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A66476	A sermon preached in the High Church of Edinburgh, June 9th, 1695 before His Grace the Marquess of Tweddale His Majesties High Commissioner and before many of the nobility, barrons and burrows, members of the High Court of Parliament, and the magistrates of the said city / by David Williamson ...	Williamson, David, d. 1706.	1695 (1695)	Wing W2797; ESTC R8132	22,801	28

the man Luck 12. 3ly The proud and Grandees of the worldmind not they will be laid in the Dust where their bones will bear no badge of their Gentility These with the worldly go far in the way to Hell for their honour and profit 4ly Those who are carelesse to trim their Lamps and get interest in Christ and live as never to dye I Would press upon you all frequent and serious thoughts of Death from these considerations 1. Believing thoughts of Death would aquaint you with it before it come which were your advantage to make it the easier Less terrifying when it comes Were you Seasoning your Hearts with the Morning and Evening thoughts of it every day 2ly It would make you diligent in hearing of the word not knowing but every Sermon may be the Last the Lord knows this may be the Last to some who hears me 3ly It would let you see an end of all perfections Psal 119 96. That these who call their Lands by their Names Their honour descends not to the grave with them Psal 49.11.17 Nor will their Grandure distingaish their Dust from the Beggers Job 21.26 They all lye down alike in the Grave 4ly This would stir up to excelent thoughts of God there be some God is not in all their thoughts Psal 10.4 Because Death is not in them Job 19. When Job speaks of the Worms he has exalting thoughts of God 5ly It would make People more usefull to others and better neighbours It would make meek in passing injuries watchfull against offering of them Phlip 4.5 Let your Moderation be known unto all Men the Lord is at hand 6ly It would rectifie your Judgment of sin of Crosses yea of things Temporal Spiritual and Eternal Men in health living at distance from the thoughts of Death Think otherwise of things than in Sickness and under the apprehension of Death 7ly It will regulat your affections you need be very sober the day is but short Eccles 1.9 The wise Man laughs at the young Man who Lets his heart Loose Telling him for all these things he wold come to Judgment 8ly Believing thoughts of Death would beat back Temptations to sin Mortify dols and Lusts Job 3● 13.14 They would say what should I answer for this when the Lord riseth up It would make people quit bosom Dalilahs and Lose pleasure in them 1. The proud Man minding Death would account litle of being like Haman the Second person in the Kingdom 2ly The covetous worldling entertaining believing thoughts of Death would not be so much hunting after rents and profits Judas-like selling their Master Math. 26.16 He said what will you give me and I will deliver him unto you And they covenanted for Thrity peices of Silver Nor like Demas who forsook Christ for the present world 2. Tim. 4.10 3ly Beleiving thoughts of Death would mortify pleasures and all vain delights They would be al 's unsavory as the white of an Egg the Harlot and drunken companion would be an ugly sight you would be convinced of the truth of that That these pleasurs Last but for a short Season and leave a Lasting sting behind them Heb 11.25 Prov 23 32 Yea beleiving thoughts of Death would make you double your diligence in your pace to heaven Eccle. 9.10 And quicken you to those duties heart-tenderness and bitterness for sin as the Text points Hezekiah wept sore It would make you earnest in Self-examination 119. Psal 59.59 And instant in prayer Rom. 12.12 And would be a notable spurre to preparation for Death Lay your account with it Death is inevitable and will not be put off as Dyvors puts off their Creditors with fair words flattery Suspensions Cautioury flight it will pursue go where you will nor will it bebrav'd out with a mans power and Station and there is none can loose Deaths Arriestment Therefore wisely reckon your time and the shortest count is the best Psal 90.12 Lord teach us to number our dayes that we may apply our hearts to wisdom There was a fool who reckoned on many years and had not a Night before him Luk 12 20. But Job more wisely reckoned Death a dayly door-neighbour every day waiting his change Job 14.14 Know that your holding here is not property but Tennent-right we should alwayes be on a call O make your reckoning and testament in time Josiah made a good Testament who turned to the Lord with all his Soul with all his heart with all his might according to all the Law of Moses 2 Kings 23.25 c. David made a sweet end who served his Generation according to the will of God and fell a sleep in Christ Acts. 13.36 Some great men have made an ill Testament as Jehojakim who was buried with the burial of an Ass he lived undesired and died unlamented none to say Ah Lord or Ah his Glory Jer 22.18 c. There are some who dies and none to say Woe is me for him but that he is well away and we are al 's well quit of him their Memory Rots and they are remembred with disdain Prov 10.7 But the Memory of the just is blessed and they shall be had in overlasting remembrance Psal 112.6 A good mans name never dyes they will speak good of him when he is dead who cared little for him when he lived they will speak good of Moses and Samuel now who would have thought meanly of them had they lived in their days