Sixthly, Let me press upon London, the example of London, an easy Argument, One would think, to desire you to be like your selves. I might make a large recital of great and public Works of Piety done by this famous City: I might mention multitudes of ample Munificencies and Benefactions, by very many worthy Members thereof, ⟨p. 43⟩since the Reformation, whereby they have refuted the calumnies cast upon our Religion by Papists, as if it made us careless of Good works. A large Catalogue hath been made of them to mine hand by a Learned Writer, Dr. Andrew Willet, to the 1honour of God, and credit of our Religion. I shall content my self to give you a report of the general sum, which upon computation, he telleth us, doth amount in the space of Sixty years, unto above Six hundred thousand pounds. So that by an equal distribution, through the whole time, this famous City did allow Ten thousand pounds per annum, for Threescore years together unto Works of Piety and Charity (besides all which was done in a private and unobserved way.) An example, I believe, hardly to be paralleled in any City under the Roman Jurisdiction. More then Forty Hospitals built, above Twenty Free Schools, besides Granaries, Conduits, Waterworks, Loans to poor Workmen, Exhibitions to poor Scholars, Churches, Munificent gifts to the Universities and Colleges there; so that I may say unto you, as Paul to the Thessalonians, touching Brotherly love, You need not that I speak unto you, for you have been taught of God; only I beseech you, That you abound more and more, 1 Thes. 4. 9, 10. That you may receive the same honourable Testimony and Memorial from Christ, which the Church of Thyatira hath received, I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works, (they are twice mentioned) and the last to be more then the first, Revel. 2. 19. ⟨p. 44⟩Be not weary of welldoing, in due time you shall reap, if you faint not, Gal. 6. 9. Lose not the things which ye have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward, 2 John v. 8. And this leads me to the last consideration, viz.
Sixthly, Let me press upon London, the example of London, an easie Argument, One would think, to desire you to be like your selves. I might make a large recital of great and publick Works of Piety done by this famous City: I might mention multitudes of ample Munificencies and Benefactions, by very many worthy Members thereof, ⟨p. 43⟩since the Reformation, whereby they have refuted the calumnies cast upon our Religion by Papists, as if it made us careless of Good works. A large Catalogue hath been made of them to mine hand by a Learned Writer, Dr. Andrew Willet, to the 1honor of God, and credit of our Religion. I shall content my self to give you a report of the general sum, which upon computation, he telleth us, doth amount in the space of Sixty years, unto above Six hundred thousand pounds. So that by an equal distribution, through the whole time, this famous City did allow Ten thousand pounds per annum, for Threescore years together unto Works of Piety and Charity (besides all which was done in a private and unobserved way.) An example, I believe, hardly to be parallel'd in any City under the Roman Jurisdiction. More then Forty Hospitals built, above Twenty Free Schools, besides Granaries, Conduits, Waterworks, Loans to poor Workmen, Exhibitions to poor Scholers, Churches, Munificent gifts to the Universities and Colledges there; so that I may say unto you, as Paul to the Thessalonians, touching Brotherly love, You need not that I speak unto you, for you have been taught of God; onely I beseech you, That you abound more and more, 1 Thes. 4. 9, 10. That you may receive the same honorable Testimony and Memorial from Christ, which the Church of Thyatira hath received, I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works, (they are twice mentioned) and the last to be more then the first, Revel. 2. 19. ⟨p. 44⟩Be not weary of weldoing, in due time you shall reap, if you faint not, Gal. 6. 9. Lose not the things which ye have wrought, but that ye receive a full reward, 2 John v. 8. And this leads me to the last consideration, viz.
- 1Synopfis Papismi. Edit. 5. P. 1223-1232
