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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16763	A treatise of christian beneficence, and of that like christian thankefulnese which is due to the same The which, as they are duties of singular account with God, so are they of as necessarie vse to all christians, for the keeping of faith and a good conscience, as are fire and water for common vse and comfort to the naturall life of all men.	Allen, Robert, fl. 1596-1612.	1600 (1600)	STC 367; ESTC S112321	178,520	256

is punished with another that is when they are giuen ouer from sin to sinne howsoeuer the burthen of this punishment which maketh way to all plague and punishment is not discerned of the wicked The Apostle therefore addeth further chap. 2. vers 4.5 They that despise the riches of Gods bountifulnesse and patience and long sufferance not knowing that is not regarding to know or consider that the bountifulnesse of God leadeth to repentance They do after the hardnesse of their harts that cannot repent heape vp vnto themselues wrath against the day of wrath and of the declaration of the iust iudgement of God who wil reward euery one according to his works c. So likewise in the former place of the Epist to the Ephesians For such things that is for such vices as breake forth and beare swaie among the wicked for want of thankfulnesse to God as the Apostle had rehearsed in the words going before the wrath of God commeth vpon the children of disobedience Vnthankefulnesse it selfe in that it is a neglect of dutie to God is a great sinne and that which God punisheth sharply in his owne childreÌ„ like as we read of King Hezekiah that good king that wrath came vpon him from the Lord because he did not render to the Lord according to the reward bestowed vpon him 2. Chron. 32.24.25.26 Howbeit insomuch as Hezekiah beeing reproued did humble himselfe both he and the inhabitantes of Ierusalem therefore they preuented the extremitie of Gods wrath so as it fell not vpon them in the daies of Hezekiah Now therefore seeing the Lord cannot spare this sinne when it is found with neglect of dutie in his best seruants for a time how should he not punish it in the wicked in whom vnthankefulnesse is accompained with a black gard of all kind of foule vices and abominable sinnes beside May it not be iustly sayd to the shame of all such as Moses spake to the vnthankefull Israelites Deut. 32.6 Doe ye so reward the Lord Ã² ye foolish people and vnwise Is not he thy father that hath bought thee he hath made thee and porportioned thee c. And if for all this they that be vnthankefull will be vnthankfull still notwithstanding all the infinite mercies of God reuealed vpon vs specially now in the dayes of the Gospell both earthlie and heauenly mercies for body and soule for this life and for euer vpon our selues and all ours which ought to inflame our heartes to power forth perpetuall praises and thankes to the glorie of his most blessed name may we not iustly say further as Moses spake to the people The fire shall kindle in Gods wrath and burne to the bottome of hell and consume the earth with her increase and set on fire the foundations of the mountaines The Lord will send plagues vpon them and bestow his arrowes vpon them They shall be burnt with hunger and consumed with heate and bitter destruction And may not the Lord himselfe as it is written Psal 107. turn a fruitful land into barrenesse for the wickednes of theÌ„ that dwell therein Yea may he not iustly take away the hedge of his vineyard break downe the wall therof when in steed of sweet grapes it bringeth forth those that be sower and wild That is when there is oppression in steed of iudgmeÌ„t crying out in steed of righteousnesse Isa 5.5 c. For seeing vnthankfulnes as hath bene declared is both the breeder also the nourisher of all sin carying all sin as it were in the wombe of it like to those most il-fauoured and leane kine which did eate vp as many well liking and fat kine but when they had eaten them vp were still as leane and ill-fauoured as at the beginning of the which we read Gen. 41 19.20.21 Wel therefore may the fulnesse perfection of all wrath and punishment be cast vpon all such gurmandizing Cormorants who consuming Gods blessings yeeld no fruits of thankfulnesse vnto him but remaine continually leane barren and blasted that way The hope of the vnthankefull shall melt away as the winter yee and flow away as vnprofitable waters Wisdom 16.29 And great reason why vnthankfulnesse to God should bee so heinous in his sight and why also he should punish it so seuerely partly here but more fully after this life ended not only for the causes already alleaged but for many other as first for that God doth in vaine so ofteÌ„ so earnestly put such vnthaÌ„kful ones in mind of their duty herein as Ps 50.14 Offer vnto God praise And Eph. 5.20 Giue thanks alwayes for al things vnto God euen the Father in the name of our Lord Iesus Christ Likewise Philip. 