• Pr:u:.-'5· '•· I ~ Sermon prellchec/ - For indeed, it is not layingup, Saint Paul findeth fa~ not kuitdi!'g,or ,obtaining,or purchaflng; all which rhr~e are fl'ecified, andthe~ 1ejJ/ fpeakedt myour ownctermes,and the thmgs you ch1eflydehght in :bur,thet PP · ~ int~ejlejh, whi~hwill rot, and withit wharfoever is laid up with it ; orin th?:flj wh1ch 1s fo vanable now,andwli' pe confumed all to nought, and with it wharf, ' is laid up inir. But, be \YOU!d have us to lay it up inheaven; which(befidesth~ever o~rownecou,~trcy,and this but a fiqnge land) is the place,whither wepall'eleav1t0~ tlus place beh1nde ; and from whence w,e mufi never pa!fe, qut fray here, and eithe~ for ever want, or have ufe forever of that, we parr with here. And tofayrruth Vt quidrejficimtu i'_ With what face ea~ welookeup andlooke~ponheaven, where~e have lat1~p nothtng ; or_what entertainmentcan weh.ope for there, whither we have (entno part ofour provllion? but for ought ofour fendmg,the placds cleaneempty~ You will fay; ~owcan one reach heave~ to ~·Y any thing ther~ ~ Iwjll aske yo~ alfo another quefi1on: How can amanbemg mFrance, reachmto4ngt 1 ndtoby any thing th,ere ~ By exchange•. And did you gever hea.re ofour exchange, c 4 m6ium cte11fe r You know,that to avmd the danger ofPtrates, and the mconvenienceoffor– ren Coine,not currant at home, it is the ufeofMerchams topay it there,to receive it here.~uch a thing is_therein this laying !If. We are h_ere as flrangers .:r~e place where , wew1lh our [elves, IS our Country, evenParadjfe (tffo be, wefendour carriagerhi~ rher before ; ifnor, l fearc? we !nrencj fame oth~r place : it is not our counrrey.). Wh~n we llpll take our way thither, thorow the way ofall llefh, through death,' c.erramely we lofe all·? he finps every one, he !ayes hold of: and put cafe; we could getthorow With all Oljr bagges; here it is Currant (for it is thccoineofthe world •) b'ur, there it is bafe, an_dgoeth for noug?t; what !hall we thendoe~ .fR&tre nmfac~? Why deale you not w1th exchange, paymg here fo much,to have fo much repaid you there. Adires trapezit,u, you ll10uld goe to the Bankers: whobe rhofe ~Cum qu.efi:. 'Veris,whenyou have fought all,Pauperesfunt f4mtf~res,they be the poore: Dapat~pe. ribu. & accipies thef4umm. Where is our bill~ ~od, velquantum tmi. Vl{hp wiU repay it~ Ego refofval/' : T{ec repettt merceder11,[ei dat mercedem. What~ refufe you to rake C H R I s -r s bill~ if you dare trufi your fervants'without feare oflofiag; ifyou rrufi you'r Lo 1t n,feare you to lofe ~ If them, ofwhom you receive norhiag, but, theyofyou; whar, not Him ofwhom earfi you profelfed ro receive all things~ If C H ,.. r s T bee of credit, and heaven be not rtopi11; if we t~inke there is fuch a life after this, we fhall ever have to doe there,Layup here. Thinke, it is alaying up. Vpon the beleeving of this one word, the weight of doing and not doing, ·all the Text lyeth. · Wh~flwe re~ouqtour goqd deeds, we commonly fay, For him, and for him,we haye do~e this and that;It is true, faith Saint l'atd. That good youdoe,youdoe for them,ar\d for your{elves too: but more,foryoterfelves than for them. Tol~tyup,and to Jpeg9~4; yea,_ro others; l:J_ay,togo y<?ur felves good,to lay upfor JourJe.lv_es. Before, you thought lt fcattering, 1t wasmdeed laysng up: Now, you thmke, 1t1~forrhem; it is,foryou, andyo11rfakes, Godcommandeth lt. Go o hath no need of you to feed the poore ; No need of theWidow ro feed Eliac,Hecould ll:ill have fed him byRavens : and as He fed Eliacby one; focould He them, by others, or other meanes, and never fend them to Sareptaamong you. He could have created fufficiem for all men; orfo few men, as all fhould have beene fufficienr for them. Hee wouldnot: He ordered, therefhouldeverbepoomlilthe Land : Why ~ To prove them· ~ and roprove you by them: that, Hee whtch_feederh you, might feed them by you; that your (uperjlnities might bethmneceJ!.ams: ~hat t)ley of theirpatience, inwanting ; ~nd you, of your liberalitiemfu~portmg,.mtght qoth togerher,ofHim t·har made you both, receive reward. Thej1 With you, myour hofomes there,as here :a good light iri heaven, and a good light 10 earth. For fure, thqe!hall never b'earich man in heaven, without a Lar:.artu in his bofome. '!here– fore, we have need ofthem, as they have need ofus; yet, that, we make thetrs, rec maineth ours fiill. · Ir /
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