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spirit_n	grace_n	pray_v	prayer_n	8,057	5	6.5536	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44571	The vnrighteovs Mammon exchanged for the true riches or A sermon, preached at the funeral of William Adams Esq; in the parish church of St. Lawrence Iury on Tuesday. Septemb. 3. 1661. By Thomas Horton. D.D.	Horton, Thomas, d. 1673.	1661 (1661)	Wing H2883; ESTC R213856	28,717	49

hearts and our portion for ever Psal 73.26 That though we faile as to Nature yet we may not faile as to Grace and so consequently not faile of Glory Turpe est in extremo deficere It is counted a dishonorable business to faile at the last let us as much as we are able prevent this dishonour to our selves with the sad consequents of it and the miseries which are attendant upon it for they that go not into the everlasting habitations they shall goe into the everlasting burnings And that 's the first particular observeable in this last passage namely the design on the part of those who are rich and which they are to aime at and that is that when they dye they may go into everlasting Habitations The second is the practise on the part of those that are poor which they will performe and that is to bring or receive those rich persons who have bin friendly to them into these places that they may receive you c. It is one property and piece of friendship amongst others to give some reception to friends where they are destitute of Habitation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now this is that which is here done by those Christians which are relieved to those that relieved them Who having engaged them by their liberality doe receive this benefit from them of admittance into Heaven This will require a little explication in regard of some difficulty which is in it Some there are who have a conceit with themselves as if Christ by desiring them to make friends of the mammon of unrighteousnesse did tacitely allow of wealth which is gotten by unrighteous Courses or at least that he did so far extinuate it as that they might satisfie for the unrighteousnesse of it by those almes which they bestowed upon the poor so that when a man hath scraped a great deale of wealth together in his life time by couzenage and injustice and oppression and such wayes before named and also spent it may be a great part of it among harlots and with riotous living as it is noted of the Prodigal that in the mean time it serve the turne to save him and to make amends c. It might in the mean time serve the turne to save him to make amends for all his former iniquity if when he dyed he gave so much away to such and such persons which were in want But this was farr enough from the minde of our blessed Saviour who speaks not here of Mammon what it ought to be or may be in the thing it self but what it is as to mens usual improvements as I hinted in part before and when these friends are said to receive or bring men into everlasting Habitations we are to take it as an improper expression by a Metonymy of the effect when that is done whereby the other is consequent and following thereunto It is Christ alone who does properly receive us into those places whereinto he is gone himself who having the key of David does open the kingdome of heaven for us and take us to himself But even others also who are Christian friends are in a sense said here to doe it likewise they do also receive those who have done good unto them into these everlasting Habitations And that as we may take it according to this following explication I. By their Prayers and Remembrances of them at the Throne of Grace whiles Rich men doe bestow their Charity upon the poor Members of Christ they doe very much ingage them and provoke them to pray for them And to pray for them as to those Concernments which are best and most expedient for them which is the furtherance of their salvation This shall turne to my salvation through the help of your prayers Philip. 1.19 The prayers of Christians for one another doe very much conduce to their salvation and eternal advantage and this is that which is done and which is to be done by them Pauperis est or are Divitis erogare Augustine The rich are to lay out their moneys and the poor their Prayers thus 2 Tim. 1.16 Onesiphorus he was kinde to St. Paul and often refreshed him and what followed thereupon we may see in the last verse of that Chapter The Lord grant unto him that he may finde mercy of the Lord in that day he promoted his Salvation by his prayers This must be taken in its full latitude and extent as praying for their Salvation not only in the end but in the meanes for the changing of their hearts for the sanctifying of their Natures for the subduing of their Corruptions for the bestowing of the Grace of God upon them in all the kinds of it this is indeed to pray for their Salvation when together with their prayer there is a supply of the Spirit of Christ as in the place before cited Philipians 1.19 There are many who when they hear of going to Heaven they think to doe it per saltum to go thither at one jump to leap presently from Dives table into Abraham's bosome that is from the injoyment of their lusts to the injoyment of Happinesse and they think ther 's no more belongs to it but only for so many good men to pray for their salvation at large and there 's an end of it But alas there 's a great deal more then so in it and so to be expected When we speak of the Salvation of any persons we speak of it in all its intercurrencies and preparatories and intermediations of such graces and duties as are tending thereunto and so when we speak of praying for their salvation we are to understand it in this method and order and connexion of the discovery of their Natural condition of their apprehension of the necessity of Christ and of their willingnesse to close with him upon his own terms Thus do the Saints and servants of God help their friends too heaven by their Prayers not when they are out of the world it is to late then to pray for them but while they abide still in it II. By their Council and advice by their gracious and savory speeches by their pertinent and seasonable Admonitions and provocations to that which is their Duty they doe hereby further them in this particular it is not done as by a charme or spel but In these holy wayes and meanes which God has graciously sanctifyed to this purpose in the communion of Saints which having a mixture especially of the Heart and love and Affection of these good men with it is very availeable in this respect III. By their Testimony and Comprobation when Christ shall hereafter sit upon his judgement seat at the last day then shall these his poor members be ready to bear witnesse to the charity of such men as these who have bin liberal to them I sayes one was hungry and this man fed me and I sayes another was naked and this man cloathed me and I sayes another was a stranger and this man