32 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 



The next year, 1680, he published three ser- 

 mons more ; one entitled, '' The doing Good in our 

 Lives,'' that it is every Man's great Concernment, 

 and in every Man's Power ; preached at the 

 Yorkshire Feast, February 17th. Another, en- 

 titled, " The Rich Matis Duty T preached at the 

 Spittal, April 14th following. (These two he 

 published together, for reasons given in their 

 respective dedications. 9. Vid.) The third, was 

 that excellent discourse which he preached at 

 the election of a Lord Mayor, on September 

 29th, entitled, " A Description of the Upright 

 Man, and his Security in Evil Times."'' 



This year also, he left his brother Rawlinson, 

 and took a house for himself in Great Russel- 

 street, nearer his own church : where he con- 

 tinued to the time of his leaving the parish. 



And here, it may not be improper to con- 

 sider him, in his labours as a Parochial Mi- 

 nister. 



The sixteen years that he continued Rector of 

 St. Giles's, were the prime of his life. He was 

 not quite thirty-one years of age at his induc- 

 tion. At forty his parts were at the height, 

 and his head more bright, and his spirits more 

 vigorous, (as he himself thought), than in any 

 other part of his life ; and, indeed, he had suffi- 

 cient occasion both for a ready and able under- 

 standing, and a sound and clean constitution. 



