Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	corruption_n	flesh_n	reap_v	5,289	5	10.9811	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30397	Of charity to the houshold of faith a sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, the aldermen, and governors of the several hospitals of the city, at St. Bridget's Church on Easter-Monday, 1698 : being one of the anniversary spittal-sermons / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Gilbert, Lord Bishop of Sarum.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1698 (1698)	Wing B5841; ESTC R15438	12,351	32

and then perhaps a fraudulent Man or an Usurer when he can enjoy his Wealth no longer will think of redeeming his iniquities by some Endowment in which he may intend both to gratify his Vanity and to quiet the Horrors of his Conscience but Restitution were the better and the more necessary Cure since it is as it were a calling God to share with them in their unlawful Gains when they offer him some part of them before they have endeavoured to make restitution to the righteous Owners whom they had defrauded Such Endowments coming from defiled Hands will not be accepted It is true if a special Restitution after a Life of numberless and small Injustices cannot be made a liberal Distribution will be accepted of God if made without the superstitious Conceit of compounding with Him Yet that which is made by Men in Health who outlive their parting with it looks liker a willing Sacrifice than that which is only let go to pious Uses when they can hold it no longer It savours too little of Charity and too rankly of Vanity to hoard up and to give nothing during one's Life that he may have wherewith to leave some splendid piece of Magnificence at his Death While we have time therefore that is while we live and are in Health while we see Objects that call aloud upon us and that perhaps perish for the want of that which is in our power to give them Let us shew a Pleasure as well as a Zeal in Good Works for this is the only part of our Wealth that we may be said in some sort to carry along with us into another World our works will follow us and the Friends whom we have made by our Mammon will be ready to receive us into their eternal habitations Another view of the word while we have time is In this our day knowing the time We are now again in Peace and all things considered in a high degree of Plenty We do not know how long the present Quiet shall continue or how soon the Clouds shall return after all the Rain that is fallen Whatsoever our Dangers or Difficulties have been they are now over and we forget them and take little care to provide for the Evil Day which may be much nearer than we will suffer our selves to think it is A shaking may come that may drive us from our Seats and our Wealth It is not hard to apprehend from what Accidents and by what Hands the Evil Day may come The best way to prevent it is to think often that it may come and instead of hoarding up a great deal which may prove only the heaping up of Treasure both to invite and to glut our Enemies instead of the profusion of Waste and Riot of Luxury and Vanity to be laying it up in such Acts of Charity as will stand us in more stead in the Evil day than the best secured Wealth we have we will then the more easily bear Want if we use our present Abundance well Have other National Churches been plucked up by the Roots and scattered all about in strange Countries and why may not we expect some such dreadful Sentence Cut it down why cumbreth it the ground It will be the easier to us to encounter some such Calamity if while we have now both Time and Plenty we use it prudently and bestow it Charitably We may then with confidence trust that God will raise up even in strange Countries Benefactors to us if we do now deal our bread to the hungry and hide not our selves from our own flesh In a word it will be the more easy to part with the Remnants of our Wealth when we have accustomed our selves before-hand to make liberal Distributions out of it and to live upon a small part of it especially for those who have secured the best part of it where neither rust nor moth doth corrupt nor thieves break through and steal and so have the promises both of this life and of that which is to come To conclude with the Words that go before my Text Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap For he that soweth to his flesh shall of his flesh reap corruption but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting Therefore let us not be weary in well-doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not FINIS BOOKS Printed for Ri. 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