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truth_n	world_n	write_n	yield_v	13	3	6.3339	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50478	An appendix to Solomon's prescription for the removal of the pestilence enforcing the same from a consideration of the late dreadful judgement by fire : together with some perswasions to all, especially suffering Christians, to exercise and maintain faith and patience, courage and comfort, in this dark and cloudy day / by M.M.	Mead, Matthew, 1630?-1699.	1667 (1667)	Wing M1544; ESTC R19176	113,221	168

considerable In that you may still pursue the great business of your lives as advantageously as ever and carry on all your designs upon the Coelestial Kingdome with as good success If indeed you had been sent into the world to gather wealth and leave it to your Children that you might raise great families which should flourish when you were dead and gone you had now been sadly cast back and little better than quite broke and 't is no wonder if they take themselves to be so who made this their chief end But if your business here be to glorifie and please him that created and redeemed you by an holy fruitful conversation and to get your souls prepar'd for an higher bliss which I hope you question not but it is then I say you may follow it on with as much courage and to as good purpose as ever formerly you did without check or hindrance by this or any the like disaster Now what a ridiculous thing would it be accounted for a General to be daunted for the loss of a few stragling Souldiers whilst the Main Body of his Army and all things necessary to carry on the War are still secure Or for a Marriner to stand weeping for having his Ship somewhat weather-beaten and defac't as to its painting and fineness whilst it 's still as sufficient and well-fitted for his Voyage as before Or for a rich Merchant to lament some such trivial loss as is scarce mist out of his stock nor is any hindrance to his great Trading Why then should the sincere Christian be so deeply affected with those occurrences which need be no let to him in his journey and which leave him never the less capable of mannaging his chiefest Trade for invisible durable riches So that I hope I have clear'd the truth of my Position past all denial or doubting and have made it to appear that you have receiv'd no considerable disadvantage by any effects of the Fire and therefore it is a very reasonable exhortation that your sorrow should bear proportion to the ground of it and not be excessive when you have no cause nor can shew any reason why it should be so But it 's probable there may arise some such Objections in your breast as may somewhat delay your firmer asse●t to what is said two or three of which I shall mention and endeavour to take out of your way and so hasten 〈◊〉 the next Obj. 1. Some may think with themselves If this be● indeed so that the loss of an estate is a matter of so small importance how comes it to pass then that men bear it so heavily Surely all are not Children and Fools to mourn for the losing of Pins or Counters wherefore how can we but think the things they lose of more worth than so except we will accuse the generality of men of extream Childishnesse and F●lly If this stick any thing with you for your satisfaction I would in one word advise you soberly to consider all that hath been said to evince how very little or just nothing a great estate contributes to the happiness of man and if you can indeed make it out to your own impartial thoughts that this assertion is false and the arguments brought to prove it fallacious and can manifest the contrary by stronger reasons you shall have my free consent to reject it But if you are not able to do thus not can rationally contradict the former discourse judge your selves whether the example even of the most of the greatest or of those whom the world count the wisest ought to weaken your assent to a plain undeniable truth I affirm nothing but what the Word 〈◊〉 God himself the Professions of all Christians the strictest Reason and the Writings of wisest Heathens will very well warrant and the convictions of almost all one time or other yield a suffrage to What then have we to do with the examples of frail men under the power of their passions how many soever they be May I not with as much reason demand If it be true what Solomon saies of the vanity of all the worldlings Idols and what David saies that men disquiet themselves in vain whil'st they are heaping up riches and what a greater than either even our Lord himself tells us That our life consists not in the abundance of those things which we possess how then it comes to pass that the most are so eager and insatiable in their desires after them so constant and unwearied in their labours to attain them Is this because God and good men speak worse of the world than it deserves Or because the most are careless and inconsiderate and think better of it than it is pursuing the common course without examining the reason or foreseeing the end of it and so in a blinde zeal making that their Idol which they see so many adore they follow it with the same care and love as if it was indeed their God and happiness which I know you 'l grant to bee a very gross mistake And yet as bad as it is from this very same mistake proceeds that unseemly and excessive sorrow which you behold in those from whom the things of the world are withdrawn Whil'st they kept them they let out their hearts upon and rejoyc't in them and even blest themselves in their enjoyment of them as if they would abide with them and make them happy for ever How then can it otherwise bee but that when they are remov'd they should wring their hands and tear their hearts with grief as being depriv'd of that in the fruition whereof they took all the satisfaction and joy they had and from which they had expectations of something better than ever yet they had found Who that is of these carnal principles can possibly bear up under the interruption of this comfort the frustration of these hopes Yet this weak carriage of theirs tells us not what the worth of the world was but what kinde of false apprehensions they had of it and how great a dependance they had upon it Though it bee but an Idol that 's carried away yet if Micah have taken it for his God what wonder if he follow after the men who spoil him of it with a deal of lamentation and noise from which he would never cease but that he perceives they are too strong for him Judge 18.24 26. Even these are some of those sorrows with which the Apostle tells us they that covet after money do pierce themselves thorough But perhaps you 'l tell me that not only the covetous who are Idolaters but even good men themselves seem very unable to bear the losing or lessening of their estates and are more concern'd for them than if they were of no greater value than I speak of and therefore hence you conclude that it 's warrantable or however unavoidable to have a deeper sense of their departure than I seem to allow To which I answer 1 It is not