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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.

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 that 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 LONDON Printed for J. Back at the Black Boy on London-bridge 1700. To the Right Worshipful Sir CHARLES DUNCOMBE Knt. Alderman and High Sheriff of the City of London and County of Middlesex And Mayor of the Ancient Corporation of the Merchant Woolstaplers of ENGLAND IN such an Age as this when Notions and Speculations Eat up the Practice of Piety when Noise and Clamour passes for Religion Covetous Pinching for great Sobriety and Moderation and Vnmerciful Severity for the Critical Clinch of Justice when Charity not only begins but always keeps at Home and few are the Examples of a Generous and true Evangelick Spirit Permit and Pardon me Noble Sir to make use of your Great Name to Patronize this mean Discourse upon the Good Samaritane and Recommend to the World those Christian Doctrines which the last Sundays Holy Gospel proclaimed to all good Men Doctrines which enoble the Soul and without the Practice of which Men cannot be Christians It 's Truth and Plainness is its best Recommendation and wellcom'd it to those Gentlemen who urged its Publication and those qualifications will oblige true Church-men For the Holy Gospel of the Blessed Jesus needs no flourishes and when most naked is always most Rhetorical and Convincing And they to whom it was Preached are truly Devoted to you as you have been pleased highly to respect them which that Noble Benefaction to our Church yet of General use and service to the publick will prove a brave and lasting Monument of They are of the Number of those who have done themselves the Honour to Elect you their Magistrate By which they have justified their Prudence and exerted a bravery equal to the Ancient Romans who taking good care to choose Wise and Noble Senators secured their Liberties from all violence and alienation maintained a glorious Magistracy to the enriching of their Fellow Citizens and provided wonderfully for all their Poor and Distressed And thus you have already done to the Honour of this great City the Joy and Satisfaction of all good Men in it and to the Comfort and Delivery of many Hundreds of the Indigent and Imprisoned Members of it This was a true Year of Jubilee to them and a beginning of a New Life when they now can work for their maintenance without fear or disturbance say their Prayers and thank God for their Deliverance without hurry or frightful perplexity and Contemplate Gods Mercy in raising them such a Benefactor who has delivered them from the dire usage that horrid discipline of Cruel and Imperious Jaylors And that thus it should be that God in all Ages does raise up Men for the Eminent Care of his his little ones his Poor despised and afflicted Members is a most admirable proof of his Goodness a great Argument and Instance of the Wisdom and Justice of his Providence It was perhaps the intendment of Almighty God in making such an In-equality in the outward Condition of Men in the World that those of Fortune on the Right hand should take kind Notice of those on the Left that so the Sick Poor and Naked may not seem to be forgot by their Maker when they are nourished by the Bountiful hand of those whom he has enabled and given a Heart to do great things You have been in a most Eminent degree already a Noble Patriot of your Country You have Fed and Clothed the Hungry and Naked You have opened Prison Doors and released Captives of Ancient Date You have been Physick to the Sick and a Cordial to the Faint a Father to the Fatherless Protection and Counsel to the Widow and a Friend to all that you could have true opportunity to serve And here I must not omit that great part of your Character answering The good Samaritane which the World ought to know and value you for That in your mighty Charities you have not been like the Jews to determine them to Party or Sect or Country But as God commanded who himself makes the Sun to shine and Rain fall on the Just and on the Unjust And as Christ by way of example Practised who Fed Cured and Relieved all manner of Miserable Men that came near him so nor has any ever been denyed your Assistance and Relief who was a true Object of your Charity because he was not of your Faith and Opinion And all this is doing what God commands 't is doing what Christ came into the World to teach Men to do this is acting like wise Men and good Christians 't is doing more than Scribes and Pharisees Go on Great Sir who thus have devoted both your self and Estate to the true Interest of the Nation the Service of this City the Incouragement of Justice and support of the Poor all which does tend to the Glory of God Go on to perfect these great Works of Mercy and Pity of Justice and Generosity And may you never want Power and Authority answerable to your Will and Ability whereby these Great Works will be more easily and cheerfully finished The Members of a Wise Corporation have but the other day chosen You their Head and Patron 't is a place of Trust and of