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The cause of the poor pleaded. By Samuel Richardson.
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Richardson, Samuel, fl. 1643-1658.
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62. 10. and to trust in their wealth Ps. 49. 6. 1 Tim. 6. 17. Ps. 52. 7. The rich mans wealth is his strong City Pro. 10. 15. Riches cause to despise Christ and his poor Saints A man of sorrows acquainted with griefs he is despised and rejected of men We hid as it were our faces from him he was despised we esteemed him not Isa. 53. 3. Yee have despised the poore Jam. 2. 6. The rich oft choose for their companions such as are rich though worldly wicked and covetous whom God abhorreth Psal. 10. 3. See the companions of the Saints Heb. 10. 33. Psal. 119. 36. Rom. 1. 9. The rich will no more be admonished Eccl. 4. 19. Riches cause to erre from the faith 1 Tim. 6. 10. And to deny the faith rather then to suffer and loose all Luk. 18. 28. Riches choake the word and cause it to become unfruitful Mat. 13. 22. Mar. 4. 19. Riches hinder men from receiving and obeying the Gospel Lu. 18. 22 23 24. and hinder many from preaching the Gospel Riches hurt them that keep them Eccl. 5. 13. They hinder believing they have too much sense to have much faith Riches cause men to desire and seek and to receive honour one of another How can ye believe seeing ye receive honour one of another Joh. 5. 44. Riches cause persons to flatter themselves I said in my prosperity I shall never be moved Ps 30. 6. Who shall bring me downe Oâ—â—…e 3. Riches cause others to flatter the rich and to put them upon 〈◊〉 ways of pride and pleasure to please them Ps. 5. 9. Riches cause to deny God Lest I be full and deny thee Pro. 30. 8 9. Riches cause those that have them not to be reproved and so suffer sin upon them Lev. 19. 19. A sore evill they cause men to be wise in their own conceits Pro. 28. 11. and not to visit the poor Saints Mat. 25. 43. Riches cause persons to be idle and to take their ease Am. 6. 1. and to settle upon their lees Jer. 48. 11. Riches cause them less to seek God lesse to serve him and less to mind love and delight in God and in things above Riches cause spiritual deadnesse and coldness in Religion and unwillingness to die Riches and prosperity cause men to be hard-hearted careless and insensible of the wants of others so as not to weep with them that weep Riches cause gluttony intemperance excesse sin diseases sicknesse pain death Riches are a snare into divers temptations into many foolish and hurtfull lusts which drown men into destruction and perdition 1 Tim. 6. 9. Riches greaten mens sin and condemnation Many shall curse the day that ever they had so many thousands and hundreds a year for had they not been so rich they had never commited half so much sin we cannot hold God and riches if ye hold to the one ye despise the other ye cannot serve God and Mammon This rich men will not beileve Lu. 16. 13. They think they may easily well agree and that they may seek and serve both If we were of Agurs mind we would part with riches as freely willingly as ever we received them Solomon did not so much as ask riches God did not like that he should 2 Chron. 8. 11. Good Agur would not have riches therefore he prayeth against them saying give me not riches Pro. 30. 9. It is not a sin to be rich but it is a sin to keep riches when others and the Saints suffer and perish for want of them there is a woe pronounced against the rich though they mind it not regard or consider it not Woe to you that are rich for ye have received your consolation Lu. 6. 24. Dives thou hast received thy good things in this life Luk. 16. 25. Woe to him that ladeth himself with thicke clay Hab. 2. 8. The Lord saith Labour not to be rich Pro. 23. 4. Riches is not ver. 5. Love not the world nor the things of the world If any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him 1 Joh. 2. 15. The love of money is the root of all evill 1 Tim. 6. 10. Riches are externall and appertain nothing to the mind to violence in getting in keeping Strong men retain riches If riches make themselves wings and flye away men intend to fly after them The measure we meet to supply the wants of others is not the same that we measure to our selves they are divers and divers measures are abomination to the Lord Pro. 20. 10. Comfort to all who in obedience to God and for his sake give freely c to supply the wants of others 1. You are like Jesus Christ and his people in so doing 2. You have the prayers of the Saints for you The Lord give mercie to the house of Onisiphorus for he oft refreshed me 2 Tim. 1. 16. 2 Cor. 9. 13 14. Eph. 1. 14 15. Ps. 69. 33. 71. 12. 3. Your bountifulnesse causeth thanksgiving to God many thanksgivings to God 2 Cor. 9. 12 13. 4. All things are clean to you Give almes of such things as yee have and behold all things are clean to you Luk. 11. 41. 5. You are happy He that hath mercy on the poor happy is he Pro 14. 21. and blessed for he giveth his bread to the poor Pro. 22. 9. 6. Your righteousnesse remaineth for ever He hath dispersed abroad he hath given to the poor your righteousness remaineth for ever Psal. 112. 9. 2 Cor. 9. 9. Also the merciful man doth good to his own soul Pro. 11. 7. 7. You shall not want Pro. 28. 27. Job 5. 20. 8. The blessed promises of this life and that to come are for you He that hath a bountifull eye shall be blessed for he hath given of his bread to the poor Pro. 29. 9. Blessed is he that considereth the poor the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble The Lord will preserve keep him alive he shall be blessed upon the earth and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing thou wilt make all his bed in his sicknesse Ps. 41. 1 2 3. Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy Mat. 5. 7. Deale thy bread to the hungry cover the naked Then shall thy light breake forth as the morning and thy health shall bring forth speedily and thy righteousnesse shall goe before thee The glory of the Lord shall be thy rearward then shalt thou call and the Lord shall answer thee thou shalt cry and he shall say here I am Isa. 58. 7 8 9. Give him for this thing the Lord thy God shall blesse thee in all thy workes in all thou puttest thy hand unto Deut. 15. 10. 9. You shall have a great reward If thine enemie hunger give him bread to eate if he be thirsty give him water to drinke and the Lord shall reward thee Pro. 25. 21 22.
