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A60992	A sermon preached before His Grace George Earl of Melvil Their Majesties high commissioner, and the nobility, barons, and burrows, members of the high court of Parliament. In the Parliament-House, upon Sunday, May 11, 1690. By John Spalding, minister at Kirkcudbright.	Spalding, John, 1633?-1699.	1690 (1690)	Wing S4796; ESTC R221641	18,386	25

suffer one Jewel of it to be los'd or rob'd not only your Estates and Lives but your Souls may go for it for he will not give his Glory to another nor suffer any to wear a Pearl of his Diadem without evidences of his Anger and Displeasure against them 2. Remember that though ye be as Gods Psal. 82. 6. yet ye must dy as men your Breath is in your Nosthrils as other mens and therefore carry so in the Trust ye have among your hands as that ye may be desired when ye live and lamented when ye die A Heathen could say Si bonam famam servavero sat ero Felix and there was not any thing more reckoned a plague among the Heathens than to die unlamented and their memorial to be buried in obscurity or remain in Infamy And I believe there is not a man in this House who would not think himself extreamly miserable to be with Iehoiakim Ier. 22. 19. buried with the burial of an Ass Think but seriously what Epitaph may be Written on your Tomb and what Discourses may be of you when ye are gone Here lies a man that was never a Friend to Christ or his Interest now he is dead but he was an opposer and persecuter of Christ his Truth and People I have read of Lewis the II. King of France that he counterfeited himself to die to see if his Court would lament him and honour his Death with their Tears or if they would rejoyce that they were freed of such a Governour It certainly concerns you to acquit your selves faithfully in your Trust that ye may live desired and die lamented and to have the Generation following you to the Grave with such a Lamentation 2 King 2. 12. Ah my father the Chariots of Israel and the Horse-men thereof and to remember what that great Cardinal Wolsey said when dying That if he had served God as faithfully as he had done the King he had not been in that misery And dying is not all but ye must give an account of your Stewardship and Talent and Duties belonging to this present station in which ye are placed and the opportunities of doing service to God now put in your hands and what will ye say when ye shall be sisted at the general Assize before the Tribunal of Christ to that question what Justice and Vote gave ye to me and my afflicted Church in the first Parliament of King William and Queen Mary in Scotland was ye for me or against me 3. Though ye should live the course of Nature yet ye may never have so fair an opportunity to do good in your time as ye have this day for it 's rare for a Man to be twice high Commissioner and but few are twice chosen to be Members of Parliament of these who come in by choice and to whom it is not Hereditary and this calls you that while there is a price in your hand Prov. 17. 16. to do good labour to have a heart to it that is seriousness diligence affection courage and resolution for the work that God hath put in your hands and carry so as ye may be free of sad Reflections and after-Challenges and late-Repentings for stultum est dicere non putabam And 4 To perswade you to these Duties of the time consider that the Lord is aloft and mounted on his Conquering Horse Rev. 6. 2. to do for you do ye not perceive him discovering the Plots defeating the Councils of and giving you Victory over your enemies breaking them on their high places and making them fall in the pits they digged for you Higgaion Selah And since he is so visibly and graciously doing for you will ye not do for him I shall only add in the 5 and last place That as the eyes of the Lord his holy Angels and all his people in this Land 〈…〉 fall the Protestant Churches are upon you So ye are upon the 〈…〉 of the Prayers of the flower of the godly in Scotland and we for a return and in hopes of it we will sing Salvation to our 〈…〉 and to the Lamb. FINIS

the Lord are set to wait on it and no foul fingers to touch it 1 Chron. 16. 37 c. And then and not till then cometh peace and all the people return to their houses and David returned to bless his house v. 43. There are many other things in times that ye ought to understand but least I exceed the bounds of a Sermon I forbear to mention them and comes to the last thing I proposed in the method of this Doctrine III. What way may People best come to understand the Times Answ. 1. By Consulting the Word of God which is the best Key to unlock Providences and Times to the law and to the testimony Isa. 8. 20. and as Asaph when he was puzled with a singular Providence Psal. 73. 16 17. he went into the Sanctuary to be resolved and there was cleared as to the Times and Providences he was trysted with The Lords voice cryeth unto the city Mic. 6. 9. and the man of wisdom shall know thy name 2. Labour to have the work of Grace and Renovation thorow and clear without Clouds for the Image of God in a man is of such a nature that it hath something in it answering as Face to Face in a Glass to all the revealed Will of God and to its great and best Interpreter Times and Providences and the more powerful and lively Grace be in its Actings the more infight you will have both in his Word and Works Psal. 25. 