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spirit_n	flesh_n	reap_v	sow_v	14,782	5	11.5940	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

churle and a Misers name will hardly be found in the Book of Life This is a sweet evidence of such as have a true Call into the state of Grace 1 John 3.14 We know we have passed from death to life because we love the brethren This is not the cause of our passing from death to life but the cause of our knowledg thereof and a true mark wherby we know it and he that loveth not his brother abideth in death that is hath no evidence that he hath the life of the Spirit and the life of Christ in him Arg. 2 Secondly Such have nothing of a Gospel spirit in them for a Gospel spirit is a giving and forgiving Matth. 5. 42. 19.21 5.44 45 spirit giving to the poor forgiving our enemies A Gospel spirit is a self-denying spirit Matth. 16.24 They look not every man at his own things but every man also at the things of others Phil. 2.4 The care of their own Family doth not shoulder out Gods Family A Gospel spirit will be as careful for to put somewhat into Christs Treasury as into his own Treasury so far is he from robbing Christs Treasury the poor to fill his own Al th●ngs that the Saints have are communicative both Spirituals and Temporals and they know that their Heavenly Father hath made them Stewards and hath not given them all their good things for themselves alone but for others also so they are exhorted Heb. 13.16 To do good and to communicate forget not for with such sacrifice God is well pleased That speech savours of Heathenism and not of a Gospel spirit We may do what we list with our own Art thou Rich hear thy charge from Heaven what thou must do with thy Riches 1 Tim 6.17 18 19. Charge them that are rich in this world that they be not high minded 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 There is a twofold use of our Estates First A Natural use as to provide for our selves wives children families this use every worldly man and that churlish Nabal for fo he is stiled 1 Sam. 25.3 knew well enough for saith he ver 11 Shall I take my bread and my water and my flesh he is all in the Positive my my my that I have killed for my Sheerers and give it unto men c. He was all selfish This is sowing to the flesh and he that sowes to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption Such mens Charity begins at home and keeps at home too 2 There is a Spiritual use of our Estates to relieve Christs Members if good poor and our own flesh if evil poor which stand in need of our help and this is a sowing to the Spirit and they that sow to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting Thirdly They that care not for the poor are full of distrust that God wil not make his word good when as God hath said Prov. 28.27 He that giveth to the poor shall not lack And Luke 6. 38. Give and it shall be given unto you good measure pressed down and shaken together and running over They will not take Gods word you can never make a worldly man believe but that he shall lack what he gives to the poor Never tell an earthly minded man of full measure and running over he believes he shall have the less for what he gives away the reason is he lives by sense and not by faith and he cannot trust God over all Fourthly They may call God Father but they are never a whit like unto their Heavenly Father who is the Father of mercies and God of all Consolation 2 Cor. 1.3 They are not merciful as their Father in Heaven is merciful Luke 6. 36. They are the Divels children and none of Gods that care not for the poor 1 Joh. 3.10 In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the divel whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God neither he that loveth not his brother Fifthly Such as care not for the poor are worldlings covetous persons if a man may be justly called a Covetous a worldly man he is of the worst of men such are Spiritual Idolaters Ephes 5.5 Adulterers Jam. 4.4 God abhors them Psal 10.3 and they shall never go to Heaven 1 Cor. 6. 10. These Worldlings are the unprofitable burdens of the earth in whom there is no Charity Liberality Hospitality nor Humanity such are greedy gripes which by their inclosure would have no poor to live with them nor by them but delight to converse with Beasts and to this purpose turne Corne into Grasse and men into Beasts Sixthly Not to care for the poor argues not love to God nor love to Christ 1 Joh. 3. 17. He that hath the worlds good and seeth his brother hath need and shutteth up his bowels of compassion how dwells the love of God in him The question is put here to put it out of Question that such do not love God It s no great matter what such profess and talk of the love of God truth is that they of all the rest in the world have no love to God For he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen 1 John 4.20 They have no love to Christ for Christ will censure of our love to him at the day of Judgment by that love we shew unto his Members the poor upon the earth Matth. 25. And there all flesh shall be proceeded against Secundum probata alligata and this shall be just and good proof In as much as you did it not to one of the least of these ye d●d ●t not to me by these little ones is not meant little in statute like Zacheus but little in estate little in esteem As Christ said Matth. 18.10 Despise not one of these little ones for in heaven their Angels do alwayes behold the face of my Father which is in Heaven so take care of one of these little ones for their Angels c. Arg. 7 7. Such as care not for the poor have no hopes that God will hear their prayers and grant their requests In prayer we expect our wants to be supplyed from free grace and rich mercy Now Christ tells us who they are that shall get mercy Matth. 5.7 Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy The merciful are such who are so inwardly moved with the miseries of others that they do outwardly receive them according to their abilites Luke 6.36 38. Such shall obtain mercy in their miseries sometimes with men but alwayes with God Sweet is that of the Prophet Isaiah 58. read the 7 9 and 10. verses which are to this sense if thou feed the hungry harbour the houseless cloth the naked and satisfie the afflicted soul ver 9.