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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26075	A sermon preached before the honourable Society of the Natives of the County of Kent November the 21th, 1700, at St. Mary-le-Bow, London / by William Assheton ...	Assheton, William, 1641-1711.	1700 (1700)	Wing A4043; ESTC R36641	8,063	33

Kent retain the Spirit of that ancient Nobility above the rest of the English being more ready to afford a Respect and kind Entertainment to others and less inclinable to revenge Injuries Their not revenging of Injuries is an evident Proof of their Courage Which is thus confirmed by John of Salisbury in his Polycraticon As a Reward saith he of that signal Courage which our Kent with great eagerness and steadiness shewed against the Danes they do to this Day lay claim to the Honour of the first Ranks and the first Onset in all Engagements But omitting other Instances I shall only remind you of the Courage and Bravery of your Ancestors when William Duke of Normandy invaded England The Duke for I will not call him your Conqueror after the famous Battle near Hastings where King Harold was slain immediately began his March towards London And entring into the Weald or Woody Part of Kent and advancing with his Vanguard before the rest of his Army he found himself almost environed with mighty Numbers of the Kentish Men who had concealed themselves in the Wood by carrying every Man a great Bough of a Tree like a Shield in his Hand But when they saw the Norman Troops and the Duke at the Head of them within their Danger they began on a sudden to march like a moving Wood till approaching their Enemies they threw down their Boughs and discovered on all sides a Multitude of brave armed Men ready to charge the Normans that stood surprized and amazed at the strangeness of the Sight which appeared as if a Wood had been by some Enchantment transformed into an Army But the Kentish-Men approaching to shew that they had Conduct as well as Valour made a Halt and sent the Abbot of St. Austins to tell the Duke that all the Men of that Province were there assembled to defend their Country and their Liberties or to sell their Lives as dear as they could But if he would swear to preserve them in those ancient Laws and Customs under which they and their Ancestors had so long lived they were then all ready to lay down their Arms and become his Subjects If not he must prepare to fight with Men that had resolved to lose their Lives rather than their Liberties and Laws The Duke finding he was too far advanced to joyn the Body of his Army before he engaged and unwilling to venture all his Hopes and Fortunes against such numerous Bands of desperate Men of such Courage and Resolution as these appeared to be He granted to all the Inhabitants of the Province of Kent the Preservation and free Enjoyment of all their ancient Laws and Customs under the Saxon Reigns He swore the Observance of his Grant received their Homage and so pursued his March Thus I have presumed to be your Historian as well as your Preacher in giving this short Account of those Green Boughs which this Day are carried before you as Lawrels and Trophies of your Ancestors Victory and your Liberties And may these Boughs be ever Green May these your Lawrels still flourish And may you Worthy Gentlemen still continue what you are Firm to your Religion the Religion of the Church of England Loyal to your King and an Ornament to your Country And having done this Right to your Worth and County Give me leave now to be your humble Remembrancer of another Design of this Day 's Solemnity viz. II. Secondly To promote Charity Which I shall at present commend to your Practice only from these Two Topicks 1. Charity is the best and surest Expedient to preserve your Estates in this Life 2. You have a comfortable assurance that your Charity shall be rewarded in the Life to come 1. Charity is the best Expedient to preserve your Estates When you purchase an Estate your first Concern is to find out a good Title and then you are no less sollicitous to convey that Title firmly to you and your Heirs for ever But let me with freedom tell you That Charity is your best Tenure and will continue a Name and perpetuate a Family more firmly than all your Fines and Vouchers and Entails those clenching Nails of the Law can pretend to For alas How slight a Title is a Legal Right How slender Security is the firmest Conveyance against destructive Casualties Will you charm a Thief with Paper and Parchment Or will it stop the devouring Flames to tell them that you have an unquestionable Deed of Sale and that this House which they are now ready to consume is settled upon you and your Heirs for ever Will an astonishing Earthquake when God gives it a Commission to swallow up be fixed and firm at the Pleadings of your Learned Council Will the Winds grow calm and the Sea hush and be still or a Roving Pirate cease his Pursuit because the Ship and its Cargoe are the Property of its Owners Do not these and such like Instances effectually convince you That God's Providence is your best Insurance Can any Power less than his preserve you from that Violence and Treachery those Calamities and Dangers with which your Wealth is surrounded Think seriously upon it and you will then confess It is your Interest as well as Duty by Acts of Charity to secure the Divine Protection which alone is able to preserve your Estates Blessed is he that Psal 41. 1 2. considereth the Poor the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble The Lord will preserve him and keep him alive and he shall be blessed upon the Earth and thou wilt not deliver him unto the Will of his Enemies 2. The highest and most pressing Motive to Charity is the comfortable Assurance that it shall be rewarded in the Life to come As preparatory to your Conviction I must remind you That you are frail and mortal as well as others Which I shall express in the words of the Learned and Pious Dr. Isaac Barrow And I do designedly repeat his words at this time because by the Mothers side this Eminent Man was of your County His Words are these After a very V. Barrow 's Bounty to the Poor p. 160. short time your Thread will be spun out and then you shall be rifled and quite stript of all you shall be laid out stark naked as when you came into the World You shall not carry with you one grain of your glistering Metals nor one rag of your gaudy Stuff Your stately Houses your fine Gardens and your spacious Walks must all be exchanged for a close Hole under Ground You must for ever bid farewel to your Pomps and Magnificences to your Feasts and Jollities to your Sports and Pastimes Not one of all your numerous and splendid Retinue no Companion of your Pleasures no Admirer of your Fortune no Flatterer of your Vices can wait upon you But desolate and unattended you must go down into the Chambers of Darkness Thus that Learned Person Being thus convinced that you must certainly Dye the next Thought is to consider and it is a weighty Thought Whither are you going when you leave this World Into what unknown Regions is your next remove And then since Persons of your Figure do love to be well treated 't is methodical to inquire What kind of Entertainment are you then to expect What Preparations have you made for your Reception there Persons of Honour and Quality in their Progress or their Journey do give Notice of their approach to such or such a Place and send their Harbingers before to make Provision for them that so they may be received with Decency and according to their Quality Let us now examine Whether you are as wise for the Life to come as you are for this We are all Strangers in this World and have here no continuing City but as Pilgrims and Sojourners are Travelling to a better Country Now those who Travel into Foreign Parts do either send some Effects before them or else do carry along with them Bills of Credit which they take up in the Coin or Commodities of those Countries as they have occasion Indeed in this World Money answereth all things But there is something else which answereth all things in the next viz. Alms and Charitable Distributions These are your Exchange for the other World and the Bills and Effects you are to send before you These in the Traders Language are such Bills as will certainly be accepted Or in Scripture Phrase shall be recompensed at the Resurrection of the Just By thus giving Alms you provide your Luke 12. 33. selves Bags which wax not old a Treasure in the Heavens that faileth not where no Thief approacheth neither Moth corrupteth By this faithful usage of the Mammon of Vnrighteousness you make your selves Friends that when ye fail when ye Dye when you leave your Houses and your Lands behind you will receive you will cause you to be received into Everlasting Habitations Which God grant to us All. Now to God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost Three Persons but One Glorious God be ascribed as is most due all Honour Power and Praise henceforth and for ever Amen FINIS