thing to be imploy'd as a Labourer in Gods Vineyard to be a builder of the Church of God which honor if any one refuse or despise let him know that God who at first open'd can as easily shut and bar again the door of his utterance and give him a stammering tongue in stead of the lips of knowledge So if God hath given to any man the illumination of his Spirit and hath caused his Face to shine upon him hath given him any taste and experience of his love let him not think scorn to communicate of what he hath received and help build up the walls of Sion least God rob and plunder him of his enjoyments and eclipse the light of his countenance from him Will God require of us an account of our Stewardship in the outward things of this life Will God require of us his Flax and his Wine and his Oyl if we waste and abuse them And will he not require a more exact and severer account of all the gifts and Intellectual Endowments his Mercy hath bestowed upon us Will he not much more require them at our hands if we honor him not with them Hath God promised the encrease of his blessing and the blessing of encrease on our outward mundane enjoyments if we lay them out for his Glory Hath he been pleased to acknowledge himself our Debtor for our charity to the poor and said He that gives unto the poor lends unto the Lord Hath he been pleased to become our Surety to enter into Bonds and Covenants to pawn his Word and ingage his Promise that if we cast our bread upon the Waters after many dayes we shall find it And will he not become much more our Debtor for our Spiritual Alms for our Spiritual Charity if we cast as I may so say the Bread of Life upon the waters if we deal to the poor of our Spiritual Food of our Spiritual Manna if we relieve the hunger of poor starved souls Shall not he loose his Reward that gives a cup of cold water to a Disciple and shall he think you be without reward that refreshes the poor dry and parched soul with the Waters of Life that draws waters out of the Wells of Salvation for poor souls Is our liberality of the things of this life so acceptable to God and will not our Spiritual Charity be much more Moreover Is our Charity to the poor and lending to the Lord of these outward things the best and greatest Usury the best and greatest way and means of improvement God having promised to return an hundred fold And is it not as good husbandry as good a way of improving the treasures of the mind the talents of Wisdome and Knowledge If any have rob'd the Egyptians have stoln from the Heathen any Earings or Jewels of Humane Learning any Pearls of Knowledge or Science can he better imploy them than to adorn the Truths of the Gospel with them than to have them sanctified by the Altar Is there any better way to encrease the stock of our Learning to inrich the treasures of our understanding But if this consideration seem slight or will not prevail with us however let the fear of loosing them the fear that God may blow upon them and cause them to blast and wither for as was observed before how justly may God strip rob and spoil us of them if we refuse to glorifie him with them How justly may he eclipse all the light of our Knowledge by infatuating our understandings and confounding our memories How justly may he turn our Sun into Darkness and our Moon into Blood How justly may he benight all our faculties with ignorance or cause them to set in a cloud of dotage and folly before the evening nay in the very morning of our age How justly may he turn our wisdome into folly and our prudence into madness Oh! how many great Wits have on this account been blasted that might otherwayes have been bright Stars Stars of the first Magnitude in the Firmament of Knowledge and glorious Luminaries in the Orbs of Learning who through the just Curse of God upon their parts have either prov'd blazing Meteors or flaming Comets to fill the World with wonder and amazement and then extinguish'd in smoak and ashes or gone out like the snuff of a Candle leaving nothing but the memory of their wickedness to stink in the Nostrils both of God and man Let this consideration at least prevail with us to write after this Copy Christ hath set us of arresting all opportunities of doing good and to honor God with all the faculties of our Souls with all the gifts and endowments of our minds least he plunder and strip us of them least he dethrone our Reasons and turn us a grazing with the Beasts of the Forrest as he sometime did Nebuchadnezzar and make us to eat thistles with the Ass. I confess I have dwelt something too long on this particular viz. The occasion but it yeelded so fruitful an Harvest to my thoughts that I knew not how to crowd them into less room or gather them into fewer periods The third particular is the Auditory and that was mixt consisting of the multitude and Christs Disciples During the time of Moses's Administration under the Law God had a peculiar people the Nation of the Iews whom his Favour was pleas'd to pick and cull as a precious Jewel from the dross and rubbish of the rest of mankind to whom alone of all the Families of the earth the Oracles of God were committed to whom alone the Law and the Prophets were given They