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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02585	The righteous mammon an hospitall-sermon preach't in the solemne assembly of the city on Munday in Easter-weeke 1618 / by Ios. Hall ...	Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.	1618 (1618)	STC 12710.9; ESTC S2711	27,586	120

THE RIGHTEOVS MAMMON An Hospitall-Sermon Preach't in the solemne Assembly of the CITY on Munday in EASTER-weeke 1618. By IOS HALL D. of D. LONDON Printed by Edward Griffin for Nathaniell Butter 1618. TO MY MVCH HONOR'D FREND Sr HENRY BAKER Knight Baronet SIR AMongst many to whom my poore labonrs owe much for their acceptation I know none that can challenge so deepe a debt as your selfe If others haue tasted of my well-meant papers you haue fed heartily on them and so made them your owne that your memorie may compare with others eyes and your practise with the speculation of others Neither haue your hand or tongue bin niggardly dissemblers of your spirituall gaine Vnto you therefore to whose name I had long since in my desires deuoted my next do I send this meane present A Sermon importunately desired of many That which the present Auditors found vsefull the Presse shall communicate to posteritie The gaine of either or both is no lesse mine I doubt not but you haue already so acted that part of this discourse which concerneth you that the direction I giue to others is but an historie of what you haue done And go on happily worthy Sir in those your holy courses which shall lead you to immortalitie and so vse your riches that they may be made vp into a crowne for your head in a better world My hearty well-wishes shall not be wanting to you and your vertuous Lady as whom you haue obliged to be iustly Worcester Aprill 14. Yours Jos. HALL 1 TIM 6. 17. Charge them that are rich in this world that they be not high minded nor trust in vncertaine riches but in the liuing God who giueth vs richly all things to enioy c. THOSE things which are excellent and beneficiall in their vse are dangerous in their miscariage It were lost labour for me to perswade you how good riches are your paines and your cares are sufficient proofes of your estimation And how deadly the abuse of them is many a soule feeles that cannot returne to complaine There is nothing more necessarie therefore for a Christian heart than to be rectified in the menaging of a prosperous estate and to learne so to be happy here that it may be more happy hereafter A taske which this Text of ours vndertakes and if yee be not wanting to it and your selues will be sure to performe What should I neede to intreat your attention Right Honorable right Worshipfull and beloued to a busines so neerely concerning you The errand is Gods the vse of it yours I neuer held it safe to pull Scripture in peeces These words fall alone into their parts Timothy is set vpon the spirituall Bench and must giue the charge A charge to whom Of what To whom To the rich Of what what they must auoide what they must indeuour What must they auoide Hy-mindednesse Trust in wealth What are the duties they must labour vnto Confidence in God Beneficence to men And euery one of these is backed with a reason to inforce it Why should they not be hy-minded Their wealth is but in this world Why should they not trust in Riches They are vncertaine Why should they trust in God He is a liuing God and a liberall God Why should they extend their beneficence to men By this they lay vp to themselues a sure foundation Here is worke enough you see for my discourse and your practise The God of heauen blesse it in both our hands Charge hath Ianus-like a double aspect one that lookes vp to S. Paul the other that lookes downe to Timothy and from him to the rich In the first there is Apostolicall superiority for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Charge thou referres to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 verse 13. I Charge thee so Paul charges Timothy to charge the rich He that giues the Charge if he be not the cheife of the Bench yet hee is greater than the Iurie The first foundation of the Church is laid in an inequalitie and hath euer since so continued There can be no harmonie where all the strings or voices are of one tenour In the latter as it looks on Timothy it carries in it Episcopall power Euangelicall sufficiencie Episcopall power for this Charge is by the vulgar turn'd and the Translation of the Syriac Praecipe command and so doe we translate it in the first of this Epistle and the third verse Timothy was left at Ephesus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to command The rich are commonly great Nobilitie in the account of God is ioyned with wealth Curse not the King in thy thought nor the Rich in thy Bed-chamber saith Salomon so Diues at whose gates Lazarus lay is by some no meane ones guessed to be Herod or some other King and so are Iobs freinds termd by the seuenty Yea the rich is not onely a litle King amongst his neighbours but Diues quasi Diuus as a petty God to his vnderlings and yet euen the rich man that as Salomon notes speakes with command vnto others he must be spoken to with command Command the rich That foolish shaueling soared too hye a pitch when in his imperious Bull he mands the Angels Francis of Assise and hee were both of a Diet But we may safely say that all powers below the Angels are liable to our spirituall Charge and this Command implies obedience Els to what purpose doe we command and go without Christ gaue vs the keyes for that which the Romanists would plead out of Origen of Claues coeli The keyes of heauen to the rest and Claues coelorum The keyes of the heauens to Peter is a distinction without a difference What becomes of them That I may not say on some of our hands they are suffered to rust for want of vse on others as the Pontificians the wards are altered so as they can neither open nor shut Sure I am that if they be not lost on our behalfe whether in dis-vse or abuse the power of them is lost in the hearts of many They haue secret pick-locks of their owne making Presumption and securitie wherby they can open heauen gates though double locked by our censures and shut the gates of hell at pleasure which their owne sinnes haue opened wide to receiue them What vse is there of vs but in our chayre and there but to be heard and seene Euen in this sense spectaculo facti sumus we are to gaze on not to imploy Now yee are full now yee are rich yee raigne as Kings without vs we are weake yee are strong yee are honorable but wee are despised It was well noted by one that the good father of the prodigall though he might himselfe haue brought forth the prime robe or haue led his sonne into his wardrobe to take it yet he commands his seruants to bring it forth Proferte stolam because he would bring meanes into credit because he would haue his sonnes beholden to his seruants for their glory It is a