do not know him 12. To shew mercy to the poor may be a lengthening of thy tranquility Dan. 4. 27. The mercifull man doth good to his owne soule Pro. 11. 17. 13. We should give because we may come to want our selves Give a portion to 7. and also to 8. for thou knowest not what evill shall come upon the earth Fire may come theeves oppressors sword famine overflowing waters c. may come therfore give for such measure as you meet to others shall be meeasured to you again Make frends by giving to the poor Lu. 16. 9 10. 14. If the clouds be full they empty themselves upon the earth Eccl. 11. 3. the very Indians Heathen wild Irish give freely such food as they have to all comers the very Lions Wolves c. will not devour the prey alone they call their fellows to what they get Will a Lion roare in the forrest when he hath no prey will a Lion cry out in his den if he have taken nothing at all Am. 3. 4. It appears when he hath taken something he cals by roaring and crying to his fellows to come and share in what he hath taken 15. If you omit this duty it will be a sin unto you Deut. 15. 7 8 9 10. Rom. 15. 26. 16. How do we love our neighbor as our selves if we take not care for them as we do for our selves 17. To give is a joy to the Saints We have had great joy and consolation in thy love because the bowels of the Saints are refreshed by thee Phile 7. 18. To give is a means to cause others to do so also Your ministring to the Saints the forwardness of your mind hath provoked very many 2 Cor. 9. 1 2. 19. To give is pleasing to God and man God loveth a cheerfull giver 2 Cor. 9. 7. To do good to communicate forget not for with such sacrifices God is well pleased Heb. 13. 16. An odour of sweet smel a sacrifice acceptable well pleasing to God Phil. 4. 18. It pleased them to give Rom. 16. 26. It pleaseth them that receive it pleaseth all good people that heare of it 20. To give is an honor glory to God He that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor Pro. 14. 31. They glorifie God for their liberall distribution unto them and unto all men 2 Cor. 9. 13. They seeing your good workes glorifie your Father which is in heaven Mat. 5. 16. Mat. 15. 8. Consider the evils and miseries they bring upon themselves who have this worlds good and doe not supply the wants of others 1. They are guilty of all the sorrows sufferings which their not giving hath occasioned consider what account wilt thou be able to give of that estate God hath betrusted thee withal to supply the wants to others whom thou hast neglected and hast and dost consume it upon thy lusts and pleasures ere long it shall be said unto thee Give an account of thy stewardship for thou maist be no longer steward Lu. 16. 22. dost thou think that if some other had the estate thou hast that they could not and would not do more good with it then thou dost many in these our days have had great estates now they have them not one cause is they did not supply the want of others therefore they are taken from them and are in great want themselves 2. So long as we omit our duty herein we cannot enjoy the sweet peace of a good conscience 3. All your religion is vain impure and false Pure religion undefiled before God is to visite the fatherless widow in their affliction Jam. 1. 27. Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry and to bring the poor that are cast out to thy house Isa. 58. 7 8 9. To love mercy Mica 6. 8. 4. It was the sin of Sodome that she did not strengthen the hands of the poor and needy Ezek. 16. 49. And if we commit the same sins may wee not expect to meet with the same punishment fire and brimstone or that which is worse hardness of heart and everlasting punishment Mat. 24. 46. I fear this nation lieth under a curse for this sin though many see it not or consider it not 5. We hurt our selves by keeping that we should give A sore evill I have seen under the sun namely riches kept by the owners thereof to their hurt Eccles. 5. 13. 6. The cry of the poor is against you God heareth their cry and will take their part Ps. 104. 1. Ps. 72. 12. Ps. 69. 13. If the oppressed be silent their oppression doth cry Ps. 12. 5. 7. Ye have not the love of God in you 1 Cor. 3. 17. Pro. 29. 7. Whoso hath this worlds goods seeth his brother in need and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him how dwelleth the love of God in him Whatsoever you or any think or say it is not in you at all 1 Joh. 3. 17. If you did love you would supply the wants of your brethren He that loveth not his brother abideth in death vers. 14. 15. 8. What you have is unclean to you Luk. 11. 41. 9. The Lord will not hear your prayer Whoso steppeth his ears at the cry of the poor he shall cry himself but shall not be heard Pro. 12 13. He hath forsaken the poor Lev. 20. 19. 10. Ye are not subject to the Gospel of Jesus Christ but ye oppose and deny the same 2 Cor. 9. 13 14. Taking vengeance on them that know not God that obey not the Gospel who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord 2 Thes. 1. 8 9. This is your portion for he that is not merciful hath not the spirit of Christ he that hath not the spirit of Christ is none of his Rom. 8 9. 11. You bring the judgment of God upon your selves and upon your posterity Let his days be few his children fatherlesse and his wife a widow let their children be vagabonds and beg their bread let the extortioner catch all that he hath let the stranger spoile his labour let there he none to extend mercy to him neither let there be any to father his fatherlesse children let his posterity be cut off let their name be blotted out Because he remembred not to shew mercy but persecuted the poor Ps. 109 8. to 16. For the oppression of the poor sighing of the needy now will I arise saith the Lord Ps. 12. 5. Because he hath oppressed and forsaken the poor sarely they shall not feele quietness in the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits Job 20. 19. to 25. If I have with-held the poor from his desire or have caused the eyes of the widow to faile or have eaten my morsel my self alone and the fatherless have not eaten thereof If I have seen any perish for want of cloathing if his loyns have not blessed me if he were not warmed with the fleece of my