Ancient State and Honour And by their Election they have ensured to themselves a Valuable Protector a Noble Friend and Faithful Governour And all Wise-Men who love their Country will follow their example and omit no Opportunity of Advancing such Men to Places of Trust Honour and Authority by which the Grandieur of their Renowned City will best appear the Citizens be most easily Govern'd the Affairs most Prudently and Honourably managed Generosity and Hospitality more Nobly maintain'd and the Poor and Distressed Cherished and Provided for So that Foreigners may again admire and our own Natives Glory in the Restoration of our own English Courage Hospitality and Charity It has pleased God to Bless you with a better Proportion of Health since the Fateague of that great Office you have so Honourably and diligently perform'd And That you may long enjoy a Continuance of the same to enable you to be yet more Eminent in publick Stations and having served your Generation to the Honour of the Rich Comfort of the Poor and good of all for many Years You may then be Translated to Receive your Reward in Heaven is the Prayer of Most Honoured Sir Your most Humble And

sent to The Prophet Isaiah charges them to loose the bands of wickedness to take off heavy Burdens to let the oppressed go free and break every Yoke to deal their bread to the hungry to bring the Poor that wander to their Houses and when they see the naked to take care and cover them Isa 58.6 7. The Prophet Ezekiel commands them no more to oppress but restore the Pledge to the Debtor to spoil none by violence but to feed the hungry and cover the naked with a Garment to withdraw their hands from iniquity and execute true Judgment betwixt Man and Man Ezekiel 18.7 8. Holy Daniel advised the King himself in a great streight that he would take care speedily to break off his sins by Righteousness and his iniquities by shewing Mercy on the Poor Dan. 4.24 Our Blessed Saviour himself commands them that they would let their Light so shine before Men that they may see their good works and glorifie their Father which is in Heaven St. Matth. 5.16 And our great Apostle charges them who are Rich in this World that they be not high-minded nor trust in uncertain Riches But that they do good that they be Rich in good works ready to distribute willing to Communicate assuring them that it is the way to lay up in store for themselves a good Foundation against the time to come that they may lay hold on Eternal Life 1 Tim. 6.17 18 19. Nay our Blessed Lord himself commands them to make to themselves Friends of this Mammon of Vnrighteousness with so remarkable an Encouragement that a Generous and Charitable use of these Earthly things will procure them true and lasting Friends when all else shall forsake them such as shall Vsher them to Heavenly even everlasting Habitations St. Luke 16.9 To Apply now what has been said 1. Let this be a severe Check to all Sanctity in pretence only to that Devotion that Religion that is more in Name and Noise than in Heart and Deed whose Proselites boast their Love of God and yet hate their Neighbours who are formal and constant and open in the outward shew and profession of their Religion but have nothing of the inward Life and Power and Vigour of true Christianity which rejoyces in good works and is always exemplary in shewing Mercy This our witty and Eloquent Mosaical Man that could talk of loving God with all his Heart and all his Soul and all his might and all his strength and then his Neighbour as himself who perhaps was Zealous in his outward Performances of the things relating to the Law his Prayers and Sacrifices his Tyths and Offerings and who could teach others their Duty was well enabled to give Rules and direct his Neighbours in Goodness was still but as a Dead Man he wanted to go and do likewise to learn even of a true moral Heathen a good honest tho' a despised Samaritane how he might attain Eternal Life So Idle and silly is all affected Holiness when there wants real Performances so trifling is all outward show and glorying that is without Heart and Substance so vain and presuming are all their pretences to an Eternal happy Life who live not according to their Faith and Knowledge who tho' they can very glibly talk yet are dull and heavy in acting the Duties of their Religion that their expectation is but a snare their Profession a perfect Cheat their Knowledge and Glory is in shame and their mighty boasting will prove at last little else than Damnation to their Souls 2. From this great Transaction and those serious Checks given to the furious sons of Israel by our Blessed Lord we see the mistake of all those who affect infallibility in this Life and the wrong measures they take in pretending to advance the Dominion of Religion the Kingdom of Christianity by destroying and rooting up all those who are not perfectly of their mind 'T was the constant Practice of the Pharisees one of whom our Lawyer was to pretend to the Love and Service of God exclusive of all others and to pursue those who came not up to their heights not only with scorn and neglect as the Priest and Levite