the Power and Demonstration of the Spirit And therefore methinks that this Place of all others should be most remarkable for Family-Duties which advance their Interest even to an Hundred-fold For if a Man be bad himself yet if he have but a good Servant God will bless that bad Man for the sake of his good Servant For notwithstanding Potiphar was an Idolater and notwithstanding his Wife was an Adultress and would have committed a Rape upon her Chast Servant that preferred the Members of Christ before the Members of such a Lewd Harlot Notwithstanding all these Villanies that were enough to have undone a whole Kingdom and much more one House Yet still the Holy Ghost is express that the Lord blessed the Egyptians House for Joseph's sake And again The Lord blessed the House of Obed-Edom for the Arks sake And again The Lord blessed Laban for his Servant Jacob's sake And again The Lord cured Naaman the Syrian of his Leprosie for his little Hebrew Maids sake And again The Lord saved all the Men that were with Paul in the Ship for Paul's sake And again The Lord would have saved all Sodom and Gomorrha for the sake of Ten Righteous Men. And in one word whatever a good Servant putteth his Hand to the Lord will prosper it in his Hand Psal 1. 3. And who then would be without a good Servant or some other good Man in his Family if he might be had either for Love or Mony if he might be had at any rate Especially seeing that even Self-Interest obliges a Man to get him such a one And therefore though a Man should be never so bad himself yet even his Interest would oblige him one would think to bring up his Family in the Service of God though he like the Unjust Judge in the Gospel cared neither for God nor Man nor did at all value either Heaven or Hell Lastly Good Manners and good Breeding and common Civility oblige a Man to bring up his Family in the Service of God though he himself has no Religion at all For there is no Man so ill-bred as to invite a Friend to take a Commons with him and yet provide