4.6 Col. 4.2 1. Thes 5.18 and in many other places Secondly because that which is in all equity a most due debt is most vniustly denied withheld froÌ„ him as 2. Thes 1.3 We ought to thank God alwayes as is meet c. ch 2.13 We ought to giue thanks alway to God for you brethreÌ„ c. And if for others theÌ„ also much rather for Gods loue fauour all the fruits thereof toward our selues And Ps 29.2 Giue to the Lord the glory due to his name Reasons of the punishment Thirdly because thankefulnesse is a speciall good dutie wherewith the Lord is singularlie well pleased as Psal 92.1.2 It is a good thing to prayse the Lord c. And Psal 69.30.31 I will prayse the name of God with a song and magnifie him with thankesgiuing The which shall please the Lord better then to offer a young bullocke that hath hornes and hoofes Fourthly because it is as the singular ornament of our owne profession of Gods holy worship as Psal 33.1 Reioyce in the Lord Ã´ ye righteous for it becommeth vpright men to be thankefull And Psal 135.3 Praise ye the Lord for the Lord is good sing prayses to his name for it is a comely thing And Psal 147.1 Praise ye the Lord for it is good to sing vnto our God for it is a pleasant thing and prayse is comely Fiftly because by our thankefulnesse we make speciall profession of our faith and giue the greatest glorie we can yeeld vnto him in the acknowledgement of his prouidence and of his truth in the performance of his promises c. as Psal 66.1.2 c. Reioyce in the Lord ye inhabitantes of the earth Sing forth the glorie of his name make his prayse glorious And Psal 96.8 Giue vnto the Lord the glory of his name And Psal 50.23 He that offereth praise glorifieth me saith the Lord himselfe But on the contrarie all vnthankfull persons dishonour God they iustly displease him they disgrace themselues they shew themselues void of faith they tread vnder foote the commaundement of God c. Thus much of the sinne of vnthankefulnesse to God how hanious it is in his owne nature and in the sight of God and accordingly how greuious the punishment is which in the iustice of God belongeth

the same things that their hearts might be inlarged to a more liberall contribution for the reliefe of the poore in all collections made to that purpose O that Landlords would well thinke of them that they might be moued to deale fauourably with their poore tenants and to abstaine from all hard racking and inproning of rents taking away of their commons of frustrating of their good leases by captious aduantages c. O that Officers and Gouernours in corporations and other townes where money or landes haue bene giuen for the reliefe of the poore would so mind these fearefull punishments against vnmercifull men that they may in no wise diuert the merciful gift of others from that good vse end wherfore they haue giuen it O that euerie one to whom at any time the holy legacies of the last will and testament of any beneficiall Christians deceased would so looke vpon the iudgements of God that they might therby be seriously admonished to deale well and faithfully according to that trust which is committed vnto them because otherwise their sinne must needes be double if they shall be couetous and vnmercifull in withholding another mans liberalitie beside their owne yea and because they do herein sacrilegiously conceale and frustrate the glorious worke of the holy Spirit of God which he had wrought as his last worke here in this life in the hearts and spirits of his good and faithfull children Finally would to God that all whosoeuer are by any kind of vnmercifulnesse in danger of Gods heauy plagues might by the premeditation thereof come to repentance in sure trust of his mercie and so happily preuent them yea that entering into the way and practise of mercie they may proceed and go forward therein till they may be blessed partakers of Gods euerlasting mercy Amen Who I beseech you would not thinke that it had bene happie for such rich men as our Sauiour Christ speaketh of in the Gospel Luke 12 16 c. and againe chap. 16. verse 19. c. if the one in steede of pulling downe his barnes to make them bigger and both of them in steed of delicious pampering of their bellies had made the bellies of poore Christians the bare emptie houses of widowes