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A16164	The lectures of Samuel Bird of Ipswidge vpon the 8. and 9. chapters of the second Epistle to the Corinthians	Bird, Samuel, d. 1604.	1598 (1598)	STC 3087; ESTC S120278	40,751	112

aboundance Is not this great Babel saith Nabuchadnezzar that I haue built Dan. 4. 27. Hamon bragged that he was promoted aboue the princes of the King Ester 4. 11. Soule soule take thy rest saith the rich man Luk. 12. 19. But what saith Dauid after his glorious victories what an indignitie is it saith he that I should dwell in an house of Cedar and that the arke of God should remain in curtaines 2. Sam. 7. 2. Is there any left of Sauls house saith he that I may shew kindnes vnto him for Ionathans sake 2. Sam. 9. 1. He sent to all the places where he had beene entertained 2. Sam. 30. 26. We must not bestow a litle and the worst of our goods vpon the poore and vpon good vses but our first fruits or the chiefe of our goods Prov. 3. 9. Exod. 34. 26. Gen. 4. 4. the fattest must be bestowed vpon the seruice of god Malach 3. 10. Worldly minded men that are onely giuen to getting when they should entertaine straungers which haue occasion to come to towne thinke the time lost that is spent that waies and that such matters should not be stoode vpon notwithstanding the Apostle saith giue your selues to hospitalitie Rom. 12. 13. And why should men thinke that the bestowing of time about the well vsing of their goods should not be much more acceptable vnto God then the getting of them especially seeing the Scripture whē it speaketh of the getting of them it saith vse the world as if you vsed it not 1. Cor. 7. But whē it speaks of the well imployment of them it saith giue your selues thereunto be not forgetful of it Ebr. 13. 2. 9 As it is written He hath sparsed abroad and hath giuen to the poore his beneuolence remaineth for euer The Apostle prooueth the truth of that which he had affirmed in the former verse namely that those which giue shall haue wherewithall to giue still He doth prooue it by the scripture The scripture is so certen a thing that if any that hath liued amongst vs with whome we haue beene very well acquainted should rise from the dead and tel vs from the experience of that which he had seene that vnmercifull rich men are tormented in fire yet should we beleeue the scripture a thousand times more then his report They haue the writings of Moses and the Puophets saith Christ if they beleeue not them neither will they beleeue though one rise from the dead Luk. 16. The Church of Rome doth goe about to lesson the authoritie of this argument by saying that if any make a question about the meaning of any place of Scripture then the scripture must not be iudge in this case but the Church But we read in the 4. of Matthew that when Satan abused the scripture and saide It is written He shall giue his angels charge ouer thee that thou dash not thy foot against a stone that Christ did not flie to the iudgement of any other but makes the scripture alone of it selfe to iustifie and to vphold it selfe It is written saith he thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God He that giueth to the poore saith Salomon lendeth vnto the Lord. The Lord giues them a bill of his hand that he will see them paide with advantage And it is a straunge case that men will beleeue euery meane man vpon a bill of his hand and yet the Lord as if he were a bankerout when he offers his bill it will not be taken The blessings that the Lord hath bestowed already vpon the rich in making them as it were the elder brothers should make them to be good to their yōger brothers But this because it is blacke-worke the Lord will not stand vpon it because in any case he would haue them prouided for he is content to enter into bondes and to become surety for the payment thereof The poore are the men that we should giue vnto for howesoeuer rich friends may feast one another sometimes yet our vsuall feasting should be for the poore Luk. 14. 12. We being much giuen to outward things because bidding of the poore hath not so much shewe nor glorie in it as hath the bidding of the rich therefore we are wont to delight more in the one then in the other But if we shall consider we must avoide the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye and the pride of life and that those things which are highly accounted of amongst men are abhominable vnto god then we shall be of another minde giue strong arinke vnto him that is readie to perish Prov. 31. saith Salomon We must bid the poore to our houses notwithstandingour collection money for there was a collection in Christ his time Marke 12. 43. And yet we are taught that we should bid the poore the blinde and the lame many be the things which may incourage vs vnto this duty In respect of God he liketh best of those duties which are done to our brethrē without hauing any respect vnto our selues whē they are done with a single eye not to rebound vpon our selues In respect also of the poore it must needes be more comfortable to them then to other guestes for it may be they eate not one good meale in a moneth and the full dispiseth an honycōbe but to the hungry man euery sowre thing is sweete It will helpe men also against that disdaine which is naturally in men for when we admit them to eate at our table it is a token that we doe not disdaine them It is a meanes to stirre vp our selues otherwise to be mercifull vnto them for when we see nothing but plenty when we heare of nothing but plentie it is an hard matter then to consider of the estate of poore men but when we see thē and talke with them if it be done warily without vpbraiding of thē by their poore estate then are we besides feeding of them otherwise comfortable vnto them for because they were not brought vp as we haue beene they cannot tell howe to apply themselues in their speech vnto vs therefore should we apply our selues vnto thē We must consider that as no other duty so is not this pleasant vnto our nature but when Christ commandeth it that should make it pleasant If we would consider that euery duty doth consist the denying of our selues then we shall easily see that this pleaseth God better then the beeing in more delightfull company and it should make it delightfull when we consider that those that doe thus Christ will set them downe at his table he good himselfe and in his own person attend vpon them Luk. 1237. his meaning is that he wil giue them most comfortable entertainment It remaineth now to speake of the ende for the which this testimony of scripture was especially alleadged by the Apostle namely to assure those which giue that they shall haue wherewithall to giue still And we may see the truth of this as it were by a demonstration when rich