only of the Sons of Adam had the priviledge to wear the Livery of Gods Name to be called the people of the Lord they alone were permitted to tread the Courts of Gods House to have access to his Sanctuary to approach his Altars when as all the rest of the World were prohibited under the dreadful penalty of an Anathema with a procul ite hinc procul ite profani time was when they only were accounted the Children of the Kingdome and all the rest of the World as Aliens and Out-casts as dogs unworthy of the very crums that fell from their table as Swine to whom the precious Pearls of the Gospel might not be cast time was when they only were accounted within the pale of the Church the only place wherein God was pleas'd to plant the Vineyard of his Church the only spot of ground his love had taken in and inclos'd from the Wilderness of the World wherein to plant his fear and the knowledge of his Name while the rest of the Earth lay neglected as a rude Barren and uncultivated Desert ore-grown with Atheisme and Barbarisme They were the Eden the Garden the Paradise of God the Land flowing with milk and honey the place where God was pleas'd to make known the greatness of his Name when as all the rest of the miserable Off spring and Posterity of Adam liv'd as without God in
Laplanders that are reported to befriend Marriners with Gales tyed up in Napkins for whereas these traffick with the Elements they put to sale the wind of their oaths as if they were no more then small puffs of ayr yet such by which many are in a trice blown out of all their Estates and Fortunes into a gulph of poverty and misery and these are those Camelions that can cast themselves into all shapes and colours and witness pro or con to any business But to balance this custome of Antiquity our modern Ages delight rather to show their Coats of Arms and Atchievements taken out of the Heralds Office than the base badges of Mechanick Trades and beggarly Professions as if nothing would so much taint the 〈◊〉 and degrade a Gentleman as an honest imployment But to proceed there is the sweat of the mind as well as the body and to speak truth of all labours that of the mind is far the greatest and of all travel that of the Soul is the sorest under the Sun and therefore it is that Solomon so often lets fall such expressions as these Of writing books there is no end and much reading or study is weariness to the flesh Also where he sayes He that encreases knowledge encreaseth sorrow and the like but as it is the sorest travel so it is the Noblest difficilia quae pulchra the wayes that lead to Eminence are not strewd with Roses Now its fit that every one should have his share and portion of the one or the other of the sweat of the body or the travel of the mind for man is born to labour and travel as the sparks fly upward Iob 5. 7. And God hath forbidden him to eat that will not labour and therefore I wonder how such dare eat the sweat of whose brows in some lawful imployment hath not given them a right and title to what their plentiful Fortunes hath furnished forth unto their tables It s a laudible custome of some Countryes to make their children by some exercise of either body or mind to deserve and as it were earn their meat before they give it them whereby from their very Infancy and Cradles they are inur'd to labour and made familiar with industry To conclude no Patrimony no Revenues no Fortunes are large enough the riches of the Indies the wealth of Kingdomes nay the price of Worlds would fall short and not be able to supply or recruit the Exchequer of such persons expences as have no other imployment their devise how to spend which renders industry no less our interest than duty business being no less the food and entertainment of the mind than meat is of the body And as idleness is said to be the Devils Pillow and therefore none may expect Gods blessing that sleeps upon it so I am confident it is as uneasie as unsafe and dangerous Now when men refuse all labour and become unprofitable burdens to the earth when men live to eat when as they should only eat to live when men think they are born wholly for themselves to eat and drink and rise up to play is it not just with God to blast their Estates and to send the Gout the Dropsie or the judgement of some more sore disease upon the bodies of these Pigri ventri these slow bellies that are good for nothing but to feed and pamper a rotten carkass that must after a while be a banquet for worms that are good for nothing but like vermine to devoure the fruits of the earth that live as if they had their Souls given them as it s commonly said of Swines only as salt to keep the flesh of their bodies from putrifying and stinking To conclude this particular I am perswaded if greater entertainment and incouragement were given to industry and diligence it might prove the most effectual means to croud out that penury and poverty that hath so long dwelt amongst us of which we need not look far for a President so long as Holland is so nigh a Neighbour whose small spot of earth did it not lye so low and in the midst of waters I should liken to a Mole-Hill the Inhabitants being those Pismires from whom all the world might