at the S P I T T L E, they piety licde,and the crampe or chiragr~.into their h~nds,rhar rheygi:VeJeffe. Ano– ther, chat ~urpreaching h_arh bred your mmds full of Sa/gmons hodleecnes, that cry 6ringin, brl.l'gm,andnorhmg el[e. All ofthem fay,that your g\)od workes come fo from you, as ifindeed your religio~ were, t? be Cavedhy faitbondy. T:hus through you, and through want of your domg good, theGoffell of CH x r s T u evi/1Jioken if among them that Are without. They fay,we call not ro youforche~ :that we preach not this·point, that we leave them out of our Charges. LtberoAntmammeam, I deli– ver heremineowne loule: I doeno.w call for them;I have done it el[e;yhere yer now. Here,! call fort hem pow,I take v.:icneffe,I call you to record,! call heaven to record; Dominefcit qniadixi; jhr qr<i~ loaut~U fum, fcit qr<ia clamavi: .Lord, thou knowell:,l haveJloken for them, !:haveea/ledfor them, I havecryedfor them,I have made them a pm ofmy charge, ~nd the moll: earnell:arid vehement part ofmycharge, even the charge ofdoinggood. . . . . . . Vnto you therefore that berichbe it fpdken; heare your charge I pray you. There is no avoiding,you muftneedsfeale this fruit ofwell-doing, you mull: needs doe it:For, havingwealthand wherewithal! toduegood, ifyou doe it not; Imprimis, talkenot of faith,for you have no faith in you; ifyou have wherewith oJbew if, and fhew it nor, SAint lames faith, you have none ~o·fhew. Nor, tell me not ofyour religiun, there is no religion in you ~ Pure religion it thit (as to very good purpofe was lhewed_yell:er- ran;.. ;,, 1 ; day)To vifite thefatherlejfe and1vidowes : and you never learoed other religion ofus. ·· Secopdly, ifyou doe it not,I warne you of it, now ; you fhall thenfindeir, when ~ you fhallnever be abl~te anfwer the exaCling ofthis charge,in the great Day: \Vhere, the quefiion fl1all not be ofrhehighne!Jeor lowneffe ofyour mindes, not ofyourtruft and confidence, or any other venues, though they be excellent, but ofyourfeeding, chthing, vijiting, harbouring, fuccouring, and in a word, of your weU-dPing, onely. This Hay eo you"; beare wirneffe !fay it. . : . . Nowtothem, in your jull:defence I fay: (for, Godforbid; butwhil;:Ilive, I lhouldalway defend this Honourable Citie in all truth:) to them whom the mill: of enviehath fo bliaded,that they can fee no good at all done, but by themfelves,I for– bid them, the bell: of them, tofhew meeinRhemesorinRPmeorany popilh Citie Chrill:en, fuch a fhew, as wehave feene herethefetw.odaies. To day, but a handfull ofthe heape,but Yefierday and onMunday, the wholeheape; even a mighty armie . of fo manygood.Vorkes as there were relieved orphanes, the chariotsofthis Citie, I • King;~; i~. doubt.not, and thehor(emen thereof. , . . They will fay, it is but one ;fo they fay : Be it fo,yet it is ama1chleffe one. I will goefurther withthem·;Spokenbeitto Go os glory,Nonnobit Domine,mn nobit,fed rihl.l!.!·~; 1\omini Tuudaglurilim. Not unto ~M, ngtuntomo Lord, butunto'IhyNamegivethe prai{e,for thy loving mercy andfor thy trrethesfake which weprofejfe. I will be able to prove, that LeAming, in the foundation of Schooles andencreafe ofrevenues within eo/ledges; and the FQore, in foundation ofAlmts.hPufes, and encreafe ofperpetuities to them, have received great~!~' helpe in this Realme withinthefef6rtyyeares lafi pall:, lince (not, the ll:arting up ofour Church, as they fondly ufe to fpeake, but lince) the reforming·ours from the errour oftheirs, than it hath, I lay, in any R:ealme Chrill:en, not only within the felfe fameforty yeares(which were enough to ftop their mouthes) bur alfothanit harhin anyforty yeamupward, during all the time ofPupery: which Hpeake, partlyofmine owneknowledge, and partly by futlicient grave information to this behalfe• . This may be faid, and[aidtruly. And when we have faid this, what great thing have we laid nhat, timeforrirne; fo rriany yeares forfo many; thirty yeareiot light have rriade comparifon with thirty 1tAres oftrouble. But, this is not as we would have it : We would have it out ofall comparifon. This, thathath been [aid, is ll:rangeto them (I know)and more, than they.reckoned of. But I would have you in thefe times ofpeace and truth, fo farre beyond them, as that youmight~,"~"'' fnafjle them in this. So, that they durll: not •Pct-~_st; ·, once offer to enterinto this theame with us, or once to mention it more. So it fhould be, Iamfure, fo the Goj}ell dcferves to have it~
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