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A13272 Sermons vpon solemne occasions preached in severall auditories. By Humphrey Sydenham, rector of Pokington in Somerset. Sydenham, Humphrey, 1591-1650? 1637 (1637) STC 23573; ESTC S118116 163,580 323

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the hands Gods Word is often in Scripture compar'd to a Sword and a Sword how can a tongue brandish without a hand And therefore the sweet Singer of Israell sayes of the children of Syon that they had Exultationes Dei in gutture gladium hipennem in manu not only the high praises of God in their mouth but a two edged sword in their hand Psal 149.6 And upon this hint belike it was that Christ grounded his Fac hoc vives not Teach this but Doethis and thou shalt-live And therfore your Praedicants of old were called Operarios quia opere magis quam ore praedicare debent as Stella glosses that mittet Operarios suos in messem Luke 10.6 As there was but now a verball and morall kinde of feeding so here a corporall Temporali subsidio Before by Instruction and Example now by Distribution There Practice must confirme our doctrine here Charity our practise And this is Saint Pauls super omnia induimini his vinculum perfectionis Col. 3. The chiefe part of that religion which Saint James calls pura immaculata first Visite the Fatherlesse and the Widow in their affliction relieve them and then the other will follow thou shalt keepe thy selfe unspotted of the World James 1.21 All our profession of sincerity without this is but a tincling Christianity no better then the Apostles Cymball or his sounding brasse Let our congregations ring of justification by Faith only you know who tells you without worke Psal 51.14 Faith is a dead faith Iames 2.17 He that giveth us tongues to sing aloud of his Righteousnesse doth also teach our hands to warre for him and our singers to battle Our Actions fight more for our religion then our words can Psal 144.1 Hee is a Rector indeed saith Saint Augustine that doth as well refresh the hungry with the crummes of his table as feede the ignorant with the bread of his knowledge D. Aug. 13. de div ersis Libenter audit'e jus linguam loquentem cujus expect at dextram porrigentem Let then our Hospitality preach as well as our Pulpit our Almes edify no lesse then our Doctrine Nature doubtlesse intonded nothing superfluous or in vaine so that Optimus Dispensator est quisibinith l reservat S. Hieron ad Nepot Ep. 7. God allotting us two hands and but one tongue would have us distribute as well as talke communicate by our substance as by our knowledge where the mouth is alwaies open and the bowells shut wee have just cause to suspect that mans religion for imperfect seeing God is a God of compassion as wel as jelousie Betweene three Sermons a weeke and but one Almes in an age there is no proportion Let us as well fill the poore mans Belly as his Eares that is the way to glorify God and thanke us I cannot but grieve at the Savagenesse of those dispositions that for bread sometimes give but a stone for a Fish a Scorpion a house of correction instead of an Hospitall a Whip for an Almes Blessed are the mercifull for they shall obtaine mercy and by the same reason Cursed are the mercilesse for they shall finde no mercy If I am thus unnaturall to my Brother whom I daily see what respect can I have to my God whom I never saw An Angell tells Cornelius that his Almes were come up as a memoriall before the Lord. God doth not only take notice of our charityes Acts 10.4 but inroles them A cup of cold water given in his name doth not lose a reward a reward no not a crowne wee have his owne word for it I was hungry Matth. 25.35 and yee gave mee meate I was thirsty and yet gave mee drinke what is the end of these Their Righteousnesse shall goe into life eternall Math. 25.46 God grant that wee may bee all of us Pastors according to his Heart that wee may so feed our flocks with the spirituall and the temporall bread here that they with us may bee hereafter fed with the Eternal Bread the celestiall Manna the Food of Angells in the Kingdome of Heaven To which the Lord bring us for his Christs sake Amen Amen Gloria in Excelsis Deo FINIS Perlegi has Conciones in quibus nihil reperio sanae fidei aut bonis moribus contrarium ideoque dignas judico quae Typis mandentur THOMAS WYKES R. P. Episc Lond. Cap. domest Lond. July 10. 1637.