fatherlesse children to be the barnes and bellies of their ouerplus and superfluitie Had it not I pray you euen in euery reasonable mans iudgement bene far better for them to haue learned from the fruitfulnesse of their fieldes and all the bountifull prouision of God both for their backes and for their bellies to yeeld their owne bounden fruits of thankfulnesse to God for his sake the fruits of loue to his poore children then that they should be like barren ground to yeeld no good fruite and so to make themselues neare to cursing as the Apostle speaketh Heb. 6.8 yea euen to pull downe sodaine destruction and the fire of Gods euerlasting wrath vpon them I will pull downe my barnes faith one I will poure into my belly saith another But in the meane while they altogether neglect the right way of building their head-head-houses neither once consider they that the vse of aboundance consisteth rather in pouring out to the hungrie then in pouring into the full belly in relieuing and supplying the necessities of the Saints then in following a voluptuous course of life as hath bene alreadie declared That course therefore which euery man iudgeth would haue proued happinesse to them if they had in due time sought after it before extreme and endlesse miserie fell vpon them let vs while we haue time being thus forewarned by their lamentable example labour for grace that we may lay hold of it and so through the endlesse mercie of God be for euer happy and blessed men To the which end eueÌ„ with full purpose of our harts let vs in the feare of God in trust of his grace harten harnesse our selues against all the lettes and hinderances Obiections answered which either our owne corrupt hearts or the suggestions of the diuell or any of his instruments shall cast in our way What the vices naturally setled in vs be the which we must auoyd we haue seene in the second chapter of this Treatise and they are briefly gathered together in the end of the chapter We are now to answer the obiections and pretended reasons which from the same euill disposition of our nature flesh and bloud vseth thereby to disswade the liberall practise of Christian beneficence Whereunto is appointed the next Chap. which is the last of the former part of this our treatise CHAP. V. Containing answers to such obiections as flesh and bloud maketh and the diuell suggesteth to the hindering of Christian beneficence THe obiections or pretended reasons whereby many would gladly excuse respite themselues from the practise of Christian beneficence they are either taken from themselues and their owne estate or from the care they haue of their children and posterity or from the vnworthinesse of those to whom they should be beneficiall or else they would excuse one charge by another that is contribution to the poore by the greatnesse of other charges to God and the Prince and charges towards the Church and Ministers of Gods word by the burthen of the poore But whatsoeuer reasons they pretend they shew in the end that it is nothing but an vnmercifull and wilfull hard heart which beareth all the sway in them as will partly appeare by the obiections and answeres following OBIECTION 1. concerning men their owne state Are not the goods which I haue mine owne saith the couetous and vnmercifull man Why then may I not keepe and dispose them to mine owne liking and for mine owne entire and only profite and pleasure ANSWER Be it that they are thine owne in as lawfull and iustifiable a title as may be yet thou must remember from whose diuine prouidence and dispensation thou hast receiued them and on what condition and to what end purpose For God who hath giuen them to thee indeede for thine owne proper vse and comfort he hath made thee also his steward to bestowe a meet and conuenient portion more or lesse according to thy abilitie for the relief benefit of such as stand in need Whereof thou must one day giue a faithfull reckening and account vnto him Moreouer seeing they are thy goods as thou sayest and they be indeed the good gifts and blessings of God thou must haue great care that good things be vsed well yea euen to the best endes that possibly may be If thou doest otherwise apply them thou mayst be sure that the worst will be thine owne in the end Thy goods will change their good nature like sower wine and proue as thornes in thy sides and snares to intangle thy soule to most bitter destruction OBIECTION 2. Though I must needes confesse that I haue those helpes to vphold my estate which many thousands do want yet I cannot tell howe all is little enough to

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