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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	faith_n	love_v	work_v	9,252	5	7.8701	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62613	A sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, the aldermen, and governours of the several hospitals of the city of London, at St. Bridget's Church on Easter-Monday, 1700 by ... William, Lord Bishop of Oxford.	Talbot, William, 1658 or 9-1730.	1700 (1700)	Wing T125; ESTC R23464	21,314	34

Liberty of a free Agent and would have made his Faith to have been no Virtue And what then can he expect but that since he would not be convinced by the great Moral Evidence that was tender'd to him of the truth of the Doctrines of the Gospel he should feel a sensible and experimental conviction of the truth and reality of the Threats of it Fourthly It now only remains that I shut up all with one Word of Practical application If he that does not believe the Gospel has no cloke for his Infidelity what cloke can we that do believe it but not obey it have for our disobedience What does it profit if a Man say he has Faith and has not Works will Faith save him a dead Faith without any Vital acts flowing from it No our Master has told us 't is to no purpose to call him Lord Lord to give up our names to him and profess our selves his Disciples unless we do the things which he commands us And this command we have very particularly in charge from him that he that loves God loves his Brother also Vain is that Faith that doth not work by love and false that pretended love to God that is not attended with a love to our Brother The Christian institution is singular in the injunction of Charity No other institution ever understood it in so comprehensive a meaning both as to the objects and exercise of it ever commanded it so strictly persuaded so Pathetically or proposed such glorious rewards to it The objects of Christian Charity are as large as all Mankind not only Relations and Friends but Strangers and Enemies The Exercise of it is to reach as far as our Brethrens wants and our own Abilities will go even to the laying down of our lives upon some Occasions for them The Commands that enjoin it are most frequent and emphatical in this Chapter verse 12. This is my Commandment says our Lord that ye love one another and v. 17. These things I command you that ye love one another and in 13 cap. v. 34. A new commandment give I unto you and that such as shall be the distinguishing Badge of your Profession by which all Men shall know that you are my Disciples that you have love one to another The Considerations by which this is pressed upon us are most moving viz. the Infinite love of Christ to us who will look upon the kindness we shew to our poor Brethren as done to himself the near Relation we stand in to one another not only as being made of one Flesh but as having been Baptized into one Body and so more strictly ally'd as being members of the same mystical Body which ought to have the same Sympathy and Fellow feeling with one another as the members of the Body Natural have The excellency of this Grace in that 't is preferable to Faith and Hope the very bond of perfectness the fulfilling of the Law and that it shall cover a multitude of Sins Lastly The Eternal Glories of Heaven are promised to the due performance of it St. Matt. 25. where our Saviour and Judge describes the procedure of the last Judgment as if the only thing he should then come to enquire into were our Obedience or Disobedience to this Royal Law In short Charity is so Essential to Christianity that an irrational Man is not a greater Contradiction than an uncharitable Christian The first Christians were so sensible of this that they would scarce call ought of the things they possess'd their own They thought their Poor Brethren had as good a Title to what they could spare as they themselves had to the rest of their Estates and they so ordered matters that those who had a great deal and those who had nothing were like the Israelites that gathered much or little Manna the former had nothing over and the latter had no lack Indeed there never was any Society of Christians that did not think they ought to distinguish themselves from Persons of any other Denomination by abounding in this Grace Even the worst Society that of Rome is not deficient in the exercise of it towards the Bodies of those of their own Communion tho' 't is to be fear'd the merit of that Charity will be over-ballanced by their want of it towards both the Bodies and Souls of those that differ from them But I need not take occasion by the forwardness of Papists to prove the sincerity of your Love since we have in this City so many Noble instances of Publick Charities since the Reformation to provoke your Emulation Some of which when I reflect upon methinks I see some faint resemblances such as Poor imperfect Creatures can make of the Lord himself going about doing good See him expressing his tenderness to little Children in that Pious care that is taken of Poor Orphans in the Hospital that bears his Name See him restoring use of Limbs to the Lame sight to the Blind healing the maim'd and curing all manner of Diseases in that variety of Charitable Cures that are perform'd in the Hospitals of St. Bartholomew and St. Thomas See him making a Whip of small Cords and scourging the transgressors in those Just Corrections that are exercised upon the vicious in Bridewel See him restoring the Lunaticks to their right Minds in those excellent methods that are used with Poor distracted Wretches in Bethlem But I shall possess you with a Juster notion of these Great Charities by reading to you The true report c. You see here at once both noble examples of Charity to excite your imitation and very worthy and pressing occasions for the exercise of it Will you Pardon me if I mention one other kind of Charity the bare naming of which will I think be sufficient to recommend it to the encouragement of all well-disposed Persons I mean building Work-Houses and providing a stock to set the Poor to Work I mention this with the more assurance because I find it is a way you are going into and have already made some progress in it And were it carryed on with unanimity and resolution to bring it to perfection and managed as I am confident it will be in this City with Care and Prudence and a single Eye to the publick good 't would certainly turn to a very excellent account 'T would not only be a great Charity to the Poor to their Souls as well as Bodies to keep them from Begging and Thieving and put them in an honest way of getting their living but to employ those that are now the burdens and pests of the Kingdom in Working up our Manufactures would be a Publick Benefaction And now my Brethren since Charity is so Special and Eminent a Duty of that Religion which our Lord taught and confirm'd to us since all his true Followers have ever lookt upon and practised it as the distinguishing Character of their Profession let us having such glorious Patterns before our Eyes to encourage us and