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A68747	The poore mans teares opened in a sermon / preached by Henrie Smith. ; Treating of almes deeds, and releeuing the poore.	Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591.	1592 (1592)	STC 22683; ESTC S117534	41,436	133

pleasant to the bodie And in the 12. of Luke it apeareth that aboundance of riches maketh one to eate muche drinke much and rest much then were it not for the couetous mindes of those that haue much they might impart to the poore one part of that which they duily spend in superflity If this bee not amended I let you to vnderstand that the poore must crie and their voyce shall bee heard their distresse considered our vengance shal be wrought I tell you troth euen in Iesus Christ that the poore hath cried vnto the Lorde and hee hath heard them With speed therefore open your eares if not to man yet to Christ who continually commaundeth vs to giue and bestow vpon the poore and needie Giue and it shall be giuen you saith he by S. Luke and setteth before our eies the example of the poore widowes mites as also the example of a couetous rich man who demanding how hee might obtaine eternall life was answered thus by him go sell all thou hast and giue to the poore not that it is necessarie for euerie man so to do or that a man cannot be saued without hee doe so but thereby teaching him perticulerly to lothe the worlde and generallie seeke meanes for the daily cherishing and the refreshing of the poore Doe not continually feede your equals for that is offensiue but when your may spare to spend and banquet your selues then call the poore and impotent and refresh your poore distressed neighbors and brethren And when Diues hath dined let Lazarus haue the crummes And stil remember the saying of S. Matthew Blessed are the mercifull for they shal obtain mercy To conclude beloued in the Lord let me entreate you rich men to cōsider it is your dutie to remember the poore and their continuall want you that eate till you blowe and feede till your eies swell with fatnesse that tast first your course meats and then fall to finer fare that haue your seuerall drinkes for your stomacke and your sortes of wine for your appetite impart some of your superfluitie vnto the poore who being comforted by you will doubtlesse pray for you that God worlde blesse you and yours and increase your store a thousand fold which if they should forget yet the promises of God remaine inuiolable towardes you for the same If the proud would leaue their superfluitie in apparell their excesse in imbrodery their vanitie in cuttes gardes and pownees their excesse in spangling their fantasticall feathers and needlesse brauerie the greater part woulde suffice towardes the reliefe of the poore and yet haue sufficient to suffise nature Let the glutton seeke onely to suffice nature and leaue his dayly surfetting in belly cheere then might the poore be fed with that which he oftentimes either lothsomely vomites forth or worketh as an instrument to shorten his owne life Let the whormonger leaue off his dalliance and his inordinate expences for maintaining of his wickednesse and it shall be good for his bodie and better for his soule yea his purse shall bee the heauier and he thereby better able to relieue the poore Let euerie artificer and trades-man liue orderly auoyding superfluous expences not spending his money vainely at dice tables cardes bowling betting and such like but liue as becommeth ciuill christians in the feare of God they may haue sufficient for the maintainance of themselues and their famelie and yet the poore may be by them sufficiently releeued Let vs consider that we who haue our beginning from God ought generally to bend all our actions towardes the pleasing of God and doing as he commaundeth vs wee please him for if we helpe the poore wee helpe him and doing all charitable actions to the poore hee accompteth it as done to himselfe Let vs generally learn not to contemne or despise the poore but according to our abillities helpe them and consider of their extreames and at any hand not to disdaine and vpbraid them with the titles of base rogues or suche like but in all godly christian meanes to cherish and comfort them with such charitable relief as wee may in reason affoorde vnto them yea and to consider of their cases as if it wer our owne Let vs take example of good Cornelius the Captaine of whome mention is made in the Acts of the Apostles to whome the Angell of God appearing in a vision said thus Cornelius thy praier and thine almes is come vp before God 〈◊〉 heere the reward and also of whom thou shalt be rewarded Let vs consider of their miserie that with hungry chappes and lanke bellies would willingly feed on that which you wastfully consume the poore I say woulde finde good comfort of that whiche commonly you fling to your dogges and on your dung-hils and let vs haue regard to their coldnesse their nakednesse their miserie greeuous necessitie thinke of this and comforte them And let vs be mindfull that pouertie and want compelleth many an honest person to take in hand the performance of much vilde and slauish businesse and that therefore they deserue to be succoured with mercie and pitie rather then to bee despised for their poore estate O think of the harde hearted persons were in their miserable estate how glad wold you be to be refreshed that now wil skarsly yeeld one penie to their reliefe Lastly let vs call to mind the exāple of the widow of Sarepta who though her prouision and store were but litle when the preacher of the Lord came to her to aske her bread answered I haue nothing but a little flower in a barrell and a little oyle in a cruse which notwithstanding she willingly bestowed vpon him for which a thing worthie memorie followed for her barrell was againe filled with flower and her pot with oyle this was the Lordes doing for fostering the poore prophet of the Lord sure the plentie that commeth by the poore is much for the field of the poore is fruitfull it surrendreth again the fruit to them that giue ought yea if it be but a cup of cold water as saith our Sauiour Christ To whome be all honour power and dominion now and for euer Amen FINIS A HARMONIE FROM HEAVEN Sommoning all men vnto the hearing of the trueth By Henrie Smith LONDON Printed by Iohn Wolfe are to be sold by William Wright 1592. A harmony from heauen sommoning all men to the hearing of the truth The text All Nations THe Apostle Paul writing to Timotheus telleth him that GOD would haue all men come to the knovveledge of the truth bee saued in which words the Apostle giueth him to vnderstande that there is none other waye either for Priest or people to come vnto God but by that ordinarie meanes vvhich is the hearing of his word the which the Apostle calleth his truth because it is not onely true of it selfe but also doth witnes of his truth who is truth it selfe by the verie same name doth our Sauiour Christ call gods worde when

