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A62575	The foolish abuse and wise use of riches a sermon preached in the parish-church of Bromsgrove in Worchester-shire, May 1, 1695, upon occasion of a charity given to that place by Sir Thomas Cookes of Bentley, Kt. Bar. / by W. Talbot ...	Talbot, William, 1658 or 9-1730.	1695 (1695)	Wing T121; ESTC R32741	20,183	34

Post that hasteth by but as for him how is he numbred among the Children of God and his Lot among the Saints When they shall thus censure themselves and with trembling and confusion hear the dreadful Sentence of their Judge Then shall he stand with great boldness before the Face of those who made no account of his Labours of Love and before the Face of his Judge too Being prepared to answer those Interrogatories that shall then be put to him with a Here Lord are thy poor naked Members which I have clothed here are the hungry Bellies that I have fed here are the Strangers the Sick and Imprisoned to whom I have Minister'd Then shall he receive a beautiful Crown from the Lord's hand who shall tell him In as much as thou hast done it to these thou hast done it to me Come therefore thou blessed Child inherit the Kingdom prepared for thee from the foundation of the World Thus have I dispatch'd the Two Things I proposed and shew'd 1. The Folly of those that lay up Treasure for themselves and 2. The true way of making a wise improvement of Riches by being rich towards God And blessed be God though our Age and Country abound too much with Examples of the former yet we do not want some Instances to exemplifie the latter part of my Discourse our Saviour's Prophecy Mat. 24. v. 12. That the love of many shall wax cold and St. Paul's account of the last days 2 Tim. 3. v. 12. wherein Men shall be lovers of themselves and covetous without natural affection lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God are but too visibly verified in us upon whom the ends of the World are come But yet as far as we are removed from the first dawnings of the Gospel Age and from the more immediate influences of those bright Examples the first Embracers of it who sold their possessions and laid them at the Apostles feet whereof distribution was made to every Man as he had need As late as we live and as cold as our Climate is we have had and have some burning and shining Lights who by their charitable works have both warm'd and refreshed many of their poor Brethren and by the Light of their good Examples invited and encouraged others to do likewise and occasion'd many Thanksgivings to God on their behalf We can produce instances of useful Charities that have been given since the Reformation sufficient to convince the Romanists That Protestants do as much acknowledge the Obligation as they disclaim the merit of good works Instances so many and great in proportion to the little time that the People of thy Holiness O Lord have possest thy Sanctuary as may justly make them blush to charge us with denying the necessity of good Works If any have taught that a naked dead Faith destitute of Works is the whole intire condition of Justification let them bear their own burden but let not the Church be charged which always subscribes to that of St. James Jam. 2.26 As the body without the spirit is dead so faith without works is dead also Though with our Saviour she teaches us to say when we have done all we are unprofitable Servants We can I say shew our faith by our works I need not go out of this County to find several Instances a Commission now in foot for the enquiring into and redressing any Abuses in the management of them has given me an opportunity of knowing this But having trespassed too far already I must suppress a great deal that I might say upon this Subject and shall only mention some few Instances of Charity given and design'd to very good uses within our own Memories and in the Life-time of the Donors some already perfected and some not yet compleated Among the first sort I reckon the Hospital at Old Swinford and this I do the rather instance in because this Parish partakes in the Charity of that Noble Foundation which through the munificence of the Founder the care of the Managers and prudence and industry of the present Master is it may be one of the most useful Charities that late Years have produced at least in these Parts Of this sort likewise is that which is the occasion of our present Meeting and is more intirely given for the benefit of this Place and Neighbourhood and is design'd not only for the Clothing of the Bodies of some of your poorer Children but for the Adorning of their Minds and putting them into Capacities of providing for themselves and being useful to the World Here you have a beautiful and convenient Structure built and a competent Provision made for a School-Master to instruct such as shall be admitted into it not only in the Rudiments of Grammar but also in the Principles of the Christian Religion as they are briefly comprised in that excellent Summary our Church Catechism And whoever considers what a mighty Influence the Education of Children has upon them when they come to be Men how tenacious they are of those Principles which they imbibe in their Child-hood especially how closely those they then suck in relating to Religion stick to them afterward as we have sad experience in too many unhappy Persons upon whom prejudice of Education has wrought more than force of Argument must certainly own it to be a most pious and prudent Design of your Charitable Benefactor to provide for the early Institution of such whose mean Circumstances may either render them destitute of any Education o● which is not better expose them to a bad one and for the leading them into the Truth and possessing them with right Notions while the pliableness and tenderness of their Age make them very Ductile and capable of any impressions But I must not dwell upon this nor may enlarge upon other Subjects which are offer'd me by the further generous Designs of that worthy Person who has occasion'd our coming together at this time who is settling the same Charity on a Neighbouring Parish that he has bestowed upon this and making the same pious Provision for the poor Children of Fecknam that he has done for those of Bromsgrove Nor does his Charitable Intentions stop here or leave the Children at the Schools he is building for them but carry them on to the Vniversity where he has laid large and noble designs indeed which we may hope ere long to see executed But I must forbear and shall conclude with a hearty Address to the Father of Lights from whom every good and perfect Gift comes that for this Loan which is already lent unto the Lord he would return it double into the Bosom of the Lender in the Blessings of this Life and the next That he who worketh in us to will and to do of his good pleasure would perfect what he has begun in him That he would make him to abound more and more in this Grace and to that end That he would make all Grace abound towards him that he always having All-sufficiency in all things may abound to every good work being enrich'd in every thing to all bountifulness which causes through us Thanksgivings to God Amen FINIS Books lately Printed for Tho. Bennet THE Lives of all the Princes of Orange from William the Great Founder of the Common-wealth of the Vnited Provinces Written in French by the Baron Maurier in 1682. whose Father was Twenty Years Ambassador at the Hague And Published at Paris by Order of the French King To which is added the Life of His Present Majesty King William the Third By Mr. Thomas Brown Together with each Prince's Head before his Life Done from Original Draughts by Mr. Robert White Mr. Bossu's Treatise of the Epick Poem containing Curious Reflections very useful and necessary for the Right Understanding and Judging of the excellency of Homer and Virgil done into English with some Reflections on Prince Arthur by W. S. To which are added an Essay on Satyr by Monsieur Dacier and a Treatise upon Pastoral Poetry by Monsieur Fontanelle Monsieur Rapin's Reflections upon Aristotle's Poetry Englished by Mr. Rymer together with some Reflections on our Modern Poets In the Press Sermons upon several Occasions by R. Meggot D.D. llate Dean of Winchester