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A56276 A sermon preach'd at the anniversary meeting of the gentlemen educated at St. Paul's School, at St. Paul's Church, January 25, 1698/9 by John Pulleyn ... Pulleyn, John. 1699 (1699) Wing P4199; ESTC R34562 15,490 36

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Mr. PVLLEYN's SERMON Preach'd before the Gentlemen Educated at St. Paul's SCHOOL AT St. PAUL's Church Jan. 25. 1698 9. A SERMON Preach'd at the Anniversary Meeting OF THE Gentlemen Educated at St. Paul's School AT St. PAUL's Church January 25. 1698 9. Published at the Request of the Stewards By JOHN PULLEYN A. M. And Prebendary of St. PAULS London Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Church-yard 1699. TO THE Worthy Gentlemen THE STEWARDS OF St. Paul 's School Feast Robert Fowle Gent. John Killingworth Esq George Smith Gent. Samuel Lloyd Gent. John Baggs Esq William Bonner Gent. GENTLEMEN THO' this Sermon was preached at your earnest Request yet I could have wished you would have excused me from the Publication of it But since you would not be denyed I should be very well pleased if you share not in the Faults and Imperfections of this Discourse which you have now made your own by espousing the Subject and obliging the Preacher to the Printing of it I have only this to say for my self that your Genorous inclinations to do Good and your present Resolutions to encourage all the Worthy Gentlemen who were educated at St. PAUL's School to lay a new Foundation of Charity for that Place led me to the Subject of this ensuing Discourse And I hope this will be one Consequent of it that this beginning of your Charity will annually be emproved by all those who bear any Relation or Love to the Place of their Education And I do not question but succeeding Years may raise a noble Superstructure of Charity from this Ground-work you have so happily laid for the Honour of our School and for the Encouragement of all Arts and Learning May all your excellent Designs prosper your Christian Charity in General flourish may you bring Honour to our Establish'd Church and Kingdom whereof you are Worthy Members and may you never want a Blessing and Success in all your particular Stations and Empolyments which is the hearty Wish of GENTLEMEN Your most Sincere and Humble Servant John Pulleyn ACTS XX. ver 35. latter part It is more blessed to Give than to Receive JOY and Pleasure being the Bright side of human Life it never touches the Heart and the Affections with a greater satisfaction than when it arises from the Consideration of those many Blessings and Advantages which result from Societies and Combinations of Men And therefore it is not only a delightful Prospect to me but I presume likewise to every one here present to behold the Lustre of this Solemn Day the Design of which is so excellent and commendable and all the Circumstances of it so harmonious and beautiful What can be more grateful and ravishing than to see the Children of one fruitful School the Offspring of a Pious Learned and Religious Founder to see them so well united to pay their sincere Gratitude and Honour to the Place of their Education in the face of the World And especially to see them begin this their Gratitude with a dutiful acknowledgment to the great God of Heaven and Earth in whom all that is now expected and desired of us This Day ought to terminate I was glad said the Royal Prophet when Psa 122. 1. they said unto me Let us go into the house of the Lord glad to see that thither the Tribes go up to give thanks unto the Name of the Lord. And now Worthy School-Fellows by whatever Titles you may be dignified above or distinguished from one another since you have met together on this Day and in this most Holy Place which the Church hath set apart to commemorate the great Apostle St. Paul to render Thanks for that Blessing of our Education in that School which so worthily bears that Name and which ought likewise ever to put us in mind of those Benefits and Advantages we have received from thence I hope this Religious beginning of our appearance this Day will give a happy and a successful Influence upon the following part of your Solemnity especially seeing you are resolved to retrieve in some measure the primitive Feast of Charity which is in truth the chief and most laudable Design of these and other the like Anniversary Meetings A Design so noble and generous in it self so beneficial to others so becoming Men and so truly Christian that as it formerly obtained amongst us and met with good Encouragement so I hope upon the revival of this Feast it will now be carried on and cherished and supported both by the Approbation and Contributions of all pious and well-meaning Persons And therefore in regard all the Benefits and Advantages of a Free and an Ingenuous Education was the last Year excellently and fully in this Place and upon the same Occasion declar'd unto you I shall wave that Argument of Discourse and at present only entertain you with what is as suitable and proper to all the Purposes of our present Meeting as will appear from the Consideration of these Words of our blessed Saviour here cited by St. Paul It is more blessed to give than to receive These Words of the Holy Jesus are not recorded by any of the Evangelists the Gospel of St. John and probably that of St. Mark being not written when St. Paul cited them He must therefore either receive them as an Oral Tradition from the Apostles or some first-hand Witnesses or else from him who gave him the first Instruction of his Office and communicated the Gospel to him which he declared he did not receive it from Men but was taught it by the Gal. 1. 12. Revelation of Jesus Christ But notwithstanding the first conveyers of this remarkable Sentence are uncertain yet the Author of them is unquestionable the Apostle plainly affirming that they were spoken by our blessed Saviour Remember the Words of the Lord Jesus how he said It is more blessed c. Which Words are to be expounded according to the measure and limitation of other Proverbial Sentences in Scripture not as if they would hold in that full latitude which Grammar and the sound of Words will allow The Meaning only is that the Nature of Things is usually such that generally speaking It is more blessed to give than to receive Generally speaking I say upon a due ballance of Circumstances and a supposal of right Qualifications For otherwise if He that dispenses his Charity doth it out of a Principle of Interest or Vain-glory to gain a Reputation or strengthen a Faction If he do it to encroach upon the just Liberties of the Person obliged to upbraid him with his Necessities to betray him into sinful Compliances and to make him absolutely obnoxious to his Humour and Inclination a grateful Acknowledger and benevolent Receiver is much to be preferred before such a Donor as this such scandalous Reserves as these are enough to take off the Value and null the Obligation of the largest proportion of Alms and Liberality If a Man should give away a Kingdom