did the wounded Man but with great violence also and inveterate Malice Amongst the Apostles themselves there was a furious James and John mention'd but just now who were ready to call for Fire from Heaven upon those who refused them Entertainment And in all Ages and Places of the World as well as at Jerusalem there have been those Pharisees who studiously boasted themselves and party Condemning all others But Wisdom is justified of all her Children and Righteousness is that that will bring a Man Peace at the last 'T is the integrity of the upright that shall preserve them 't is doing likewise not pretending and boasting only 't is shewing Mercy and Truth not doing mischief and cruelty that can assure us of all the Glories and Advantages of our Religion and at last will advance us to God's Right Hand there to enjoy Eternal Life 3. This is Argument of great Comfort to the honest Hearted Christian to hold up his Head keep his integrity mind his own Business notwithstanding the untowardness of his Generation the multitudes of Thieves and Robbers those who lye in wait both to deceive and spoil them Tho' the Priest and Levite go by and leave them in their Distress tho' those who think themselves safe and above the danger of Misery shew no Mercy at all to them yet the God of Israel He raises them a Friend tho' of a Samaritane he sees and takes Pity on them He Remembers us in our low degree says David And again When my Father and Mother forsake me the Lord taketh me up Ps 27.10 When therefore there appears no probable Remedy neither from the Men of Religion whose Profession should Oblige them to Mercy nor any relief from Parents whose Bowels of Compassion cannot fail even then comes he to save whose Arm is not shortned that God from whom alone proceeds all Deliverance whose Mercies endure for ever Blessed be his Holy Name Lastly Let this be Encouragement to all Men to be Kind and Merciful Assistant and Loving to all those in Misery who stand in need of help and Comfort He is our Neighbour whose Misfortunes and afflictions call for our assistance Let us then Go and do likewise Not run away from such Opportunities for our Charity nor at distance stand and pity them only but as the good Samaritane here have real compassion on them serve them effectually poure in Oil and Wine and then bind up their wounds carry them to Lodgings to be taken care of and leave them money too These good works are they that will go before us into Judgment this is that Virtue that will be fullness of reward in the end So says our blessed Lord himself if he be to be believed He tells us St. Matth. 25.31 That when the Son of man shall come in his glory and all the Holy Angels with him and shall sit upon his Throne of Glory and before him shall be gathered all nations that he will seperate them one from the other as a Shepherd divideth his Sheep from the goats Under the Type of setting the Sheep on the right hand he will advance all the righteous to Glory And by putting the Goats to the left will he doom the unrighteous to misery Now pray observe that at that great Day when he will recompense all according to their Works these will then be those Great Works so particularly reckoned for these will then appear the Works that will stand by and justifie us ver 34. Come now ye Blessed of my Father receive the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the World The reason follows For I was an hungred and ye gave me Meat I was thirsty and ye gave me Drink I was a Stranger and ye took me in naked and ye clothed me I was sick and ye Visited me I was in prison and ye came unto me And to prevent mistakes and leave all unkind and unmerciful men without excuse he further adds that it is not to his own person that he expects all those performances because he would withdraw that shortly from the Earth but that he would leave them there continual Objects of Love and Mercy and all that he expected was to be done to those Miserable Members of his ver 45. And accordingly would reward them as done to himself as he would also resent the omission with certain punishment In as much as they did it not to these they did it not to me These therefore shall go into everlasting pain But the righteous into life Eternal They who did it to the least of my Brethren to the most despised and ordinary of Men when in misery they did unto me I will take care now of their reward They shall go away into Everlasting Life Whoso is Wise shall ponder these things will go and do likewise and they shall understand the Loving kindness of the Lord. FINIS Advertisement A Sermon Preached in the Parish Church of St. Magnus the Martyr by London-Bridge On Sunday February 11 th 1609 1700. At the Baptizing of some Persons of Riper Years brought up by Quakers and Anabaptists but now Conform'd to the Church of England Published at the Request of them and their Friends By Richard Holland M. A. Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Richmond Curate of St. Magnus and Lecturer of All-hallows the Great who has since Baptized several others The Second Edition Printed for John Back at the Black Boy on London-Bridge