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B21451 An essay proving we shall know our friends in heaven writ by a disconsolate widower on the death of his wife, and dedicated to her dear memory ... Dunton, John, 1659-1733. 1698 (1698) Wing D2624 94,787 150

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them to attend the same thy Care to have thy Soul in readiness to hear what God had to say was greater than that of having thy Body adorn'd contrary to the common Practise of our Age. How attentive wast thou when at Sermons and with what Greediness didst thou suck in the Sincere Milk of the Word and how Conscientious to see that thy Servants took heed to what they heard and that they perform'd their Duty to God as well as to th●e Neither didst thou think to compound with Heaven by being thus zealous in Religious Duties that thou may'st Slander Covet Lie and act other Sins with the greater Freedom here and in other Places none but the Guilty are meant and none but such will wince but these Eliza will have more Wit than to publish their Guilt by declaring their Innocence The Extensiveness of thy Charity is another Character which endears thy Memory and makes it precious to me as well as to many others who felt the Effects of it How like to the Author of all Good did that excellent Grace make thee and how did it Adorn thy Holy Profession Dionysius the Tyrant wonder'd at his Son that with all the Gold and Silver he had in his House he had made no Man his Friend but thou wast innocently frugal that thou might'st be boun●ifully Charitable And the Truth is the best and surest way to have any outward Mercy is to be content to want it or to make good Use of what we have when Men's Desires are over eager after the World thy must have so much a Year and a House well furnish'd or else they will not be content God usually if not constantly breaks their Wills by denying them or else puts a Sting into them that a Man had been as good he had been without them If a Man have but a little Income if he have a great Blessing and like Eliza have a Heart to do Good with the little he has that 's enough to make it up alas we must not account Mercies by the bulk what if another have a Pound to my Ounce if mine be Gold for his Silver I will never change with him 'T was you my Dear that cross'd the Proverb That Fortune sees not where she bestows her Gifts that most commonly they fall to the Share of those who have not Hearts to use them for your Great Charity brought that exellent Character upon you of being Kind and Generous beyond others you 'd often say We * 1 Tim. 6.7 brought nothing into this World and shall carry nothing out so did all the Good you could whilst you liv'd in this imitating Sir John Frederick who made his own Hands his Executors and his Eyes the Overseers 'T is observed that Covetousness is the only Sin that grows young as Men grow old But 't was not so in you you liv'd in the World so much above it as was an Evidence of the Real Greatness of your Soul and that you thought that a little thing wherein others place Greatness this made Charity so natural to you that 't was scarce a Vertue There was in your Nature an Aversion to a Covetous Person as he is one which the Lord abhorts Psal 10.3 When I read That 't is easier (a) Mat. 19.24 for a Camel to enter thro the Eye of a Needle than for a rich Man who sets his Heart on his Riches to enter into Heaven I am almost frighted with the Expression Cou'd Aristippus throw his Gold into the Sea and say It 's better I shou●d drown thee than that thou shouldst undo me and shall I who have one Foot in the Grave be a Slave to my Wealth I complain of my * Dr. Horneck Neighbour for being hard hearted and unkind to People in Distress and is that a Vertue in me which is Vice in another A good Bishop says a late Writer cou'd have preached an Hour together in saying nothing but Beware of Covetousness And so charitable was Dear Eliza that her whole Life seem'd to be one continued Satyr against Avarice You durst not rake together what you cou'd in your Life to bequeath it to your self at your Death I say to your self for who that has half a Soul wou'd creep to a Miser all his Life for Wealth he may lose with the next Breath neither will he obtain it if the Wretch can carry it to the other World as is seen by the following Instances Hermocrates a Grecian Philosopher dying bequeathed all his Estate to himself his Mind being fix'd immoveably on the Trash he had scraped together And Cardinal Angelot was so wrapt up in Covetousness as by a Trap-Door to get into his Stable and so steal the Corn his Groom had given his Horses And I knew one my self so wretchedly covetous as to steal Candle-ends in the Church after Evening Lesture was over to serve his Occasions at home and this he did tho worth soveral Thousand Pound Well what shall we say There is saith the Wise Man a Man to whom (a) Eccl. 24.4 God hath given Riches Wealth and Honour so that he wanteth nothing for his Soul of all he desireth yet God giveth him not Power to eat thereof but a Stranger eateth it This is Vanity and an evil Disease 'T is clear from hence that tho a little sufficeth Nature and less Grace yet that Covetousness is never satisfied and is certainly curst The contented Man is never poor let him have never so little The Discontented Man is never rich let him have never so much Tho I have a Iust * See the Case of the Young Lady P. 40 Title to 6000 l. as may † THAT' 's ONCE appear in Conjunction with my own Birth-right and so much clear from any Encumbrance and have neither Child nor Chick to waste it and my self as great an Enemy to Extravagance as to what 's Sneaking yet if I an 't contented with this Estate I am poorer than he that begs if content with the Scraps he gets Content is all we aim at with our Store And having that with little what needs more But the Covetous or Disconted Man for they are all one always thinks himself miserable and so he can never be happy But Eliza was none of these had nothing in her mean or little no my Dear had thy Purse been as large as thy Heart you 'd ne'er been rich whilst any Man was poor and I am sure Eliza you had more Piety than to think your self undone had we lost all but one another Would the Miser * See Dr. Horneck's Great Law of Consideration study Eternity he 'd see 't is little material to him whether he is Poor or Rich Your Generous Temper Eliza might fully convince him of this Neither was thy Extensive Charity any Let to thy strict Justice or to the Punctual Performance of all thy Promises in thy Dealings with Men you knew that none must dwell in the HOLY * Psal 15.1 2.