Herod that proud persecutor who slew James and put Peter in Prison made an ill Testament he swallowed down Impious Flatteries and was eaten of Wormes or Lice that he died Act 12 2.3.23 Some have made an ill Testament at death who have used Hellish policy in their Life as Pharaoh who devised to keep down and crushed the People of God and would have had his Lust satisfied on them Exod. 1.10 and 15.9 I warne you great men who hear me from the greatest to the lowest many great men has dyed in Scotland within these sixty years Charity binds me up from speaking of their eternal state some of them survived their Honour and went off the stage as the snuff of a Candle your Honours will not go under the Turf with you Many has darr'd and given defiance to death that when that pale Horse has looked them in the Face and Conscience awakened on them changed Colours and quaked as Belshazzer did Dan 5.5 6 You who are great men had need to walk so as death be not terrible to you 1 Because few such are called and saved 1 Cor. 1 26 6. Not many Noble c. 2. Because many great men will be sore put to it at last Rev. 6.16.17 To cry to Mountains and Rocks Fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth 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 Many who hold their head very high now Mighty men and chief Captains may be put to it and some who hears me this day it may be their case I warne Your Grace and my Noble Lords and

Jews from another place but thou and thy Fathers House shall be destroyed and who knows whether thow art come to the Kingdom for such a time as this If you be inconcerned in his matters he will be al 's inconcerned in you and break you if you prefer your own house to his 6 In order to this promote piety ● By your commands as Asa 2. Chron 14.2.4 He did that which was good and right in the Eyes of the Lord his God and commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their Fathers and to do the Law and commandement And Josiah 2 Chron. 34. Covenanted the people to walk after the Lord. 2 By the example of your persons and Families as did ' David and Joshua sal 101 and Joshua 24 For this end strive to get divine principles according to these will your actions be Let God's Statues be the men of your Council and his Glory the end of your actions Constantius the Father of Conslantine tried his Courtiers wisely who adhered to truth he honoured them who fore-sook Christ them he degraded said who were false to God would never be true to him Much depends on Magistrats their personal carriage and their Courts Leaders of people easily causes them to erre ●sa● 9.16 One wicked man in authority destroyes much good Eccls 9 18 Their example is so powerfull 3 Encourage and strengthen the hands of painfull faithfull Ministers men according to Gods own Heart 4 Discountenance what smels of superstion and Jdolatry Wee are glad that course has been taken and will be farther taken by his Majesties Honourable Privy Council to ease the Land of Jesuit Priests the Grand trafficquers who infuse the Venome of cruel and damnable principles the fopperys of superstitious and unscriptural conceits and have been and are the principal abetters of horrid cruelties Such have been too much carressed by many 4. Have a fervent care to look well to seminaries of Learning It 's an old trick of Rome to poison the fountains that the streams may be mudded Much depends on the piety principles and example of Masters young ones may soon get a wrong set that will not easily cure It 's dangerous to suck in poyson with milk 5. Be carefull of the established Government of the Church which we own as founded on the word of God in which these five things are expresse 1 Anent its Officers as ye have them distinguished Eph. 4.11 1 Thes 5.12 1 Tim. 5.17 Act. 6 And not a Prelat among them all 2. Its Courts and Judicatories Matth. 18 16.18 It was no civil Courts meant there 3. Subordination of Lesser Judicatories to Greater Acts 15.4 Wee have the order of procedure in relation to censure Matth 18.16 5. The naturall kind of these censures not Bodily but Spiritual And there is a Charge to observe all these things inviolable untill Christ second coming 1 Tim. 5.21.1 Tim. 6.14 Wee most say that the Scots soil could never agree with Prelatick nor Erastian domination This government was owned by Ambassadours from most of the reformed Churches of Europe at the synod of Dort and subcrived by them all save two it was solemnly sworn to be persons of all ranks in this Nation an Hundered yeares ago It is most adapted to the ends of an Established Ministry to edify Souls and to guard against vice and errour Eph. 4.11.12 Beware of what may give a Back-set to this Government is grievuees to it for I may venture to say in Scotland there is so strong a twist in the present establishment bet wixt Kirk and State that they may reckon heart friends foes together that who are Heart-friends to the State will be freinds to the Kirk as now established for I Judge it will be found friends to this interest will be found in Scotland His Majesties best Friends if not His only Friends whatever others pretends for their own safety advantage or advancement Our readines to venture and offer in a dangerous Juncture is not unknown I may say in Scotland if King William had a strait they would make but a small Batalion of trusties that would be found on the other side I neither think nor speak so of England how many there of the Episcopal perswasion have given and do give pregnant proofs of their