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A59548	The duty and happiness of doing good two sermons : the former, preached at the Yorkshire feast, in Bow-Church, Feb. 17, 1679 : the other, before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London, at the Spittle, Apr. 14, 1680 / by John Sharpe ...	Sharp, John, 1645-1714.	1680 (1680)	Wing S2976; ESTC R6463	37,896	84

the same Maimonides tells us is manifest from Scripture is to promote acquaintance Friendship and brotherly love one with another And this is a very noble end and serves many excellent purposes and nothing can be beyond it except The fourth and last end of these Meetings which is to do good to exercise our Charity towards our poor indigent Brethren No man at the Solemn Feasts of the Iews was to appear before the Lord empty He was to bring his offering not only to God by way of recognition and acknowledgment to him but for the poor also that they might rejoyce as well as he This is well observed by Maimonides from Deut. 16.14 where it is thus said Thou shalt rejoyce in thy feast thou and thy son and thy daughter thy man-servant and thy maid-servant the Levite and the stranger the fatherless and the widow that are within thy gates This then is the great end of our Assembly that not only we but the Fatherless and the widow all of our Countrey that need our Charity may rejoyce with us and for us And this is that which Solomon joyns with rejoycing in the Text There is no good in them but for a man to rejoyce and do good and what that man who by the sentence of God was declared the wisest of all men hath thus joyned together let none of us presume to put asunder These are the Rules and these are the ends that we are to observe in this our Feast and let us all for the Honour of Christs Religion and for the credit of our particular Countrey charge the observation of them upon our selves which if we can all resolve to do I can safely apply to every one of you that saying of Solomon in the 9 th Chapter of this book of Ecclesiastes and the 7 th verse with which I shall conclude Go thy way eat thy bread with joy and drink thy wine with a merry-heart for-God now accepteth thy work ERRATA PAge 8.1.6 it that r. it is that p. 9 1 penult for in r. is p. 13.1.10 r. proposed p. 14.1.23 24. for lay r. ly FINIS A SERMON PREACHED Before the Right Honourable THE Lord MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF LONDON At the SPITTLE April 14. 1680. By IOHN SHARPE D. D. Rector of St. Giles in the Fields and Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellour of England LONDON Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's-Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1680. To the Right Honourable Sir ROBERT CLAYTON Lord MAYOR OF LONDON And to His LADY RIGHT HONOURABLE I Make bold to prefix both Your Names tot his Sermon though it was at Your Request Madam that I published it not only because I have received many Obligations from You both which I take this Opportunity to acknowledge and thank You for But also because You are both known to be Eminent Examples of that Virtue which is in the following Discourse Recommended May all in Your Circumstances imitate You herein and may You always be in a condition to be Patterns to others Thus prayeth Your most Obliged and Humble Servant I. SHARPE A SERMON PREACHED At the SPITTLE 1 Tim. vi 17 18 19. Charge them that are rich in this world that they be not high minded nor trust in uncertain riches but in the living God who giveth us richly all things to enjoy 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 GROTIUS his Note upon this Text is this that St. Paul now having finished this his Epistle to Timothy it comes into his mind that there was need of some more particular application to be made and admonition to be given to those Wealthy Merchants with which the City of Ephesus where Timothy resided did then abound and upon this consideration he inserts those words I have now read charge them that are rich in this world c. How famous soever the City of Ephesus was at that time for Wealth or Trade there is little doubt to be made that this City of ours praised be God for it doth in those respects at this day equal if not much exceed it And therefore that which S. Paul thought of so great importance as to give especial orders to Timothy to press upon the Ephesian Citizens will always be very fit to be seriously recommended to you in this place and more especially at this time since it is the proper work of the day Waving therefore wholly the argument of our Saviours Resurrection upon which you have before been entertained I apply my self without farther preface to conclude this Easter Solemnity with that with which St. Paul concludes his Epistle viz. with a short discourse of the Rich mans great duty and concernment which is in these words plainly set forth to us In them we may take notice of these three Generals which I shall make the heads of my following discourse First The duty it self incumbent upon those that are rich in this world expressed in several particulars Secondly the great Obligation that lies upon them to the performance of it which we may gather from the vehemence and the Authority with which St. Paul orders Timothy to press it charge them saith he that are rich that they be not c. Thirdly the mighty encouragement they have to observe this charge for hereby they lay up to themselves in store a good foundation against the time to come that they may lay hold on eternal life First I begin with the Rich mans duty which is here expressed in Four points two of them Negative teaching what things he ought to avoid the other two positive teaching what he ought to practise They are these I. That he should not be high minded II. That he should not trust in uncertain riches III. That he should trust in the living God IV. That he should do good be rich in good works c. The First thing that is given in charge to all those that are rich in this world is that they be not high minded 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that they do not think too well of themselves for being rich and take occasion from thence to despise others that are in meaner circumstances than they They are not to value themselves a jot the more or to think worse of others upon account of that outward fortune they are possessed of but are in all their conversation to express the same moderation and humanity and easiness and obligingness of temper to those they have to do with even the meanest and the poorest as if they stood with them upon the same level And with very great reason hath St. Paul given this caution to rich men For by the experience of the world it hath been always found that wealth is apt to puff up to make men look big and to breed in them a contempt

