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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

advice then of St. Peter comes seasonably in here 1 Pet. 5.6 Humble your selves under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due time the words are not without their strength of Emphasis here is an humili animi crown'd with an ut exaltet humble your selves that he may exalt as if humility was so necessary a disposition to preserment that without it God might not exalt There is no vertue drawn by the Pencil of God in more lively colours with brighter beams of his favour shining on them than humility Jesus Christ the mirror of all perfection setteth it out as his chiefest jewel Learn of me saith he for I am meek and humble in heart Matt 11.29 they must be little that enter these gates little in their own eyes slender in the opinion of themselves whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child he shall not enter therein and so much of the properties The parts are now to be considered and these are four the foundation is Faith one of the sides Patience the other Innocence the roof Charity Faith is the foundation by it we have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 access unto God and that with boldness by this we lay hold on the Throne of Grace by this we adhere and close unto God and prostrate our selves at his feet by this we live in Christ and Christ in us by this our hearts are purified our consciences washed with the Blood of Christ and fitted to see God and to enter into the Holy of Holies unto which no unclean thing can be admitted He that hath faith shall enter and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death to life Again Patience is one of the Pillars Heb. 10.36 Ye have need of patience that when ye have done the will of God ye might receive the promise Justin Martyr being asked which was the greatest miracle that our Saviour Christ wrought answered Patientia ejus tanta in laboribus tantis his so great patience in so great troubles Many are the infirmities and troubles to which every man is subject in his body he is subject to diseases in his estate to losses in his name to slanders and false reports but these reach not his Spirit unless himself do lend his hand unto them therefore if sickness do afflict thy body let not this make thy spirit sick and afflicted with impatient sorrow what tho thy estate be diminished by losses let not this thro impatiency diminish thy chearfulness or breed any loss of comfort to thy spirit what tho thy name be wronged by heavy slanders or false reports wrong not thy spirit thro impatiency by heaviness and grief but rather follow our Saviours exhortation Luk. 21.19 In your patience possess your souls i. e. live joyfully blessedly even under the cross that when ye have suffered before the gates ye may enter into the City Innocence is the other Pillar but who can say he hath innocent hands and a simple heart indeed none perfectly in Gods sight yet some had and may have this in part by the witnesses of their own consciences Samuel could challenge the Israelites to accuse him Whose Ox have I taken whom have I defrauded 1 Sam. 12.3 and Job sweetly my heart shall not condemn me for my days if I have lift up my hands against the fatherless let it be broken if I rejoyced at the destruction of him that hated me then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade and my arm be broken from the bone Job 31.21 Triumphus innocentiae est non peccare ubi potest it is the triumph of innocence not to offend when it may for it is true innocence saith Austin quae nec inimico nocet that hurts not our very enemy if my land cry against me or the farrows thereof complain let thistles grow instead of wheat and cockles instead of barley Job 31.38 40. How few among us dare thus plead So David O Lord thou knowest mine innocence In malis sperare bonum nisi innocens nemo potest faith the moral Heathen to hope for good in the midst of evils no man can but the innocent Innocence saith Chrysostom is free in servitude safe in danger joyful in bonds But alas where shall robbers and workers of violence appear What shall become of the cruel griping bowel-less extortioner No creature in heaven or earth shall testifie his innocency but the sighs and cries of many which he hath undone shall witness the contrary Where shall fraud cozenage injury perjury mischief appear You may conceal your craft from the eyes of men defraud your Minister beguile your Neighbor unperceived unpunished but know that the Lord will not hold you guiltless I will wash my hands in innocency so will I compass thine Altar O Lord saith the Royal Prophet Psal 26.6 if innocence must lead us to the Altar on earth sure that must be our gate to the glory of heaven Charity is the roof diligendo perficitur love makes up the building man indeed is naturally a loving creature but doth not always place his love aright his love then is best placed when it is placed upon the best object and that is God If he place it upon Beauty that fadeth if upon Riches they perish if upon Honor that vanisheth if upon Life that wasteth but all these are in God not only in eminency but continuance In him Beauty that never fadeth in him Riches that never perish in him Honor that never vanisheth in him Life that never wasteth and therefore as he is the truest object of love so he should be the dearest object of our Love Quanta est Charitas Austin quaesi desit frustra habentur caetera si adsit rectè habentur omnia How great is love for if it be wanting all other graces lose their grace but if present all are profitable And Theodoret asking wherein consisted the image of God in man answereth in a charitable bounty wherein he imitateth God Yea Tully saith Homines ad Deum nulla re proprius accedunt quam dando men in nothing come nearer to God than in giving It was the folly of the rich Glutton that he wanted Barns to lay his Corn in whereas there was so many empty Bellies of the poor into which he might have put it and where it would have been laid up for ever for him for he that giveth to the poor shall not lack shall not lack that which he hath given shall not lack any thing that is good Perhaps saith Cyprian if thou givest much thou mayst be afraid lest thy self should come to want sed esto hac in parte intrepidus esto securus c. but in this point be without fear be secure that cannot be ended which is expended for the use of Christ He that is a liberal soul indeed and plentifully watereth the dry and thirsty souls of Christ shall himself be watered with the precious blood of Christ and drinking of that spring of

