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A40096	A sermon preached before the right honourable the lord maior of London, and the Court of Aldermen, &c., on Easter-Monday, 1692 being one of the anniversary spittal-sermons / by Edward Lord Bishop of Gloucester.	Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.	1692 (1692)	Wing F1723; ESTC R37351	17,587	40

their Righteous Judge hath declared He will confer upon them at the day of his appearing And wicked Souls must necessarily be as miserable in this separate State by reason of as bad Company they shall be confined to and the evil Affections and corrupt Habits they carry out of their Bodies with them which are mightily disquieting in this Life and must much more be so in the other through the want of those Satisfactions of inordinate Appetites this World abounds with And their Condition must needs be extreamly sad too through the Lashes of their Guilty Consciences and their certain looking for of Vengeance and fiery Indignation Now then what inexpressible Folly is it and especially in us Christians who profess to believe the Resurrection of the Body and the Life everlasting so to dote upon these vile Bodies and this vain World as generally we do As if our inward thought were that there shall be no Resurrection that there is no Life to come This is great Folly even in those who are utter Strangers to the Christian and all Revealed Religion but that they who are acquainted with the Doctrine of Jesus Christ with His description of the Future State both of the Good and Bad and with the abundant the superabundant Evidence He hath given us of the Truth thereof with all His other Revelations that they I say should be so Unconcerned about these things is most amazing This is such Madness as no Tongue can give it its due Aggravation Let me address my self to those who remain under the Guilt hereof in the Words of the Prophet Remember this and shew your selves Men bring it again to mind O ye Transgressors Let it appear that you are a sort of Creatures superiour to the Brutes in being no longer only affected with present things and those which can signifie nothing to you one moment longer than while you continue in these Bodies Let this appear by your so laying to heart what you have now been minded of relating to the Doctrine of the Resurrection as in all your Actions and inward Affections to be powerfully influenced thereby for the time to come But to be more particular In the Second Place Let me commend to you those Words of our blessed Saviour Luk. 16. 9. a Text which I formerly discoursed on to you upon this same Occasion viz. I say unto you make to your selves Friends of the Mammon of Unrighteousness that when ye fail they may receive you into everlasting Habitations The Argument I have now been upon contains one would think an irresistible Motive to abound during our stay in these Bodies in Works of Piety Mercy and Charity according to the Ability God hath given us This is evident from too many Texts of Scripture to be now recited in which the Happiness of the other Life is intitled to the sincere Performance of such Works as these Our Lord doth particularly assign no other Reason for the pronouncing of that most joyful Sentence to the Sheep on His Right Hand Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the Foundation of the World but this I was an hungred and ye gave me Meat I was thirsty and ye gave me drink c. Or my Brethren were so and you Relieved them as He explains Himself in the Words following Nor doth He express any other Reason for the fearful Sentence which shall be pronounced against the Goates on His Left Hand Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels but their Averseness to Works of Mercy and Charity Tho' there will be many other Reasons for each of these Sentences yet these onely are particularly mentioned to shew what a mighty Weight shall be laid upon them at the day of Judgment And He declares Matth. 5. 7. That Blessed are the Merciful for they shall obtain Mercy And Luk. 6. 35. That The Reward of such shall be great and they shall be the Children of the Highest He likewise calls the imploying of Riches in the fore-mentioned good Works laying up a Treasure in Heaven in Opposition to Hoarding them up which He calls laying up Treasures upon Earth Mat. 6. 20 c. And He commands His Disciples as poor as they were to sell what they have and give Alms Luk. 12. 33. And farther expresseth this Injunction of Giving Alms by such Words as these Provide your selves Bags which wax not old a Treasure in the Heavens which faileth not where no Thief approacheth neither Rust corrupteth S. Paul calls being Rich in good Works laying up in store for our selves a good Foundation against the time to come that we may lay hold on Eternal Life And that is the Motive with which he backs the Charge which he requires his Son Timothy to lay upon Rich Men 1 Ep. 6. 17. Charge them who are Rich in this World that they be not high-minded nor trust in uncertain Riches but in the Living God Who giveth us all things richly to enjoy That they do good that they be rich in good Works ready to distribute willing to communicate And S. James having divided Pure Religion into Two Parts makes visiting the Fatherless and Widows in their Affliction or being bountiful and compassionate the whole former Part Ch. 1. 27. And he puts this Question Ch. 2. 14. What doth it profit my Brethren if a Man say he hath Faith and hath not Works Can Faith save him That is it can not profit a man to say he hath Faith when he hath not Works no nor to have Faith neither without Works such a Faith cannot save him And the next Words tell us what Works he means without which Faith cannot save If a Brother or Sister be Naked and Destitute of daily Food c. And S. John hath pronounced him a false Hypocrite in pretending to be a Lover of God who makes little Conscience of these good Works For saith he Whoso hath this Worlds Goods and seeth his Brother hath need and shutteth up his Bowels of Compassion from him how dwelleth the Love of God in him 1 Ep. ● 17. So that we see there is nothing more indispensably Necessary to our Resurrection to a Blessed Immortality than is our being indued with such a Love of God and Goodness as powerfully inclineth us and makes us forward to works of Mercy and Charity There is no duty more Earnestly Pressed nor the Recommending of which is inforced with more Promises nor so many neither as may be shewed out of the Old as well as New Testament than is this of being Charitable and doing good with this Worlds Goods in proportion to the Share of them wherewith God has blest us I might shew also how greatly this Grace of Charity is perfective of our Nature how it dignifieth and Beautifieth our Souls and so is not only a necessary Condition of but likewise as necessary a Qualification for that Blessedness which Consists in the Enjoyment of that God who is