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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37052	Encouragement to charity a sermon preached at the Charter-House Chapel Dec. 12, 1678, at an anniversary meeting in commemoration of the founder / by William Durham.	Durham, William, d. 1686.	1679 (1679)	Wing D2830; ESTC R3150	13,894	28

after his Death he will without any Trouble part with Life because he is to enjoy the true benefits of it when he is dead living more desireably this way than in a natural Off-spring whereby most men fondly imagine they perpetuate themselves For the Affinity of Blood will soon be worn out and what Concern and Interest has a man in a distant Posterity besides he knows not how soon it may degenerate and prove unworthy to inherit his labours and this very Consideration cast a damp upon Solomon the wisest of men in the midst of his Greatness 2 Eccles 18.19 I hated said he all the Labour I had taken under the Sun because I must leave it to the man that shall be after me and who knoweth whither he shall be a Wise man or a Fool yet shall he have Rule over all my Labour wherein I have lahoured and wherein I have shew'd my self Wise under the Sun But a man that does what good he can in his Life time and then leaves the remainder of his Substance for an Inheritance to the Poor when he dies satisfies himself that what he leaves behind is disposed of to Pious uses according to his hearts desire and by this means he makes the most of this World that is possible enjoying it as much and as far as is consistent with this State of Mortality and perpetuates his Memory to the best Advantage to succeeding Generations which leads me to the third Encouragement proposed Thirdly Acts of Beneficence and Charity do after the best and most honourable way perpetuate our Names and Memories to Posterity A good Name says Solomon is as precious Oyntment and there is nothing which the more Ingenious part of mankind more earnestly affect than a good Reputation and to leave a fair remembrance of themselves and their Actions to the Ages that are to come but the greater part of men being blinded with Ambition and Vain-glory court a false Reputation and project rather to leave a great than a good Name behind them In vain do great Princes think to perpetuate their Memories by magnificent and stately Buildings of Stone or Marble for Posterity to gaze on which add nothing to their true Honour but are rather Records and Monuments of their Pride and Vanity In vain do the great Troublers of the world endeavour to be magnified in Story for their mighty Conquests a Gentile word in use amongst the great whereby Murder and Robbery are expressed in a more civil and courtly manner for instead of that Glory and Renown they think to get they bring in the opinion of all good and vertuous men a scandal and an everlasting infamy upon themselves For what are the great things they would have recorded of them to posterity that they have brought great Ruines and Desolations upon Mankind depopulated great Kingdoms and Countries and committed Crimes and Barbarieties too great for Justice to take notice of These are the worthy Atchievements they desire to have related which are so far from doing them any Honour that they are an eternal reproach to their Memories But the Actions of the just and good man who endeavours in his life-time to be beneficial to Mankind are as a sweet-smelling savour his beneficence and charity perfume his memory to all Generations he is remembred by the tokens of Goodness he has left behind him All good men will do him honour as a great Benefactor to the World rehearsing with praise and admiration the noble and generous Acts he did in his life-time how kind how good how courteous how bountiful he was how he relieved the poor protected the innocent comforted the afflicted and according to the utmost of his power advanced the happiness and prosperity of mankind Now such a Memorial as this is worthy to be recorded to posterity much to be preferred before a long and vain Inscription in Marble or Brass relating a pompous story of bloudy Slaughters that have been committed This is the good Name that is the true and proper Portion and Inheritance of the Just whereby he lives in the minds of the good and the vertuous with whom his Memory is precious and his Name honourable which was the third Encouragement to this sort of good works Fourthly and lastly these works of Charity lay a good and firm foundation for eternal life in the world to come as the Apostle particularly declares in 1 Tim. 6. v. 17 18 19. Charge them says he 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 all things richly to enjoy that they do good and 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 Where S. Paul gives counsel and direction how the rich should lay out their wealth to-the best advantage and improvement viz. that they should give it to the poor and that thereby they would make the best sort of purchase even a purchase of eternal life and secure a Treasure in Heaven where moths do not corrupt and where thieves do not break thorough and steal an Inheritance that is everlasting that fadeth not away that is eternal in the Heavens So that we see the onely way to preserve our Riches is thus to part with them for what we keep we are forced to leave behind but what we give away we carry along with us When Princes die they cannot carry away their wealth neither does any of their Pomp and their Glory follow them Naked came they into this world and naked must they return they brought nothing with them and 't is certain they can carry nothing out But the good deeds of the just and compassionate man follow him into the other world nay rather they go before to prepare a place for him and therefore our Saviour himself in Luke 16.9 gives us this advice that in our life-time whilest we have opportunity we should make us friends of our unrighteous mammon so he calls the riches of this World that so when we fail they may receive us into everlasting habitations By which we see that the poor which we relieve if they belong to the houshold of saith are so many Harbingers sent before to open the Gates of Heaven and to prepare a Place for us They will then bear Testimonie of our Deeds of Charity towards them in their Distress before God and his Holy Angels upon which Deposition of Theirs our Saviour the Just and Righteous Judge will pronounce that comfortable Sentence in the 15 Mat. v. 35. Come ye blessed of my Father and inherit the Kingdom prepared for you before the Foundation of the World for I was an hungred and ye gave me meat I was thirsty and ye gave me drink I was a Stranger and ye took me in naked and ye clothed me I was sick and ye visited me I