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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45700	The charitable Christian, or, A word of comfort from the God of comfort, to such as are truly poor and a word of Christian counsel and advice to such as are worldly rich, stirring them up to the Christian duty and practice of charity : with some powerful motives and perswasions thereunto, drawn from the Word of God, to convince men of the necessity of this Christian duty, with the sore evils and calamities which are threatned in the Word of God against unmerciful men / published by a lover of hospitality.	Hart, John, D.D.	1662 (1662)	Wing H927; ESTC R40133	26,662	59

and so not able to do any thing for a livelihood You have seen the sore evils of Unmercifulness and the great Blessings that are promised ●o such as are Merciful they shall obtain mercy when merciless men shall have no mercy hewed them Consider that the same God that hade them poor made you rich and might have hade them rich and you poor you might have been in their condition Therefore seeing God hath given you Talents Wealth and Riches use them to his Glory lay up some of them in store for the time to come for eternal life b● laying them out on the poor That so at the great day of accounts the Lord may say unto you VVell done good and faithful servant enter thou into thy Masters Joy thou hast glorifte me on Earth now will I glorifte thee in Heaven Thou hast dispersed abroad thou hast give to the poor thy righteousness endureth for ever thy horn shall be exalted with honour Psal 112.9 Now shalt thou receive the full possession and enjoyment of those unspeakable pleasures that are in Heaven for ever Now then consider what hath been said and the Lord give you understanding hearts in all things Now unto him that is able to do abundantly more for us then we can think or desire the onely wise marciful God be Honour and Glory now and for ever Amen FINIS Licensed and Entered according to Order THE CHRISTIANS Best Garment OR The putting on of the Lord Jesus Christ Wherein the absolute necessity excellency and usefulness of Christ as a Garment to believing Souls is briefly opened and applied Secondly The naked miserable lost and undone condition of all Unbelievers who have not put on this Garment discovered Thirdly and lastly Some few brief but powerful Motives to perswade us to the putting on of this Garment with directons how to live to the glory of Christ here that so we may live with Christ hereafter in glory The second Edition By a goldly able and faithfull Servant of Jesus Christ Rom. 13.14 Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ Col. 3.4 When Christ who is our life shall appear then shall ye also appear with him in glory London Printed for John Andrews at the White Lion near Pye-Corner 1661. THE Christians best Garment OR The putting on of the Lord Jesus Christ Romans 13.12 13 14. The night is far spent the day is at hand let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armour of light Let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting and drunkenness not in chambering and wantonness not in strife and envying But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof IN these words beloved now read unto you we have these two parts in the first place we have some things which the Apostle endeavours to perswade Christians from in the second place we have some things which the Apostle endeavours to perswade Christians to The things perswaded from are the works of darkness the things perswaded to are these 1. That we put on the armour of light and that we walk honestly 2. The Apostle having erborted us to this two-fold duty 1. The casting off the works of darkness and the putting on the armour of light here sets down expresly some Christian directions how this is to he done and that two wayes 1. Negatively and then 2. Affirmatively 1. Negatively not in rioting and drunkenness not in chambering and wantonness not in strife and envy 2. Affirmatively by putting on the Lord Jesus Christ and denying of the works of the flesh and the motives here laid down whereupon the Apostle enjoyns this duty are these in the 12. verse The night is far spent the day is at hand therefore saith he let us cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armout of light Where by the way we may observe that works of darkness are very unsuitable and unseasonable to the times of the Gospel light and darkness are contrary In the words then you see 1. Here is a duty exhorted unto and that is laid down in the 12. verse And then 2. you have here also the Apostles amplification and illustration of this duty here exhorted unto and that is set down particularly in the 13. and 14. verses The duty exhorted unto you see here is two-fold 1. Here is something to be cast off And then 2. Here is something to be put on 1. The things to be cast off are the works of darkness 2. The things to be put on are the armour of light Let us cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armor of light and as the exhortation is two-fold so like wise are the reasons whereupon the Apostle grounds his exhortation also 1. The night is far spent And 2. the day is at hand Before I proceed to the observation give me leave a little to open the words unto you and first I shall endeavour to shew what is here meant by the night and then secondly what is here meant by the day by the night here may be meant the times of darkness and ignorance in which the Bentiles lived in before the breaking forth of the Gospel of Christ and those times may very well be compared to the night for these three reasons First In the night men cannot so well see their way and therefore may the more easily wander out of their way for it is onely the want of light that makes men to erre 2. In the night no thing is visible or discernable but darkness all light is then extinguished the blinde man is not able to value or judge what a mercy it is to have the fruition and enjoyment of the light of the Sun 3. The night is the most suitablest time and season for the doing of evil in in Job 24. 14 15 16. The murderer saith Job rising with the light killeth the poor and needy and in the night is as a thief The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight saying No eye shall see me and disguiseth his face In the dark they dig through houses they know not the light They that are drunk saith the Apostle are drunk in the night 1 Thes 5.7 in Psal 25.20 The dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty And then secondly by the day here is meant the times of the Gospel it is night in the soul till such time as the day light of the Gospel breaks forth and shines into it Matth. 4.16 The people which sate in darkness saw a great light and to them that sate in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up In John 13.19 Light is come into the world and men love darkness rather then light and why so the reason is saith he because their deeds were evil For every one that doth evil hateth the light neither cometh to the light lest his deeds should be reproved