A spittle sermon preach'd in St. Brides parish-church, on Wednesday in Easter Week, being the second day of April, 1684. Before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, the Court of Aldermen, and the sheriffs of the now Protestant, and loyal, City of London / By Thomas Pittis, D.D., Rector of S. Botolph.

  • Pittis, Thomas, 1636-1687.
Date:
1684
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Credit: A spittle sermon preach'd in St. Brides parish-church, on Wednesday in Easter Week, being the second day of April, 1684. Before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, the Court of Aldermen, and the sheriffs of the now Protestant, and loyal, City of London / By Thomas Pittis, D.D., Rector of S. Botolph. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f ,r“,m,nm~g—' A SpitSermon. ___f, _ . mini [ter bread fir your food, amfmultiply your feed fown, and increafe the fruits of your right eoufnefs ( z Cor. 9. io. ). Nay,if we defire Heaven and the J oyes above, when death fhall deprive us of our beings here,Charity and Alms are a method to obtain them ,• For though this way we fhould diminifh our treafures on earth, yet we lay them up in Heavemand they are only Harbin¬ gers, to fore-run our coming: Our Wealth is fent be* fore hand,to furnifih and prepare Manfions for us,and the friends we have made by it whilft we were upon the earth, have lent up their Petitions, in the hands of our Mediator, that we may be received into everlaft- ing habitations. And therefore, fayes he, who has the Keys of theKingdom ofHeaven,no lefs than thofe of Death and Hell, Make to yourfelVes friends of the Mam¬ mon of unrighteoufnefs,(your decaying riches jthat when ye fail, (i.e.) when ye dye ) they may receive you into eVer- lafting habit ationsfLvkt 16 9.). And what wonder can this be to us ? When he that is the Supream Lord of this W7orld, and has the foie difpofal of the next, ac= cepts our Charity, as a Sacrifice of his own appoint¬ ment ; that which refrefhes,and exceedingly delights^ him ( Heh. 15.1 6.). It is even as the Incenfe of our Prayers;it fends a fweet perfume through the Clouds, till it alcends before the Throne of God : And, there* fore, fayes S. G’aul to Cornelius, Thy Prayer is heard, and thine Jims are had in remembrance in the fight of God: (Acts to] 1 .)The truth of which Dodfrine he alfo confirms to the Thilippians (chap.4.1 8.) I have received, lays he,