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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43672	A sermon preached at the Church of St. Bridget, on Easter-Tuesday, being the first of April, 1684, before the Right Honourable Sir Henry Tulse, Lord Mayor of London, and the Honourable by George Hickes ...	Hickes, George, 1642-1715.	1684 (1684)	Wing H1866; ESTC R12554	22,023	39

Parabolical saying Make ye Friends of the vain transitory Mammon for that is the meaning of the place that when you shall fail they may receive you into Everlasting Habitations So Luke 12.33 Sell that you have and give Alms provide your self Bags which wax not old a Treasure in the Heavens that faileth not where no theif approacheth nor moth corrupteth Nay he hath so espoused the cause of the Poor as to declare that what we do unto Them he will take it as done unto his own Person as it is written Verily I say unto you in as much as ye did it unto one of these my hungry sick and naked Members you did it unto me Hence it comes to pass that we read so much of Collections and Ministring to the Saints in the New Testament when the Rich Christians reserving to themselves only Food and Rayment were therewith content Charity to Men was then the only Test of Love unto God according to what St. John saith He that loveth not his Brother whom he hath seen how can be love God whom he hath not seen and whosoever hath the goods of this World and shutteth up the bowels of his compassion from his Brother whom he sees in need how dwelleth the love of God in him II. Having now shewed that doing of Almes-deeds is a Duty incumbent upon all men that have wherewith to do them I proceed in the Second place to shew That the performance of this Duty is highly acceptable unto God and beneficial unto Men. The first is the very Motive by which the Apostle exhorts us unto Beneficence in my Text To do good and to communicate forget not for with such sacrifices God is well pleased It is plain from hence that God accepts of what we do for the Poor as done unto Himself and that our Almes under the Gospel have the Nature of Offerings and Sacrifices with which God was pleased and rendered propitious under the Law The Apostle expresses the acceptable Nature of Alms-giving yet more Emphatically in Phil. 4.18 where he saith unto them I am full of the good things which I received from you by Epaphroditus as an offering of sweet smelling odour a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing unto God This Phrase of a sweet smelling odour is purely Sacrificial and taken from the Old Testament where God is said to have smelled in the Sacrifices and to have smelled a sweet Savour in the Offerings and Sacrifices which he accepted as in Gen. 18.21 When Noah offered burnt Offerings upon the Altar which he builded after he came out of the Ark the Text saith that the Lord smelled a sweet Savour And in Eph. 5.2 the Apostle in allusion to that place saith that Christ gave himself a Sacrifice an offering to God for a sweet smelling Savour I would not be so misunderstood by this remark as if I thought Alms-giving were an offering of the same Nature and Value as the offering of Christ far be that from me but only to let you see how highly acceptable it must needs be to God when his holy Spirit expresses the acceptable Nature of it by the same Sacrificial term by which he sets forth the acceptance of the Sacrifice of Christ Adn as sweet odours perfume other things and make them delightful to the smell so the sweet odour of our Alms perfumes our very Prayers and makes them more acceptable unto God Prayer saith the Angel unto Tobias is good with Almes and it is better to give Almes than to lay up God and saith the Angel unto Cornelius who gave much Almes unto the People Thy Prayers and thine Almes are come up for a memorial before God And from hence St. Cyprian concludes that our Prayers whether in Deprecations or Petitions * Ostendit orationes nostras ac jejunia minus posse nisi eleemosynis adjuventur deprecationes solas parum ad impetrandum valere nisi factorum operum accessione farciantur Revelat angelus manifestat firmat eleemosynis petitiones nostras efficaces fieri Cypr. de opere eleemosy●is are of little force and efficacy without the joint assistance of Almes I observed before how our Lord looks upon doing of Almes as done unto himself and therefore since the doing of them is so very acceptable to God and opens his Ears unto our Prayers it must needs in the end redound very much to the benefit and advantage of men Thus saith the Lord in Deut. 15. Thou shalt surely give unto thy poor Brother and let not thy heart be grieved when thou givest unto him because that for this thing the Lord shall bless thee in all thy works and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto So saith the Prophet Isaiah If thou draw out thy soul unto the hungry and satisfy the afflicted Soul then shall thy light rise in obscurity and thy darkness be as the noon day and the Lord shall be thy reward and guide thee continually and satisfy thy soul in drought and make fat thy bones and thou shalt be like a watered Garden and like a spring whose waters never fail So saith the Psalmist Blessed is he that considereth the Poor the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble And in the 37th Psalm he confirms this Doctrine by the Observation and Experience of many years I have been young saith he but now am old yet I have never seen the Righteous i. e. the Charitable man forsaken nor his seed begging bread he is ever merciful and lendeth and his Posterity is blessed So Prov. 19.17 He that hath pity upon the Poor lendeth unto the Lord and that which he hath given will he pay him again And in the Third Chapter he saith Honour the Lord with thy substance and with the first Fruits of thine increase so shall thy Barns be filled with plenty and thy Presses shall burst our with new wine To this purpose speaketh Tobit to his Son Tobias in the 4th Ch. Give Alms of thy substance and when thou givest Almes let not thine Eye be envious neither turn thy Face from the Poor and the Face of God shall not be turned away from thee If thou hast abundance give Almes accordingly and if thou hast but a little be not afraid to give of that little for so shalt thou lay up a good Treasure for thy self against the day of necessity So saith our Blessed Lord Lay not up for your selves Treasures upon Earth where moth and rust doth corrupt and where Thieves break through and steal but rather lay up for your selves Treasures in Heaven where neither moth nor rust do corrupt nor can Theives break through and steal By laying up Treasures in Heaven our Lord understands giving of Almes as is plain from his Words to the young man in another place of the same Gospel If thou wilt be perfect go and sell what thou hast and give it to the Poor and thou shalt have Treasure in Heaven In this very Sense it is that the Son of