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kingdom_n	bless_v	father_n	inherit_v	1,819	5	9.6520	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92319	A cedars sad and solemn fall. Delivered in a sermon at the parish-church of Waltham Abbey in Essex ... At the funeral of James late Earl of Carlisle. By Thomas Reeve, D.D. preacher of Gods word there.	Reeve, Thomas, 1594-1672.	1661 (1661)	Wing R685; Thomason E1056_2; ESTC R208034	43,685	55

as ye have lost your breath ye have lost your right to them Si vestrae sint ollite vob●scum Bern. for if they be yours then take them away with you But was there ever heard of a proprietary in the grave or of a great Land-holder in the land of forgetfulness that a Coffin should be a counting-house or a dead carcase a free-holder no I will not give thee one years purchase for all thy grave-stock If thou hast no other livelyhood there is not the poorest day-labourer which is worth but the clothes upon his back which would change Estates with thee what then thou art yet perhaps a mighty Owner and thou hast liberty and ability to do eminent things consider hast nothing to do for the Church God calls upon thee for this duty Honour the Lord with thy substance Hast lived thus long under the Gospel and neither living nor dying wilt thou do nothing for the Gospel shall the Church-man be none of thy Legatee wilt onely pay thy Tithes and hast never a free-will Offering what worse than any Jew wilt thou slip out of the world and leave no Offering to the Pulpit would any Papist thus take his leave of his Masse-priest But if thou wilt thus die farewel needy Gospeller we are well rid of such a parcimonious professor But further hast nothing to do for thy fame Seek those things which are of good report a good name is better than a precious oyntment Hoc naturae thesauris reponimus quod famae commodis applicamus Cassiod l. 8. ●p 23. Nature hath no greater treasure than the golden wedge of Fame I do not say that there is a more imprudent but that there is not a more impudent man than he which doth contemn his own fame Next to thy soul it is fame that doth carry the immortality What therefore dost desire never to be spoken of when thou hast left speech Contemptio boni nominis est vitium cum impudentiâ Plut. in Alcib then pity it is that ever thou hadst a name let the Bearers carry thy sappy body and thy carcase-memory together and let them be buried together in one grave like entrails and stench in one dunghill What therefore wilt thou do nothing to eternize thine own fame hast means enough but no mind to get a new life when thou art dead in the lips of the people have ambitious men been desirous of this and shall not men of vertuous and generous resolutions aspire after this what then had Absalon his pillar and hast thou no monument then farewel fame-killer Yet further hast nothing to do for thy soul Make ye friends of this Mammon of unrighteousnesse that when ye shall fail them they may receive you into the everlasting habitations Charge them to be rich in good works ready to distribute and communicate laying up a good foundation against the time to come He hath dispersed abroad and given to the poor his righteousnesse remaineth for ever God is not unjust to forget your work and labour of love Hath God then blessed you with liberal means and large possessions how will ye dispose of these at last will ye look into heaven before ye seal away your estates will ye cast an eye upon your souls before ye make your Wills Remember that ye are to leave all to whom shall it be left whatsoever ye give to posterity it may be scattered abroad within a few years but whatsoever ye give to heaven that will be kept sure whatsoever ye bestow upon your acquaintance they will thank you for it but for a year but whatsoever ye shall bestow upon your souls these will thank you for it for ever Love all then be kind to Nature let not Wives and Children Kindred and Friends say that ye were strait-handed to them they are your relations and shew ye your dying respects to them but let it never be said that when ye parted with all ye had no affection to heaven no hearts towards your souls Amongst all that ye bequeath away shall there not be an Heavens-portion a souls-legacy I lament such an Owner yea I defie such a Testator Let him and his Will go together let him have that heaven and souls-bliss that his own seal hath assured to him Can ye consider this without fear can ye think on it without horrour O then shall I not perswade you to lay aside a good benevolence for heaven and to spare a large bag for your souls yes ye that have but a small charge of children give a quarter of your estates to heaven ye that have no children give half of your estates to your souls This is the Doctrine which I do preach to mine own people and I would send it abroad as a general cry to the whole Nation that as I would here raise up an Almes-house so if it were possible I would fill the whole Kingdom full of Almes-houses The first founders of our Protestant Church were magnificent in these works and why are we fallen from their first love O it grieves me to think how Princes and Priests Noblemen and Gentlemen Judges Merchants Physicians rich Officers in these later times have declined from their Forefathers noble examples What are pious works become the windfalls of Religion or the superfluous branches of the fruitfull tree the last sentence will not adjudge them to be so for Come ye blessed of my Father inherit Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world for I was hungry and ye gave me meat I was thirsty and ye gave me drink I was a stranger and ye lodged me I was naked and ye clothed me c. Inasmuch as ye have done it to one of these little ones ye have done it unto me Is this the last sentence and is it the Kingdom-tenure and shall we think to be blessed of the Father without this motive of benediction no let us trust the Judge and prepare the right fruit for the sentence Whosoever then possesse some of your means let heaven have a part whosoever inherits a moity of your estates be sure that ye make your souls co-heirs what will ye dye indebted to your souls or leave year souls without a competent allowance to travel into another world he is an unkind and an unnatural man that doth not love his wife and children but he is a witless and a mad man that doth love any better than his soul It was a passionate saying of St. Ambrose He that placeth his treasures onely upon earth Qui collocat thesauros in terrâ non habet quid speret in coelo Ut quid respiciat in coelum ubi nihil habet repositum quicquid pro anima seceris hoc tuum est Amb. in Mat. 6. hath nothing that he can hope for in heaven why should that man look up to heaven who hath nothing there laid is whatsoever then thou dost for thy soul that is onely thine own Let none then be dearer unto you than your