Selected quad for the lemma: work_n

Word A Word B Word C Word D Occurrence Frequency Band MI MI Band Prominent
work_n bear_v good_a tree_n 8,220 5 10.2554 5 false
View all documents for the selected quad

Text snippets containing the quad

ID Title Author Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) STC Words Pages
A03696 Of the rich man and Lazarus Certaine sermons, by Robert Horne. Horne, Robert, 1565-1640. 1619 (1619) STC 13823; ESTC S104236 106,903 146

There is 1 snippet containing the selected quad. | View lemmatised text

me into prison but I was sicke and in prison and yee came not to me So the inhabitants of Meroz were accursed not for taking part with the enimie but for not taking the Lords part against his enimies Iudg. 5.23 And the axe is laid to the roote of euery tree that bringeth forth no good fruit though it bring forth no bad for the cutting of it downe to death hell Mat. 3.10 though Christians who should be trees of righteousnes in the Church as it were garden of God beare no euil fruit yet if they beare no good there hangeth ouer their heads an axe of cutting downe Our good workes cannot saue vs but our euill or want of good are able to condemne vs. This plea in mans Court that we haue done no man harme is good but it will not hold in that Court where not onely the euill done is iudged but the good vndone must be answered for To this agreeth that prouerbiall speech of Salomon He that turneth away his care from the crie of the poore he saith not he that makes him cry shal cry himselfe and not be heard Prou. 21.13 That is though he fall into such miserie as shall make him crie and that to God and man for helpe yet neither God nor man shall helpe him So it is proued not only that we should not hurt the poore if we will be saued but that as their needes shall require we must helpe them to our best abilitie if we will not perish with the cruell that cannot be saued The reasons are Euery breach of the commandement deserueth hell and second death Gal. 3.10 and this is one Secondly and more particularly to omit this duty when there is cause and we haue abilitie what is it but with sinne to keepe in our hands that which is Gods part and the poores portion and so to be guilty of both sacrilege against God and robbery against men Prou. 3.27 When God makes vs rich he makes vs but rich Stewards with a charge not to keepe the Maisters goods in our owne hands but to giue them to the proper owners the poore Neither is it robbery onely to neglect this seruice of God to Gods poore but a kind of murther Ecclus. 34.22 or a killing of those by cruelty whose liues we might saue by almes If then either theft or sacriledge or murther or all three deserue death eternall then that which is all the three not to minister to the necessities of Gods poore deserueth it Thirdly the vnfruitfull tree is cut downe for the fire Math. 3 10 and so must all vnfaithfull that is vnworking Christians be for hel-fire A reproofe of those who thinke and say Vse 1 they may doe what they will with their owne where first they are much deceiued by calling that theirs which is their Masters Luk. 16.1 2. For the earth is his Psalm 24.1 and these things that are in it he hath deliuered vnder account to rich men as to his Stewards to lay them out not as to Treasurers to lay them vp or if as to Treasurers to lay them vp yet so to keepe them that they be ready alwaies to bring them outfor the seruice of their Soueraigne and the good of their fellow seruants or if these earthly goods were theirs were it lawfull or reasonable to vse them against the glory of the bountifull Giuer If my Prince should rayse mee to honour were it tolerable were it not vilany to turne it against his Crowne and Honour or if a man should giue mee a dwelling house in the midst of a Towne might I set it on fire because it is mine and may I kill a man with a weapon because the weapon is mine owne wherewith I slew him Did Noah well to bee drunken with the fruite of his owne Vineyard Gen. 9.20 21. And who knoweth not that a man may abuse his owne and that he should doe not all he may but what he lawfully may But to put the matter out of question He that is Lord of all these things of whom wee hold in capite that is in chiefe hath but leased them out to the sonnes of men and hee that is Master of this great house wherein we are but Tennants for liues as hath pleased him to set our terme therein hath committed his goods to wealthy men but with a limitation to vses appointed by himselfe who is absolute may do with his owne what he will Math. 20.15 He is the owner and soueraigne owner of all and we haue but leases in these things from Him and that with certaine reseruations As first that we make no waste or spoile for we may not consume these good things on our lusts Secondly that we performe the Lords seruice keepe his Sabbaths as it were Court-daies and appeare in the assembly when the people come together to worship before the face of Iehoua Thirdly that we doe not denie him his rents the praise which is due vnto his name and when hee sends to vs by the poore his receiuers that we send to him by them the fruits of his owne ground by dealing mercifully with them and not euill entreating them as did those cruell husbandmen in the Gospel whom therefore the Lord of the Vineyard destroied Math. 21.34.35.36 c. For the godly poore are his Baliues and the gatherers of his rents whō he sendeth to vs. Fourthly that we acknowledge our homage by submitting to his lawes and the orders of his Court. Fif●ly that we abuse not our Lords land and goods to the maintenance of his enimies as they who feede the bellies of the wicked and starue his poore Sixthly that we plucke not vp his quichesets and ioine land to land till there be no more roome Esa 5.8 or place to wit to be taken for our money And lastly that when any seruice is to be done for him in the Church by the Minister and in the common-wealth by the King and his Ministers we giue willingly vnto Caesar his tribute and to the Minister his tithes Failing in these the Lord of our wealth and liues may take these leases from vs and pronounce all the estates we hold of him forfaited and voide by misbehauiour So he dealt with his Steward from whom he tooke away the office and place which he abused Luk. 16.2.3 And it is his great mercy that he doth not in like sort presently enter vpon vs and our estates who haue so often and long by sundry misprisions deserued a casting off Now then let vs giue all these considerations their due respect and say if these things may be called our owne for the which we are to giue to the Maister so strict account when he shall say by death to euery one of vs thou canst no longer be Steward Luke 16.2 which being so men haue smal cause to be proud of this that God hath set them vp in worldly riches and greatnes For to whom much is committed of them much shall be required againe Luk.