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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

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