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A52864 Ta ano the things above proved to be the most proper objects of the mind and affections, in a sermon preached before the University in Great St. Maries Church in Cambridge / by Robert Neville. Neville, Robert, 1640 or 1-1694. 1683 (1683) Wing N526; ESTC R25505 14,164 27

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as quick and wary as the Dogs of Egypt when they drink of the River Nilus only lap and away and thus much for the third reason why we must not set our affections on the things on earth because they are incumberances in our journey to Heaven 4. We must not set our Affections on the things of this world because the world as well as the things thereof is waning and declining The world pants with its last gasps and dying Anhelations 't is now grown old and weary and ready to sink under the burden of so many Ages these latter years and decrepitness of time are fraught with evils and calamities as old Age is with diseases and we have seen in these latter dayes the Plagues of Pestilence and War Fire Destruction and Terrors All these are as so many acute Fits and Convulsions of a dying world and shall we then set our affections on a dying decaying world 5. We must not set our affections on the things on Earth because they will be useless arid unserviceable to us at the hour of death When Death summons us when the world the flesh the glories and pomps of life turn their backs and leave us we shall then find how strangely we have been deluded by them how many of those who have lived in a copious affluence of all things and fared deliciously when their last hour came would not rather wish they had missed all these enjoyments that so they might have dyed in peace of Conscience Charles the Fifth the Prince of Parma and several others though they lived in all pomp and state yet at their death they desired to be buried in a poor Capuchin's Hood intimating thereby 〈◊〉 desire of renouncing the world and though this act of theirs was a senseless piece of superstition yet however we may learn this lesson from it that they found all their pomp and glory to signifie nothing when Death gave them a summons into the other world Here men toil and beat their brains tire their Spirits and rack their Consciences and when they have done all like Silk-worms they dye in their work and God takes them away before they can roast what they got in Hunting before they can truly in joy what they have newly purchased When a fit of sickness throws us upon our death-bed when our Sinews crack our Veins shrink and our Eyestrings break when by the solution of the vital congruity our Souls are bating to be gone and take their last leave and farewel of our bodies what then will these sublunary injoyments avail us Can we then borrow those wings which our Riches have to fly from us to fly with to Heaven can we then ascend thither by the Climax of our Worldly Honours Can all our Worldly Wisdom and Policy qualifie us to be admitted and sworn of the King of Heavens Privy Council no no let us therefore seek first and primarily * Mat. 6.33 The Kingdom of God and the Righteousness thereof and all these things shall be added unto us Let me now put an end both to your love of Earthly things and to this Discourse with these words of the Text Set your Affections on things above which God grant we may all do for his Dear Son Jesus Christ his sake to whom with the Father and the Holy Spirit be all Honour Glory and Praise FINIS Four Sermons lately published by the same Author and sold by Ben. Billingsley 1. A Sermon Preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of London at Guild-hall 2. The necessity of Receiving the Holy Sacrament declared in a Sermon at a Conference of the several Ministers of the Deanry of Braughin in the County of Hertford appointed by the Right Reverend Father in God Henry Lord Bishop of London to be held at Ware 3. The great Excellency and Usefulness and necessity of Humane Learning declared in a Sermon preached before the University at Great St. Maries Church in Cambridge Aug. the 7th 1681. 4. The Absolute and Peremptory Decree of Election to Eternal Glory Reprobated In a Sermon preached before the University in Great St. Maries Church in Cambridge 1682. As also by an Ingenious Author The Italian Ship or Paul's Transportation to Rome a Discourse on Acts the 27 and 15 made on March the 20th 1681. By Will Ramsey B. D. and then Lecturer in Isleworth in Middlesex With 3 other Sermons by the same Author being three several discourses concerning the Romish and Protestant Witnesses particularly in Relation to the Popish plot discovered Anno 1678 and containing a new and certain discovery of the Popes being the Anti-Christ whose number of his name is 666 and of the destruction of Rome