The Duty and Happiness of doing good TWO SERMONS The Former Preached at the YORK-SHIRE FEAST In Bow-Church Feb. 17. 1679. The Other Before the Lord MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF LONDON At the SPITTLE Apr. 14. 1680. By IOHN SHARPE D. D. Rector of St. Giles in the Fields and Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellour of England LONDON Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's-Head in St. Paul's Church-yard 1680. A SERMON Preached at the Second GENERAL MEETING OF THE GENTLEMEN and others in and near LONDON Who were Born within the COUNTY of YORK In the Church of St. Mary-le-Bow February 17. 1679 80. By IOHN SHARPE D. D. Rector of St. Giles in the Fields and Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Lord High Chancellour of England LONDON Printed for Walter Kettilby at the Bishop's Head in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1680. To my Honoured FRIENDS and COUNTRY-MEN Mr. William Petyt Mr. Richard Graham Mr. Iohn Cooke Mr. Mich. Wrightson Mr. Tob. Humphrys Mr. Anth. Lawson Mr. Iohn Short Mr. Francis Boynton Mr. Peter Short Mr. Gab. Wettenhall Mr. Arthur Sedgwick Mr. Thomas Watson Stewards of the last York-shire Feast GENTLEMEN I Now at length Present you with that Sermon which at your desire I Preached at the Second Anniversary Meeting of our Countrey-men and which you were pleased so far to Approve as to Request the Publication of it That I have not performed your Request so soon as might be expected I hope you will pardon me since I had not till this time a convenient leisure to Transcribe my Papers for the Press If this plain Discourse now that it is publick do any way conduce to promote Doing Good which is the Argument of it I shall thank God for the Success and You for putting me upon the Attempt Gentlemen I am Your Affectionate Countrey-man Friend and Servant IOHN SHARPE A SERMON PREACHED At the Second general Meeting of the Gentlemen and others in and near London who were Born within the County of York ECCLES iii. 10. I know that there is no good in them but for a man to rejoyce and to do good in his life THis Book of Ecclesiastes gives us an account of the several Experiments that Solomon had made in order to the finding out wherein the Happiness of Man in this World doth consist and these Words are one of the conclusions he drew from those Experiments No man had ever greater Opportunities of Trying all the ways wherein men generally seek for Contentment than he had and no man did ever more industriously apply himself to or took a greater liberty in enjoying those good things that are commonly most admired than he did And yet after all his Labor and all his Enjoyments he found nothing but Emptiness and Dissatisfaction He thought to become Happy by Philosophy giving his heart as he tells us to seek and search out all the things that come to pass under the Sun Yet upon Tryal he found all this to be Vanity and vexation of Spirit He applyed his mind to Political Wisdom and other sorts of Knowledge and his Attainments in that kind were greater than of any that were before him yet he experienced at last that in Wisdom was much grief and he that increaseth Knowledge increaseth Sorrow He proved his heart as he tells us with Mirth and Wine and all sorts of Sensual Pleasures to find if these were good for the Sons of men and yet so far was he from his desired satisfaction in these things that he was forced to say of Laughter that it was mad and of Mirth what good doth it He turned himself to works of Pomp and Magnificence he built him stately Houses and made him Gardens and Vineyards and Orchards and Fountains He increased his Possessions and gathered Silver and Gold and the precious Treasures of Kings and of the Provinces He got him a vast Retinue and kept the most splendid Court that ever any Prince of that Countrey did yet as he tells us when he came to look upon all the works that his hands had wrought and on the labour that he had laboured to do behold all was vanity and vexation of Spirit and there was no profit under the Sun But wherein then is there any Profit if not in these things What is that good that the sons of men are to apply themselves to in order to their living as comfortably as the state of things here will allow This question after an intimation of the uncertainty and perplexedness of all humane events but withal of the exactness of the Providence of God who hath made every thing beautiful in its season He thus resolves in the words of the Text I know saith he that there is no good in them but for a man to rejoyce and do good in his life that is to say I have found by long experience that all the Happiness that is to be had in the good things of this life doth arise from these two things Rejoycing in the enjoyment of them and doing Good to others with them while we live Take away these two uses and there is no good in them Or if you please we may Interpret the first part of his Proposition not of things but of men thus I I know there is no good in them i. e. I am convinced that there is nothing so good for the sons of men or nothing that move contributes to their happiness in this world than that every man should rejoyce and do good in his life And to this purpose the words are rendred by several Interpreters but it is no matter which of the sences we pitch upon since in effect they come both to one thing Two things then Solomon here recommends to every one that would live comfortably in this world Rejoycing and doing Good and I do not know what can be more proper and seasonable to be recommended and insisted on to you at this time and on this occasion than these two things for the putting them in practice makes up the whole design of this Meeting We are here so many Brethren met together to Rejoyce and to do Good To Rejoyce together in the sense and acknowledgment of Gods mercies and Blessings to us and in the enjoyment of Society one with another And to do Good not only by encreasing our Friendship and Mutual Correspondence but by joyning together in a chearful Contribution to those our Country-men that need our Charity To entertain you therefore upon these Two Points seems to be my Proper Business But in treating of them I shall make bold to invert the order in which they are put in the Text and shall first speak of doing Good though it be last named and shall afterwards treat of Rejoycing The truth is doing good in the order of nature goes before Rejoycing for it is the Foundation of it There can be no true joy in the Possession or use of any worldly blessings unless we can satisfie