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A57152	The rich mans charge delivered in a sermon at the Spittle vpon Monday in Easter week, 12 April 1658, before the lord major, &c., by Edw. Reynolds.	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1658 (1658)	Wing R1274; ESTC R32284	30,936	58

of Christianity To remember them that are in Bonds as bound with them and them which suffer adversity as being our selves in the body Heb. 13. 3. Thirdly To do it sociably modestly humanely to be not onely bountiful but to adorn both our wealth and our good works with suavity of conversation with meekness placideness and facility of manners with an amiable and communicative deportment towards all men For a Mans very charity may be so morose and austere that tender stomacks may nauseate it as Physick that is wholesome but bitter Give me leave to press this duty upon you which the Apostle doth by so many and emphatical expressions with such considerations as these 1. From the example of God himself who requireth us to imitate him in works of mercy Luke 6. 36. His mercy is in the Heavens Psal. 36. 5. The Earth is full of his goodness Psal. 35. 5. His bounty is over all his works Psal. 145. 9. He punisheth unwillingly Lam. 3. 33. He watcheth to be gracious Isai. 38. 18. He chose mercy and grace as the choisest things to make his name known unto his people by Exod. 34. 6 7. He giveth his Son his Spirit his Love his Grace his Glory Himself unto us and yet his mercy is free he is not by any Law bound thereunto He sheweth mercy to whom he will shew mercy Rom. 9. 18. Whereas we are but his Stewards and have riches as the Sun hath light to disperse to others We have the custody but the comfort belongeth unto others it is called another mans and not our own Luke 16. 12. If a Man were master of the light of the Sun we should esteem him extreamly barbarous and inhumane if he should let it shine onely into his own house Our Money our Bread our Cloathing is as necessary for our poor Brother as the light of the Sun and therefore the inhumanity as great to withhold the one as it would be to monopolize the other Secondly From the example of Christ He was his Fathers Almoner Mercy was his Office It belonged unto him as the Son of David to shew mercy Matth. 9. 27. Mercy was his practise He went about doing good Acts 10. 38. All his miracles were in works of mercy feeding healing raising comforting and though he be now in glory yet he reckoneth the bounty shewed to his members as done to himself Matth. 25. 35 40. A Sacrifice was offered to God though eaten by the Priest and the people and our Alms are called Sacrifices Heb. 13. 16. Phil. 4. 18. The poor onely are benefited but God is honored by them And there is a connexion between his mercy and ours we forfeit his when werestrain our own Math. 5. 7. Jam. 2. 13. And the Argument is strong from his to ours his was to enemies ours to Brethren his to debtors ours to fellow-servants His free-grace to me mine just debt to my Brother Rom. 13. 8. His for ever to me mine but for a moment to my Brother his in Talents to me mine but in Pence to my Brother his in Blood to me mine but in Bread to my Brother his mercy inricheth me mine leaves my Brother poor still If then I live by the mercy which I do enjoy and must be saved by the mercy which I do expect shall so much mercy shine on me and none reflect from me upon my poor Brother shall all the Waters of life run from Christ unto me as those of Jordan into a Dead Sea to be lost and buried there Wherefore doth the Sun shine and the Rain fall on the Earth but that it may be fruitful The mercies of God should be as Dew and hear as manure and culture to the Souls of Men that being thereby inriched they may empty themselves and draw out themselves into the Bowels of others Christ is the Fountain Rich men the conduit and Poor men the Vessels which are there and thence supplied Thirdly From respect to our selves 1. Community of nature we also are in the flesh We thay want mercy from others as others do now from us Who would have thought that David should have stood in need of the Bread of a Churl Good offices between men and men are not duties onely but trade and merchandise I shew them to him now and another time he may shew them to me it is the Apostles argument 2 Cor. 8. 14. 2. A special honor when God makes us instruments of doing good for it is a more blessed thing to give then to receive Acts 20. 35. Mercy is the seed of honor Psal. 112. 9. Prov. 21. 21. Fourthly From respect to our Neighbor to whom we ow this debt of love For there is a debt of Charity as well as a debt of Justice A debt whereby I ow him that which is truly his and a debt whereby I ow him something of that which is mine own And this I do both unto Gods Image in him for every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten 1 John 5. 1. and unto mine own Image for his flesh is as mine own flesh Nehe. 5. 5. He that made me in the Womb made him faith Job Cap. 31. 15. And when I hide my self from him I hide from mine own flesh Isai. 58. 