take lessons of industry and diligence Now upon the account of all these reasons from whence this poverty of necessity usually springs I am induc'd to believe this is not the poverty here meant but that this is rather a Judgement than a Blessing of God for were this the poverty that gave men title to the Kingdome of Heaven none could make a better claim or produce fairer evidence then a Prodigal Son that hath wasted and spent his Estate on Whores and Parasites or some Bankrupt person that hath split his Fortunes and ship-wrack'd his Estate by ill husbandry gaming or the like no Whoremongers Adulterers and dissolute persons must not enter into the Kingdome of Heaven We ought to be diligent and faithful Stewards even of these talents for of these also must we give an account if therefore God hath trusted any one with a fair estate a large and plentiful Fortune let him not think to spend it upon his lusts but so demean himself in his Stewardship that he may give a good account in the day of his Audit that so he may reap comfort not shame when the Harvest of the World shall approach Moreover our English Proverb saith That God never sends mouths but he also sends meat and that no man is so unfortunate but at one time or other hath been courted by an opportunity of growing rich at least in a competency God feeds the very crows and Ravens and cloaths the very grass and Lillies of the fields in so rich Liveries that they may vye with Solomon in all his glory and make the purple of our bravest Princes blush to see their gallantry so much out-stript by the native beauty of so contemptible a creature and shall we think that God who is thus bountiful to the Lillies of the field will deny his own people food and rayment But I would not have this interpreted to lock up the bowels of compassion and bar the door of our charity against such poor wretches that daily cry in our streets for though I think their poverty is commonly a Judgement of God upon them for some of the fore-cited sins yet this excuses not our charity and compassion for since we are all sinners as Christ said of the woman taken in Adultery who shall presume to fling the first stone at them should we not rather imitate the goodness of God that causes his Sun to shine and his Rain fall upon the wicked as well as the righteous Our English Proverb saith The Crows must live shall not then our poor Brother And the Scripture saith A righteous man is merciful to his Beast then much more to those that are flesh of his flesh and bone of his bone I am perswaded when the sins of this Nation shall
condition of the Gospel this is not a Law that hath any force or obligation in foro conscientiae in the court of conscience for our right as I said to the things of this world is rather commenc'd than extinguish'd by our adoption and new-birth for whose is the earth and the fulness thereof but the Lords and who then have better right unto it then the Sons of God Or who may more truly be call'd the Lords and Princes of the Creation then they for whom the world was made and yet is not worthy of them though I must confess it is most commonly seen here that servants ride on horseback and the Princes go on foot c. Thirdly This poverty is not any low and base abjectness of spirit no sordidness or despondency of mind to be poor in spirit is not to have little poor narrow and contracted souls to have creeping and degenerate spirits that are alwayes grovelling in the dust that according to the curse of the Serpent creep on their bellies and lick the dust of the earth that are meer muck or dung-hill worms that have their heads and hearts bow'd down to the earth Os homini sublime dedit saith the Poet This therefore is unworthy and below the generosity of a man much more a Christian Religion doth not make men fools sheepish but admirably blends the innocency of the Dove together with the wisdom and prudence of the Serpent Religion is not that that clouds the mind with black melancholick and sad apprehensions if any think thus they seem guilty of the same absurdity with those Heathen that Deified their diseases and erected Altars unto Feavours or admit the like abuse that Mahomets Disciples did when they believ'd their Prophets Convulsions to be Extasies and Divine Raptures this is to intitle our melancholy to Religion and guild ore the distempers and infirmities of Nature with the title of Grace which is something like the humour of the Negroes who paint their gods black and the Devil white whereas Religion is so far from being any morose sower or tettrick thing that what the Philosopher said of virtue may with advantage be affirm'd of Religion viz. that could it assume Corporeity or render it self visible it would appear so lovely so amiable that it would at once both enamour and ravish the Whole world into the admiration of her Features and by the sole attractives of her transcendent Beauty and the powerful Charms of its comely Graces attract and captivate the hearts of all men and command both homage and affection from all that should behold her she would then need no other Eloquence than the silent Oratory of her own beauty to recommend her and invite the whole world unto her