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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16763	A treatise of christian beneficence, and of that like christian thankefulnese which is due to the same The which, as they are duties of singular account with God, so are they of as necessarie vse to all christians, for the keeping of faith and a good conscience, as are fire and water for common vse and comfort to the naturall life of all men.	Allen, Robert, fl. 1596-1612.	1600 (1600)	STC 367; ESTC S112321	178,520	256

conscience of humane office and dutie which he would haue preserued in the middest of them and such also as he hath vsed for his more holie and honorable instruments for the direction and instigation of his people from time to time to walke not onelie in humanitie but euen in Christian mercie compassion toward their brethren in a holie communion of Saintes before him Not for necessitie of proofe or for power of perswasion as if the holie Scriptures were not alone sufficient to euerie holie vse both of doctrine reprehension comfort and exhortation but that euery one that wil not shut his eyes may more clearely perceiue that he shall stand euery way conuict and condemned before God and in his owne conscience and before the world if he do not mind and practise the duties herein conteined And that especially in more then ordinary hard times such as of late haue continued for sundry yeares together and are like againe to renew vpon vs if we call not the more earnestly vpon God for mercie and if we shall not more vnfeinedly repent of our most grieuous sinnes which haue as it were armed his iustice and kindled his wrath against vs. And in this respect I trust such addition of sentences shall not be vngratefully accepted either of the learned who will take an honest and scholler-like delight in the elegancie of the speech wherein the Authours expresse their graue and weightie meditations of these matters or of the vnlearned for whose sake I will English at the least the more briefe and principall of them And the rather haue I this trust because they will wisely consider that there is more libertie allowable this way in a course of writing then in an vsuall order and custome of preaching and againe because in no other argument may this be to better purpose performed then in that which is presently in hand Excellency of Giuing THE FIRST PART of the Treatise CHAP. 1. What Giuing is IN so much as in this argument of Giuing Receiuing Giuing as was obserued in part before hath the first place in order it being as it were by birth and course of nature before Receiuing but much rather in so much as it is of greatest preheminence and worth in dignitie to the which also belongeth the chiefe fruite and as it were the first-bornes double portion in the blessing according to those words of our Sauiour Christ himselfe which the Apostle Paul would haue very diligently remembred of all Christians in that he sayd It is a blessed thing to giue rather then to receiue Act. 20.35 Reason therefore strongly chalengeth that we begin with Giuing as with the principall and more worthy part of that Prize which now is striuen for And how I pray you should it not be as the Apostle remembreth from the doctrine of our Sauiour Christ that Giuing is a more blessed thing than Receiuing seeing that by how much men of God are more bountifully minded and more liberally handed by so much do they more liuely both in disposition of mind also in practise of Action represent and resemble the likenesse of God himselfe who by no other thing is better manifested and made knowne either for his owne honour and glorie or to our comfort then by the bountie of his goodnesse and mercy in giuing and bestowing his benefites and blessings vpon vs his poore and vnworthy seruants This doubt the Lord himselfe giueth clearely to vnderstand in his holy Scriptures where he hath of purpose most fully reuealed himselfe in that he holdeth forth the light of his mercy to shine out most brightly among the re●● of his most noble diuine vertues as we may perceiue by a few testimonies culled out of many which it shall be good for vs to alleadge before we proceed any further as it were out of so warme a Sun-shine The Prophet Moses telleth vs that at what time it pleased God at his request to proclaime the glorie of his name Exod. chap. 34. verses 6.7 that he vsed more words in number and larger in sence to expresse his mercy then any diuine property els yea then the wrath of his iustice which is there mentioned with it The words of mercy which exceed in number are these Mercifull gratious slowe to anger and aboundant in goodnesse and truth compared with not making the wicked innocent and visiting of iniquitie foure or fiue to two The words which exceed in largenesse of sence are these Reseruing mercy for thousands forgiuing iniquity transgression and sin that is infinit sinnes and all kind of great and grieuous sinnes compared with these words Visiting the inquitie of the fathers vpon the children vpon the childrens children to the third and fourth generation But mark I pray you that I do not lessen or diminish Gods iustice to inlarge his mercie for that were most impious sacrilege seeing both are infinitely perfect aboue all vnequall comparison but I speake as Moses telleth vs that the Lord himself spake cōparing the displeasure or anger of his iustice with the fauor of his mercy in regard of his couenāt made in respect of Christ by whose satisfactiō this wrath of iustice is wōderfully cōtracted yea in respect of the elect made temporall yea is cleane diuerted and abolished For otherwise perfect that is infinite both mercy and iustice meete together in the saluation of the elect God accounting it iust to saue the vniust for Christs sake who is the Lord our righteousnesse But let vs come to some other testimonies wherein God hath in singular maner renoumed his mercie The Lord saith the holy Psalmist is gratious and mercifull slowe to anger and of great mercy The Lord is good to all and his mercies are ouer all his works Psal 145.8.9 And Psalm 136. he repeateth this foote of the song as often as there be verses in the Psalme that is 26 times one after the other For his mercie endureth for euer And he maketh this as the chiefe reason of all his workes yea euen of his most fearefull and heauy iudgements vpon the wicked in the which he propoundeth to himselfe not so much the confusion and destruction of the wicked in his iustice as the benefite of his Church and people to the glory of his grace and mercie as is easie to be seene in the reading of that Psalme According also to that Isaiah 43.4 Because thou wert pretious in my sight wert honorable I loued thee saith the Lord therefore will I giue man for thee and people for thy sake This singular care of the Lord ouer his people is euerie where repeated in the holy Scriptures Read Psalme 9.9 and Psal 10.17 and 18.27 and 34.6 and 40.17 and 113.5 and 146.7.8.9 God will be a refuge to his poore people he will heare them he will saue them he will destroy their enemies c. And for what other causes also doth God at any time aduance any of his seruants from poore estate to high