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A44571	The vnrighteovs Mammon exchanged for the true riches or A sermon, preached at the funeral of William Adams Esq; in the parish church of St. Lawrence Iury on Tuesday. Septemb. 3. 1661. By Thomas Horton. D.D.	Horton, Thomas, d. 1673.	1661 (1661)	Wing H2883; ESTC R213856	28,717	49

within three miles compass thereabout A large library over the said School and also two fair houses thereunto adjoyning for the two Schoolemasters therein to inhabit together with Gardens and Ground appertaining He likewise setled lands of about ten pounds per annum for the teaching of children in the English schoole to fit them for the Latine Grammer-schoole He built four commodious Almes-houses fronting the Court-yard of the said schoole towards the street and likewise settled a yearly maintainance upon the Minister of the said town for the yearly Catechizing of the said schollars and other youths He setled exhibitions for the maintainance of four poor schollers of his Foundation at the Vniversity and also yearly to clothe and put forth to be apprentices four poor youthes to convenient Trades He made provision for the constant repaires of the said schoole and Almes-Houses and for other conveniences belonging thereunto all which in his life time he saw fully effected and did himself amply endow with good lands there adjacent He obtained a Confirmation of the settlement thereof and of the prudent Statutes for the Government of the said Schoole by Acts of Parliament according to law He hath moreover taken order that after his Decease there should be built a fair Market-house with a Town-hall over it in the said Town of Newport for the effecting whereof he hath made ample provision Furthermore he hath by his last will and testament given unto Christs Hospital where he was a governour an hundred and fifty pounds To the Poor and Parish of St. Lawrence-Jury where he had lived for many yeares an hundred and twenty pounds To ten poor Ministers widdows five pounds a piece To tvventy poor men of the Haberdashers Company tvventy shillings a piece yearly for ever And to the same worthy Company whereof himself had bin an Ancient member he left friendly memorials of his respect In whom likewise he reposed the TRVST of all his former settlements and made them the visitors and overseers thereof with due allowance for defraying the charges concerning the same When the aforesaid Schooles were finished and indowed and two able and eminent Schoolemasters setled therein and the Schollers grown numerous which was in a very short time An account coming to his hands of those great hopes which the visitors and School-masters conceiv'd of much happinesse that the Foundation promised both to present and future Ages He with Tears uttered these words or to the like effect That he had great cause to blesse God vvho had intrusted him vvith such an estate but much greater cause to bless him for giveing him an heart to dispose it in a vvay that might conduce to Gods glory and the good of his country After all this his cost labour and travail which was great and of long continuance he hath by his last vvill and testament with so much wisdome love and impartiallity bequeathed a very fair estate among all his relations and other friends as that it is believed there 's not one of them but rests abundantly and thankfully satisfied Ther 's many a man that in dividing his estate divides also his friends whom he divides that estate unto and does not make friends but Enemies of the Mammon of unrighteousnesse But it was his happiness to doe the quite contrary he did not hereby divide his friends but rather unite them and not only make them friends to himself but also one to another God blest him with a long life which in it self is a great blessing and accordingly both to be accounted and improved he was an old man and full of daies about fourscore yeares of Age which made it so much the longer free from those Infirmities which old Age is subject unto and oftentimes incumbred withall God makeing good that promise to him which is conditionally made to a good and righteous person Job 5.26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age like as a shock of corne cometh in it's season Let those whom God hath blest with such opportunities as he had be careful all they can to improve them as he did that so making to themselves friends of this Mammon of unrighteousnesse they may at last be received into those everlasting Habitations which God hath prepared for all that love his appearing ERRATA Page 25. lin 2. read not to know whither pag. 28. dele lin penult in some Copies

upon the Hearts of all those that are partakers of them and that he would send forth many such Persons out of your renowned and flourishing Societie as may be inrich'd with the like Estates and the like Hearts which is the earnest and unfeigned Desire of Your SERVANT for the True Riches And Your FRIEND for the Everlasting Habitations Thomas Horton Luke XVI 9. And I say unto you Make unto your selves friends of the Mammon of unrighteousness that when ye faile they may receive you into everlasting Habitations THat which hath bin wont sometimes to be said of a good wit it is more especially and properly true of a good heart that it is able to make use of any thing and to improve it to its own advantage not only in the examples of virtue by conforming to that whch is absolutely and substantially good in them but likewise in the examples of Iniquity by picking out that which is occasionally and circumstantially good in them also An instance whereof