imbraces For is good nature a lovely thing there 's nothing more improves and meliorates mens natures than the ingrafting Religion therein there 's nothing more inlarges the spirit and gives it a more just and Noble Elevation then that there 's nothing fills the mind with a more Noble with a more generous scorn and contempt of low base and abject things than that that 's it that raises a mans thoughts from the earth on which they are naturally so apt to grovel and be bowed down unto that 's it that spirits and enobles a Soul that emancipates it from base slavish and pusillanimous fears and fills it with a high and Princely ambition and ambition more Noble and generous then that of Alexanders that so inlarges the heart that not only one earth but the whole world is too little for it is not able to fill or satisfie it this is that refines the affections and causes them to fly a higher pitch than to be decoy'd by any thing here below than to stoop to any thing on this side immortality and life that causes the Soul to soare aloft and mount up as with Eagles wings till it makes its nest in the very bosom of God They therefore disparage Religion and cast a blot and scandal on the Profession of the Gospel who go all the day drooping and holding down their Heads like a bulrush there being none who have so much reason to be cheerful to have a merry heart and a cheerful countenance as Christians There is no reason why any ones face should shine so much as theirs who like Moses have seen God in the Mount 4 We are therefore by this poverty of spirit to understand something beyond anything that hath been yet mentioned And without doubt it s to be taken in a like sense as that place where Christ saith its harder for a Camel or Cable rope as some interpret it for the same word in the Original signifies both to passe thorow the eye of a needle then for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Now we shall be best able to understand what is meant by these Riches that bar our entrance into blessednesse and this Poverty on which it is intail'd by comparing these with other places one Scripture being the best Key to unlock the sence of another Our Saviour saith Matt. 9. 13. That he came not to call the Righteous but sinners to Repentance and in another place the whole need not the Physitian but those that are sick So likewise where he saith He came to seek the lost sheep of the house of Israel So likewise that Parable of the Pharisee that made so nigh and familiar approach to the Altar and blessed God he was not as the Publicane that stood aloof afar off and cried Lord be merciful to me a sinner and yet according to the virdict of Truth it self went away more justified than the Pharisee that was so pure and righteous in his own eyes I say this Parable may lend some light to the understanding of it Also when our Saviour took a little Child and setting him in the midst of his Disciples said unlesse ye be as little children ye cannot enter into the Kingdom Heaven he seems to have given a clear Comment on this Text Also when he said Suffer little children to come unto me for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven he seems to Paraphrase on the same Doctrine From all which put together I think we may safely collect and spell out this or the like sence from the words viz. That poverty of spirit is a being little mean vile and contemptible in our own eyes to become as little children without strength and without courage helplesse and shiftlesse without counsel and without advice having neither wisdom prudence discretion nor understanding in our selves they therefore are the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the poor in spirit that are arrived at this resigned state or condition that have parted with their own strength their own wisdom their own Councils and their own Righteousnesse too and are become sensible of their own baseness their own unworthinesse their own nothingness that see and acknowledge the sinfulnesse of their natures the miserablenesse of their
what shall we then do Shall we marshal up our performances and Duties and set them in order to commend us to God to procure admission acceptance with God Will he be any better pleased therewith then he was with those Cattel Saul reserved for Sacrifice Will he not say as Samuel did What means the bleatings of these Cattel God takes no Bribes no we may not carry so much as a Peter pence in our Mouths as is the absurde practice of some Papists for Heavens Porter for Peter to open the door to us No there are none that take bribes in Heaven there are no Courtiers that expect Fees no Orators that have manus occulatas or bovem in lingua as we say And therefore hence it is that we are invited to buy Wine and Milk and Honey without Money and without price they that would drink of the Waters of Life must not think to purchase them for they are no more to be sold then that gift of the Holy Ghost We know what was replyed to Simon Magus that would needs have bought it that would needs be cheapning and bidding money for it thy money perish with thee This is the highest the rankest the grossest degree of Simony to think of purchasing Salvation