Loyaltie good affection to The King beyond all exception There has been a great work about taking in of Conformists in Scotland to the Government but how have they slighted the condescendency of Parliament to make application and qualify themselves Yea they are imboldned by the forbearance of Church and State nor have wee taken the advantage allowed not that we are for Cruelty but for Charity which we have extended to some for their supply and inclines yet to do so wishing that the most needy and best affected might share of the Charity of all yet are wee not fond of medling with them knowing their temper There are a number taken in by us I deny not there may be some more sober Serious and deserves more incouragement than others I judge we are through the throng of them and wishes they be all sound at the heart For those we received in the North if there be truth in Men wee had ground to think they would be true to their trust For others in the North we found their pulse that they were neither Friends to Kirk nor State In stead of Application they rushed in on the Committee unmannerly being neither cited nor called and gave in Protestations disowning the Authority of the Church and spitting in the face of the Law for our establishment altho' under the colour of a fair complement to the State A meer pretext no more to be trusted then Joabs simulat complement to Amasa 2 Sam. 20.3 ●0 Who under the covert of a fair Brotherly Salutation intended a deadly wound which he gave him under the fifth Rib and shed out his Bowels to the ground Some of these are declared Intruders illegally setled some of them Lybelled for Scandals And it s known from the North especially there were offers in a Formula repeated Addresses to His Majesty Petitions to the last Session of Parliament declaring themselves ready and willing to joyn with the present Church Government Yet in their Protestations they pretend to give Reasons why in conscience they cannot do it where is their ground of Trust Judge how well contrived they are made up of Contradictions Now if such Men who Savour of Tobia's and Sanballat's complexion should offer to feign Subjection with a mind to undermind the work it were no wonder we were shy to deal with them And for those who at best declare their indifferency for any Government the State appoints especially considering how guilty they are of coutradictory Oaths subversive of the Government Who can trust they will support it and not subvert if A cold and feigned friend may soon turn an Enemy can we be blamed being convinced they are generally Enemies to Kirk and State to decline cementing with them A King would be thought ill advised to take and keep in his bosom Men whose disaffection and inclinations subversive of his Government and interest might be evidenced to a demonstration For some of us before wee closed with such we would rather chuse to take our old venture to seek our Bread with the peril of our Lives I will crave your pardon and patience in all Soberness to represent a few grievous things 1. That those who neither comply with Kirk nor State meet in pre●ended Presbytries and Synods and act as Legal Jud●catories and obtrude Men of their way on vacant Churches 2 Many of them who refuse to own the Government of Kirk and State take on them to preach irregularly Baptize Children and even of Scandalous persons without regard to the removing of the Scandal And Marry persons claudestinly without knowledge or consent of Parents Who are secure of their Children at this rate And they Marry some persons within forbidden degrees and some whole former Mariages are not disolved some of them antidate Testimonials and absolve persons in whom they have no interest some of them have likeways brought in innovations in worship never used under any Government of Protestants in Scotland And farther contrair to all order and in manifest contempt of Church Censures several deposed for gross in moralities Conturnacy Supine-negligence continue in all the parts of the Ministerial function which in some places breeds a great dale of confusion and disorder these things we can instruct if need be From all which flows and a bounds prophaness Irreligion and Atheism notwithstanding of all the excellent Laws made against them Now it 's in the power of your hands to order remedies for all these things by applying the Laws made and to be made in Church-matters and incouraging the Church in her Liberties and all her Assemblies I would exhort all the Members of this Honourable Court As ye would prove your selves to walk in truth and with a perfect heart in your Spheres and Capaciti●s prove your selves Nursing Fathers to the Church and guard against those who would poison or starve the Flocks and overthrow the Government of the Lords house I do here declare I did not intend to irritat any Man I dare not be a Man-pleaser for then I should not be the Servant of Christ Gal. 1.10 But I resolved to exoner my Conscience in the fight of God who is your Master and mine if I should never Preach more Now as you will all answer before Him consider what I have said for there is a day of Compt and Reckoning coming My hearty Prayer to God is That His Majesties high Commissioner and all the Members of this Houourable Court may be helped by Grace so to behave As in that Great Day You may all meet with that sweet welcome Well done Good and Faithful Servants enter into Your Masters Joy The Lord grant You understanding in all these things To His name be Praise FINIS