7. Homo sum humanum à me nihil alienum puto Fifthly For the credit of our Reformed Religion that the mouths of adversaries may be stopped who falsly charge us with preaching and you with professing a naked empty fruitless Faith We preach St. Pauls Faith a Faith which works by love remembring your work of Faith We preach St. Peters Faith a Faith which hath vertue and knowledge and temperance and patience and godliness and brotherly kindness and charity added unto it And we tell you with him That if these things be lacking you are blinde and your knowledge is worth nothing so long as it is barren and unfruitful We preach St. James his Faith a Faith which hath works which may be shewed which visiteth the Fatherless and Widows in their afflictions Abrahams Faith that hath a bosome for poor Lazarus Rahabs Faith which had an Harbor for endangered Strangers We preach St. Judes Faith a most holy Faith a Faith delivered to the Saints such a Faith as he who indeed hath it is not a Cloud without Water nor a Tree without Fruit We preach St. Johns Faith to believe on the Name of Christ and to love one another and to shew this love by opening our Bowels of Compassion to our needy Brother and loving him not in Word onely but in Deed and Truth We tell you if you trust in the Lord you must do good If you believe either the truth or the terrors or the promises of God you must not withhold the poor from their desire nor cause the eye of the Widow to fail This is the Faith we preach this the Charge we give We tell you without this your Faith is Hypocrital your Religion

you humbly-minded the more of Heaven in any minde the more of Humility Not to trust in riches not to let his gifts be used to his own degrading Who would trust in an unstable thing which he cannot keep Riches are uncertain in a false thing which he cannot credit Riches are deceitful in a nothing which is not He that trusts in riches makes them an Idol and an Idol is nothing in this world Who would trust in a Dead Idol that hath a Living God to trust in who would trust in an useless nothing who hath a Bountiful God who gives all things to trust in You have another charge To do good to be rich in good works to do them chearfully to do them diffusively And though God might stop at the charge his soveraignty and dominion would bear him out to command you onely yet being full of love and mercy he is pleased to encourage as well as command you He encourageth you antecedenter by that which goes before your duty his own example he encourageth you consequenter by that which follows after your duty his great reward his example you have he gives you do but lend he gives you do but render back to him of his own He gives to you all things the Earth empties into your Coffers her Silver and her Gold the Pastures send you in Cattel the Fields Corn the Sea Fish the Air Fowl one Country sends you in Wine and another Spices one Silks and another Furrs one Delicates another Ornaments He gives you the light of the Sun the influences of the Stars the protection of Angels the Righteousness of his Son the Graces of his Spirit the Hope of his Glory He gives you Himself and his own Alsufficiency for your portion And now if Heaven and Earth be all if Grace and Glory be all if God and Christ be all he hath given you all things richly to enjoy for many of these gifts bring their joy and fruition with them So the Example far exceeds the Imitation you lend you do not give you lend some thing you do not give all things you lend to the necessities of your Brother you do not give to his delights and replenishment you cloath him you do not adorn him you feed him you do not fill much less pamper him This is one encouragement A great Example You have another encouragement A full Reward good measure shaken together pressed down running over into your bosoms You give money God gives life you things uncertain which you could not keep but by giving God gives a Foundation Mansions a City which hath Foundations The sure mercies of David You lay out to your Brother God lays up for you you give perishing things to your Brother God an abiding an abounding life to you you a Cottage or a Coat to your Brother God a Kingdom and a Crown to you you such things to your Brother which neither you nor he can keep God such things to you which when once laid hold on you cannot lose So this double encouragement sets on the duty by a threefold love If you love God imitate his example be merciful as he is merciful If you love your Brother refresh his Bowels make his Back and Belly your repositories He can repay you with Prayers and Prayers are as good as Gold If you love your selves do what the most covetous man would do lay up lay up for your selves not onely for your heirs your children it may be for strangers for enemies Lay up surely that which you may lay hold on that which will stay by you a Foundation Lay up for the future that which Time which Death which Rust Moth Theif cannot take away for life which is more worth then wealth for eternal life which is more durable then wealth If you