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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15012	The poore mans advocate, or, A treatise of liberality to the needy. Delivered in sermons by William Whately minister of Banbury	Whately, William, 1583-1639.	1637 (1637)	STC 25316; ESTC S106612	35,012	202

and he that watereth shall be watered againe By being watered and made fat is meant being stored with good things and to have store is the best prevention of want Let us shew you reasons too why this must needs be so First Reas 1 This is to bee a good Steward we all confesse that God is the Great Lord and Master of this Family of Heaven and Earth and that riches do not come to men either by fortune or chance or by their owne industry or the love of their friends or any like secondary meanes as the highest cause but all is from the dispensation and appointment of God who is the Ruler of all things making rich and making poore and setting up one and pulling downe another Wherefore all men bee but his servants and stewards to whom hee pleaseth to commit more or lesse as himselfe sees fit and hence it followes that it must needs availe much to the continuation and increase of any mans wealth that he be found a good Steward of the things committed to him by his Master for whom will a man rather intrust with his estate then those whom long experience hath approved to bee faithfull Now to communicate our substance to the poore with a large and inlarged heart and hand this is to doe the office of a good and faithfull Steward as Saint Peter teacheth in so many words 1 Pet. 4.9 10. Vse Hospitality one to another that is one act of bounty to be practised specially towards the poore and then hee adds this reason as every man hath received the gift so minister the same one unto another as good Stewards of the manifold graces of God Doe you not perceive that the due discharge of our Stewardship stands in ministring unto another the gifts that God hath given us wherefore he in whom the Lord doth find this fidelity shal never be put out of his office but rather the Lord wil deale with him as in the Parable the King did with his good faithfull servant to whom hee gave this praise saying Well done added this reward thou hast been faithfull in little be ruler over much Faithfullnes in using what we have you see to be the best meanes of being intrusted with more consequently of being freed from wants Now liberall distribution to the poore is a being faithfull in what we have this therfore if any thing will cause the Lord to give us more and more and never to waxe weary of giving to us if we will give unto others for his sake and according to his commandement Reas 2 Secondly Pro. 10.22 Salomon hath told us It procures Gods blessing which makes rich that the blessing of God maketh rich and addeth no sorrow therewith that is gives a comfortable and delightfull increase of our estate even such as is worth having and is truly beneficiall for to have a great estate as a great burden upon our shoulders and to bee but a horse to carrie a great loade of gold and silver through the world this is not to be a master but a slave of riches now such comfortable wealth doth not spring from mans wit or paines but from the blessing of God if you give credit to Salomon for if he vouchsafe not his blessing as the Watchman watcheth and the builder buildeth in vaine so doth the Husbandman plow and the merchant traffique and the labourer labour in vaine either no increase will come or none but a vexing and cumbersome increase now the Lord hath expressely promised his blessing unto those that will open their hands to their poore brethren saying in the fore-alledged place of Deut. 15.10 Because that for this thing the Lord will blesse thee in all thy workes and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto Doe you not all seeme covetous of Gods blessing doe you not beg it for your selves and for your children and friends hereby making a shew as if you counted it the most desirable of all things the most assured cause of all prosperity if you be any other then hypocrites in begging Gods blessing you must doe that for which hee saith hee will blesse you and in what in all your works and affaires yea and all you put your hands unto Certainely God will never bee found a promise-breaker what hee saith with his hand as Salomon professeth in his prayer that his own experience had taught him So we conclude our reason evidently and ungainesayably unlesse a man will deny Gods power and truth the efficacy of his blessing what will surely procure Gods blessing upon a mans affaires and estate that will save him from wants so will giving to the poore doe seeing hee hath bound it by promise to the liberall giver to the needy therefore this is the best way to be freed from wants A third reason I will add Reas 3 It is a lending to God Pro. 19.17 to lend unto Almighty God will surely procure abundance for hee will never prove bankerupt he will never borrow without a purpose and resolution to repay and without actuall repayment and that in the fittest time and manner The necessity of many great personages causeth that they are driven to borrow and cannot make satisfaction back againe in due time The covetousnesse of others causeth that though they have much lying by them yet they cannot bring their hearts to part with any portion to pay their debts as we see in experience so that the summes that are owing from such will never secure a man from want but must be reckoned amongst the number almost of desperate debts But I hope no heart amongst you will intertaine so base and wretched a conceit of Almighty God wherefore to have him in our debt is a sure meanes of having enough to preserve us from need Now you know the place well enough where he hath given his bill to you for the repayment of what you give to the poore saying Prov. 19.17 He that giveth to the poore lendeth to the Lord and that which he hath given he will pay him againe Loe brethren the bill of Gods hand as I may call it in which he hath both acknowledged the debt and promised payment Be it knowne unto all men by this present promise that I the Lord God of Heaven and Earth doe owe and acknowledge my selfe to be indebted to every mercifull liberall man all those summes of money which he hath bestowed or shall bestow in relieving the distressed to bee payed backe unto him whensoever he shall demand it for a bond or bill that names no day binds to payment at demand and to this payment well and truly to be payed I binde my selfe firmely by this present promise sent sealed and delivered by Salomon my knowne Secretary or Scribe Brethren unlesse you will proclaime the Lord an insufficient or a dishonest debter or paymaster you see that giving to the poore is the best way of saving your selves from wants for loe the Lords bill for