Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	body_n	bread_n	wine_n	10,358	5	8.3741	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14645	The poore-mans preacher A sermon preached at S. Maries Spittle in London, on Tuesday in Easter weeke, being April. 7. 1607. By Ro. Wakeman Bachelar of Diuinitie, and fellow of Ballioll College in Oxford.	Wakeman, Robert, 1575 or 6-1629.	1607 (1607)	STC 24951; ESTC S101713	35,727	96

of the earth but at last they reléeue them not they refresh them not they send them away with emptie bellies and naked backes to the weakning of their distressed bodies and wounding of their afflicted soules Yea but me thinks I heare the worldlings apologie If I cast my bread vpon these waters I feare I shall my selfe want before I die O but hearken what Dauid saith I haue béene yoong and now am old yet did I neuer sée the righteous forsaken nor his séed begging their bread Psal 37.25 Non memini me audisse aut vidisse mala morte mortuum qui opera misericordiae libenter exercuit saith S. Ambrose in his Offices I neuer remember that I saw or heard of any man that euer died miserably that chéerefully performed the works of mercy And the Lord for thy comfort hath said I will neuer faile thée I will neuer forsake thée Yea but I haue children to care for and how shall I then cast my bread vpon these waters O but S. Chrysostome answereth this in his 68. Hom. ad populum Antiochenum Abraham had children and yet he went foorth into the waies to receaue strangers to lodging So had the widow of Sarepta and yet it hindred not her charitie to the prophet Vnum habes filium saith S. Augustine Christum putes alterum duos habes Christum putes tertium decem habes vndecimum Christum facias Hast thou one sonne yet let Christ Iesus be an other hast thou two sonnes yet let Christ Iesus be the third hast thou tenne sonnes yet let Christ Iesus be the eleuenth giue of thy loue a portion of thine inheritance vnto him who of his mercie hath giuen al vnto thée And if thou wilt respect thy childe neglect thy Christ then feare this iudgement from the Lord either to leaue behinde thée no childe at all or none to beare thy name or if thou haue any peraduenture they will prooue such as shall as prodigally scatter abroad as thou hast couetously miserably and iniuriously scraped and gotten together thy transitorie pelfe Yea but though I now hold fast yet at my death I purpose largely liberally to cast my bread vpon these waters O but remember what S. Chrysostomes opinion is of such an one in his 18. Hom. vpon the Ephesians where making mention of a couetous churle that would neuer giue any thing in his life time onely at his death he was content to leaue something to be distributed vnto the poore hée thus speaketh of him Non iam das ex tuis sed ex ipsa necessitate morti est gratia non tibi it was necessitie and not charitie that procured from thée thy almes a man may thanke death and not thée for this deuotion Yea but I haue but a little and how should I then cast my bread vpon the waters O but remember the widowes mite was but a little and yet it was commended aboue greater gifts Mark 12.43 A cup of cold water is but a small thing and yet it shall not be vnrewarded Matth. 10.42 Magnitudo eleemosynae non ex multitudine pecumarum sed ex alacritate dantium iudicatur saith S. Hierome on the fift chapter of Amos The greatnesse of our charitie is not estéemed according to the multitude of our gifts but to the alacritie of the giuer Mentem deus misericordem requirit non pecuniae quantitatem saith S. Chrysostome God more respects a mercifull minde than a masse of money Coronat Deus intus bonitatem vbi non inuenit facultatem saith S. Augustine yea our God crowneth a willing minde where he finds not abilitie And therefore if thou haue but a little be not afraid to giue a little Tob. 4.8 and if thou art not able by reason of thy estate to giue any thing at all yet at the least put on the bowels of mercie as the Apostle speaketh Colos 3.12 and say with Peter aurum argentum non habeo Siluer and gold haue I none but such as I haue I giue vnto thée Act. 3.6 Giue thy best counsell and aduice if thou canst giue nothing else Saltem loquere vt verbo iuues qui opere non potes giue comfortable words if thou canst not performe charitable déeds Yea but I suspect him to be a lewd-liuer why should I then cast my bread vpon such water O but charitie is not suspitious tribuamus non quaerentes cui sed quare saith S. Hierome in one of his Epistles Giue not regarding the person what he is but the cause why thou giuest Laertius in his 5. lib. and 1. cap. reporteth that when one reprooued a philosopher for giuing his almes to a vitious person he answered Dedi non homini malo sed humanae sorti I pitied him as a man not as an euill man And so must thou do saith S. Augustine Et si peccator est qui petit da non tanquam peccatori quòd homo opus dei est quòd peccator opus hominis est da operi Dei noli operi hominis If a notorious sinner craue thine almes giue him as hée is the worke of God a man indued with a reasonable soule and made after the similitude and likenesse of God not as he is the worke of man a most wicked and sinfull creature And so was it with him in Gregory non quia peccator sed quia homo I gaue him my beneuolence not because I suspected him to be a sinner but because I knew him to be a man one of mine owne nature and condition humanum est humanis casibus ingemiscere and if thou wilt not giue him for the loue thou bearest to man yet giue him for the loue thou owest to God Such was the loue of Dauid to Ionathan that he said to his sonne Mephibosheth euen halting lame Mephibosheth Feare not for thou shalt eate meat at my table continually I will shew thée kindnesse for Ionathan thy fathers sake 2. Sam. 9.7 So such should our loue be to almightie God that we should not scorne to féed his poore members at our table to shew them all the kindnesse we may if not for their owne sake yet for the Lords sake their and our heauenly father euer thinking on that of S. Iohn Whosoeuer hath this worlds good and séeth his brother haue néed and shutteth vp his compassion from him how dwelleth the loue of God in him 1. Ioh. 3.17 Wherefore O man if either the necessitie of the néedie may constraine thée or the bowels of charitie perswade thée or the shame of the world inforce thée or the rules of humanitie allure thée or the feare of thy God compell thée or the loue of thy brother intreat thée giue at the last thine almes vnto the poore cast thy bread vpon the waters Remember that fearefull sentence of this wise Salomon in an other booke Hée that stoppeth his eare at the crying of the poore he shall one day crie and not be heard Prou. 21.13 Remember that saying of a

