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A35327	The usefulnesse of spiritual wisdom with a temporal inheritance in a sermon preached March 11th 1688/9 at the entrance of a young man upon his habitation and particular calling / and at his request published by T. Cruso.	Cruso, Timothy, 1656?-1697.	1689 (1689)	Wing C7446; ESTC R30285	16,384	34

THE USEFULNESSE OF SPIRITVAL WISDOM WITH A TEMPORAL INHERITANCE IN A SERMON Preached March 11th 1688 / 9. At the Entrance of a Young Man upon his Habitation and particular Calling And at his Request Published By T. CRVSO I CORINTH vii 30. And they that buy as tho' they possessed not LONDON Printed by J.R. for John Salusbury at the Rising Sun near the Royal Exchange in Cornhil 1689. To his Esteemed Friend M R. R. G. SIR YOU cannot blame the inscribing of these Papers to your self as their just and proper Patron because through your own solicitation the matter contain'd in them was first delivered and is now after this more publick manner recorded principally for your own use If any others receiv'd any benefit by the Hearing or if any should hereafter by the Reading of it as they ought to return the chief praise to God whose Spirit I hope assisted in the Composure and from whom his servants have all their furniture for every good word and work they do in the next place owe their Thanks to you For you have especially by putting me upon such a second service manifested your unwillingness to reap the Fruit of this labour alone aswel as your charitable hopes that it may produce some through the blessing of heaven in which I heartily wish that you be not disappointed All the I can say to encourage you is only this that I have not here stept out of the road of the common Faith Tit. 1.4 but written the plainest Truths in the plainest method and therefore 't is so far fitted though defective in many other respects to answer the end of common Edification nor is your Case so peculiar but that Others may frequently be in the same and stand in need of the like instructions But I do not flatter you when I tell you that I am perswaded better things of you than I can expect from this discourse upon every ordinary superficial Reader men do seldom consider that the word which sounds in their Ear or is presented to their Eye John 12.48 shall help to Judge them at the last day and so a trifling cursory perusal of the most serious and important things aggravates their account hereafter though it does not influence their practice here Multitudes when they are at that Age which you have arrived to lay the foundation of a late and ineffual Repentance and of remediless everlasting misery Psal 58.3 They are estranged from the Womb and in that state they continue till they are falling into the Grave under the heavy load of the sins of their Youth if they do take care to thrive and prosper in this World by heaping up Riches they will be sure to make their condition most wretched in the next by Treasuring up Wrath the neglect of their Souls is as notorious as the perhaps unnecessary Provision which is made for their Bodies when they lanch into the business of their several Professions the getting of an Estate is their only Aim and in the pursuit of this they lose that which is more worth than the whole World. The Wisdom recommended in the following Sermon will be but foolishness to all such unless God is pleased to give them other Spirits You on the other hand have begun so well with God that I therefore chearfully expect your happy progress I doubt not but that you have fixt your eye and set your heart aright by proposing the best End and chusing the best Part nevertheless seeing your lot is cast into such a time of Temptation and every circumstance of humane Life is so full of Snares and there is a special vanity in youth Eccl. 11.10 there is need of constant watchfulness and care and frequent renewing your Holy Resolutions as well as Invocation of God for help that your Bow which yet abides in strength may never Break or Slacken through the enticements of evil Company the Deceitfulness of Riches or power of Indwelling Sin. You may meet with some who think it strange Pet. 4.4 that you run not with them to the same Excess of Riot and other debauchery and the Flesh is still Lusting against the Spirit in the most improved and mortified Christians and there is scarcely any lawful Employment but what by an undue behaviour in it may become sin I must therefore while I take Comfort in your Pious beginnings give you this Councel and Caution against a dangerous Revolt I lift up an hearty prayer for you that the blessing of God out of Sion may rest upon you and all your concerns that he may not be to you as the Moth Hos 5.12 or as Rottenness but as the cherishing Sun and fructifying Dew that neither your Root nor Leaf may wither that the Fear of God may be always before your face and his secret upon your Tabernacle Job 29.4 that your Soul may be like a watered Garden and an Hedge of Providence Planted about all which you have on every side and that after you are carried through the several Changes and Periods of time the God whom you serve may be your Inheritance and Portion to Eternity So praying and by all other possible means which my Station or Capacity will afford for your Assistance in any Spiritual matters I shall very readily approve my self Your Most Faithful Friend and Servant T. C. May 22. 1689. The Usefulness of Spiritual Wisdom with a Temporal Inheritance ECCLES 7.11 Wisdom is good with an Inheritance and by it there is profit to them that see the Sun. IT is an old Observation of Solomon the Author of this Book chap. 1.9 that there is no new thing under the Sun. Among the many Instances which there are of the Truth of it This may be reckon'd for One that there are no New Complaints Every Generation is apt to repeat the same murmuring Question chap. 7.10 What is the Cause that the former Dayes were better than these as in the words immediately preceding the Text Our Streets were never free from this Complaining and probably never will be the Mouths of our Progenitors were full of it heretofore and so are Ours now and they that come after us are as likely to continue it to the end of the World. Solomon tells us here that this springs from a foolish Impatience Men do not enquire wisely in this matter It is certain that since the entrance of Sin into the World which is the Root and Foundation of all Calamities the Dayes have been always Evil more or less and yet every Age through the Mercy of Gods Providence hath enjoyed some Good to ballance the Evil therefore instead of finding fault with the Times in which we live which is indeed to quarrel with God's casting of our Lot and guiding of Events we should rather consider and censure what is amiss in our selves If we were as we ought to be we might very well improve the worst of Times but our own defects and disorders