we have here in this Scripture which we have now before us in the Parable of the unjust Steward mentioned in the beginning of this chapter whose providence and forecast for Himself against the time of his expected ejection out of his Stewardship though by sinful and unlawful meanes is improved by our blessed Saviour as a pattern to all rich Persons to provide for their soules against the time of their expected dissolution and departure out of this world but in a way far more warrantable though in some respects sutable thereunto that is by making to themselves friends of the Mammon of unrighteousness that so when they fail they may receive them into everlasting habitations In the words themselves there are three general Parts considerable first the quickning Preface or authoritative Introduction I say unto you Secondly The sober advice or serious counsel following upon it Make unto your selves friends of the Mammon of unrighteousness Thirdly The persuasive Argument or Ground for the practise of it That when ye fail they may receive you into everlasting habitations We begin with the former viz. The quickning Preface or Introduction I say unto you This is a form of speech which our Saviour Christ does often use in his discourses especially in such businesses as are of more weighty and serious consideration or where the minds of his hearers are not altogether so quick and attentive Here he does usually excite and stir them up from the thoughts and apprehensions of the Person whom they have to deal withal that so they may take heed least they refuse him that speaketh who should most effectually prevaile with them And there 's a twofold intimation in it to make it so much the more efficacious First of Skil and understanding I that Know what I say Secondly of Love and affection I that speak it out of my good will unto you Where there is a concurrence of these two an Intelligent speaker and an Affectionate there 's very great cause for listning and attending to him and so it is here I. There 's his skill and understanding He is not one that speaks at randome he knows not what but with a great deal of wisdome and discretion so great as that none the like Never any man spake as he spake And that as to knowledge and judgement He knows all kind of Natures and Persons and Actions and Events His Name is Counsellour And so he is fittest to advise his people for his wisdome II. For his Love and affection ther 's much considerable in that also there are many who can speak admirablely and give very good Counsel in regard of that which comes from them but it may be they have some sinister End or unworthy design in it but for Christ what he speakes it is in sincerity and out of good will to the persons to whom he speaks But this I doe not insist upon as hastening to that which is mainly and principally intended that 's the First General viz. The quickning Preface or Introduction I say unto you The second is the sober Advice or Council which follows upon it in these words Make to your selves friends of the Mammon of unrighteousnesse wherein again we have two branches more First the thing advised to and that is the making of friends Secondly The meanes advised to for the effecting and accomplishing of this thing and that is to do it by the Mammon of unrightuousness For the First the thing it self advised to it is here exprest to be the making of friends This will be the more observeable if we shall consider the quality of the Persons to whom these words are directed and that is as appears by the scope of them to rich men such persons as have an abundance of these worldly goods by them these are they who are heere call'd upon to the making of friends to themselves But stay what need have these of friends those that have wealth and riches and a fulness of these outward possessions they can shift well enough of themselves and be their own friends though they had none else to regard them or look after them yea indeed sometimes they think so and are lifted up with such thoughts as these are well but for all that sayes our Saviour do you make your friends you which are rich and wealthy persons such as these have need of friends as well as any man else yea and they have need to make friends too there 's that also in the text make to your selves friends As for poor men indeed we are apt to think with our selves that such as they have need to make friends because they have so many Enemies All the Brethren of the poor hate him how much more doe his friends go farr off from him● he pursueth them with words yet they are wanting to him Pro. 19.7 And again Pro. 14.20 The poor is hated even of his own neighbour but the rich hath many friends Or many are the Lovers of the rich as it is in the Hebrew text Rich men as one would think they have friends enow made to their hands from the Nature of their condition well but yet still for all this have these I say need to make friends and Christ himself sayes it also yea they have need to make friends of the poorest and meanest people that are as having great use of them God hath in his infinite wisdome and providence so ordered and disposed it that no sorts of men should be absolute or independent one upon another but that they should be mutually helpful beneficial The rich do as much need the poor as the poor the rich and they cannot say unto them wee have no need of you no more then the members of the body one to another 1 Cor. 12.21 Dives pauper duo sibi sunt Contraria sed iterum duo sibi sunt necessaria sayes St. Austin the rich and the poor they are two contraries to one another but yet they are two