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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43555	A sermon preached at the spittle upon Tuesday in Easter-Week, anno dom. 1672 by Thomas Hackett ...	Hackett, Thomas, d. 1697.	1672 (1672)	Wing H174; ESTC R5972	24,655	54

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 again which is in the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to putrifie Therefore Moth and Rust must not be coupled here by a Hendyadis because v. 20. they are dis-joyned We must therefore put our Wealth into these three dividens Garments which the Moth devours Meat and Fruits which Men or the Canker and Mony or Jewels which some steal clancularly and some take by violence breaking through And farther 3. The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which we word to corrupt has a greater vigour for the LXX Translate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by it or Anathema Deut. 7.2 Originally it signifies to disappear So that our Rich Bank supposed examined yields but thus much really That all wordly things do impair and end both which we can possess as we that possess them That Death has not one but many avenues to them the Moth Rust Thief and that by weakest assailants even the Moth and Worme undoing us oft by surprize for the Moth and Rust beat up no Drums nor ring Bells when they consume Nay without any forreign foe these things would ruine themselves for the Moth and Rust are intestine foes and of Natures own breeding and not to be secur'd by Bars or Gates for what keeps other enemies out le ts them in The Garment hid is the Moths prey and Treasure under surest guards is given away to the Rust And if they were not they will be wrested by violence from us by the Thief for where there is Necessity there will be Thieves nor are the Keepers of Treasures ever secure And there are many Thieves as Care a Thief will break into a mans head and heart depriving him of his rest and sleep one great piece of Natures treasure And if after all we could charge this only on the unkindness or injustice of men the worlds accidents or natures imperfection which cannot subsist of her self 't were ease But God appears and strikes the dead stroke for who can oppose his brandisht sword Now as we have some of us stoln secretly or used bolder violence to strip others of their Goods so are we by a just Talio doom'd to be used our selves And as some men like Spirits have sate over hidden Treasures never suffering them to behold the Sun Therefore will God make our Treasures disapppear and that by a Curse or Anathema whose execution sometimes falls in their own daies or sooner or later upon their descendants But all this were a Province too large to be managed in this time I shall therefore insist upon their deficiency in the bulk God shew'd Joseph an image of his Future ascent in his sleep Gen. 40.9 because when he possest it he should count it but a dream As his holy Father Jacob Gen. 28.12 had an Idea given of the World wherein some were still going up and others down as the Jews expound it to heal the grief of his present expulsion from the warm nest of his Mothers kindness and to be put upon the wing unto an unknown Land To agnize which and commit it to Memory Job made his Fortunes Godfathers to his 3 Daughters Job 4.2.14 from the fair morning of his first state of life he call'd his first Jemima then clouds and great darkness muffled him which for the sweet odour of Patience he calls Cassia and lastly his Sun breaking out again according to his dialect for Prosperity he names the last his Hornes Reversion But to leave the shore and take a small Brize from the Sea to see if that will relieve us in this exigent In the 27 of Ezech. v. 3 you have Tyre a Maritime City compared to that goodly sight A fair Ship with all her Cable Tackle Streamers Wastcloths and glory so that we would think the Shipwright had left nothing un-enterpriz'd that was fit for beauty much more safety And yet looking more nearly I see no Anchor set down in the Catalogue A perfect imperfection of a glorious transitory world wherein we are now tickled with the most pleasing delights but have no anchor that is any thing to fix us and then a storm coming we are presently lost upon some obdurate rock or swallowed up by a devouring quick-sand But we need not gad abroad beyond our own late sad experiences of the ebbings and flowings waxing and wainings of this Worlds Treasure which was sent with too much light in dreadful Fire upon this poor City a demonstration that made its way into the Estates as well as Vnderstandings making you acknowledg the small monys you have left to be rightly call'd Sterling because of its wings with which it flew away This Path hath God trod constantly and ever will in this World that the good men may be tryed and the bad men justly tormented to let us walk abroad in the day of our life with all our gaudy braveries for shew put upon us but at the night of Death we must undress sadly and go naked into our Beds And now secondly to shew the nerves of this Reason and how fast they bind Besides the horrid slavery that it was alwayes deem'd to be condemned to the Mines who can endure this constant cheat of the World as the Apostle Paul singularly calls it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 7.31 to be deluded with a figure and apparancics without any basis to stand steady upon Who would desire to lay up his treasures here where he can neither joy in the possession nor grieve for the amission who can neither promise himself the long continuance of them nor a devolution of them to his dearest posterity for some sweetness there were in that with an entayle that cannot be cut off The World is repleat with real Miseries but with phantastical Delights O World more slippery then Ice if thou art so doted upon by us perishing what wouldst thou have been alwayes enduring Thou complainest thou art robb'd undone did not Christ forewarne thee not to lay up thy treasure in such a place What is then to be done by us O man if thou art to remain alwaies here lay up thy treasures here but if thou art to march away why wilt thou leave thy beloved behind thee Wouldst thou go light let thy luggage pass before thee so shalt thou not go but fly to Heaven and meet in Which enters me fairly upon the Second Part of the Text Lay up for your selves treasures in Heaven where the rust and moth doth not corrupt and where thieves do not break through and steal But lay up c. It is a retarding to many in their Religion that their Profit stands in their light but you may be here instructed that Christ intends to enrich us not empair us nay to indulge our utmost Covetousness giving us scope to glut our selves with what is to our palate To lay up Treasures Only he advises us where in Heaven and when you

