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B06642	A sermon, preached at Edinburgh in the Parliament-House, November 17th, 1700, before his Grace, James, Duke of Queensberry, his Majesties High Commissioner; and many of the nobility, barrons, burrows, members of the High Court of Parliament, / by David Williamson minister of the Gospel, at West-Kirk.	Williamson, David, d. 1706.	1700 (1700)	Wing W2797B; ESTC R186602	30,727	24

Righteousness exceed the Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharesees you cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Math. 20. The Pharesees said John 7 48. Have any of the Rulers of the Pharesees beleived on him and the Apostle says 1 Cor. 1 26 Not many wise Men after the flesh not many Mighty not many Noble are saved Blessed be God it is not said not any but not many Because Christ has but few Friends and Followers among that Sort of People 10. Head Who consult their peace would have a heart affecting knowledge of some things in reference to Death and Judgement 1st The certainty of it it 's appointed for all Men rich and poor noble and ignoble once and but once to die Heb 9 27 and after this to Judgement There is no Discharge in that War Eccles 8 8. 2dly To know the uncertainty of it as to time place and manner that we may may be upon the Watch-Tower Math 24 42 43. 3dly It is our great Concern to be prepared for Death and Judgement It is a Worlds-Wonder that many dye without strange Terrours not being prepared for Death yet many graceless have no Bands in their Death Pialms 73 4. But sad is their awakening they are like a Man thurst out at a slit of a high Tower in a dark night we hear no din of the rich Gluttons Death Luke 16 22 But the first news after is that in Hell he lift up his eyes and cryed O for a drop of cold water to cool my tongue for I am tormented in this Flame Right Honourable and well Beloved if peace of Conscience be your Concernment if to dye with Comfort be your Concernment if everlasting Well and Wo be your Concernment if to be in Heaven and to shun Hell be your Concernment then preparation for Death and Judgment is of greatest and everlasting Concernment You have need to be ready and prepared for Death will not wait one Moment for your readiness When that Messenger comes there is no retaining of the Spirit Eccles 8 8. It is vain then to wish O for another hour For another Day I will tell you what is the best preparation for Death and Judgement it 's to live in Christ and die in Christ Rom 147. Gal 2 20. 1st This is the way to get the sting taken out of Death and Death swallowed up of Victory 1 Cor 15 54 55. 2dly This is the way to be delivered from the fear of death Heb 2 14 15. 3ly This is the way to to be blest in your Death Revel 14 13. 4ly This is the way to be made welcome to your Masters joy with his Blessing Mash 25 23 24. Applications Right Honourable and well beloved I earnestly beceech you as you regard peace wsth God peace of your Souls seriously to ponder in order to practiece all the aforementioned Heads as your greatest Concernment for the laft of death and Judgement I must tell you who are called Gods ye must die like Men Psalm 82.7 And all lye down alike in the dust and the Worms cover you Job 21. 26. your dust will not be known from the Beggars 2 Cor 5 10. you must all appear before the judgement Seat of Christ the Word is be manefested and lajd open be fore him who judges without respect of persons 2. Pet. 1.17 and if you dye without sound knoweldge and understanding tho' now you be in Honour you will be like and worse than Beasts that perish Psalm 49 20. We read of a King Jerem 22 18.19 Who died unlamented and was buried with the Burial of an Ass You that now sit on Benches must stand at the Bar that Day Satan has prevailed so far with many to put the Thoughts of Death far away and to obliterate the Belief of Judgment making them more Atheist than himself James 2 9. The Devils believe and tremble I remember near forty years agoe when the Flood Gate of Prophanity was cast wide open in Scotland and no shutt to this Day which paved the way to Prelacy that gave too great Scouth to Prophane Inclinations There was a profligate person of no mean quality being admonished by a noble Friend to mind Death and Judgement for he behoved to reckon for his Debauchery he said if he thought on that he would go mad But these who will not hear Admonition now and Conscience now will be tyed to endure