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A89257	The crying sin of England, of not caring for the poor. Wherein inclosure, viz. such as doth unpeople townes, and uncorn fields, is arraigned, convicted, and condemned by the Word of God. Being the chief heads of two sermons, preached at the lecture at Lutterworth in Leicester-shire in May last, and now published in love to Christ, his country, and the poor. By John Moore, minister of Knaptoft in Liecester-shire.	Moore, John, 1595?-1657.	1653 (1653)	Wing M2558; Thomason E713_7; ESTC R207160	18,309	34

thy sins by righteousness and thine iniquity by shewing mercy to the poor if it may be a lengthning of thy tranquillity c. Vse 1 Seeing then the evils of not caring for the poor are so many and so great the first Use may be an use of terrour which through the grace of God to us given may break our hard hearts into shivers Is the to make us open hearted and open handed to the poor c. Here let us take Notice that it was a reprobate Judas that cared not for the poor who is gone to his own place Acts 1.25 which is the place to which all misers and churles must go Mat. 25.41 42 43. Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels For I was an hungred and you gave me 〈◊〉 meat c. Observe here Fire prepared It is the proper peculiar place of such as care not for the poor For James 2.13 He shall have judgment without mercy that hath shewed no mercy Christ hath prepared another place for a charitable heart Matth. 25.34 Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdome prepared for you before the foundation of the World For I was a hungred and you gave me meat c. For blessed are the merciciful for they shall obtain mercy Matth. 5.7 Far be it from men to think that charity merits a place in heaven But we must walk in love Ephesians 5.2 Which is the Gospel way to Heaven Christ gives them a giving and forgiving spirit whom he will forgive and to whom he will give the Kingdome of Heaven When once we are born again and are the children of the Most High by grace and adoption we grow like unto our Heavenly Father in every holy quality though not in equality especially in this We are merciful as our Father in Heaven is merciful and when we are once called into the State of grace we have this evidence of our election Col. 3.12 We put on as the elect of God holy and beloved bowels of mercy kindness c. and vers 14. above all things we put on charity which is the bond of prefectness They love much who have had many sins forgiven them Luke 7.47 c. Here remember we again that it is a damned Dives that cared not for a poor Lazarus and that it was one of those cryings sins that brought fire and brimstone upon Sodom and Gomorrha even this the not strengthening of the hands of the poor and needy If it be so then that so great terrours and torments remain for them that relieve not the poor what will become of them then that oppress the poor and the needy and take away that little that they have what will be the end of all those former recited Make-beggers if they be a cursed people if fire prepared fire everlasting fire with the Devil and his Angels be their portion that do not give bread drink clothing to the hungry thirsty naked into what fire shall they be cast what torments shall they have what great condemnation remains for them that rob the poor of all these that generation I have named so often takes away all from them who have the least Mich. 3.2 They pull off their skin from off them and their flesh from off their bones To rob a man of his clothes leave him naked is cruelty to pul off a mans skin is more then inhumanity and yet there is a degree further they take not only skin but flesh too These who are very poor may be said to have nothing but skin upon them yet these cruel oppressours will have that too I will speak one word to them that will by Law suits undoe their honest neighbours that will not consent to such unjust Inclosures Me thinks the controversie betwixt them and their neighbours is just like that betwixt the Wolf and the Sheep The Sheep tels the Wolf he hath no just reason to contend with them for they have the juster cause It s true saith the Wolf but I have the longer teeth But let such hear their doom Prov 22.22 23. Rob not the poor because they are poor neither oppress the afflicted in judgment For the Lord will plead their cause and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them Use 2 The second Use shall be of counsel 1 to Ministers 2 to Magistrates 1. To Ministers what to preach what to practice They must preach up this duty of caring for the poor So Timothy is advised by the Apostle and in him all other Ministers in that of 1 Timothy 6.17 18 19. We must charge them that are rich in the world that they be not high minded nor trust in uncertain riches but in the living God who giveth us richly all things to enjoy That they do good that they be rich in good works ready to distribute willing to communicate laying up unto themselves a sure foundation against the time to come that they may lay hold on eternal life Ministers must not only preach but also practise this duty of Charity How doth Jesus Christ admonish his Disciples to beware of covetousness and to bee of a giving spirit c. The Apostle 1 Tim. 2. 