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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.
Secondly, This ought not to be neither. For first, The object must be commensurate and suitable to the affection, or else it is altogether unnatural and improper: But there is no suitableness ⟨p. 24⟩between hope and riches: For hope and trust is ever de futuro possibili, whereas riches are only present, 1[Greek or Hebrew]. No man can know the vicissitudes of worldly things, What a day may bring forth: Bellisarius a great Commander one day, and a poor Beggar another. There must be permanency, stability and fixedness in that which a man casts his Anchor upon, but riches take to them wings and fly away.
Secondly, This ought not to be neither. For first, The object must be commensurate and suteable to the affection, or else it is altogether unnatural and improper: But there is no suteableness ⟨p. 24⟩between hope and riches: For hope and trust is ever de futuro possibili, whereas riches are onely present, 1〈non-Latin alphabet〉. No man can know the vicissitudes of worldly things, What a day may bring forth: Bellisarius a great Commander one day, and a poor Beggar another. There must be permanency, stability and fixedness in that which a man casts his Anchor upon, but riches take to them wings and flie away.
- 1Aquin 1a. 2ae. qu. 40. art. 1.
Secondly, The true Object of hope and trust, is Bonum arduum. I trust in that which can help me in such arduous and grand matters, wherein I cannot help my self, in that which is adequate to all mine extremities; which hath more good in it, then any of mine evils can embitter, and more strength in it then the weight of any of my extremities can over-bear. But now riches are not at all suitable to a mans greatest extremities: When my Lungs are wasted, my Liver dried up, Stones in my Kidneys too big for the passages: If all the Stones in mine house were Diamonds, and I would give them all for the removal of these distempers, it could not be done. When Death comes, what Crowns or Empires can ransom out of the hands of the King of Terror? When my Conscience stings me, and the Arrows of God stick fast in me, and I am summoned to his Tribunal