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A63883	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable Sir Henry Tulse, Lord Mayor of the city of London and the court of aldermen, together with the governors of the hospitals at the parish-church of St. Bridget, on Easter Monday, March 31, 1684 by the Right Reverend Father in God Francis Lord Bishop of Rochester ...	Turner, Francis, 1638?-1700.	1634 (1634)	Wing T3284; ESTC R38919	18,664	40

prove there 's a Life to come so that a Man shall say verily there is a Reward for the Righteous then such a Life and such a Reward once prov'd is the strongest Argument in the World and the most persuasive to the Practice of such Good-Works only to mention this Argument of a Recompense at the Resurrection were Charity never so cold were sufficient to raise it up from the dead again to think that many a poor Good Man whom you have seen frozen almost to Death this last hard Winter and have supplyed him with the means to warm him till his loyns blest you many a Blind Maimed or Lame whom you have as it were led by the hand out of his present misery shall one day become a Guide to you as you were to him formerly that he shall have the Agility of a Spirit and the discerning power of a Spirit of a Just Man made perfect to behold you coming toward the place of Bliss and to call you as the good Angel did the Apostle Come up hither if this will not prevail with you to Call the Poor and give them a little Comfort in this World nothing will ever move you this is that Powerful Motive our Saviour uses to make our Selves friends in Heaven by giving Alms upon Earth that when we fail they may receive us that the Heirs of Salvation may be allowed and sent forth by God to meet us when we enter into the New World that they may Conduct us into their Everlasting Habitations for as St. Chrysostom Argues upon that place If we go to a strange City we need a Guide much more to another World when the Soul is torn away from the Body the staff upon which it lean'd then it has Dreads and Horror say he when it quits this Flesh And if you will forgive me the laying of one Quotation upon another St. Cyprian speaks so pathetically to the same Purpose De Morta●ltat● how they shall welcome us into the Other World for whom we had Charity or Kindness in this that with a Lively Description and Discourse of His since I cannot with a better I shall Conclude mine Who is there say he who being to sayl homeward to his Friends does not make wishes for a prosperous Gale that he may quickly embrace those whom he loves so dearly Let us account that Paradice is our Country as we have look'd upon the Patriarchs to be our Parents why do we not hasten and move forward apace to see that Country of ours and salute those Parents there are a vast number of Persons very dear unto us that expect us our Forefathers our Brethren our Children a numerous Company that long for our coming to them being secure of their own and still solicitous for our Imortality to see them again and grow into Embraces with them How will it Affect and Transport both us and them what kind of Bless is there in those Heavenly Kingdoms which consists with no fear of Dying with an Assurance of Living Eternally there is the Apostles glorious Quire there the Prophets honourable Senate there the Legions of Crowned Martyrs that Dyed and Suffer'd Valiantly there the Triumphant Virgins that have subdued and tamed by the mighty hand of Continence the Carnal Desires of the Body there the merciful Men who have dealt their Doles and Largesses to the Poor and Needy Let us hasten away to these wing'd with a fervent desire to be with these to be with Christ Let this be the Aim of all our wishes Let God see such thoughts in us Let Christ see the Travail of our Souls the Intent of our Faith who will assuredly give them larger Rewards whose Souls are more enlarged toward Heaven and Eternity Now unto the King Eternal Immortal c.

