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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 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