at the S P I T T L. E, It likerhrhe HoLY G Ho s or, as to rermeour preac~ingourfeed/orotern:e • Cor. g. f . yourwealth, your feed. The feed, rhe husbandman cafistr, thcgrotmdrcce 1 vcs 1 r: · Whofeisit ~ rhegrotmd's r No, rhe.husbandmans. And, though it be call: out of his hands, and rot in rhebowelsoftheearth, andcomeronorhing, andrhere b~comes of it, no mancantellwhat, yet, this count hemakerh, irishisfiill. and rhat every graine ~vill bring ~im an ea~e, arrime ofthe yea~e ;_andCo, rhar ~e bath; in calling it trom htm, fiored tt up for htmfelfe~ Whereas, mtoohfhly lovmg it (as many doe their wealth) he might ~ave fl:ored it up for wormes and mufiine!fe, and by rhat mcanes indeed havdo!t it for altogether. Thefeed is your ill!tJeS: Tbeground is thepoore : YouaretheSowers. Whenir is therefore fowen among them, how it is [pent, or what becomes ofir, you know not: yet, rhis you know, and may reckon ; that at the fulne!fc oftime, atthe hAr.veft ofthe endofthe world, for every graine of umporall contribution, you _{hall receive an eare ofeternal! retribution. Whereas, ftoring it up here, it may afteryour deceafe be fl:ored for harlots, andgameflers, and rioters,in whofe hands it fi1all corrupt and putrific, and your [elves lofe the fruit theroffor ever. By this comparifon you may know, that when you are dealing forthe poorc, it is your owne buGneffc, you intend :that, not forgetting them, you remem- . beryo11rftlves; pitying them, you havepilieony~urorvne foules, and that yoNr labDitr t Cor. •i· sa.; lhall not be in vaine in the Lord. · Men ufeto reafon with themfelvcs; it will not alwayes be hea!th,let us lay up fo~ fickneffe;it will not a!way be youth, for age: and why not (faith Saint Fat~l) it will ~ ndt a!way be this life, not alway prcfent life, lay "Pfory~ur[elves ag4inft thelifeto "' come. In this place,here,we lhallnot be alwayes, but in another ofour eternal! abode. This rime,rhat is, will nor be alwayes; bur fuch atimewill come, as in which, that \ve call a theufand yeam,lhall be no more thana day, now. That place and rhat time Pfal.;o.~: would be thought of: and good wifdomdr will be, for aman to forget w'hat heeis, · and to weigh what he lhall be. Surely, for any prefent matter G,o o didn~make us ; Sedadnefcioquidaliud, to foinefurcher matter yet to come. Not yetprefem: as yet,inpromife, not yet in performance;asyerin hope, not in poffeffion. I know, that even in rhis place the Loa o doth reward,andlhcweth us plainly,rhat Dateand Dabittlr are two twins : We our [elves have by good trial! found it true ; when our careful! Date and provifion for the poore !aft yeare(aveone, wasrequitedinpr..- fenti with agreat Dabittlrofrhelall: yeares eocreafe. But rhis is bur an&c. making• nothing to themaine promife which is ro come, which our S A v 1 o u a would ne- Luke .S.rf; ircrhave out of our eye; Habetis h£c, here you haveyourcomforr, Ha!Jeteillit have it rh~reroo, for here you cannot ever have ir. For the prefenr time, you have officers and fervants ro w~ite on you; iri rherime to come, none will accompanyyou,all will leave you,when to thegrave rhey havebrought you,favemercy ondy;none will wait or make roome, but Dptrti torilm, your workes which you have here laid 11pforthi timeto tthHe, The Scripture fpeaketh of this life, an.d all the felicitie ther~in, as ofatent cir He&.ir:g; booth,[pread for aday, and takendowne at mght. Evenltke IonM sgourd for all the :Cor. 1;~; \vorld; frdb in the morning; and fiarkewithered yer evening. Bur, ofthe life ro come; asofagrotmd.rvorke, never to·remove ir felfe, orwefromiti buttoabide therein, o. "~-~"'""tor'"'"'-'""""!- in the prifon, or the yalacefor evermore. Wee lhall nor therefore/ofe, but lay up inftore: not for orhers,bucfor ourfelves: Nor,for a few da:yesnoW, but for hereafter : Not a tent to !>etaken downe; but afouitdatio!J ncvertd be removed. Ofall the words in the Texr, not one \Vas meet fortheteeth oftheJthemifts, fave this only: here you have a perillous note dote in the margem: Goodworks are afoun~ datim. Afoundation, very ti:ue :who denies it ~ but whether afonndauon in our grac~s; as C: H~I s: is without us, tb:it is the point. The ground \yh~r~~never~bUJ!dmg •s ratfed, tstermedfundamenttlm. The lowell: parr of rhe butldmg tmmediately lying on it, isfotermedtQlo, In the firfl:fenfe CH a I • T is faidcoberheonely ( H 6bfj z) /OIINdllliOII -~
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