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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96973	Five sermons, in five several styles; or Waies of preaching. The [brace] first in Bp Andrews his way; before the late King upon the first day of Lent. Second in Bp Hall's way; before the clergie at the author's own ordination in Christ-Church, Oxford. Third in Dr Maine's and Mr Cartwright's way; before the Universitie at St Maries, Oxford. Fourth in the Presbyterian way; before the citie at Saint Paul's London. Fifth in the Independent way; never preached. With an epistle rendring an account of the author's designe in printing these his sermons, as also of the sermons themselves. / By Ab. Wright, sometimes Fellow of St John Baptist Coll. in Oxford.	Wright, Abraham, 1611-1690.	1656 (1656)	Wing W3685; Thomason E1670_1; ESTC R208406	99,151	247

again now an Episcopal man then a Presbyterian after that an Independent any thing to keep his own and to get more and more of the Mammon of unrighteousnesse Secondly from hence let mee give them a word of Dehortation from all such corrupt sordid courses whereby they make Divinitie a Trade and the Pulpit a Shop where they vent their doctrines according to the fashions of the Time not the truth forgetting that solemne pompe and Ceremonie used in their Orders where when they received the Bible from the holy man with autoritie to divide the Word and Sacraments it was not given to abuse their Masters trust in betraying that sacred pledge either to Pulpit-applause or Pulpit-gain to the flatterie of the giddie multitude or the reward Secondly this Mammon is call'd unrighteous Mammon or the riches of iniquitie ab effectu from the effect because it commonly makes men unrighteous endangering the soul of the possessor and therefore the Church Liturgie doth teach us to pray In all time of our wealth good Lord deliver us there being as great danger in the multitude of temporal blessings as there was in the multitude of fish John 21. where if Christ had not seconded their great draught with divine help they had lost both the ship and themselves From this expression thus interpreted our first consideration shal be that of our Saviour Mat. 19. 24. that 't is a very hard thing for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of heaven Gold is the heaviest of all mettals no wonder then if it somtimes carries the rich man downwards 'T is hard for the soul clogged with many weights to ascend to heaven Laban and Nabal think onely of their Sheep-shearing and making merrie when they have done their businesse is thought on not their salvation so great an enemy is our temporal happinesse to our eternal the love of this world being that great gulfe betwixt Abrahams bos●me and us Secondly if it be so hard for the rich then surely 't is as easie for the poor to enter into the Kingdom of heaven which is our second consideration upon the point Whether a storme or calme are most dangerous Jonah's Whale or his Gourd whether prosperitie have lost or adversitie recovered more I know not certain I am none praies so heartily for his daily bread as he that wants it miserie like Pharaoh's plagues sends them to their praiers that never thought of God when they were well Outward losses are inwardly gainful and it is good for us that wee have been afflicted nay it would be worse with us were it not sometimes thus bad many had they more wealth would be more wicked and if they were not kept short of this world would come short of the next and then it had been better for them had it not been so well I know 't is pitie that fair weather should do any harme and yet 't is often seen we even adore those Physitians in our sicknesse which being recovered we onely salute with a complement abundance makes many forget that God which want would make crouch to like Pharaoh's Butler shaking off his friend with his shackles or like beggars that are no sooner serv'd but they are gone Thus I hear Israel praying in Egypt quarrelling in the wildernesse When they were at their Brick-kills they would be at their devotion and no sooner are they at ease but they are wrangling for their flesh-pots I think many a man had not been so bad had he been but poor It is the saying of a wise Father That Solomon's riches did him more hurt then his wisdom did him good Wealth like knowledge puffs up when povertie as their infirmities did many in the Gospel makes men flock to Christ But then in the Third place I would not have any one here thinke I speak this to barr rich men heaven God forbid For though 't is hard for a rich man to enter into the Kingdome of Heaven yet he may enter notwithstanding the gate of heaven stands open for him as well as for the poor and as 't is Scripture Blessed are the poor for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven so 't is also as true Blessed are the rich for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven Which shall be our third consideration upon the point that heaven gate stands open for the rich as well as the poor Thus Adam and Noah flew up to heaven with the double monarchy of the world upon their backs for they were sole Emperors both of the East and West and the whole universe The Patriarchs also did climb to heaven with much wealth many holy Kings with massy Crowns and scepters It is not wealth therefore as wealth but sin that is the clogg that keeps men from ascending the burden of covetous desires being more heavy to an empty soul then much treasure to the full for not the meer possession and use of riches offends but the affectation And to this purpose Lombard puts in his observation with a non dicit propheta the prophet sai●s not in the Psal 62. 10. have not riches but set not your heart upon them which is the true meaning likewise of Prov. 23. 5. for cash not your eyes in the English is set not your heart in the original as the 4 ver also testifies so that the error hangs not upon those but our selves not on riches but that which Idols them our heart And therefore Moses gave a strong caveat to the Israelites that when their flocks and heards increased and their silver and their gold was multiplied they should beware least their hearts were lifted up and so they should forget the Lord their God Deuter. 8. 13. Those sublunary creatures raise not distraction in us so we make them not our center if we rest not in them if we can look through them to heaven we may by a good use of them come to heaven and be received into these everlasting habitations of the Text. The use then of this particular consideration is first to direct thee either to abate of thy load if thou find it too pressing which may be done either by loving lesse or giving more or else to add to thy strength and activity that thou maist ascend it is more commendable by how much more hard to climbe to heaven with a burthen But if the soul be not so active and nimble as to carry up it's selfe and such a load we must with Eliah drop our mantle upon the Prophets disperse our goods to the poor it being better going to heaven naked then to hell in purple For when we are naked these friends of my text shall cloath us with the garment of righteousness and when we want they shall receive us into everlasting habitations Secondly here is a word of comfort both to poor and rich when they shal think upon the goodness of God who hath open'd heaven gates both to the poor and rich Art thou poor he that wore a