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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63243	The duty of a Christian towards his neighbour considered in a sermon peached upon occasion of the Huntingdonshire feast at St. Swithin's Church, London, the 24th of June, being the Feast of St. J. Baptist / by Charles Trimnell.	Trimnell, Charles, 1663-1723.	1697 (1697)	Wing T2280; ESTC R25663	9,487	32

also will freely be shewn as what Men with reason hope for themselves when they stand in need of it kind Admonitions will be given to those whose slackness requires them and all the mildness be shewn in punishing particular Persons that is not cruel to more We shall forewarn others of any danger we see them incurring and do what we can to deliver them from it We shall relieve the poor as far as our own occasions without extending will fairly allow and lend all that Assistance they lack and which we have to give In this mutual supply of each others wants none can fall into or at least not lye very long in any grievous distress for God has made sufficient provision for mankind in general who cannot therefore suffer much unless from themselves which will be so far from hapning if all extend the pity which at some time they ask that by every Man 's putting his hand to the Plow every Man's Yoke will be easy and every Man's Burden be light there will be no leading into Captivity nor will any Complaints be heard in our Streets If any shou'd notwithstanding their honest intention to walk by this Rule yet fail so much of it as to incurr punishment for offending against any part of it their design to regard it will soon convince them of their having done ill upon trying their Actions by it and make them patiently bear what their faults have deserved without conceiving ill will against those whose duty it was to take cognizance of them so that either there will be no occasion for the Administrations of justice by way of Correction or Men will be quietly mended upon them And thus the words of the Saint of this Day will have another fullfilling Every Valley will be Exalted and every Mountain and Hill will be brought low the crooked will be made strait and the rough places plain Happy are the people that are in such a case yea Blessed are the People who have this Law for their Guide How ought we then to strive for this happy Estate How should we labour to partake of this Rest which is to be had on this side the Grave thro' that effect this practice will have upon the Course of the World And tho' it shou'd not prevail on so many as to give it self an Universal extent yet they who maintain it are sure to avoid that self Condemnation that cannot be parted from acting against it and must always have better grounded and livelier hopes of meeting with all that is equal and kind at other Mens hands But whither it immediately brings this advantage or no or how much harder measure soever we find than our dealings deserve we must not alter our Course nor learn frowardness from those that are froward it is a great instance both of the Wisdom and Goodness of God that he has given us such Laws of living together as make to our present advantage but we are not therefore at liberty to set them aside if we do not find them immediately turn to account for it has pleased God to establish them so as to make it the interest of all to observe them under any sort of discouragement here by providing a further reward for all that obey them than can be hoped from the State of this World and a greater punishment for those that transgress than that can inflict And well is it for us that such a Provision is made without which our own observation wou'd hardly let us expect those Blessed Fruits which yet we cannot but see wou'd grow on this excellent ground upon which let us therefore proceed in whatever we do and always be ready to pay this debt of our Natures that the common stock may be thereby improv'd to the profit of others and tho' out of this we shou'd not have here the greatest and quickest returns yet the measure with which we have meeted will be made up at the last and our Cup will be full Let this prevail with us to go on in well doing and abound in good works of which in due Season if we faint not we shall reap the advantage Let us of this Assembly especially to whom the Place of our Birth does in somewhat a more peculiar manner seem to assign a common concern give proof of our coming together for the Honour of God and the advancement of all Sociall vertues by persuing these ends in all our Communications with Men let us bind this Law of our Gracious Redeemer and Lord of us all round about our necks and write it upon the Table of our Hearts that it may be the Ornament and Guard of our lives and let it be our particular Guide in what relates to the present Solemnity that there may be no spots in our feasts of Charity but that others may be invited by our Friendly and Christian Conduct to use the same means of promoting Compassion and Peace and whatever else belongs to the part of Brotherly Love Let Good will amongst us help to the better agreement of our Country in General and our particular kind Combinations add to the Peace of the Church and strength of the state so shall no heaviness come at the end of our mirth but this Days satisfactions will make way for higher Contentments and carry us on with the more Pleasure to the fillling up of our Joy Which God of his infinite mercy grant for the sake of his Son Christ Jesus to whom with the Father in the Vnity of the Spirit be all Glory and Honour now and for ever Amen FINIS