the Eastern Civiliz'd parts of the world were by the Constitution of their Laws compell'd to learn some Trade to fence off the blows of the worlds Casualties Not excepting the Noble the Priest nay the King which the Emperour of the Turks retains though but for fashions sake even to this day So the Jew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let a man teach his Son some Trade or other if he intend him not a Thief or a Robber For Trade is the Vulgars Chymistry The glew of Nations The Providore for Kingdoms The Chariot of Religion carrying it to remotest Regions Maintaining all things and starving nothing except Tyburne But Idleness is the Devil's Anvil whereon he forges much mischief Facito aliquid operis ut Diabolus inveniat te semper occupatum 'T is his pallat whereon he sleeps His grave wherein men are buried alive Neither Heaven nor Air nor Fire nor Earth are Idle as the busy brood of Spring now evince but only Man Some Philosophers made the world Eternal least God should have been thought ever to be Idle There are several employs some for the hand some for the head and even Prov. 30.28 the Kings house is not free There is a Law that the new Erectors of Houses planters of Vineyards should be excused from going to War That Idle persons might not inherit says Philo in case they were slain might not like drones consume the Hony that these industrious Bees had gathered Good humane Laws likewise tended to the cutting off such Idle suckers Amasis and Solon exacted an yearly Account how men lived Isay 9.3 tells us that only the labourers and fighters must divide the spoyl Do you believe this ample noble Theatre of Senators that sit worthily here before us obtained these Seats or Furnitures by lying still and gaping like Oysters till a Tide of wealth should flow in upon them You Seedlings of the next Age that fill the Intervals of this Scene grow up and thrive by Industry that you may be high trees your selves You Saplings of Livery 's and Common-councel men You Aldermen and Majors in Reversion look yonder and learn Faith and diligence VVhose turn may it not be amongst you to have his Blew Coat dyed into Scarlet and in exchange for his chains of servitude which he thinks he wears now by a strang Alchymie to turn it into a Chain of Gold hereafter 3. A new troop remains behind not intended in this Text who are so far from laying up treasures that they prodigally melt away that which others have laid up to the consumption of themselves and ruine of many others Think we that among all the Fathers which appear at this Solemnity there is none that has a Prodigal Son or Servant to weep over How can such Excesses above most degrees and ranks of men with the wasling and breaking of others owe themselves reasonably to any other cause than this Men are grown too dear for themselves The well-ordered Old sober ranks of Citizens are broken Youths and Mean men flutter it out with their Betters and the City vies it with the Court. These Prodigals that will keep nothing else the Scripture reads their Doom Luke 15.16 that they will be at length glad to keep Hoggs and their delicious palates to take their suppings out of Troughs Ancient Lawgivers were both very severe to such and careful over them Demades was banisht his Country for being seven times accused of not paying his debts and yet lavishing in Riot profusely himself The Graecians permitted not such to be Interr'd with their Ancestors But the Law took care likewise to prevent this For the Decemviri appointed Guardians over the Estates of such Persons and permitted them to make no Wills It seems it lookt upon them as Mad-men as indeed they are And so you have a Bedlam which would be the best Charity for such a Mad crew These three things are not here intended What then is it that will arise out of these words to be our Duty First of all We must not restrain the word Treasures here to Moneys or what we stile Wealth for we read of other Treasures Mat. 13.52 whatever a man counts pretious and has a value for So v. 21. of this Text expounds by what our heart is set upon Vis nosse ubi Thesaurus attende quid amas 'T is affection makes any thing a treasure And St. Austin excellently Quicquid homo modo facit in Thesauruin mittit sed nescit quid colligat A man tells all the acts of his life into a Bag. Let no man speak therefore out of the Company that are to pay the shot in these words as if the Banker were the only man to be staid for it the whole force of this Text were to spend it self in a Declamation against the Mony'd man No Honour is the Ambitious mans Treasure Pleasure the Delicates Dalliance the Wantons Revenge the Cholerick mans these are sad Treasures which S. Paul shews Rom. 2.5 Thus large do the arms of this Text reach and so St. Jer. expounds the Words in this place Secondly But the Syriack word used here comes from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Silver and the residue of the Chapter casts a full aspect on ordering that which we call Wealth forbidding 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the heaping of it up which some draw a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the extending our Cares to such long futurities as not to rest in the Providence of our Alsufficient God who provides for his whole Family in heaven and earth So that 1. the gross of this is To condemn that Boulemia or dog-like appetite of greedy Covetousness Lucra damnosa or loosing gains as St. Austin calls them elegantly condemn'd by Heathens themselves as Celsus observed though falsly that our Saviour borrowed his Rhetorick against this out of Plato For certainly 't is a Prohibition hugely stor'd with Religion as well as Reason That it is better to want little then to possess much nay Rather to be possessed by it so the Psalmist expresses it Psal 76.5 not rich men but men of Riches Do good Angels Canton out heaven among them Or the Birds and Beasts Earth and Air Nature in life and death knows not this immense appetite introducing us and carrying us off the Stage of this world naked Does not over-lading ruine a Ship and slifle a man making him inert to all business Therefore Nature wisely ejects all their superfluities and we can our selves gravely truly call them Excrements Could not God had he liked this way hoarded up all to himself and then where had been room for thy impertinent thrift who now like one of Fortunes Eunuchs sittest embracing what thou canst not enjoy And how less miserable is he that has but little then thou who canst not satisfie thy barking-stomach with much Tell not