his Reproof who will tear them in pieces when there is none to deliver Psal 50 21 22. There will be a huge cry at that Day among these who hold their heads high now Kings of the earth great Men Rich Men Chief Captains and mighty Men shall cry to the Mountains and to the Rocks to fall on them and hide them from the Face of Him that sits on the Throne and from the Wrath of the Lamb For the Great Day of his Wrath is come and who shall be able to stand Revel 2 15. c. Your Character then will not cover you Faithful Ministers are despised by many were we of a Soul betraying temper to deal with people according to their hearts desire to forbear right things and speak smooth things Isiah 30 10. And flatter them to their Ruine They would embrace us but because we warn plainly having our Souls at the stake Ezek 34 Being tender of Gods Glory their Souls good and our own they hate us in doing our Duty and reproveing which the Seripture expounds a kindness Psal 141 5. And it imports a defect of the rational Faculty and brutish temper to hate reproof Proverbs 12 1. What will such say in the Day of Visitation when wrath seases on them If ever God bring you to a sense of your Condition that word will be verified by you Proverbs 28 23. He that rebukes a man shall find more favour afterwards than he that flatters with the tongue I doubt not there are in Hell this day who are Cursing their Ministers that flattered them in their Sins I put two Questions to you First how will you answer for this that ye do that which ye condemn others and Judge the Comitters thereof worthy of Death And enact Laws against Sabbath-breaking Swearing Drunkeness and Uncleanness you mock God and are self condemned Rom. 1.32 and 2. 21.22 Thou therefore which teachest another teachest thou not thy self thou that teachest a man not to Steal doest thou Steal thou that sayest a Man should not commit Adultery Dost thou commit Adultery Thou that abhorrest Idols dost thou commit Saerilige Secondly how will any answer for this that they Glory in what they cannot endure the name of drunkard would thou be called by that name or the Swearer or Whore-Monger Would ye be content to have it Written upon your Tombs or dwelings here Lyes or here dwells the Drunkard the Swearer or Whore Munger The Lord tells there is a Day coming when People shall know whose Word shall stand his or theirs Jerem. 44.28.29 They shall know that his Word shall stand

This is the Covenant that I will make with you I will never depart from you to do you good and I will put my fear in your hearts that you shall not depart from me Rom 8 28. All things shall Work together for good to them that love God and are the called according to his Purpose 1 Cor. 3.22.23 whether Paul Appollot or Cephas or things present or things to come or Life or Death all are yours and ye are Christs and Christ is Gods 2. Corinth 6 16. I will dwell in you and walk in you sayeth the Lord and I will be your God and ye shall be my people Heb 13.5 I will never leave you 〈…〉 forsake you 2. Observe the Commands to obey them such as that to love God and His Truths Interest and people for his sake and to believe on the Name of the only begotten Son of God that ye may have Eternal Life 1 John 3 23 3 Observe Heavenly Directions and Warnings to receive them such as these Luke 13 24. Strive to enter in at the strait Gate for many will seek to enter in that shall not be able Heb 12.14 Follow peace with all Men and Holieness without which no Man shall see the Lord whatever his Figure and quality be 2 Pet 1 10. Give Diligence to make sure your Calling and Election It is a foul Shame that men should content themselves with a groundless Conjecture as to Eternity whether they be saved or damned they neither know nor care and yet labour to be sure of the meanest petty Interest in the World 4. Observe the Reproofs of the Word to improve them for the Rod and Reproof gives Wisdom Proverbs 29 15. God reproves by the Rod by Dispensations By Conscience by his Spirit and his Word some will have none of his Reproof which is a black Mark of approaching Smarting Stroaks 5. Observe the Examples of the word the good Examples for Imitation and the bad to shun them Good Examples Enoch who lived three hundred sixty five years and walked with God Genesis 5 22 2. Abraham who instructed his Children and Houshold Geuesis 18.19 3. Joshua who served God and his House served God Joshua 24.15 And it took nothing away from their