2 3. tells us a Minister must be given to hospitality Although he must not live of Almes yet he must give Almes of what he hath Luke 12.33 Ministers without this gift of Charity are but as sounding brass and tinkling Cymbals 1 Cor. 13.1 Even like the Bels in the Steeple that call others to Church but never come themselves these may call others to heaven but shall never enter in themselves 2 My consel to Magistrates shall be that of the Lord to his own people Zech. 7.9.10 Thus speaketh the Lord saying Execute true Judgment and shew Mercies and compassions every man to his neighbor and oppress not the widow nor the fatherless the stranger nor the poor c. Such a good Magistrate was Josiah and so it was well with him and his people too Jerem. 22.15 16. Did not thy father eat and drink and do judgment and justice and then it was well with him He judged the cause of the poor and needy and then it was well with him Was not this to know me saith the Lord c. I shall propose Gods servant Job a pattern for Magistrates Job 29.12 13 14 15. I delivered the poor that cryed the fatherless and him that had none to help him The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me and I caused the widows heart to sing for joy I put on Righteousness and it cloathed me my judgment was a Robe and a Diadem I was eyes to the blind and feet was I to the lame I was a father to the poor and the cause which I knew not I searched out and I brake the jawes of the wicked and plucked the spoil out of his teeth Thus it is at once the Honour and Duty of those who are in Power to relieve the poor and needy and to rid them out of the hands of the Oppressours The not hearing of the poor the not relieving and helping them the not supplying their wants the not redressing their injuries by those who have power to do all these for them is their renewing and perpetuating their misery upon them and therefore that Magistrates Ministers and every one according to their several places and abilities in love to Christ Jesus and in tenderness of bowels to the M●●●●ers of Christ and their own flesh may perform this duty of caring for the poor I shall conclude all with an Use of Exhortation Use 3 The Exhortation shall be that of the Apostle Heb. 13.16 To do good and to communicate forget ●●t for with such Sacrifice God is well pleased Forget not that is remember to do good and to communicate yea so remember it as thou wouldest have Christ remember thee to do thee good and communicate unto thee the Treasures of his free Grace and riches of his mercies in the day of Tryal trouble and distress in the hour of death and in the day of Judgement For saith he these are Sacrifices which do not only please but well please God and Christ The Fathers called that which we give to the poor Pecunia trajectitia that is money returned by Bill of Exchange As they that travel into other Countries do not take their money with them for fear of robbing or other miscarriage but they pay it here and have a Bill of Exchange to receive it beyond the Seas in the Country to which they intend their journey So whatsoever we give to the poor we give to men but Christ repayes it We give it away in earth but we meet it in Heaven we cast it a way in this world but find it in the world to come To this purpose Solomon speaks Prov. 11.24 25. There is that scattereth and yet increaseth and there is that with-holdeth more then is meet but it tendeth to poverty The liberal soul shall be made fat and he that watereth shall also be watered himself The Apostle compares Charity to seed sown now no seed no crop and the more seed the better crop for saith he 2 Cor. 2.6 He that soweth sparingly shall reap sparingly and he that soweth bountifully shal reap bountifully And take we all the Apostles advice concerning charitie as it follows in the next verse Every man according as he purposeth in his heart so let him give not grudgingly or of necessity for God loveth a cheerful giver Now he that administers seed to the Sower and soweth the seed of all Grace in your hearts make you to abound in this Grace also 2 Cor. 8. 7. And my prayer shall be for you 1 Thes 3. 12. The Lord make you to increase and abound in love one towards another and towards all men FINIS

hungry thirsty stranger naked sick imprisoned c. the poor are such as are destitue of substance of friends of health of help of limbs of house of harbour the widow and fatherless c. I but there are so many wicked poor It s true there are good poor and wicked poor Gods poor and the Divels poor the Divels poor are those whom their own idleness ill husbandry lewdness or looseness of life hath made poor or such as are as poor in goodness as in goods in grace as in purse Gods poor are those whom Divine providence hath made poor both for the tryal of their patience and our charity These though they are poor in this World yet they are rich in faith For answer then the Spirt of God teacheth us to distinguish of poor but to leave no poor out of our care Galat. 6. 