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judgement_n	heart_n	young_a	youth_n	1,501	5	9.4198	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66358	A sermon preach'd before the King and Queen at White-Hall, May the 4th. M.DC.XC. by William Wake ...	Wake, William, 1657-1737.	1690 (1690)	Wing W266; ESTC R4855	16,394	40

and Goodness of God Almighty Whilst drawing aside the vail which hung before their eyes it gives us a clear prospect of a state of things beyond the narrow bounds of this present World A State where all these seeming Irregularities shall be set to rights Where the Sinner shall be divested of all his present happiness And the Greatness the Riches the Pleasures he now enjoys expire into the sad result of that Sarcastick Concession which Solomon once made to the wicked in his days Rejoice O young man in thy youth and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth Walk in the ways of thy heart and in the sight of thine eyes But know thou that for all these things God will bring thee to judgment Nay but the Text carries us yet farther It not only sets before us the different state of the poor despised Lazarus and the rich Voluptuary in the other world thô that had been sufficient to justifie the Providence of God both for all the Good which the One had received and for all the Evil which the Other had suffer'd here on Earth But seems in great measure to represent to us their several conditions in this Life as the very Ground and Reason of their different Portions in the other Son remember that Thou in thy life-time hast received thy Good things and likewise Lazarus Evil things but now He is comforted and Thou art tormented He does not tell him of the Abuse he had made of his Riches in employing them only upon his Pride and Sensuality He reproaches him not with his Uncharitableness that could let this poor man lie and perish at his Gate and not take so much notice as his very Dogs did of him No he represents to him only the Happiness he sometime enjoyed whilst he was in this World and the Grandeur and Jollity in which he lived in it As if a continued state of Prosperity in the present life were almost incompatible with the Blessings and Glories of the other And however I shall not presume to be so rash as to make a general Rule of this Remark That those who are Great and Rich and Honourable now are not to expect any further Portion hereafter And God be thanked have Instances at this time before my eyes that I am perswaded would be sufficient to confute the uncharitableness of such a Conclusion Yet thus much I may take leave to observe from it That such Persons as these shall of all others the most hardly be saved And therefore that we ought to be so far from censuring God's Providence for dispensing so large a share of these Blessings to them or from envying of them upon any such account that we should rather pity their danger who are beset with so many more and so much greater Temptations than other men And must therefore take a great deal more care and pains be much more watchful over themselves and zealous in their duty or else what we falsly call their Happiness may prove their ruin to all Eternity It was a severe Censure which our Saviour once pass'd upon the Riches and I fear I may extend it to all other the like advantages to the Honours the Power the Pleasures of this world Mat. xix 23. Verily I say unto you that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven And again ver 24. I say unto you It is easier for a Camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven And when his Disciples thereupon began with some amazement to ask of him Who then can be sav'd We do not find him at all moderating his Reflection He tells them that it was indeed possible for such a one to be saved But it was like removing a mountain or raising a dead man to life A work to be done only by a Miracle of God's Grace not after the ordinary manner of other men but by that mighty Power which makes nothing impossible to a Divine Agent Jesus said unto them With men this is impossible but with God all things are possible And this is that which I shall now endeavour both from the Remark and the Example of the Text more particularly to represent to you I am sensible that I am now speaking to Persons of a more than ordinary Fortune and Character in the World And I know how much harder it will be without great care for such to be saved than for those of an Inferiour degree And therefore how necessary it is that they should be fully convinced and persuaded of it And I am not in the least apprehensive that I shall at all discourage their Piety by such an Undertaking It is the Honour of Great and Generons minds to be brave and daring The difficulties that would affright others serve only to animate and encourage them the more to overcome them And this Promise they have from God Almighty That as their task is more difficult than other mens so shall his Grace be dispenced to them in a greater and more plentiful Degree So that if they benot wanting to themselves he will not fail to assist their Endeavours He will bless them with an extraordinary measure of his Grace now and will crown them with a more Exceeding and Eternal weight of glory hereafter For the better clearing of all which I shall observe this Method I st I will shew How much more difficult it is for those who are Great and Rich and Powerful to be saved than for other men And upon what Grounds it is that it becomes so II dly I will consider what Influence such a Reflection ought to have upon all sorts of men 1. Upon the One to stir them up to a greater Care of their future Happiness 2. Upon the Other to engage them to a patient Acquiescence even in the meanest Condition And I st I am to shew How much more difficult it is for those who are Great and Rich and Powerful to be saved than for other men And upon what Grounds and for what reason it is that it becomes so Now this will appear from these two Considerations 1st Of that Obligation which those who enjoy these Advantages lie under to a more strict and careful Discharge of their duty than other men And 2dly Of those Temptations which these very things many times bring along with them to the ruining of such persons Whilst instead of ministring to their Piety and so encreasing their Reward they serve rather to expose them the more to danger and in the consequence thereof become oftentimes the greatest Occasion of their Eternal Destruction For if such Persons as these have a larger and more comprehensive Duty to fulfil upon the account of these Advantages than other men And if these very things which thus encrease their duty are also at the same time apt to prove the greatest Lets and Hindrances to them in the performance of it