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master_n	foot_n	lord_n	wash_v	4,431	5	10.4086	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31078	Of the love of God and our neighbour, in several sermons : the third volume by Isaac Barrow ...	Barrow, Isaac, 1630-1677.	1680 (1680)	Wing B949; ESTC R12875	133,534	328

onely obedience to God enforceth them but charity disposeth them gladly to serve us who are so much their inferiours the same charity which produceth joy in them at the conversion of a sinner This made the Son of God to descend from heaven and lay aside that glory which he had with God before the world was this made him who was so rich to become poor that we by his poverty might be enriched this made him converse and demean himself among his servants as he that ministred this made him to wash his Disciples feet thereby designing instructively to exemplifie the duty and nature of Charity for If said he I your Lord and Master have washed your feet then ye also ought to wash one anothers feet for I have given you an example that ye should do as I have done to you This maketh God himself the high and lofty one that inhabiteth eternity to condescend so far as to be continually employed in carefully watching over in providing for in protecting and assisting us vile and wretched worms for though he dwelleth on high yet humbleth he himself to behold the things that are in heaven and earth This maketh him with so much pain and patience to support our infirmities to bear with our offences to wait for our conversion according to that Protestation in the Prophet Thou hast made me to serve with thy sins thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities In conformity to this wonderfull practice whose actions are the best rules and patterns of our deportment charity should dispose us according to Saint Paul's practice by love to serve one another Indeed it will not suffer any man to look down on another with supercilious contempt or neglect as if he were unworthy or beneath our regard It will incline superiours to look on their inferiours their subjects their servants their meanest and poorest neighbours not as beasts or as slaves but as men as brethren as descending from the same stock as partakers of the common nature and reason as those who have obtained the like precious faith as heirs of the same precious promises and glorious hopes as their equals in the best things and in all considerable advantages equals in God's sight and according to our Lord's intent when he said One is your Master even Christ and all ye are brethren according to Saint Paul's exhortation to Philemon that he would receive Onesimus not now as a servant but above a servant a brother beloved in the Lord. Accordingly charity will dispose men of rank in their behaviour to be condescensive lowly meek courteous obliging and helpfull to those who in humane eye or in worldly state are most below them remembring that ordinance of our Lord charged on all his Disciples and enforced by his own pattern He that is greatest among you let him be your servant Love indeed is the great Leveller which in a manner setteth all things on even ground and reduceth to a just poise which bringeth down heaven to earth and raiseth up earth to heaven which inclineth the highest to wait upon the lowest which ingageth the strength of the mightiest to help the weakest and the wealth of the richest to supply the poorest 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that there may be an equality that no where there may be an useless abundance or a helpless indigence XII Charity doth regulate our dealing our deportment our conversation toward our neighbour implying good usage and fair treatment of him on all occasions for no man doth handle that which he loveth rudely or roughly so as to endanger the loss the detriment the hurt or offence thereof Wherefore the language of charity is soft and sweet not wounding the heart not grating on the ear of any with whom a man converseth like the language of which the Wise man saith The words of the pure are pleasant words such as are sweet to the soul and health to the bones and The words of a wise mans mouth are gracious such as our Lords were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 words of grace such as the Apostle speaketh of Let your speech be always 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with grace such as may give grace to the hearers being entertained not with aversation but with favourable acceptance It s carriage is gentle courteous benign bearing in it marks of affection and kind respect Its dealing is equal moderate fair yielding no occasion of disgust or complaint not catching at or taking advantages not meting hard measure It doth not foster any bad passion or humour which may embitter or sour conversation so that it rendreth a man continually good company If a man be harsh or surly in his discourse rugged or rude in his demeanour hard and rigorous in his dealing it is a certain argument of his defect in charity for that calmeth and sweetneth the mind it quasheth keen fierce and boisterous passions it discardeth those conceits and those humours from whence such practice doth issue Charity saith Saint Paul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 behaveth not it self unhandsomely is not untoward unseemly uncivil or clownish in word or in carriage or in deed It is in truth the most civilizing and most polishing disposition that can be Nothing doth render a man so compleatly Gentile not in an affected or artificial way consisting in certain postures or motions of body dopping cringing c. in forms of expression or modish addresses which men learn like Parrots and vent by rote usually not meaning any thing by them often with them disguising fraud and rancour but in a real and natural manner suggested by good judgment and hearty affection A charitable man may perhaps not be guilty of courtship or may be unpractised in the modes of address but he will not be deficient in the substance of paying every man proper and due respect this indeed is true courtesie grounded on reason and proceeding from the heart which therefore is far more genuine more solid more steady than that which is built on fashion and issueth from affectation the which indeed onely doth ape or counterfeit the deportment of charity for what a charitable man truly is that a gallant would seem to be Such are the properties of Charity There be also further many particular Acts which have a very close alliance to it being ever coherent with it or springing from it which are recommended to us by precepts in the holy Scripture the which it will be convenient to mention 1. It is a proper act of Charity to forbear anger upon provocation or to repress its motions to resent injuries and discourtesies either not at all or very calmly and mildly for Charity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is not easily provoked Charity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 suffereth long and is kind Charity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth endure all things Anger is a violent insurrection of the mind