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A44165	The good Samaritane A sermon preached at the parish-church of St. Magnus the Martyr, by London-Bridge, the 13th Sunday after Trinity, being August 25. 1700, upon the Holy Gospel for the day. Printed at the request of the church-wardens, and others of the chief auditors, and humbly dedicated to Sir Charles Duncombe, Knight, and alderman of the ward of Bridge. On account of the most unwonted sort of charity, and noble generosity, which the City of London, and particularly the parish of St. Magnus has lately tasted of. By Richard Holland, M.A. chaplain to His Grace the D. of Richmond, curate of St. Magnus, and lecturer of Alhallows the Great.	Holland, Richard, 1679-1706.	1700 (1700)	Wing H2434; ESTC R215288	15,570	36

Healing and Restoring of us And when he returned to Heaven he left us still in very good Hands his Apostles and their Successors to the End of the World These he ordered to Comfort to Cure and Preach Salvation to us giving them at present a Reward on Earth for looking well to us appointing them who Preach to live also upon the Gospel but promising them still a better and greater Reward when he shall come again to make up his Jewels Then are they to receive the full Fruit of all their Labours and for looking well to their charge they will be doubly Paid and Rewarded for whatsoever of their Pains and Care they shall lay out for the Recovery of his People And as the Parable it self was a sufficient display of the Folly of the Jews in determining their Love and Friendship to their own People and obliged this Cunning and Learned Man of the Law to acknowledge the same And the only application that our Lord makes of it to him was that he should put in Practice what he so well knew and had there Ingenuously owned being now convinced that he should make it his Business to mend his Manners since he had good Learning and knew the Law it would leave him without excuse not to live up to it if he did not Go and do likewise So the fuller discovery of that more Valuable Learning the Christian Doctrine in it that that this Lawyer could not see but the happy Disciples might Nay that that the former Prophets and many Kings have desired to see and hear but could not since all this is clearly revealed to us since we with open Face can behold as in a Glass the Glory of the Lord how great will our Condemnation be if we do not live accordingly what will become of us if after so clear Conviction of our Sins and Misery and perfect Demonstration of Christ's Love and Mercy we cannot we will not yet be perswaded to Go and do likewise For our further improving then of this Sacred Scripture what I shall insist upon at this time with God's assistance shall be the Proof and Application of this great Doctrine That all our clear Convictions and Knowledge of Christianity our skill to discover and find out our Duty the Demonstrations and great Pretentions of our Religion and even Faith it self these are all but nothing worth without our Living and Doing accordingly To know to own and to commend is not enough but our great Duty is to keep God's Holy Will and Commandments To discern to talk of and to teach them is not enough but to walk in the same all the days of our Lives Behold to obey is better than Sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of Rain said Samuel to the Men of Israel 1 Book 15 ch 22. ver To keep Gods Law to have just regard to his Precepts and that with all manner of sincerity to be exemplary in Charity and fruitful in all good works this is the Genuine off-spring of the best knowledge and the only Demonstration of the true Christian Faith Good works flow from thence as Fruit does from the Tree And without good works in vain is the pretence of Religion knowledge is deceit and a lye and Faith it self quite Dead But from the discovery of the Goodness and Mercys of God the infinite Love and Condescention of Jesus Christ the Comfort Assistance and Refreshings of the Blessed Spirit from our Knowledge and Assurances of these in the Revealed Word for us to live accordingly for us to Go and do likewise is to Glorify our God to Edify and improve our Generation and to declare and justify both our Faith and Knowledge before Men. When our Learning and Skill in God's Commands is seen by our Obedience when our Light so shines before Men that they see our good Works when our Acts of Conversation are such as we justifie in Opinion Then do we Glorifie our Heavenly Father prove our Claim and Interest in the Merits of his only Son our Blessed Saviour and then do we please and rejoice the Holy Ghost then do we answer the end of our Creation become Ornaments to the Universe while we appear truly useful helps amidst the infirmities and failuers of a miserable World and as our example will tend to the Encouragement of others provoking them also to Glorifie God so more especially to the Justification of our selves in the great Day of the Lord. Holy David says Blessed are those who are upright in their way and who walk in the Law of the Lord Ps 119. ver 1. Blessed are they who keep his Commandments and seek him with their whole Heart ver 2. He does not say that they are Blessed who can talk of God's Testimonies who know the best way and are well instructed in the Law of the Lord but they who do accordingly they who keep the Law and seek him with their whole Heart He afterwards says ver 6. Then shall I not be ashamed or confounded when I have respect unto thy Commandments Now in knowledge a Man may be confounded in Opinion and Fancy and even in Faith it self but in Obedience in having just respect to God's Commands in doing likewise three we cannot be confounded And our Blessed Lord himself says St. John 15.14 Ye are my Friends if ye do whatsoever I Command you 't is not for knowing only or believing but for doing what Christ Commands that demonstrates us to be his true Friends The Apostle St. John says expresly in his 1 Ep. 3 ch 10 ver That Whosoever does not Righteousness is not of God Therefore is it that the Man after Gods own Heart prays for his Son in these words Give to Solomon my Son a perfect Heart to keep thy Commandments thy Testimonies and thy Statutes and to do those things 1 Chron. 29.19 Wisdom and Knowledge Solomon himself had desired and obtained from God in a most Glorious abundance above any Instance that the World had ever produced But this is his Godly Father's Prayer for him that he might do likewise that he might live and act according to his Superlative Knowledge And it is the particular and highly Honourable Character of Zachary and Elizabeth that They walked in all the Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord blameless St. Luke 1.6 They lived up to their Religion and obeyed the Statutes and Laws thereof And this is that that was Comfort to King Hezekiah in the day of his Sickness and Distress when the Prophet was sent to him with this Doleful Message Set thy House in Order for thou must dye and not Live this then refreshed and encouraged him therefore to appeal with it to his God Isaiah 38. ver 3. I beseech thee O Lord Remember how I have walked before thee in Truth and with a perfect Heart and have done that which is good in thy Sight The Author to the Hebrews says Ch. 11. ver 6. That without Faith it is impossible to please God And St.