Gallantry 4. The Centurion Cornelius who was a Devote Man and feared God and all his house Acts 10.2 5ly Nehemiah valliant for the Truth who rebuilded the Temple in dispite of Fraud and Force and was zealous for observing of the Sabbath 6. Mordecas who sought not his own but the wealth of his people Esther 10 3 7ly David who was upright before God Psal 18 231 A Man according to Gods own heart 1 Sam 13 14. Who would have the Faithful of the Land to dwell with him and suffered no wicked person to be about him Psal 1.01 For bad Examples to shun 1. Beware of Cains Genesis 4. Who first cast down his Countenance upon his brother and then slew him 2dly Beware of Joabs Example who under the Covert of a courteous Salutation wounded Amasa to Death 3dly Beware of the Examples of Pharoh Haman and Herod who were Persecutors of the servants and people of God and all of them made a black Hinder-end 4tly Beware of Absoloms Example who used his Politicks to ruine his Father 2 Samuel 15. O! that I were judge said he I would see all Causes go right 5tly Beware of the Example of Tobias and Sanballad who under the fair colour of pretended Friendship to concur in building of the Temple sought to undermine and ruine the Work of God Lord think on them said Nehemiah 6 55. c. 6. Beware of their Example that prophane the Sabbath against whom the Lord threatens to kindle a Fire that shall burn up the places of Jerusalem and shall not be quenched 7. beware of Hiel his example who incurred the curse of God Joshua 6.26 made the People Swear both for the present and succeeding Generationes and to confirm their oath by a Curse before the Lord Intimating that he doth utter this not in a Passion but by Divine Inspiration as appears 1. Kings 16.34 God would have the Ruins of the City of Jericho to remain as a standing Monument of his Justice that who builds it shall lose all his Children in the work the first born in the beginning others in the progress and the youngest in the close of it There is an instance of Divine predictions and comminations fulfilled Hiel he would choise this place for his bulding not so much for his own advantage as out of contempt of the true God and of his threatning which he designed to convince of falshood by his own experience and out of an ambitious desire to advance his own reputation and interest by his sad experience he found the truth of Gods Word and how vain it was to contend with him he was made an eye witness of his Childrens untimely death as some observes several Hundereds of Years after the threatning I warn you all to beware of harbouring any thoughts of Building the Jericho of abjured Prelacie which Scotland has been so Solemnly and frequently Covenanted and sworn against a weed that never agreed with this soil but alwayes nipt the tender and wholsome plants What losses affronts and smartings of Mind have many had and some of no mean Account endured in their Persons end Posterities who were abetters of that Interest I forbear to speak of all which I have observed near these Fourty Years I well remember of two of no mean Account who were among the chief Contrivers of introducing Prelacy and both of them in their dying had severe smartings and horrour of Conscience one of them the last Sabbaths of his life would suffer none of his old Brethren to Preach in his Pulpit but engaged three honest men who had some connivance for the time to Preach in his Pulpite and took the last of the three engaged that whether he lived or died he should Preach the third Sabbath there are living Witnesses of this at this day This Account I had from one of the Ministers a near Relation of his own to whom he ackowledged he went over the belly of his Light and said to one of the Contrivers we could never set up Prelacy in Scotland unless B. Sanderson should write a Retraction of his Book De Juramento by which he was convinced of the indispensible obligation and binding virtue of the Oath of the Covenant the Brother he then spoke to laid his Head to the wall and sat silent for a time yet both of them thortured their Consciences and complyed with the design I wish all may beware of medling with that which has given a Scad and brunt others as by Arrows of the mighty and Coals of Juniper I would advise all that have leasure and are disposed without byass and prejudice in this point to Read and peruse what it written by the R. Principals Rule and Forrester and Mr. Jamieson who wrote without consert and