14. the secret of the Lord is with them that fear him c. 3. Compare former Times and Providences in their Nature and Circumstances with present Times and Dispensations and that will give more Light in what seems hid and obscure to you Psal. 77. 5. Consider the days of old and the years of antient times and bring them home to the present Case and it may help you to know the Vision Mic. 6. 5. Remember from Shittim to Gilgal that ye may know the righteousness of the Lord. 4. Imploy by Prayer Christ Jesus to open the Book of Times and Providences to you for he is worthy to do it Rev. 5. 2. When ye go forward and he is not there and backward but cannot perceive him on the left hand where he doth work but cannot behold him and on the right hand but ye cannot see him then ply the Duty of Prayer for the right management of that Duty hath given great Light to the Saints in dark and difficult times Psal. 77. 19. when the Lords way is in the sea and his paths in the deep waters yet Prayer will be a mean to discover his Goings and lay open his Mind in them 5. If ye would rightly understand Times beware of Prejudices at and rash Censuring of Times and Providences as if ye were wiser than God or could amend what he hath done who art thou O man that chargeth God foolishly and findeth fault with the Almighty the wise Counseller and excellent Worker Ye ought to submit your Will to His and neither to censure nor quarrel His Ways but say as Psalm 18. 23. This is the doing of the Lord and marvellous in our Eyes I remember what is recorded that Luther said to Melanchton when he was ready to censure the Times as seeming to threaten the ruine of the Church Monendus est iste Philippus ut desinat esse mundi gubernator Let Melanchton cease says he to govern the World Men when they overlook a supreme over ruling Hand at the Helm of Providences are ready to censure them It was a severe Construction that Porphyry put upon the Israelites passing through the Red-Sea and the Egyptians being drowned That they took the advantage of a low Water as if the Ebb there had ever been so great or better known to Strangers than Natives And Neh. 4. 2. What do these feeble Iews And 6. If ye would understand the Times ye must not take a light overly view of them but ye must look attentively upon them and pry into them Psal. 107. 23. ye must look and look again on them His Works are sought out Psal. 111. 2. of them that take pleasure in them Ye must look both sides to speak so of this Book and ye will find what is dark on the one side of the Leaf is clear on the other on the one side ye may perceive nothing but Wrath Trouble Confusion Hell Death c. but if ye will turn over ye may see Love Peace Order Heaven Glory yea ye must wait upon the time of bringing forth and patiently expect the result for what ye see not now ye shall see hereafter Times are with Child of many Truths and Dispensations and there is a Month of bringing forth and here is the Faith and Patience of the Saints Doct. 2. That the right understanding of Times is very contributive to the clear discovery and seasonable performance of the proper duties which are called for in these times That I may render this Truth useful to you I shall 1. Give you some things in the general for Explication 2. Show you what are the proper Duties of this time and juncture we are fallen under 3. What Motives may perswade to the diligent and serious performance of these Duties And 4. How the right discerning of our times do contribute to the discovery and practice of these Duties And if your time will allow I shall make some Application of all I. In the general for Explication let these things be considered 1. Every time casteth up its proper and seasonable Duties and not only the lustre and beauty of Duty by imbracing the right season of it is made to shine as an Apple of Gold in a Picture of Silver but much of the success or disappointment of it depends upon the right timeing of it Every thing saith Solomon Eccl. 3. 11. is beautiful in its season mis-timed Duties as they are uneasie to others and unacceptable to God so are they of dangerous consequence both to the Church and the Persons themselves 2. As every time so every Person in the Church and State have proper Duties incumbent to them according to their several Capacities Stations and Talents for advancing the glory of God and securing their own Happiness and in order thereto particularly for preservation and transmitting of the Gospel and its Ordinances to Posterity that through your care the Children that are yet unborn may praise his Name 3. The Lord doth ordinarily Spirit some men for the Duties of their time and in a more than ordinary way furnish them with Gifts and Endowments for their Generation work elevating them above what they are in ordinary and raising their Spirits Dan. 11. 32. to do exploits making the feeble as David and the weak as an angel of God ● It s rare to find Acting and Duties of Times single and pure without the woful mixture of Self-Interest a sour Leaven that hath spoiled many glorious Actings and heavy Sufferings But of this more hereafter and therefore