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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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