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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07453	A sermon exhorting to pitie the poore Preached the. xv. of Nouember. Anno. 1571. at Christes Churche in London. By Henry Bedel uicar there, which treatise may well be called The mouth of the poore.	Bedel, Henry, fl. 1571.	1573 (1573)	STC 1784; ESTC S113208	17,386	41

as ye beleus so practise to geue to the poore for ye shal haue neuer the lesse your basket neuer the emptier nor your store the poorer Looke vpon the widdow of Sarepta litle was her prouision God knoweth and smal was her store when the poore Prophet came to her to aske her bread To whom she said I haue nothing but a litle flower in a barel and a litle oyle in a cruise which notwithstandyng shee bestowed vpon him And what folowed then forsooth her barrel was filled with flower and her pot with oyle Surely the plentye that commeth by the poore is much as Augustine saith Fecundus est ager pauperum cito redit donantibus fructum that is The fielde of the poore is fruitful it surrendreth againe the fruit with spede to them that geue ought yea if it be but a cup of cold water sayth our Sauiour Jesus Christ The blessed Apostle s. Paule specifieth the promise annexed to the exercise of almes in his Epistle to the Hebrues saying thus God is not vnrighteous that he wyll forget your workes of loue which ye haue shewed to the Saintes for his names sake which haue ministred to the saintes yet do minister The confirmation wherof Christ in these wordes expresseth saying Blessed are the mercyfull for they shall obtayne mercy To conclude how many blessinges in sundry sort promised which he can and will performe that hath promised them are set down for them that are pitiful to the poore the scriptures do testifie which shoulde bee to long to recite Yea and nature in flesh and bloud is not able to reache to the knowledge of them for that they be celestiall in the kingdome according to the promise infallible which by expresse words are declared in s Mathews Gospel in these words I was hungry ye gaue me meate thirsty and ye gaue me drinke ▪ c. Therefore enter into the kyngdome prepared for ye from the beginning of the worlde So then that not onely many sorrestriall benefites to enritch vs here are promised in recompence but those that as I cannot repeate them so vnworthely we haue them promysed for any thing we do but because our gratious God hath promised we shal surely enioy them The multitude wherof the height depth whereof the price and beuty whereof the same and dignitie wherof no toung hath spoken no more can mine no pen hath written therfore must I stay mine no hart hath conceiued yet may we beleue such glory hath our gratious Maister prepared for his faithful Stuardes in that his kingdome that our Christ speaketh of Vnto which kingdome God the Father by the mediation of Jesus Christ bring vs al to whom with the holy Ghost be all glory and honour now and euer AMEN ¶ A praier which the same Henrye Bedell vseth euerye Sunday and Holy day after his Sermons in the said Christes Church O Deare GOD our heauenly Father heare our praiers for Christes sake say not our syns to our charge to punish them and to take vengannce on them but rather in the bloude of Jesus Christ vlot them forth We haue deserued thine anger we cōfes but yet in Christes bloud we know thou art wel pleased in whose name we cry vnto thée O saue vs from our enemies that seeke vs and our bloud for thy Gospels sake O let not the wicked say where is now their God but let vs rather say the Lordes right hand hath brought mightye thinges to passe our God shall laugh our enemies to scorne Therefore heare vs deare GOD and for thy mercies sake saue thy worthy seruaunt Elizabeth our most gratious Quéene Graūt her we praye thée peace and safetie from all her enemies geue her the blessings of peace and a royal courage whereby through thine assistance she may confound all her foes and not to feare what man can do vnto her Let her be comforted with thy swéete mercies lay not our synnes vnto her charge nor suffer not her life to be plaged for our synnes and wickednes but keepe her O Lord to be thine own and blesse her wyth long lyfe and happy dayes Make her an old mother of this cōmon wealth and graunt her a long and prosperous raigne ouer vs in thy godly peace Remember O Lord her gratious Councellers and behold them with thy fatherly eye Geue them thy feare to set forth thy will and graunt them the spirit of wysdome and the counsels of peace The Bishops and Pastors O Lord direct and make them faythfull in gathering thy haruest to breake the bread of lyfe in time conuenient that thy Church may be builded of lyuely stones And blesse thy people O Father of might open their hartes to receiue the dewe of grace that the seede of thy word may stnck into them Geue them O Lord the spirit of obedience and true humility towardes thy word and their Prince Cast downe thyne eye frō thy thorne aboue behold our Realme and country and preserue it by thy myght from ciuill foes and from forayne myght from Turke and Pope and al popish power that all the world may see and knowe that thou art our god Finally we pray thee at thy good wyll in thy appointed time open the eyes of the blinde and conuert the hard harted that they may come to thy truth and be saued Teach them to know thy woord that once we may be one flocke in one pure faith vnto one Christ Confound Sathan his members Antichrist and hys religion geue thy Gospell a ioyfull and frée passage geue all thy people the freedome of conscience and peace in Christ through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa lxiij Mat. vi Gala. v Rom. xij Mat. vij Mat. vij Mark. ix Jacob. ij Luk. vij John. xij De verbis domini ser 26. Pro. xiiij Prou. xij Luk. vi Eccle 34 Tobi. iiij Ambro. in 1. Cor i Cor iiij i Tim vi Eccle vij Esai lviij Jacob. v. i. John. iij Eccl. vij August homelia 15. Seneca de Iuditijs Easy v Eccle x● Eccle iiij Seneca lid 2. de beneficijs Eccle 29 Eccl xvij Prou. xj Lactans lib. 7. cap 27. Luk. xvi Prou xix Psa. xviij Mat. xxv Mat. xix Psa xxxiij Luke .vi. Mark. xij Math. xix i Cor xvi Ephe iiij Galat vi Hebr xiij Jacob .v. Apo xiiij ▪ ● Tim vi Esay xxvi Amos iij Luk xiiij Jacob ij i Cor ix Eulgentius Sermone de confesso ribus Math .x. Mark ix Fulgentius de confesso ribus Chryso homeli 87. in ca. Mat. 26. Horace Martial Amos ij Flores histor lib. 1 Ciceroex appellation● cōtra Eubulidē Apo xiiij Psal. x●j Psal. cxij. Snoigodan in Psal. 112. Tobi. xij Actes .x. 1. Reg. 17 August in Psal. Mark. x Hebr vi Math. v Mat. xxv ▪ ¶ Imprinted at London by John Awdely dwelling in lytle Britaine streete without Aldersgate 1573