making his praier to his heauenlie father for the elect he saith father sanctifie them in thy truth and immediatlie addeth thy word is the truth The next thing that the apostle aduertiseth Timothy of that this truth being rightlie knowen bringeth saluation to them that so know it this the Apostle confirmeth by an argument taken from his owne faith whē he saith I am not ashamed of the gospell of Christ for it is the power of God able to saue euerie beleeuer And last of all the Apostle hath sette downe the generalitie of this trueth both in saying to Timothie that god would haue al men to be acquainted with it to the saints at Rome that it is able to saue euery beleuer Herof it cometh that he writing to the Collossiās exhorteth thē not so much to the hearing of this trueth taught thē as to an inward intertainment of the same when he saith let the worde of Christ dwell in you plentifullie in all wisdome teaching and admonishing your own selues teaching thēselues because many of the Colossians seemed to be ignorāt of that which they shuld know and admonishing themselues because a number of them did know much but practised litle So that such is the entertainment that gods word ought to finde amongst vs as Dauid promised thereunto when hee said O Lord teach me the way of thy statutes and I shall keepe it euen vnto the ende And wee are taught to entertaine gods worde by the example of Iohn who receiuing the litle book at the hand of the Angell was commanded to eate that booke partlie to teach vs that gods worde must abide within vs and partlie to signifie that our bodelie breade serueth not our soules necessitie Esay said that he had carefully carried gods message for I was founde saith hee of those that sought me not and haue bene made manifest to them that asked not after me howbeit hee was not so carefull in speaking but the people were as carelesse in hearing for the whiche cause hee vttereth this complaint Lord who hath beleeued our report or to whome is the arme of the Lord reuealed When Ieremie had faithful lie deliuered the message of the Lord his GOD in rebuking those Ievves which burned incense to the Idols of Aegypt hee saith that all the men that knewe that their wiues had burned incense to straunge Gods and a great manie women which stoode by gaue him this answere the word which thou speakest vnto vs in the name of the Lord we will not heare it of thee but what we thinke good that will we doo Such was the wickednes of the people so manie yeares past as appeareth in manie places of gods worde among the which that of the Babylonians was not the lea●● which moued Ieremie to send Sheraiah vnto them with the booke with a strait charge that when he had read it vnto them hee should bind a stone vnto it and cast it into the riuer Euphrates to teach the Babylonians all men that as the hard stone caused that good booke to sincke in the water so the hardnes of our stonie hearts is not onelie the depriuing of vs of many good blessings but also a violent sincking of our soules in sinne The iust consideration whereof mooued the Apostle Paule to expostulate the matter with euerie harde harted sinner in this sort doest thou not know that the bountefulnesse of God leadeth thee to repentance but thou after thine harde heart that can not repent doest heape vp to thy self wrath against the daye of wrath and of the declaration of the iust iudgement of God and yet to see vvhat smal preparation there is vnto repentance euerie godly man wisheth like zealous Ieremie Oh that mine head were a fountaine and that mine eies were riuers of teares that I might weepe day and night for the slain of my people so greeuous is the way of the vngodlie vnto the child of God that he cannot account it any better thing then a race wherin they runne striuing who shall come first to the deuill when they lead a life as voyde of repentance as if sinne were seene and allowed and hel fire but an olde wiues fable What made Ieremie so wearie of his people but that he savv them wearie of well doing for sighing and sorrowing thus he saith Oh that I had a cottage in the wildernes of wayfaring men that I might leaue my people go from them for they are all adulterers and an assemblie of rebels So long as Steuen the Martyr talked to the Ievves of their petigree they harkened vnto him diligentlie but when he rebuked their sinnes saying that they were a stiffenecked people and of a hard heart resisting the holy ghost in persecuting the prophets and putting to death the Lord of life Then they stopped their eares and gnashing their teeth ran vppon him and stoned him to death So fareth it at this day amongst men that many are aswell contented to heare pleasant things as the Iewes were to harken to Steuen repeating their parentage But if a man shall hit all sorts of ill manners aswel as speake to al sorts of men they holde it as a principle that hee forgetteth his Text who remembreth their sinnes notwithstanding they knowe that it is the Ministers duetie to tell the house of Iacob their sinnes and to let Israell heare of their transgressions and the peoples part not onelie to be content but also desirous to know their duties and to shewe their desire in the forwardenesse of their comming before him that ought to teach Otherwise we might imagine that God spake but in sport when hee saide by his Prophetes the Priests lippes shall preserue knovvledge and the people shall seeke it at his mouth For so thought the euill disposed people in Ezechiels time vvho vsed to hear him preach with the like affections that manie bring novve a daies Concerning vvhose fruitlesse hearing God infourmeth Ezechiell by saying vnto him Sonne of man the children of my people talke of thee by the walks and in the dores of houses speake one to another euery one to his brother saying come I pray you and heare what is the word that cōmeth from the lord They come vnto thee as the people vsed to come and my people sit before thee and heare the wordes but they will not do them for with their mouthes they make iests and their heart goeth after their couetousnesse and loe thou art vnto them as a iesting song of one that hath a pleasant voyce and can sing well for they heare thy wordes but they do them not These people the people which were in the time of Hosea the Prophet may meetly be matched with the men of our age who were as ready to raile on the priest as hee was prest to reproue their sinne For saith Hosea these people are as those that rebuke the priest It is most true that the