it was Lawful for him to keep up some port and to abide in a Condition of sometimes making a Feast Nor can I think it unlawful for you that are Managers of useful Bounties to keep up the Honour of this Renowned City as well as you are Stewards and Governours of Publick Charitys that you maintain these your Hospitable Feasts to encourage more such Charitable Benefactions by the memorial of those whose Names are as precious Oyntment nor will I go about to stint the Allowance of your domestick friendly Meetings by the Fannian Law which permitted the Citizens of Rome in the height and flourishing of their Empire to spend no more at a Feast and the Sempronian Law no more at a Marriage Feast than would amount to a Crown of the Sun in the modern Coin I will not presume to contract your Entertainments by so strict Laws as those any more than I would confine your Estates by that Agrarian Law which the Common-wealths-men that wou'd gladly have a share in your Lands would fain introduce upon you But tho' I do not prescribe to your Liberality at the Table hitherto shalt thou go and no further for abundantly enough and to spare is allow'd to a Feast as our Blessed Lord approv'd by his own Practice when he Treated the Multitude there were taken up of the Fragments twelve Baskets full tho' I do not offer to set you such bounds as you shall not pass in your Civil Entercourses yet I must needs Add there is danger enough when the Rich do but Feast one another else it wou'd never have been given in Caution When thou shalt have Eaten and art full then beware lest thou forget the Lord whom they are least apt to remember who lye upon Beds of Ivory and stretch themselves upon their Couches and Eat the Lambs out of the Flock and the Calves out of the midst of the stall that drink Wine in Bowls but they are not grieved for the Affliction of Joseph there is hazard also of feeding the disease of our nature too worldly Affections in Treating our Friends and Relations The first great Feast we Read of was Gen. xxi A better Man than he that made it or a juster Occasion of Feasting could scarce have been found Abraham the Father of Isaack and of all the Faithful kept it in Token of Gratitude to God for the Son of his Old Age and the Heir of Promise yet it prov'd of Melancholy Consequence it ended in Abraham's Sorrow and Ishmael's Banishment But if our Feasts bear no resemblance with the Ancient Feasts of Charity if there be no Consideration had of the Empty Souls while we have enough and to spare if God were Angry with his Peoples Fasts in Isaiah for want of Alms joyn'd with them then how much more will he be with our Feasts if we let our Brethren starve while we are indulging our selves But if to keep far enough from that uncharitable wasting Sin as Divines call it we aim at Charity in an Heroick Degree Christ here chalks out the way to it When thou makest a Feast Call the Poor that is make it sometimes on purpose to Solace and Relieve them wherein there is First imply'd a Seasonable Advice for those who have not the Courage to give as long as they have the Power to keep any thing but talk of Bequeathing much when it shall be no longer their own they are Fools if they do not know what they Tempt those whom they pinch to wish and pray for and they are the greater Fools if they deny the Poor and themselves too yet so do most of the Covetous but he that Counsels us here to Feast the Poor intends we should do it before there is nothing lest us but to feast the Worms I confess if men have a fixt and sincere Intention of giving all in a lump to some very great and good Work for which they gather God may be honour'd by such a whole free-will Offering from them Living or Dying but yet 't is surer a great deal which is so given already as to be without power of a Revocation 't is safer to distribute with your own hands than to trust in others what you could not obtain of your selves to perform 't is greater consolation to see with your own Eyes so many of your good Works upon the sile and it is more efficacious than any thing to encrease your Charity or even to inflame it when the Head the Hand the Heart is constantly exercised and yet never weary of well-doing This is to keep up a Trade of Charity where it may be truly said that the light Gains make the heavy Purse continual Acts of Mercy and spreading our Alms thin on many lesser Objects of our Compassion This is most properly Sowing and sowing plenteously 't is laying up a growing Treasure in Heaven 't is gathering to ones self a good Reward against the Day of Necessity and think what a folly it is to leave the Torch behind one being to go through a dark and dismal Passage what madness to leave what thou lovest so well in the place from whence thou art going instead of sending it before to that abiding City Again When thou makest a Feast Call the Poor it supposes a carefulness for them a double-diligence first to find out and invite them then to receive and refresh them This is so extremely far from turning away thy face front any Poor Man as rather to travel in quest of such pitiful Objects this is what David calls Considering the Poor and Needy Laying out our Thoughts for them and sending out our Messengers as did the Venerable Hospitable and Charitable Old Man When I saw abundance of Meat said Tobit I said to my Son go and bring what Poor Man soever thou shalt find out of our Brethren who is mindful of the Lord. Again to Feast them means to Relieve them Plentifully tho' it does not mean a Miser's Feast for one Luxurious Meal nor should the Poor be Treated with meats compounded and metamorphos'd by the Rules of Irregular Gluttony yet let it be a Feast a frugal one but still a Feast to them enough to satisfie the Soul of the Hungry should be sometimes prepar'd on purpose for them and thus has God provided for them that some of the best and most delicious Meats are the very cheapest and easiest to be had since it was not only the Privilege of the Land of Promise but a Common Blessing almost upon all Lands to flow with Milk and Honey Again When thou makest a Feast Call the Poor and if this can hardly be done so silen●ly but that some little Notice will be taken of it then be not Asham'd of seeming to do that Good which really thou do'st as this is a common Fault now Piety is driven into Corners and Charity it self is become a pusillanimous a blushing thing before the Men of a Giant-like mind who make a mock of Sin and of Virtue too nor be