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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53330	A sermon preach'd at the funeral of George Payne, jun Son of George Payne, an apothecary. March 6. 1699/700. At Midhurst in Sussex. And publish'd at the request of his friends. By Richard Oliver, curate of Midhurst.	Oliver, Richard, b. 1651.	1700 (1700)	Wing O280; ESTC R219355	10,021	24

Folly of Pride upon the account of Worldly Prosperity and a Christian will have more Reason to Condemn it who knows that all the Advantages Riches Greatness and Power afford end with this Life but the Disadvantages the Abuses of them will bear a Man Company into another World and both the Use and Abuses of them before the Impartial Judgment Seat of Christ must be brought to a strict account 3. If the Time of Worldly Prosperity be short we must not confide rely upon or place our Happiness in it The same Apostle who teaches us not to be High-minded teaches also not to Trust in Vncertain Riches 1 Tim. 6.17 God can blast and take them away in a Moment and destroy both our Substance and Confidence together At longest they will last but the short Term of our Lives at the end of which if we have took up our Rest fixt our Hopes and bottomed our Happiness upon them we have miserably deceived our selves and are undone for ever For Death does not put an end to our Beings though our Bodies fall into the Grave and are not capable of Delight or Pain during the time of Separation yet the Soul subsists for ever and if it has not made Provision for another State if its Happiness was centered only in Wealth or Honours in Worldly and Bodily Delights and Pleasures it is lost and undone to all Eternity This was the unhappy Condition of the Rich Glutton in the Gospel who having placed his Happiness in this World in costly Apparel Purple and fine Linnen and in faring sumptuously every day as soon as the Scene changed by Death was wrapped in Flames and wanted a drop of Water to cool his Tongue Luke 16.19 24. 4. This Consideration leads to another viz. The things of this Life being short and uncertain we ought chiefly to value regard and make Provision of those things which will endure and abide with us for ever If we have here no abiding City this should teach us with the good Patriarchs to seek for a better Country to look for a City which hath Foundations whose builder and maker is God Heb. 11.10 16. to lay up treasure in Heaven and to get a Title to those Spiritual Joys which are at Gods right-hand for evermore The World passeth away saith St. John and the Lust thereof but he that doth the will of God abideth for ever 1 John 2.17 The World and all that is desirable therein is Transient but Obedience to God's Commandments is of everlasting Consequence and will intitle us to a Happy Eternity and Eternal Delights in it To this purpose is the Exhortation of St. Paul Charge them that are Rich in this World that they be not high-minded nor trust in uncertain Riches but in the living God that they do good that they be rich in good works ready to distribute willing to communicate Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come that they may lay hold on eternal life 1 Tim. 6.17 18 19. And that of our Saviour Mat. 6.19 20. Lay not up for your selves treasures upon earth where moth and rust doth corrupt and where thieves break through and steal but lay up for your selves treasures in Heaven where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and where thieves do not break through nor steal 2. The time of Adversity and Trouble is short As we all partake of Adams Fall so we must all more or less share with him in his Punishment and Misery The Holy Patriarchs and Prophets had their evil as well as good Days and our blessed Saviour himself the most Innocent and Perfect of our kind the beloved Son of God the peculiar Darling and Favourite of Heaven was a Man of Sorrow and acquainted with Grief Is 53.3 He left his Cross as a Legacy and Badge to his Disciples and some part of his Bitter Cup who told those who were to come after them that they must also through much Tribulation enter into the Kingdom of God Acts 14.22 Yea and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution 2 Tim. 3.12 But though Sorrow and Affliction may be the universal Portion of Mankind though the Afflictions of the Best Men be many and sharp yet they are short too The Hand of God which is afflicting is also healing and he who forgets not to chastise remembers to deliver Sorrow may endure for a Night but that we may not faint or despend Joy cometh in the Morning Ps 30.5 Our Saviour who tells his Disciples that they should be sorrowful assures them in the next Words that their Sorrow should be turned into Joy John 16.20 The Storm by which the Apostles were indangered as a Type of their future Troubles was soon converted into a Calm Mat. 8.26 And though Clouds eclipse the Sun for a time they blow over and make its return more welcome and refreshing Was ever any Man plunged into more or greater Afflictions all at once than Job And yet we sooner see an end of his Troubles than of his Patience and his latter end was happier than his beginning Job 42.12 The Afflictions of Joseph were surprising and his Deliverance as remarkable he was delivered from a Dungeon almost to a Throne and from a Bond-Slave to be the Second Person in a great and flourishing Kingdom Daniel of a Captive became President of a mighty Empire and David whose Troubles and Adversities were sometimes great was refreshed and comforted and brought from the deep of the Earth again Ps 71.18 The Captivity of the Jews ended in a happy return and the Christain Churches Persecutions under Dioclesian terminated in a Constantine Our Saviour tells us Those who mourn now shall be comforted Mat. 5.4 and St. Paul reckons the heaviest afflictions light because they are but for a moment 2 Cor. 4.17 The longest Troubles of a Good Man must end in Death if not sooner they can continue only the short space of this Life and what is that to a Happy Eternity To conclude this Head We may say of our Afflictions as Athanasius did of his Nubecula est cito pertransibit It is but a little Cloud and will soon blow over Mourning has its Change into Joy as well as Joy into Mourning and it may be some satisfaction for the uncertainty of Temporal Goods Prosperity and Felicity that our Griefs and Afflictions are as short and changeable as they However we may well account all those Sufferings short which end happily which humble us for our Sins amend us in our Lives and sit us for a blessed Immortality The Use of this is that those who weep be as those that wept not That our Grief under Afflictions or Losses be moderated as well as our Joy in Prosperity and that because the Time is short Whatever of Afflictions befall us they are but for a short time they may also promote our Spiritual Welfare if rightly improved And these two Considerations whatever our Grief be will