for what shall we give the Lord should we give our Bodies to be burned for the sin of our Souls should we give our Bodies a Sacrifice a burnt offering it profits nothing merits nothing and God might cast back the dung thereof into the faces of our Souls The gift is of Gods free grace Did not Christ overturn the Table of the Money-changers and whip the buyers and sellers out of the Temple And shall we presume to introduce them again I have read that the Kingdom of Heaven is to suffer violence is to be taken by force but never that it was to be bought and sold This was the stone of stumbling at which the faith of the Pharisees fell the Rock of offence on which the Religious Jews split themselves and ruined their Salvation they would needs lean to the broken reeds of their own righteousnesse and thereby wounded and pierc'd themselves they thought to have purchas'd Heaven by their Alms by their fasts by their long prayers by the tythe of their Mint and Annis And do not the Papists at this day run into the same Errour dos not their Doctrine of Merits of Pardons of Indulgences c. set up the Tables of the money-changers in the Temple of God Have they not introduced a Mart or Fair into Religion and turn'd the Temple into a Shop or Exchance in which things spiritual are bartered for Temporal and things incorruptible for silver and gold that is corruptible Nonne fecerunt omnia venalia coelum Christum totâ—m denique Religionem Have they not done by Heaven as Hanibal is reported to have sometime done by old Rome viz. exposed it to sale but we know he paid dear for his presumption it cost him the losse of his Camp And I would advise these to have a care that make so bold with Heaven that are so rich in works of supererogation that have merits not onely for themselves but others that are so rich they can purchase Mansions and Crowns of Glory not only for themselves but others That are able to purchase large Patrimonies and whole Provinces in Heaven Nay that can sell Heaven Reversions of Glory to purchase vast Territories here upon earth No to entertain such thoughts as these so high an esteem of our own works our own merits is no lesse than madnesse and folly Or to think that we shall not be welcom to God unlesse we bring our own entertainment with us no they that are invited to the marriage Supper to the kings feast must not bring their entertainment with them They that will be sav'd must suffer losse the hay and the stubble of their own righteousnesse of their own works must be destroy'd consum'd and burnt up We must not build our Faith and expectations of Heaven upon the old rotten crazy tottering foundations of our own performances for this is but sand If we would have our foundation stand sure if we desire the Pillars of our Salvation should stand fast and not be moved But the last Reason and that which leads us to the other part of the verse to the remaining words and which are the Reason laid down in the Text is this for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven Their happiness doth not consist in their poverty but in the Right and Title they have to the Kingdom for that they are the heirs apparent to the Crown of Glory for that they are of the blood Royal of Heaven the most high born Seed of God Oh most blessed most happy most fortunate and Royal Poverty on which is intayl'd a Kingdom that hath the reversion of a Crown and Scepter This life is the nonage of a Saint we are here under pupillage and wardship under Guardians and Tutors the first Epistle of John 3. 2. Now are ye the Sons of God but it doth not yet appear what ye shall be A Saints portion is not in this life his Kingdom is not of this world his happinesse is in reversion Oh who would not part with all he hath for a Kingdom It s reported that when Cesars ambition courted the Romans monarchy and began to bid for the Empire of the whole Earth that he left himself nothing but hope Oh who would not part with all he hath for a Kingdom so he may but retain not a bare uncertain hope but the sure reversion of a Kingdom What shall Cesar bid more for the bare naked hopes of an earthly Empire than Christians for not the hopes but certainty of a spiritual a Heavenly Kingdom Shall Cesar venture more for a temporal Crown than Christians for an eternal weight of Glory Is he accounted unworthy of terrestrial empire that will not venture his life for it is not he much more unworthy of a Caelestial Throne that will not adventure and part with his all for it It is reported of a fortunate King that he accounted it his sole misfortune that he never had misfortune and therefore being minded industriously to seek and court that which other men endeavour most to shun and avoid he cast a Ring of great value into the Sea and after a while found it in the belly of a fiâ—h served up to his table I am sure it is the greatest the sadest misfortune of the greater part of the World that they have not this misfortune to fall into this poverty of spirit And they that have it may justly take up the words of him that said periissem nisi periissem I had been eternally unfortunate and miserable had it not been for this misfortune I know this hath been an age too skilful and ingenious in supplanting one another in raysing themselves by the falls of others in building their fortunes on the ruins of other mens But this is
