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lord_n	day_n	holy_a	word_n	13,850	5	4.2657	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48361	A sermon preach'd at the anniversary meeting of the sons of clergy-men in the church of St. Mary-le-Bow, on Thursday, December the 7th, 1693 printed at the request of the stewards of the feast, to whom it is humbly presented / by Edward Lake ...	Lake, Edward, 1641-1704.	1694 (1694)	Wing L194; ESTC R2388	11,284	33

us adhere to that Faith which they own'd some of them with the loss of their Liberty their Estates and perhaps too their Lives Malign'd Persecuted for their Loyalty to the best of Kings Drag'd from their Homes into Gaols and Prisons there to Languish through the Cruelty of the Malevolent and Implacable Round-head Si deest tyrannus si spoliator c. as St. Austin speaks though there be no Tryrant blessed be God for it no Sequestrator no Plunderer abroad yet forasmuch as our Religion is a suffering Religion and we of all others are taught upon Occasion to exert a Passive Obedience that noble that heroic that peculiar Doctrine and Glory too of our Church let us all be resolved and prepared to do so whenever God shall call us thereunto and by so doing follow their Faith considering the end of their Conversation Lastly Because Faith without Works is dead or no Faith at all let us proceed and add unto it Brotherly-kindness and unto Brotherly-kindness Charity Above all things put on Charity nay let it influence our minds and excite us to that Beneficence which both the Hopes and Necessities of our poor Brethren exact from us And here I must crave Leave to beg a rais'd Attention though it has been tired sufficiently for Time commands me to crowd my Materials into a narrow Compass My Brethren we are met together this Day in an Holy Assembly upon a Design of relieving those of the same Descent with our selves those I mean who do now mourn in secret and dwell in the low Tabernacles of Smoak and desolate Want who themselves also would have made a part of this Solemnity had not God in his Providence dispos'd them to a sadder Entertainment Remember the Fatherless and Widows whose Cries come up to Heaven even now whilst we are paying our Devotions towards it who sustain the Necessities and Hardships the Cold and Hunger of the whole Year upon the Hopes of being comforted by the Bounty and Charity which this Day may through God's Grace Occasion To you therefore who have acquired Estates by God's Blessing whether on your own or the Industry of your Ancestors To you in what State or Condition you are in the Church or in the State in the City or in the Country in the Court or in the Camp on the Bench or at the Bar I address my self indifferently to you all I charge and exhort I adjure and obtest you by the Bowels of Christ by your Sacred Charter by whatever other Obligation in the Words of the Apostle to do good to be rich in good Works to be ready to distribute willing to communicate Remember That Charity is so great a Duty that it renders men like God himself who giveth liberally and upbraideth not like his Son and our Saviour who went about doing good this brought him down from Heaven this nailed him to the Cross That 't is the only means we have by which as we are able we can make Returns to God for what we are and have By this means we increase our Estates on Earth and lay up Treasures in Heaven Plead not the Number of your Children or Dependants say not as the wise said to the foolish Virgins we have not enough for us and you but know that God will provide for and bless your Off-spring how numerous soever and you 'll oblige him to take Care of them by your continued Charities to those especially who are of the Houshold of Faith of the same Extraction with your selves for such are the Sacrifices under the Gospel and with such God is well pleased I have done adding only those Words of Nehemiah Neh. 8.10 or rather Ezra Go your way eat the fat and drink the sweet and send portions to them for whom nothing is prepared And then as it follows This day shall be holy unto our Lord neither shall ye be sorry for the Joy of the Lord will be your Strength FINIS