reason have we to remember our Creator by whom it hath been bestowed upon us should not God remember us in his providence and protection over us should not he remember us in troubles and distresses and when we have cast away our selves in our Sins what would become of us but tho God be most graciously mindful of us how little mind have we of him We say of one that he hath a good memory because he keepeth firmly and a long time that which he hath received we say of another that he hath an excellent memory because he can repeat many things as soon as they are proposed unto him But he hath a good memory indeed that remembreth good things carefully he hath an excellent memory that remembreth God who is good above all things Remember therefore thy Creator in the days of thy Youth A chief reason that makes young people not to remember God their Creator is this because they think that they have a long time to live in the world and tho they forget him now yet they will remember him hereafter but to remove this the Preacher saith not in the time but in the days of thy youth to shew both to young and old that our life is but for a few days And Seneca saith well that tho death be before the old mans face yet he may be as near to the young mans back let him therefore while he hath day remember his Creator in the day of his youth indeed the Creator must always he remembred not only in youth but in old age not only in the days of youth but all the days of our Life For as Zachary saith he redeemed us that we might serve him in righteousness and holiness all the days of our life Luk. 1.73 So he hath created us that we might remember him all the days of our life Remember therefore thy Creator c. Now a duty and a date will divide the Preachers Text the duty what Remember thy Creator the date when In the days of thy youth In the former you have a truth approved verily your Creator is to be remembred in the latter a time appointed in the days of thy youth But not to make the Preachers Text like a Mathematical line infinitely divisible in the first observe a word of exhortation tending to a holy life and a godly conversation in the latter a wise prevention of an erroneous conceit of our corrupt nature parallel to him that said da mihi castitatem sed noli modo So here we all intend to remember our Creator but when not yet but hereafter when the Evening of old age cometh or the night of death approacheth no such delay no such delusion observe your season in the days of your youth Oh remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth because it 's uncertain whether ever thou shalt be old there are many old which have been young but many are young which shall never be old Time and Age God as a wise dispencer hath kept in his own hands to the intent and purpose that we might suspect a shorter thread of life but yet not despair of a longer Now to enter the treaty of the duty our Saviours question John 16.18 falls fitly in here Remember thy Creator we know not what he saith remember him why who forgets him Not the good man For Have I not remembred thee in my bed and thought upon thee when I was waking You know whose spech it was Psal 63.6 No nor the wicked neither for no sooner hath a distemper'd passion heated their blood but the very first breath of their Lips is either a Curse or an Oath as if they would swear away sad disasters which every ungracious speech brings on nearer binds on faster so the Psalmist hath sealed their doom As he loved Cursing so let it come unto him and as he delighted not in Blessing so let it be far from him But let us not with our ignorance cast aspersion upon the Preachers knowledge and therefore to give you the sense and cause you to understand the reading observe the Chaldee Pataphrast esto memor Creatoris tui ut glorifices eum let the stream of thy meditations so run upon him that thou mayest glorify him The which we do when we derive all our actions and intentions from his sacred truth which give rules not only to live well and to speak well but even ad bene cogitandum to think well Oh let no purpose pass currant from thine heart till God hath set his seal on it and stamp of approbation let his word give it a fiat whatsoever you do yea or intend to do let both action of hand and thought of heart be all to Gods glory 2. Again let his will be thy law his word thy rule his Sons life thy example his Spirit rather than thine own Soul the guide of thine actions the steer and Cynosure of thine affections 3. To study brevity the faithful are called 1 Pet. 2.9 Kings and Priests the remembrance whereof should work a Kingly and Priestly mind in every one of us to rule over our affections as Leo excellently teacheth nil tam Regium c. nothing is so kingly as when a mind subject to God ruleth the body nothing so Priestly as to vow unto God a pure conscience and to offer up the immaculate sacrifice of piety upon the Altar of the Heart But I shall persue this no further here because I shall meet it again in the next branch expressing the time when we ought to reduce this meditation into practice this doctrine to doing to wit in the days of our Youth As one saith of Psalm 41.1 blessed is he that considereth the poor c. that it is scriptura pauperum the poor mans Scripture so of this it may be rightly said that it is scriptura juvenum the young mans theme which given by divine inspiration is profitable to teach him the Apostles lesson consisting of two counter-points a suge and a fac a disswasive caution fly youthful lusts a perswasive Canon and follow after righteousness faith love and peace which have the promises both of this life and of that which is to come both of blessings temporal and bliss eternal Which observation we may crown with this corrollary or doctrinal proposition that the best time and fittest season to sow the seeds of vertue that it may bring forth fruit in holiness and the end everlasting happiness is the first and flourishing part of our age the strength and vigour of our years or to retain the words of the text the days of our youth For elucidation whereof David's question is here to take place Psal 119.9 Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way by taking heed thereto according to thy word Again it was Gods ordinance that in their Meat-offerings of first fruits they should offer up Levit. 2.14 green ears of corn or corn beaten out of green ears and what was this but alterius