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Gods goodnes and mercy Layd open in a sermon, preached at Pauls-Crosse on the last of Iune. 1622. By Mr Robert Harris, pastour of the church of God in Hanvvell in Oxfordshire.
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Harris, Robert, 1581-1658.
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things stands in goodnes so the life of goodnesse in action The cheifest goods are most actiue the best good a meere Act the more good we doe the more god-like and excellent wee bee what is the excellency of meates goodnes what of wines goodnes what of grounds goodnes what of all goodnes what is mans comfort in life what in death what after whatever goodnes This is the man Eccle. 12. the whole man no crowne to this in life no comfort to this in death no tombe to this after death no gaine to this in the day of accounts Well done good servant enter into thy masters ioy Glory and honour and peace is to every worker of goodnes Rom. 2. whether Iew or Gentile bond or free rich or poore wise or simple weake or strong if a worker of righteousnesse hee is accepted assisted rewarded therefore worke Now as you must be pressed to Tit. 3. 1. and rich in every good worke so cheifely in the best for kinde or vse that is good spirituall and common for the first as spirituall gifts so acts are most desireable Man never liues till the life of God liue in him and all that he doth be either a spirituall act or at least spiritually acted Zach. 14. holinesse must be written Zacharie tels vs vpon our bridles when we warre vpon our cups when we drinke In short the kingdome of God must first bee sought and set vpp in vs and ours and what we may advanced among others in the meanes of it and maintenance for it And heere the rich may ioyne in one both these goods spirituall and common some Churches you see want men some men Churches and meanes I blush I bleede to speake it able men are ready to hire out themselues for bread and excellent wits hang the head for want of watering gasping like fishes out of the water being out of all both meanes and hopes if there be any true blood yet running in your veines you that can feede Birds and Dogs starue not Grace and Learning Children might be Schollers Obad. last verse Schollers Preachers Preachers Saviours and that of Thousands did not dogs eate the Childrens bread Secondly you must ayme at the common good for that is still the greatest good and heere two rules first if you will be for the publike you must be good in private beare your owne fruite Psal 1. worke in your owne hines man your owne oares and make good your owne standing Happy is that body wherein the eye sees the eare heares the liver sanguifies c. Happy that house wherein the Master rules the man runs the head leades and the body follows Happie that State wherein the Cobler meddles with his last the Tradesman with his shop the Student with his booke the Counseller with State the Prince with the Scepter and each Creature liues in his owne Element but woe be to the Heathens armie when all wil be Captaines and none Souldiers woe to that body that will be all head members misplaced are neither for vse nor ease Secondly we must shoote at the common white that is though you bee private in your standings yet you must be publike in your affections and intendements For the first Richard 1. as King Richard bestowed himselfe diversly at his death so must wee in life Bohemia claimes a part in our loue the Palatinate a part the Churches abroad our Brethren at home a part at home in selling we must be buyers in lending borrowers in visiting patients in comforting mourners abroad we must in our owne peace consider their warres feele them panting see them bleeding heare them scriching O husband O wife O my child my child O mother mother mother my father is slaine my brother is torne my legge is off my guts be out halfe dead halfe aliue worse then either because neither O that wee had heartes to bleede over them and to pray for the peace of Ierusalem For the second our thoughts must all meete in the common good like so many lines in a Center streames in the Sea Christ Iesus pleased not himselfe sayth Saint Paul hee dyed for vs sayth Saint Iohn therefore wee must for our brethren one member will die for all one heathen for manie if we must die for the common good must wee not liue to it If all must must not the more publike person Yes you Lawyers to Instance must be common blessings and not seeke your owne you must with Papinian reiect bad causes and ripen good there goes but a paire of Sheares beween a protracting Lawyer and cheating Mountebanke that sets his Client backward and foreward like a man at Chesse and proues a butcher to the sillie sheepe which ran to him from the Grasier You Land-lords must be common too v. Grin Epist ad Synopsin Hist bominis if with that Duke you will trust your Tennants with your throat you must not hurt theirs you are heads of Townes the head should care for the least toe enclosure if it wound not the heart yet treads it heavie on the toes of a State force not men by wracking rents by over laying Commons and picking quarrels to vndoe themselues betray not Townes as Rome did Carthage with a distinction wee will saue the Cittic but destroy the Towne a poore man in his house is like a Snayle in his shell crush that and you kill him say therefore with thy selfe my Tennant is a man not a beast were he a beast yet a righteous man is mercifull to his beast a breeding Bird must not haue her nest destroyd a yong kidd must not be sod in his mothers milke what will become of me and mine if I destroy the nest of breeding Christians and having chopt them to the pot Mich. 3.3 seethe old and yong in one anothers blood You Patrones must bee for the common good also preferre many soules to one tenth when you be to choose a Shepheard let the question be that of theirs in the Gospell who is worthy and the decision detur digniori when you present present not a Prometheus sacrifice skin and bone without flesh when you haue presented Zach 5.4 feare Zacharies curse against perjurie and sacriledge if perjurie dwell in the Parsonage and robbery in the Mannor the curse of God will pull downe both Lastly when you haue a Prophet bee you Patrones studie his peace as he doth yours what Law it may be after vowes to enquire I doe not know sure I am Salomon sayth it is destruction destruction of some estates of many soules whilst the nurse wants bread the children want milke so both cry and both are heard and woe be to him that hath a crie of Soules against him Nobles I know not whether they frequent this place or not if so I would entreat them to remember what the Story sayth of some men that they are Medicinable from top to toe Plin. li. 28. c. 3. and such should they be First