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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45468	Some profitable directions both for priest & people in two sermons preached before these evil times : the one to the clergy, the other to the citizens of London / by H. Hammond.	Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.	1657 (1657)	Wing H605; ESTC R9306	45,615	102

out most of his senses before him and retains but the last glimmering of life is allowed to make his Will and reverse all former acts by that one final Satan hath all the man hath to give under hand and seal all his life time the spring especially and verdure of his age the children pass through the fire to Moloch and just as he is a dropping out of the world he makes signes of cancelling that will and by a dumb act of revocation bequeaths his soul to God and his Executor must see it paid among other legacies and all this passes for legal in the Court and none of the Canons against the antient Clinici can be heard against them The greatest wound to duty that ever yet it met with among Christians Thus do our vain phansies and vainer hopes joyn to supplant duty and good works and dismiss them out of the Church and if all or any of this be orthodox divinity then sure the duty of almes-giving will prove a suspected phrase haeretici characteris of an heretical stampe and then I am fallen on a thankless argument which yet I must not retract or repent of but in the name of God and S. Paul in this way that these men call heresie beseech and conjure you to worship the God of your fathers For this purpose shall I make my address to you in Daniels words Dan. 4.27 Break off your sins by righteousness and your iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor righteousness and mercy the two degrees of almes-giving that I told you of I hope that will not be suspected when he speaks it Shall I tell you what duty is what is now required of a Christian and that in the prophet Micha's phrase Mich. 6.8 And now what doth the Lord thy God require of thee but to do justice and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God justice and mercy the two degrees of almes-giving again that I told you of and I hope it will not prove offensive when he speaks it 8hall I tell you of a new religion and yet that a pure one and the same an old religion and yet that an undefiled for so the beloved disciple calls this duty of charity a new Commandment and an old Commandment 1 Joh. 2. it shall be in S. James his words Jam. 1.27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this to visit the fatherless and widow in their affliction and to keep himself unspotted from the world Shall I tell you in one word that though heaven be given us freely yet almes-giving is the consideration mentioned in the conveyance that men are acknowledged the blessed of God and called to heaven upon the performance of this duty that although it pretend not to any merit either ex congruo or condigno yet 't is a duty most acceptable in the sight of God that almes-giving is mentioned when assurance is left out charity crown'd when confidence is rejected I love not to be either magisterial or quarrelsome but to speak the words of truth and sobriety to learn and if it be possible to have peace with all men onely give me leave to read you a few words that S. Matthew transcribed from the mouth of Christ Mat. 25.35 Then shall the King say to them on his right hand who should the King be but Christ himself Come ye blessed of my Father receive the Kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world For I was an hungred and ye gave me meat Tell me in the name of truth and peace who now were they for whom the Kingdome was prepared from the foundation of the world who were there the objects of that great doomesday election his venite Benedicti If Christ do not tell you neither do I the text is of age let it speak for it self For I was an hungred and ye gave me meat If all this will justifie the doctrine and make this text Christian perswade your judgements that charity may be the queen of heaven maxima autem harum charitas the greatest of these is charity without affront or injury done to any other grace I hope it will be seasonable for your practice also as it hath been for your meditation become your hands as well as it doth now your eares And to infuse some life some alacriousness into you for that purpose I shall descend to the more sensitive quickning inlivening part of this text the benefit arising from the performance of this duty Dicas coram Domino then thou shalt or mayest say before the Lord thy God And in that I promised you two things 1. To shew you in thesi That confidence or claiming any thing at Gods hands must take its rise from duty in performance 2. In hypothesi to give you the connexion betwixt this confidence and this performance claiming of temporal plenty upon giving of almes 1. In thesi That confidence or claiming any thing at Gods hands must take its rise from duty in performance If there be any doubt of the truth of this I shall give you but one ground of proof which I think will be demonstrative and 't is that that will easily be understood I am sure I hope as easily consented to That all the promises of God even of Christ in the Gospel are conditional promises not personal for the Law descends not to particular persons and in this the Gospel is a Law too 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Law of faith nor absolute as that signifies irrespective or exclusive of qualifications or demeanure for that is all one with personal and if either of those were true then should Christ be what he renounces a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an accepter of persons and individual entities and so the mercies of heaven belong to Saul the persecuter as truely as Paul the Apostle Saul the injurious as Paul the abundant labourer Saul the blasphemer as Paul the martyr It remains then that they be conditional promises and so they are explicitely for the most part the condition named and specified 2 Cor. 6.17 Come out and be you separate and touch not the unholy thing the condition you see set foremost in the Indenture and then I will receive you and therefore most logically inferres the Apostle in the next words the beginning of c. 7. Having therefore these promises let us cleanse our selves from all filthyness of the flesh and spirit perfecting holyness in the fear of God Had the promises been of any other sort but the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 these i.e. conditional promises the Apostles illation of so much duty cleansing and perfecting had been utterly unconclusive if not impertinent So Rom. 8.28 All things work together for good to whom to them that love God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to them that are called according to purpose the word called a noun in that place not a participle noting a real not onely intentional passion those that are wrought upon by Gods call and