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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45741	A sermon preached before the right honourable the lord mayor and court of alderman, at St. Bride's church, on Wednesday in Easter-week, April 11th. 1694 by John Hartcliffe ...	Hartcliffe, John, 1651-1712.	1694 (1694)	Wing H969; ESTC R10311	15,681	35

Mr. HARTCLIFFE's SERMON BEFORE The LORD MAYOR c. Ashurst Mayor Martis xvii die Aprilis 1694. Annoque Regis Reginae Will. Mariae Angl. c. sexto THis Court doth desire Mr. Hartcliffe to print his Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Governours of the several Hospitals of this City on Wednesday in Easter-Week last at the Parish-Church of S. Brides Goodfellow A SERMON Preached before The Right Honourable the LORD MAYOR AND Court of ALDERMEN AT St. BRIDE's CHURCH ON Wednesday in Easter-Week April 11th 1694. BY JOHN HARTCLIFFE B. D. and Canon of Windsor May 1. 1694. Imprimatur GEO. ROYSE LONDON Printed for Charles Harper at the Flower-de-luce over against St. Dunstan's Church Fleetstreet 1694. To the Right Honourable Sir William Ashurst Knight LORD-MAYOR c. My Lord A Discourse upon Charity tho it be much below the Dignity of the Subject must be welcome to your Lordship because this Vertue seems so very agreeable to your natural Temper as it appears in your Methods of Governing this great City which are like those of Charity in a Religious course of Life prudent steddy just and peaceable Every good Man in his Station is bound to do what he can towards the Amendment of an Evil Age but the chief Magistrate of so famous a City and the worthy Governours of the Hospitals thereof are great and eminent Examples which must have a stronger Power to persuade others to be good than any Arguments besides Now for all our Diseases the most efficacious Remedy is the Practice of Charity which is very much in the Power of Rulers to apply well and with the most probable Success Therefore that your Lordship together with the liberal and generous Patrons of the Poor in this place may be found so doing when our Master shall come to call you to the Regions of the Blessed where nothing but perfect Charity and Peace reign for ever is the Prayer of Your Lordship's most humble and obedient Servant John Hartcliffe JOB Chap. xxxi V. xix If I have seen any perish for want of clothing or any poor without covering c. JOB is the great Example of Charity as well as Patience from whom the Devil neither by his temptations nor torments could extort one repining word in the midst of his Sufferings in his deepest groans and sighs we do not hear one murmur against the Justice or the Purity of God What an admirable creature is the innocent tho afflicted Man whose Hopes are raised above this World and who bears his Troubles with so much resignation to the will of God how often doth Satan call him Coward for this good dispositon in hopes at least to provoke him to a raillery against Providence because he knew he had no other way to conquer him but by himself Notwithstanding Job remains unblameable and unshaken by all his assaults for he deserves not to win the crown at the end of the race who doth not earnestly strive for it in the exercise of such Vertues as become the good fight of Faith but above all he must never suffer any one to perish for want of Cloathing or to starve for want of Bread Which Job says He never did because he valued the love of his Brother and the Service of God beyond the profits and sordid interests that Men are apt to be so fond of it is true he gives a sad account of his misfortunes and low condition in the foregoing chapter therefore left those who heard him should take what he had said to be an argument of his guilt he sets down in this Chapter a full and a very particular relation of his Integrity laying the most secret inclinations of his Soul open before them together with the actions of his whole Life For his Friends had accused him falsly of several Crimes and had laid things to his charge which he knew not so that in defence of himself he offers many pleas among which none was of more weight than this that he had all along a natural compassion from his youth for he says in the Text If I have suffered any to perish for want of clothing c. then ver 22. let that guilty arm fall off my shoulder or be broken in two in the midst These words do in general set forth the practice of a good Man in the acts of Mercy and Righteousness which do above all others declare him a follower of our Blessed Lord but chiefly they do imply something concerning the Nature Manner and Object of those Acts. For by not suffering any to perish for want of Clothing we must suppose the charitable Man to be ever busie and diligent in contriving how to uphold the life and well-being of an indigent Creature not that he is always moved to relieve another upon the Rhetorick of his cries or to content his own commiserating nature not that he is moved to pity by the sight of every naked arm or leg in the street which do often impose upon an easie temper but he proportions his gift according to his own Ability and the Merits of the receiver for the Needs of persons are different and their Merits unequal therefore the bountiful Man bestows whatever he hath within the compass of his possession or his power that he may feed the hungry cloath the naked visit the sick entertain the stranger ransom the captive ease the oppressed comfort the sorrowful assist the weak and advise the ignorant How much better and more pleasant is it in this manner to deal out our Riches and our Bread too than to indulge a covetous humour serve a corrupt appetite or pamper the belly The Satisfaction being much more rational and suitable to the dignity of human Nature to cover the back of our poor Neighbour whose rags are God Almighty's Badge than to set off our own in the finest dress it being not only the Duty of a Christian but more for his Credit so to educate poor Children that they may become useful Men that from small beginnings they may rise to considerable fortunes than to build stately Houses of Pleasure or to spend his Wealth in excesses curiosities or gaming 's which are extravagant chargeable and full of hazard for these unlawful ways do frequently so exhaust Men's substance that in the midst of their plenty they are unable to give a covering to the Poor but the pious and merciful Man is a good husband very frugal and very laborious that he may have a sufficient supply for the purposes of a discreet Charity which loves to enlarge it self but then it must be directed with such Prudence as that the good seed may not be sown at random and the birds of prey devour it all but a proper Soil and a fit Season must be chosen that those only may partake of them who are overwhelmed with Calamities and are pinch'd with real Poverty In vulgar practice indeed Men care not much for any acquaintance with the Needy and are all