James says that Faith without Works without Holiness without doing accordingly is Dead in the 2 ch of his Ep. 17. ver good works therefore must revive and quicken our Faith That same Apostle therefore says in the 1 ch of his Ep. 22. ver Be ye doers of the Word and not hearers only deceiving your own Souls arguing it to be a mighty Shamm a Trick and an Imposition upon our own Souls to be great Hearers of the Word and not doers accordingly that it will blast all our pretences cheat us of our Salvation and deny us all hopes of that Noble Hire which that great Husbandman will generously bestow on all good Workmen the faithful Labourers in his Vineyard And our Blessed Lord himself giving a Check to the rest of our Lawyers Brethren and Companions the Scribes and Pharisees who boasted so much their Perfection in knowing the Law and naming the Name of God says to them this plainly Not every one that crys Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven And now he tells you who shall But he that doth the Will of my Father which is in Heaven 'T is St. Matth. 7.21 the Doer the active Man full of good Works has an easie and most Glorious admission into the Kingdom of Heaven It shall be our Righteousness says Moses to the Children of Israel if we observe to DO all these Commandments before the Lord our God as he has Commanded us Deut. 6.25 And says David Blessed are they that keep judgment and do Righteousness alway Ps 106. ver 3. This therefore after his Conversion he made his utmost Care I have inclined my Heart to perform thy Statutes alway even unto the end Therefore it is that St. Paul presses this very hard and affectionately upon the men of Philippi in the 4 ch of his Ep. to them the 8 and 9 ver even all brave and generous Actions Whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any virtue and if there be any praise think of these things Again Those things which ye have both learned and received and heard and seen in me those things take you care to do And that mighty King and Prophet a little before his Death in the last great Meeting he had of his Princes and Nobles the Heads of all the Tribes being about to take leave of them and to give them some good advice at parting this is the only farewel admonition that his last Breath delivers to them to inforce which and make them take the better notice of it he adds so great an Encouragement that it would be the means to continue them in that good Land which the bounty of their great God had now placed them in and to ensure also a blessing upon their Posterity His words in the 1 Chron. 28. ch and the 8. ver are these Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the Congregation of the Lord and in the audience of our God keep and seek for all the Commandments of the Lord your God that ye may possess this good Land and leave it for an inheritance for your Children after you for ever And when they had Forfeited Gods Favour and lost that good Land and were got into Captivity the Omission of this Duty is that that Nehemiah in his Confession does attribute to be the great Cause thereof Nehem. 1.7 We have dealt very corruptly against thee and have not kept the Commandments nor the Statutes nor the Judgments which thou Commandest thy Servant Moses they did not perform well they did not act the Duties of their Religion wherefore God suffered them to be a Prey to the Heathen that they that hated them were made Lords over them And as he further says Ch. 9.36 Behold we are Servants this day and for the Land that thou gavest to our Fathers to eat the good thereof and the Fruit thereof behold we are Servants in it And it yieldeth much increase to the Kings that thou hast set over us because of our Sins also they have Dominion over our Bodies and over our Cattle at their Pleasure and we are in great distress ver 37. Whereas on the other side for the Comfort of those who cheerfully obey and do Gods will they have their desires and enjoy true Peace the Apostle St. John says That whatsoever we ask we receive from him because we keep his Commandments and do those things which are pleasing in his sight 1 St. John 3. ch 22. ver And of all those things the works of Mercy and Pity the Business of the Text these are al-always the most pleasing in his sight These are the fulfilling of the Law and the sum and substance of the Gospel These are the Honour of Humanity and by these Men are known to be Christ's Disciples The best of Men were truly famous for them and no one can be at all Religious without them Such a Power and Charm they have always had over the wise and good that rather than not to do them they would even challenge Misery it self or choose not to be at all which made that upright and perfect Man cry out Job 31.16 If I have with-held the Poor from their desire or have caused the Eyes of the Widow to fail Or have taken my Morsel my self alone and the Fatherless have not eaten thereof For ver 18. of the Fatherless he says From his Youth he was brought up with him as with a Father Of the Widow he says I have guided her from my Mothers Womb. Again ver 19. If I have seen any perish for want of Clothing or any Poor without Covering If his Loins have not blessed me and if he were not warmed with the Fleece of my Sheep If I have lift up my Hand against the Fatherless when I saw my help in the Gate Then ver 22. Let mine Arm fall from tho shoulder Blade and mine Arm be broken from the Bone And if he fail'd of a generous improvement and honest use of what God had blessed him with then said he Let Thistles grow instead of Wheat and Cockle instead of Barley As then he should not deserve so neither did he desire any more increase of his Land And for the Encouragement of the Rich and Generous the greatest Emperour the Richest Prince as well as the wisest Man says Cast thy bread upon the Waters for thou shalt find it after many days Eccles 11.1 Give of thy substance freely to those who are absolutely unlikely to return thy Bounty and thy reward shall be when both it and thy self shall be forgotten The same Wiseman says that all is but lent unto the Lord who will fully repay whatsoever is laid out Prov. 19.17 And this is the Reason that the Prophets of old who spoke the Mind and Will of God took care very earnestly to deliver this Doctrine to all great Men they were