do not thus by your wealth lay up a Foundation unto Eternal life your thick Clay will load you with many sorrows and drown you in destruction and perdition You have your wealth for this end you have your life and salvation with this homage and quit-rent upon it If you do not give you shall not live if you do not do good you shall not receive good if you do not lay out you shall not lay up Here is your option keep your money and perish with it return it unto Heaven and be gainers by it If you love God or your Neighbor or your selves or your very riches themselves do good be rich in good works you do not onely comfort your Brother but you keep your God you save your selves you lengthen your lives you preserve your estates unto all eternity FINIS a Aquin. part 1. qu. 1. art 4. Scholastici in Prolog. Sentent b John 17. 3. Ephes. 4. 13. c Marth. 7. 21. Jam. 1. 22. John 13. 17. d Tit. 1. 1. Eph. 4. 20 21. e Ezek. 1. 8 13 16 18. f Aug. de Civ. Dei l. 19. c. 25. De Nupt. Concupisc l. 1. c. 3. Contr. 2. ep. Pelag. l. 3. cap. 5. Contr. Julian Pelag. lib. 4. cap. 3. g Aug. Tom. 4. lib. de Fide oper. cap. 14. ad Simplician quaest. 2. h Aug. de Trin. l. 15. c. 18. Qualis est illa confessio quae sic Deo credit ut pro nihilo ejus ducat imperium aut quomodo ex animo ac verè dicimus Domine Domine si ejus quem Dominum confitemur praecepta contemnimus Inter Christianum Gentilem non fides tantùm debet fed etiam vita distinguere Hier. Epist. ad Gelantiam de ratione Piè vivendi i Heb. 12. 14. 10. 36. Vide Davenant de Justitia Actuali cap. 30. 31. Gal. 5. 6. 1 Thes. 1. ●3 1 Tim. 1. 5. Tit. 3. 8. Matth. 24. 6 12. Prov. 3. 9. Isai. 23. 18. * Cuncta malefacta sibi impunè ratus Tacit. Annal. 1. 12. Per omnem saevitiam libidinem jus Regium servili ingenio exercuit Hist. lib. 5. Sueton in Claudio cap. 28. Prov. 11. 24. Psal. 49. 17. Revel. 14. 13. Eccles. 11. 1. Prov. 23. 5. Luke 12. 20. * Servili pretio venditus Matth. 26 15. Exod 21. 32. Zach. 11. 12 13. Cod. lib. 7. Tit. 7. Vide Casaub. exercit in Baron Anno. 34. numb. 15. Servili supplicio affectus Lips de Cruce lib. 1. c. 12. Heb. 4. 12. Psal. 45. 5. Isai 49. 2. Psal. 29. 4 5. 2 Cor. 10. 4 5. 1 King 21. 27. Acts 24. 25. Mark 6. 20. Isai. 53. 1. 2. Cor. 5. 20. Acts 2. 29. 4. 13. Eph. 6. 19. Tit. 2. 15. Vide Aug. epist 54. Rom. 11. 13. Luke 1. 17. Jere. 15. 19. 1 Thes. 2. 4. 2 Tim. 2. 9. Mic. 2. 7. August de Catechisandis Rudibus cap. 15. Vossii Hist. Pelag. lib. 5. Thes. 2. * {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} c. Clem. Alex. Strom. 1. 3. p. 327. E. 328 A. Edit. Heinsianae Volens arguere Divitem illum Dominus noster quasi non vera dicentem Dixit ad eum Si vis perfectus esse vade vende omnia quae possides da pauperibus Sic enim apparebis dicere verum si dilexsti aut diligis proximum tuum sicut teipsum Orig. Tract. 8. in Matth. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Theoph. Hunc ex lege insolentem solicitum de salute remittit ad legem ut inea ipsa in qua gloriaretur intelligeret nihil exinde recti operis fecisse c. Hilar. in Matth. Can. 19. Vide Otat. Basilii in ditescentes Tom. 1. p. 403 407. Puto quod arrogantius quàm verius servasse se mandata responderat Aug. Ep. 89. Adolescens dives superbus mentitur dicendo Omina haec servavi Hieron. Vide Mede Diatrib 4. pag. 142 143. Davenant de Justit Actuali cap. 44. Martial lib. 4. ep. 13. Baron An. 58. Sect. 56. Xenophon Cyropaed 1. 8. Vide Greg. Tholof de Rep. 1. 3. c. 9. * Vide Budaeum de Asse 1. 2. fol. 50. lib. 3. fol. 83. 1. 4. fol. 98 99 100. Lipsi de Magnitud Rom. 1. 2. c. 15. Brierwood de Nummis cap. 19. Athenaeus l. 12. Psal. 49. 17. Eccles. 5. 16. Job 1. 21. 1 Tim. 6. 7. Eccles. 1. 4. Job 7. 10. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Ninus apud Athenaeum lib. 12. cap. 7. Psal. 17. 14. 73. 7. Job 21. 13. Isai 5. 8. Hab. 2. 5 6. Eccles. 9. 1. Eccles. 9. 4. John 6. 27. Jam. 5. 3. Jere. 13. 18. Dan. 2. 21. 7. 9. Isai 2. 13 16. Zech. 11. 2. Isai. 45. 3. Obad v. 6. Psal. 112. 6 7. Prov. 18. 10. Isai. 26. 3 4. Prov. 14. 34. Athenaeus l. 12. c. ult. Aquin 1a 2ae qu. 40. art 1. Vide Gatak Cinnum lib. 1. c. 8. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Eurip. Electra Josh. 7. 21. 2 Kings 5. 23. 1 King 21. 15. Jere. 22. 14. Psal. 35. 9. Luke 12. 15. Match 4. 4. Dan. 1. 15. Psal. 78. 27 31. Psal. 115. 16. Hag. 2. 8. Deut. 8. 16. Prov. 10. 22. Eccles. 9. 11. 1 Cor. 4. 7. 1 Chro. 29. 14. Ezra 2. 69. Acts 11. 29. Gal. 5. 6. 1 Thes. 1. 3. 2 Pet. 1. 5 7. Jam. 2. 2 14 18 21 25. Jude v. 3. 12 20. ● John 3. 17 18 23. Psal. 37. 3. Job 31. 16 23. Synopfis Papismi Edit. 5. P. 1223-1232 a Si amicus tuus intraret in domum tuam inveniret te in loco humido frumenta posuisse daret tibi hujusmodi consilium dicens Frater perdis quod cum magno labore Collegisti in loco humido posuisti paucis diebus ista putrescent Et quid facio frater Leva in Superiora Audi●es amicum suggerentem ut frumenta Levares de inferioribus ad superiora non audis Christum monentem ut thesaurum tuum Leves de terra ad Caelum Aug. in Psal. 148. b Sam. Petiti Var. Lect. l. 1. c. 11. Prov. 23. 5. 1 Cor. 8. 4.