are famous thorow the whole world neither doe I thinke that any one citie hath giuen more woorthy testimonies of a true and liuely faith but among all these I finde one good worke yet wanting I wish it may be hereafter registred in this bedroule it is that which heretofore many haue much desired and I cannot at this time conceale it from you that whereas this Honorable citie is aboue all the cities in this land so well furnished with the choicest men for learning sent hither wéekely to stand before the most solemne congregation there is not some place prouided at the charges of this citie and the well affected therein for their better entertainement but that they are constrained to take their diet and lodging in troublesome Innes whereby their expenses are increased their mindes disturbed their meditations distracted I speake not this beloued in mine owne behalfe for blessed be God I néed it not and I haue no cause to complaine héerein my selfe receauing so kind entertainment of a priuate friend but I speake it out of a compassionate affection towards many of my poore brethren and fellow-labourers in the ministerie who hauing but small meanes and maintenance are by authoritie sent for from the Vniuersities to supply if not sometimes this yet many times that other solemne place The course of their studie is héereby interrupted their paines increased their bodies wearied their purse emptied and yet their person nay their calling by many is little respected for as that Leuite sometime said I goe now to the house of the Lord and yet no man receaueth me to house Iud. 19.18 so many of our Leuits may as truely professe of themselues that comming hither they goe vnto Gods house to performe that part of seruice due vnto him and yet there is no man receaueth them to lodging no man entertaineth them in his house Gaius was but a priuate man yet he was the host not of S. Paul onely but of the whole Church Rom. 16.23 Simon was but a poore Tanner and yet he lodged S. Peter many daies Act. 9.43 Lydia was but a purple-seller and yet shée requested nay euen constrained the Apostles to come into her house and to abide there Act. 16.15 and will not London so rich and so religious through her many inhabitants be as forward héerein as one man Will not such a publike citie performe as much as a priuate person will not they whose zeale in other matters as S. Paul speaketh of the Corinthians hath prouoked many be prouoked by others to this good work That good Shunamite shall euer be remembred while the world standeth for her loue to the Lords Prophets Marke I beséeh you her spéech vnto her husband 2. Kings 4. I know this is a holy man of God that passeth by vs continually let vs make him I pray thée a little chamber with walles and let vs set him there a bed and a table and a stoole and a candlesticke that he may turne in thither when he commeth vnto vs. O that wise men would not scorne to imitate a weake woman and that you right Honorable my L. Maior and the right worshipfull Aldermen of this citie would vouchsafe in your méetings among other your serious affaires to entertaine this consultation that as this holy woman of God mooued her husband out of his priuate estate so you would be as readie to mooue one another that at the last out of the publike charge there may be prouided for the Lords Prophets a little chamber and a bed and a table and a stoole and a candlesticke I meane a place sequestred from tumult and fit for meditation whereunto they may betake themselues when they come vnto you Know you not that he which is taught in the Word should make him that hath taught him partaker of all his goods Gal. 6.6 know you not that they which minister about the holy things eate of the things of the temple and they that waite at the altar are partakers with the altar who goeth a warfar at any time of his owne cost who planteth a vineyard and eateth not of the fruite thereof or who féedeth a flocke and eateth not of the milke thereof 1. Cor. 9. They come to sowe vnto you spirituall things and thinke you much they should reape your carnall things they come to bring you heauenly Manna and will you not affoord them your earthly mammon they come to saue your soules and will not you prouide for their corporall necessities they come to féed you with the bread of life and will not you bestow on them materiall foode they come to comfort you with the waters of life and will not you giue a cup of cold water to refresh them they come to bring you to the kingdome of heauen and will not you prepare for them a pilgrims lodging in an earthly mansion wherefore as S. Paul told the Corinthians 2. Cor. 8.7 so giue me leaue to vse the like exhortation as yée abound in euery good worke in faith and word and knowledge and in all diligence and in your loue towards vs euen so sée that yée abound in this grace also Blessed shal he be that furthereth such a businesse blessed and thrice blessed he that thus casteth his bread vpon these waters such a good worke will be acceptable to Almightie God comfortable to his Ministers and honorable to this renowned citie Consider my déere brethren what I haue héerein spoken and the Lord God giue you a right vnderstanding in all things I might héere take occasion further to incite you to this and the like holy duties by the example of many of your forefathers in this citie not yet named who haue excelled in the works of mercy and with a liberall hand haue cast their bread vpon the waters But I will not presse this point any further onely of them thus much I say their remembrance wil be as the composition of a perfume that is made by the art of the Apothecarie swéet as honie in all mouthes and as musicke at a banket of wine They were the great Amners of the king of heauen plentifull in the déeds of piety abundant in the fruits of charitie and full of the bowels of compassion toward the néedy They are now dead rest from their labours and their works follow them though I sée manie now liuing not to follow them in their works for alas my brethren how farre are some of vs degenerated from their steps how farre are we fallen from their religious deuotion aetas parentum peior auis tulit nos nequiores mox daturos progeniem vitiosiorem Well might our forefathers be great giuers and bountiful casters but surely now the world groweth woorse woorse We are fallen into that iron age wherein charitie the life of Christianitie is waxen colde and the loue to the poore in manie is abated if not quite distinguished The Naturall Historian writeth of the Eagle the prince of birds and of the Lion