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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41974	A short discourse. Or, serious reflections and meditations on some particular texts of scripture Being the substance of several sermons preached in a country congregation. Wherein is shewed, first, the blessedness of those that keep Gods Commandments. And secondly, the happiness of such as mind their creator betimes, very briefly and succinctly handled. Written by F.G. master of arts, and chaplain to the right honourable Robert Earl of Scarsdale.	Gallimore, Francis, 1628 or 9-1698.	1694 (1694)	Wing G180A; ESTC R223628	18,093	31

A Short Discourse OR Serious REFLECTIONS AND MEDITATIONS On some particular Texts of Scripture Being the substance of several Sermons preached in a Country Congregation Wherein is shewed First The Blessedness of those that keep Gods Commandments And Secondly the Happiness of such as mind their Creator betimes very briefly and succinctly handled Written by F. G. Master of Arts and Chaplain to the Right Honourable Robert Earl of Scarsdale ECCLES XII 13. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter fear God and keep his Commandments for this is the whole Duty of Man LONDON Printed for Hen. Hammond Bookseller at Bath and at the Devizes 1694. To the Reverend Dr. Tho. Burnet Master of the Charter-House and Clerk of the Closet to His Majesty Reverend Sir WHere I owe a true Deference and Respect I would willingly declare it for I less dread the censure of Ostentation than Ingratitude I am sensible that the Age wherein we live is quick and critical sharp and censorious in her descant of those that appear in Print However I will rather hazard the imputation of a dull melancholy Man than of an unthankful he that doth but tacitly confess the Kindnesses of a Friend in a manner interrs them when he that publisheth them hath in part requited tho not fully compensated To whom should I commend the Patronage of this Discourse better than to him who is a Favourite and Lover of Truth and of such as favour and love the Truth Besides I have tasted of your Kindness towards me which I ever esteemed as a Debt lying upon me and am therefore desirous so far to discharge it as to leave some small Memoir to others of a kind Resentment My earnest Prayer to God even the Father of all Mercies is and ever shall be to protract your Days and to preserve You unto his heavenly Kingdom which is the sincere Desire and unfeigned Vote of Worthy Sir Your most obliged and humble Servant Fr. Gallimore PART I. Shewing the Blessedness of those that keep his Commandments REVEL XXII 14. Blessed are they that do his Commandments that they may have right to the Tree of Life and may enter in thro the Gates into the City BLessedness is the mark we all aim at if that be once named there needs no other Rhetorick to make us all attentive most properly therefore it is placed the first word seeing the first words are the proper place to perswade attention But who are they that are blessed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they that do his commandments Keep my commandments and live saith wisdom Prov. 7.2 Live indeed live cheerfully with the comforts of this life which makes life to be life and live happily in the life of glory hereafter Now the benefit being so great of keeping Gods Commandments our care must not be little for the keeping of them that so we may have right to the tree of life even that tree which is in the midst of the Paradice of God Rev. 2.7 and may enter in thro the Gates into the City To these last words of the verse I have bounded and limited my discourse wherein I find these three particulars readily offering themselves to be considered First The motion what an entrance Secondly The manner how thro the Gates and Thirdly The place whither into the City Of these in their order and first of the motion enter in They are blessed that enter in perseverance only makes happy we know who hath taught us that only continuers to the end shall be saved It is observable that in the holy Spirits letters sent to those seven Churches in the second and third Chapters of this Book all promises run to perseverers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to him that overcometh nec paranti ad praelium nec pugnanti ad sanguinem sed vincenti ad victoriam not to him that draws the Sword nor to him that spendeth his blood but to him that overcometh to Conquest To him that overcometh pleasure and abstains from sinful delights I will give hidden Manna to him that overcometh covetousness and esteemeth not of worldly trash and earthly treasure I will give a white Stone to him that overcometh ambition and seeketh not for a name upon earth I will give a new name written in heaven For tho all vertues run in the race of a Christian lise yet perseverance alone obtaineth the Garland Suppose a Ship fraught with rich Merchandize to have held a prosperous course all the way and escaped both Rocks and Pirats yet if it be cast away in the Haven the owner is nothing the better for it but loseth both his goods and hope So all our voyage is lost through the perilous Sea of this world if we suffer shipwrack in the Haven and lose our reward there where we should land to receive it Cicero tells us of one Lepidus lying all along upon the grass cried out utinam hoc esset laborare O that this were to labour and get the mastery So many stretching themselves upon their Ivory Beds and living at ease in Sion say within themselves Oh that this were to go in warfare and fight under the Cross but let them not deceive themselves Heaven is not got with a wish nor victory with a breath it will cost us many a sore blow and wound too before we overcome wherefore the Apostles exhortation Eph. 6.11 comes seasonably in here 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 put on the whole Armor of God that ye may be able to stand against the assaults of the world the flesh and the devil strenuously valiantly constantly never putting off your armour till you put off your bodies nor quitting the field till you enter into the celestial Canaan Saint Paul sought out this combat even to victory tho he bore in his body the marks of the Lord Jesus I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Therefore now there is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give me c. There is a last enemy to be destroyed Death we must hold out to the conquest even of this last adversary which if it conquer us by the sting of our sin shall send us to the doors of hell if we conquer it by our faith it shall send us to the Gates of this City Heaven my second particular And now awaits your observation the manner how thro the gates not singularly a gate but gates for Chap. 21.12 the City is said to have twelve gates on the East three gates on the North three on the South three and on the West three to declare that men shall come from the East and from the West from the North and from the South and shall sit down in the Kingdom of God these gates are not literally but mystically to be understood pro modo intrandi for the manner of entrance These gates are those passages whereby we must enter