much hunger and cold with the losse of how many nights rest and sleep do men hunt after learning and purchase to themselves a few flight notions of things How will men rack and serue their thoughts torture and distresse their apprehentions with a problem or theorem in Phylosophy How will many macerate and consume their bodies spend and wast the taper of their lives in watchings abstinencies and a thousand other austerities to gain a superficial inspection into the secrets of Nature into the nature of things How will many rob and defraud nature of its due and pine away their bodies to satiate their thirst after knowledge to feed and gratifie the inquisitive searching humor of their mindes How hath the eagernesse of some mens thirst after learning drunk up their strength and the very marrow of their souls How hath the fiery spirit and activity of their mindes fretted consum'd and eaten up the flesh of their bodies reduc'd them to Anotomies and living Skellitons looking more like spectres Ghosts or walking shaddows than men Some mens souls being like a sword too sharp and keen for the scabbard of their bodies in which they are sheath'd Or like Mercury or Quicksilver so penetrating and acture that nothing can contain them And all this upon the sole account of knowledge to which their affections are kindled with such ardent desires and have conceiv'd such sprightly flames as commonly soon reduces their bodies to ashes and rendes them the victims of their desires causing them to expire like the Phenix in their own flames It s reported of as I take it Cleanthes a poor Phylosopher that he pawned his nights rest to purchase his dayes studies that he drew water by night to earn a small pension to maintain himself in the muses service by day to maintain himself in the study of Phylosophy And of another it is reported that having quitted and forsaken his house and possessions to take a pilgrimage for the better improvement of his stock of knowledge and finding at his return all things thorow the injury of time gone to decay and his house almost buried under its own ruins brake forth into these expressions sihaec non paeriissent ego paeriissem had not these perish'd I had perish'd had I not made Ship-wrack of my estate I had shipwrack'd and lost my self Now shall the sons of humane wisdom the candidates of a little naturall knowledge that but puffeth up and profiteth not except sanctifi'd by grace which will be but as a torch to light men to Hell I say shall men for the love of what the Apostle calleth vain Phylosophy be content to welcome poverty and entertaine penury without any assurance of better estate in revertion or future happinesse to compensate and reward their former miseries And shall we grudge to do that for the wisdom wch is from above for a Crown of Glory which they do for the shaddow of wisdom for a wreath of withering and fading palms to obtain a name among the learned Shall not we do that to be made partakers of those Eternal fountains of wisdom and knowledge that the Heathen did for the adorning their understandings with a little dark fading counterfeit knowledge To conclude the lower the foundation is laid the higher the superstructure may be raised We have received on the credit of naturalists and those that are best read in the observations of nature that your tallest trees shoot their roots deepest into the Earth and commonly as far downwards towards the Center as their tops reach upwards towards Heaven As if nature would teach us that the foundation of the best and surest fortune is laid low is laid in the dust and the Scripture teaches us that poverty is the way to a Crown beggery to a Kingdom So that we see here the harmony and consent that 's between the Book of God and that of nature between the Scriptures and the greater volumn of the World And both of them giving in their evidence to this Truth bearing testimony to this Doctrine commending and reading lectures to us of this poverty of Spirit Shall we now be so childish as not part with our counters for gold With the menstruous rags of our own righteousnesse for the glorious princely robes of Christs Shall we prefer our coats of fig leaves before the righteousnesse of God And that this way and method of salvation may not seem strange to us Christ the Lord and Captain of our Salvation hath trod it before us For was not he humbled before he was exalted Was not he poor not having where to lay his head before he receiv'd the Kingdom of his Father Was not he crownd with thorns before he was crownd with Glory Finally was not he crucifi'd before he was Glorified Shall we now refuse to drink of the same cup that he hath drunk before us Do we who are but the children of Adoption expect a Kingdom a Crown a Scepter a Throne of Glory on easier terms than the Heire the son by nature and the first begotten than Chrrist our Elder brother receiv'd them on should we not rather rejoyce and glory in our poverty for that we are poor in Spirit because to such 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