10. Let us do good unto all men especially unto them who are of the houshold of Faith We must take care of all but especially before all others and above al others of those who are of the houshold of Faith So then we must take care of the wicked poor as they are our own flesh Isaiah 58.7 To deal thy bread to the hungry and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house when thou seest the naked that thou cover him and that thou hide not thy self from thy own flesh We must take care for them then as they are our naturall kindred as they are men and women and not be cruel to our own flesh but nourish it and cherish it Ephes 5.26 There is nothing of humanity nothing of man in that person that hath not bowels to preserve mankind from perishing Solomon tels us Proverbs 22. 2 The rich and the poor meet together the Lord is maker of them all the Lord made them both and the Lord made them both to live together Matth. 26. 11. and therefore to live together that the rich might help the poor Deut. 15. 11. and the Lord did not only make them as men but as rich men and poor men and he that made thee rich and him poor might have made thee poor and him rich And therefore we must do good unto all c. especially to the faithful The faithful are of our spiritual kindred born of the same spirit The nearness and dearness of the Saints one to another will appear in their oneness For as there is oneness betwixt Christ and Christians so betwixt Christians and Christians Ephes 4.4.5.6 There is one body and one spirit even as we are called in one hope of your calling one Lord one Faith one Baptisme one God and Father of all c. All the household of the faithful are all one One body even fellow members of that mystical body whereof Jesus Christ is the head one Spirit all of them enlivened and enlightned by the same Spirit One hope of the common Salvation of Jesus Jude 3. One Lord in the head one Faith in the heart one Baptisme in the face and profession One God and Father of all even the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead 1 Peter 1.1.3 The faithful are all children of the same Father and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him that is begotten 1 John 5.1 We are called to an especial care of the faithful because children of our Heavenly Father because fellow-members of our Lord Jesus because we are all one in Christ Jesus Galat. 3. 28. As we must provide for our own especially those of our own house 1 Tim. 5. 8. So must we do good unto all especially them that are of the houshold of Faith Oh let us put these poor into our bosomes let these poor lie next to God our Father in our hearts and next to Jesus Christ in our neerest and dearest affections because they are Gods and because they are Christs Here be that hath two coats let him impart to him that hath none and he that hath meat let him do likewise Luke 3. 11. Woe be to him that hath such good poor neighbours and can eat his morsels alone and shall not warm them with the fleece of his Sheep Job 31. ver 17 to the 24. A Christian indeed cannot but take care of Gods familie as well as of his own family of Gods children as well of his own children of Gods servants as well as his own servants here is the difference indeed Charity begins at home but it doth not tarry at home But must we give to Beggers Questionlesse we must 1 It s Christs precept Matth. 5.24 Give to him that asketh thee c. Secondly Christ heals a Begger and never reproves him for begging Joh. 9.8 Thirdly good Lazarus was a Begger at the rich mans gate and he is in hell that denyed him the crumbs or scraps that fell from his Table that was left after meals But David speaks Psal 37.25 I have been young and now am old yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread as though there were no good Beggers David here speaks out of his own experience A good King he was in Israel to see put in execution Gods commands for the care of the poor and to keep them himself Deut. 15.9.10.11 that there might be no Begger in Israel A true hearted Israelite is merciful as his Father in Heaven is merciful and is ready to give where he knows there is need before they ask especially to the Saints and the seed of the Saints Oh these melt them all into bowels I do not here plead for Beggers For it is the shame of a well governed Common Wealth to suffer so many idle Beggers and Rogues and Vagrants to wander up and down out of a calling It is a greater shame for any Christian Society City or Town then to take no more care for the poor then that they be forced to begge But how great a shame is it for a Gospel Magistracie not to suppresse Make-beggers which make such swarms of Beggers in Countries Cities and Towns And here I cannot but cry aloud and spare not and lift up my voice like a Trumpet and tell these Make-beggers their sins and these greedy Gripes their transgressions that care not how many Beggers they make so themselves may be Gentlemen nor how many poor they make so themselves may be rich I mean the unsociable covetous cruel broode of those wretches that by their Inclosure do unpeople Towns and uncorn fields who fall under the Prophets woe Isaiah 5.8 that joyn house to house and field to field till there be no place that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth and be rid of all the poor Although Jesus Christ saith Joh. 12. 8. The poor you have alwayes with you I wish I could cry so loud in their ears that I could awake their