A57152:49
The rich mans charge delivered in a sermon at the Spittle upon Monday in…The rich mans charge delivered in a sermon at the Spittle vpon Monday in…
The rich mans charge delivered in a sermon at the Spittle upon Monday in Easter week, 12 April 1658, before the lord major, &c., by Edw. Reynolds.The rich mans charge delivered in a sermon at the Spittle vpon Monday in Easter week, 12 April 1658, before the lord major, &c., by Edw. Reynolds.
London: printed by Tho. Newcomb for George Thomason, 1658
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
5. Why should a mans work and service make him proud? Commonly pride and idleness go tother, Ezek. 16. 49. Now the more riches God gives a man, the more work he sets him about. If we see a mans shop full of Wares, of Instruments, of Servants, Commodities continually imported, we conclude such a man is full of business: When the Lord doth multiply mens estates, he doth multiply their employments. And we see Tradesmen, though upon Festival times they will put on rich Apparel; yet upon working days they go in a more plain and careless fashion. Now of all other work, a Christians work will not let him be proud.
Lastly, Why should I for a little difference in this one particular of worldly wealth, despise or disdainfully over look my poor Brother? Doth a Lawyer despise a Physician, because he hath not read the Code or the Pan•ect? Doth a Physician despise a Lawyer, because he hath not read Galen or Hippocrates? Doth the Eye despise the Ear, because it cannot see; or the Tongue the Hand, because it cannot speak? Have we not all one Lord, one Faith, one Hope, one Spirit, one Gospel, one Common Salvation? When so many and great things unite us, shall our wealth only disunite us? One Sun shines on both, one Air refresheth both; one Blood bought both, one Heaven shall receive both: Only he hath not so much of the Earth as I, and possibly much more of Christ. And why should I disdain him on Earth, whom haply the Lord will advance above me in Heaven? Why should I brow-beat, and proudly overlook him, whom Christ hath adorned with his grace, and honoured with his presence?
Lastly, Why should I for a little difference in this one particular of worldly wealth, despise or disdainfully over look my poor Brother? Doth a Lawyer despise a Physician, because he hath not read the Code or the Pan•ect? Doth a Physician despise a Lawyer, because he hath not read Galen or Hippocrates? Doth the Eye despise the Ear, because it cannot see; or the Tongue the Hand, because it cannot speak? Have we not all one Lord, one Faith, one Hope, one Spirit, one Gospel, one Common Salvation? When so many and great things unite us, shall our wealth onely disunite us? One Sun shines on both, one Air refresheth both; one Blood bought both, one Heaven shall receive both: Onely he hath not so much of the Earth as I, and possibly much more of Christ. And why should I disdain him on Earth, whom haply the Lord will advance above me in Heaven? Why should I brow-beat, and proudly overlook him, whom Christ hath adorned with his grace, and honored with his presence?