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saint_n	church_n	militant_a	triumphant_a	2,791	5	11.4510	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66986	A sermon preach'd May 23. 1700. at Feckenham in Worcester-shire before the trustees appointed by Sir Thomas Cookes Bart. to manage his charity given to that place. By Benj. Woodroffe D.D. Canon of Ch. Ch. and principal of Glocester-Hall in Oxford.	Woodroffe, Benjamin, 1638-1711.	1700 (1700)	Wing W3470; ESTC R221216	30,188	44

Consider then happy soul if the knowledge of what is done here reacheth the blessed there what an increase it must be even of the pleasure of that place to think when thou art thy self taken into the Choir above that thou hast left those below who in the devotions they shall be keeping up by thy charity shall be still joining in the Halelujahs that are sung there O happy proof of the communion of saints happy proof of thy faith in that communion happy effect of thy charity the proof of that faith thus to unite the Church militant with that which is triumphant and by that excellent that heavenly work thou hast appointed those maintain'd by thy charity here even now to be entring them into the joy of their Lord And indeed how suitable will it be to the entertainments of glory to think that thou hast settled that course of piety that excellent discipline in the rules of good life by thee founded which will be always sending new inhabitants thither And when thou hast thought of these things that I may bring this to that part of the argument of my text whereby I have been endeavouring to shew the great necessity and advantage of doing such great and extraordinary charities in this life think once more happy soul whether thou would'st have been contented to leave all this undone Whether thou would'st have been contented to leave all this to be done by another As well may we think thou would'd have been contented for another to reap thy harvest for another to have entred into thy joys But if neither harvest can be reaped by thee or any else but according to the seed-time we have here If no joy can be entred into but by what we prepare our selves for of it in this life then let this be a perswasive motive to the liberal heart to be still devising liberal things Is 32. 8. I trust he for whom I speak hath too well devised to repent of what he hath done I trust I can say for our honourable benefactor in the words of the Psalmist my heart is Psal 37. 7. fixed O God my heart is fixed Not but that after all even our good it self may be evil spoken of and the most candid most real most honest most devout most glorious purposes may be slandered If envy and malice could find its way into Heaven it self it did so or else Satan had never fallen thence how can we expect any thing here below should be free from it We know who they are who bark at the moon in its greatest splendor We know who it is is the father of lyes whose interest it is John 8. 44. to traduce the best actions Nothing indeed can more commend any design than that the Devil and his instruments are zealous against it Would we know whether any thing comes from Heaven see then whether Hell opposes it Do the wicked do the profane do men of worldly minds and carnal interests men of dissolute lives and corrupt principles set themselves against it are they afraid the rule may be too strict or serious Piety or Learning too earnestly contended for Be sure thou art in the right whoever art thus opposed 't is good certainly whatever hath such enemies fear not to go on finish the work 't is of God and it must stand But as I would bespeak the worthy benefactor of such charities as I would have nothing should intervene to snatch away the reward that belongs to such eminent designs as I would have nothing to hinder him of the prize who is so near the end of the race So I cannot but on this occasion address 1 Cor. 10. 24. to you the worthy Trustees for the same that nothing should dishearten you from discharging that trust which is so intirely and with so just a confidence committed to you I shall not need to tell you that 't is required in stewards 1 Cor. 4. 2 that a man be found faithful 't is what you have already given great proof of and so well satisfied is our worthy Benefactor herein that though his heart be with you thus much I am allowed to say from him he forbears to give you his presence as knowing that his good intentions can never be better explain'd than in the good effects you give to his Charities And a noble work is it you are upon The feeding the hungry the cloathing the naked the instructing the ignorant the reforming ill manners the quickening Vertue the giving the best Principles of Piety and true Religion the breeding up youths for good Trades or for the Vniversity and the good Learning they are to proceed in there these are things you will never repent that you have been imployed in considering that as 't is the Charity of a Bountiful Patron to provide for all this so 't is no less yours to see all well executed no less your lasting Charity as well as his to set that Excellent Example to those who shall succeed in the same Trust which will always make it so Nor must I altogether pass by those for whom you are doing this the Children I mean who are the subjects of the Charity Think little Ones you of this and those of the neighbouring School founded by the same hand Think those too who are like to share in that farther nobler Charity intended by the same liberal heart for I would suppose you all my present Auditors what is doing for you If not yet yet when you shall have fully receiv'd the benefit of the instruction design'd you you will then understand how great a blessing is in store for you The Path you every day tread to your Schools is the Path of Knowledge 't is for Wisdom and Vnderstanding you are sent thither and what an harvest may such a seed-time produce Shall I give you the prospect of what you may be what preferment you may attain what places you may come to fill and adorn in Church and State rather what is it you may not be Bless God who hath of his great goodness thus provided for you Bless him for the good Benefactor he hath rais'd up for you return the Blessings you thus receive in the improvement and progress you make under such a Benefaction This is the way to be offering praise to God by thus ordering your conversation aright Psal 50. 23. This the way best to celebrate the bounty of your Founder not to let it be in vain bestowed upon you And may thus his life and memory be for a blessing and this and future Ages the subjects of it I have said what I had to say on the several parts of the Text and the present occasion And now to resume all I. Is there that proneness in the rich in this world to be high-minded and trust in uncertain riches Is there that in the swelling of their wealth that swells the poor bubble till it be ready to break 1. Is the Flattery they are