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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81105	A sermon preached in the parish-church of St Nicholas, in the city of Bristol, August the 27th, 1691 Being the anniversary festival of the natives of that city. By Thomas Cary, M.A. and vicar of the parish of St Philip and Jacob, in the city of Bristol.	Cary, Thomas, 1648 or 9-1711.	1691 (1691)	Wing C743BA; ESTC R222493	16,665	34

hands be the Executors of our Charity while we live and then a Death-bed Charity will be rendred acceptable Let us consider the uncertainty of all things in this World thou who now aboundest mayst shortly be reduced to want Fortune storms a losty Castle and passeth over a low Cottage a blustring Wind shakes the top of a tall Cedar while the humble Shrub remains unmov'd an ambitious Mountain that aspires up to Heaven is sooner thunder-struck than the Valley Let then the Rich sympathize with the Miseries of the Poor because they are subject to them Remember them that are in bonds as bound with them and them which suffer adversity as being your selves also in the body Heb. 13. 3. 4. The happiness of Humane Life consists in a good Conscience towards God and Man Without Peace with God all Temporal Blessings are but Vanity and Vexation of Spirit there can be no Calm within when God is angry without and when the Mind is uneasie within the whole World cannot give the least Contentment A good Conscience crowns the Blessings of God with Comfort it is the Soul's Health and the Body's Cordial the Salt that seasons Earthly Blessings and makes them relishable it gives Joy in Sorrow Comfort in Afflications and is a hearty Friend in the Day of Adverisity Whether we are Rich or Poor we can carry nothing out of the World with us but a good or an evil Conscience one of those will abide with us for ever Holiness is the life of the Soul and a good Conscience its proper Comfort As he that is in Health will feed on ordinary Diet with delight while the sick Stomach loaths the most delicious Meats so to a good Conscience the worst Condition is pleasant but to an evil Conscience all worldly Pleasures are but vexatious Torments A good Man will be contented with much or with little or with nothing because he finds a full satisfaction in the All-sufficient God Life is then happy when we can look backward without shame and forward without fear when we can expect Death with Comfort and meet it with Courage when we can meditate on the Terrours of Judgment without being afraid of them and have a sense of our Reconciliation with God by Christ A good Conscience will make our Beds easie and our Pillows soft it will fortifie us against the Fears of Death and Judgment and revive our Souls when our Bodies languish under our last Pangs God only and his Grace content us in every State God being immutably the same he that enjoys him hath always enough In all the Ebbings and Flowings of the World a good Man is fixt upon a solid Foundation because the Object of his happiness is not subject to change Godliness with contentment is great gain and godliness is profitable to all things having the promise of the life which now is and that which is to come 1 Tim. 4. 8. Let us not then seek Happiness from the vain and empty World its Pleasures are deceitful fugitive and fading its Comforts are allayed with Sorrows its Joys are mixt with Grief its fairest Days have their Clouds to darken them The World is of little use to the Soul while it lives in it and of no use at all when it goes out of it it is confined to the Body in this state of Probation to prepare itsself for a blessed Eternity and then to go hence and dwell in a World of Spirits separate Souls have no use of any thing that worldly Riches can purchase How then do they debase their Souls who make them Slaves to their Bodies How do they undervalue them who give them away for the World Time is but an Instant if compared with Eternity our Lives are but a Point if compared with the whole Line of Time our pleasant Hours are but a Moment if compared with our whole Lives What folly is it then to part with our Souls for fading things which we must leave when we die and may leave before Temporal things are to be used not enjoyed God is the Object of fruition the World of use the World may have our hands God ought to have our whole hearts But this I say brethren the time is short it remaineth that both they that have wives be as though they bad none and they that weep as though they wept not and they that rejoyce as though they rejoyeed not and they that buy as though they possessed not and they that use this world as not abusing it for the fashion of this world passeth away 1 Cor. 7. 29 30. When the Disciples admired to our Saviour the magnificent Buildings of the Temple he diverted them with this Consideration See ye not all these things Verily I say unto you there shall not be left here one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down Mat. 24. 2. So when we are tempted with the Riches of this World let us fortifie ourselves with this meditation See ye not all these things they shall shortly be found no where but in the Ashes of an Universal Dissolution To conclude Let us seek happiness there where only it may be found God only is the proper satisfaction of Spirits the Home of Souls and the Center on whom alone they can rest Let us then present our Hearts to God make his Will our Rule and imitate him in holiness there is no true happiness without Union with God by Faith and Love let us then serve him with pure hearts adore him with all the powers of our Souls meditate upon him and live to him and then when this World shall be dissolved we shall have a Building of God a House not made with hands eternal in the Heavens Now to God the Father God the Son and God the Holy Ghost Three Persons and One Eternal God be all Honour Glory Love and Adoration henceforth and for evermore Amen FINIS