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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

ye will find the duty of Self-denyal put in the midst Luk 9. 23. betwixt Doing and Suffering to shew that none of them can be cleanly without it 5. In the point of Duty and Acting Times and Providences are not to be our Rule Sin is still Sin and Duty is still Duty tho Providence seem sometimes to favour the one and discountenance the other for as Eccles. 9. 2 there is one event to the Righteous and to the Wicked c. and therefore make the Word and not single Providence the Square of your Duty Providences alone without the Word are dangerous Guides And 6. Tho there be ordinarly a strong inclination and bensil in Zions Friends towards Acting yet the Church hath ever thriven better under Suffering than Acting Act. 11. 21. And as their Prayers and Tears have been their best Armour so their Testimony and Blood hath been their greatest Trophies and Victory Rev. 12. 11. they overcame by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony for they loved not their lives unto death II. I presume by vertue of my Commission from the King of kings to lay before your Grace their Majesties High Commissioner and this Honourable House of Parliament these particular Duties which our times being well understood obviously call for and shall make no other Apology for my freedom in pressing them than the obligation that lyes on me to be zealous for the Lord of Hosts and as I was never before being but as one born out of time in such a Capacity so it may be I never again have the opportunity of preaching before such an Honourable Auditory 1 Our times upon a narrow and spiritual search call aloud to this Duty that in a ●●eling and uncertain time every one should secure their Souls and put that in sure keeping 1 Pet. 4. 19. wherefore let them that c. commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing as unto a faithful Creator The excellency of the Soul the price Christ payed for Souls the pains that Satan takes to destroy these and the irreparableness of the loss not being to be made up by gaining the whole World plead strongly for this and the Souls of great ones being within the reach of that word 1 Cor. 1. 26. not many wise not many noble c. and obvious to greater and mo temptations are in greater hazard than others And therefore in this uncertain time I obtest you that ye secure your Souls by getting an Interest in Christ Jesus that lose what ye will ye may not lose that which cannot be recovered at the rate of all the World and that if times of trouble come upon you ye may not be both afflicted here and damned hereafter 2 That ye guard against Apostacy and Defection from the Truth and Way of God wherein he hath mercifully engaged you by falling into Idolatry Profanity and Opposition to the righteous ways of God 1 Ioh. 5. 21. Little children keep your selves from idols and be not of them that draw back Heb. 10. 39. lest his Soul take no pleasure in you for few Apostats recover or if they do many of them have bitter Agonies of Spirit and are a very Hell to themselves before they be put among the Children again And if Popery and other Corruptions now cast out by you be imbraced again they will bring with them seven worse Spirits than before O do not sweep the House Mat. 12. 44. for the Devil's return again and it will be a strange thing to see rational men let be professed Christians so prodigal of their Souls Consciences Relations Estates and Bodies as to thirst and long to be back again to Fgypt have ye forget the Burdens and Bondage ye were formerly under will ye again return to Babylon O! for the Lord's sake hate the Whore and all her Rags spotted with the Flesh. I tremble to think what may be the sad Consequence of returning again with the Dog to the Vomit and with the Sow to the Puddle that 's a severe word in Iosh. 24. 20. If ye forsake the Lord and serve other gods then he will turn and do you hurt and consume you after that he hath done you good 3 Labour to perfect the Reformation ye have happily begun and is greedily expected And that speedily in the first place Command as in Ez. 7 23. that whatsoever is commanded by the God of Heaven be diligently done for the House of the God of Heaven Reformation ought to be thorow and not by Halves or sinful Mixtures Hos. 7. 8. It 's a sad mark put upon Samaria King 17. 33. That they feared the Lord and served their own gods and swearing by God and by Ma●cham Zeph 1. 5 streaches out his arm still with fury against a Nation it 's a reproach upon a People to halt between God and Baal 1 King 18. 21. If the Lord be God follow him but if Baal then follow him And it 's a perpetual stain upon Iehu's Reformation That tho he destroyed Baal and his Priests c. yet he departed not from the sins of Ieroboam to wit the Golden Calves at Dan and Bethel 2 King 10. 28 29. Let Reformation I say be perfect and throw to the Door all that belongs to the Whore even the raggs she hath left behind her for an errand to return again And let none of Babels cursed Timber or Stones be taken to build the Lord's House with And let it be done speedily Ezra 6. 13. They went about the building of the Wall speedily Let it not be put off by carnal Policy or Worldly Respects saying as H●g 1. 2 4. It is not time to build the Lords House the time is not come Tho I confess there is a vast difference betwixt pious Prudence which should order all your Affairs and carnal Policy which will but defile and marr your Work For men may apprehend that if they should go on to the settling of the Government of the Church or any piece of Reformation presently many would fall off and affairs would not succeed so prosperously But let me perswade you that ye will find the contrary to be true if ye will consider 1. That the Policy of this kind which Ieroboam used 1 Kings 12. 26. and which the Iews followed Ioh. 11. 28. brought the same very evils upon them which they feared and thought by their carnal Policy to avoid For Ieroboam had laid down this Principle that no Idol no King even as some conclude with as little reason no Bishop no King And the Iews were by their carnal wisdom fixed in this That Christ and the Gospel and their peace and safety could not consist together But both their measures failed them and that which they feared and thought by their carnal Policy to evite came upon them 2. If ye will consider that good King Hezekiah was not guided by this carnal Policy in his reformation 2 King 18. 4. But in the first year of his