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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

ye will find the duty of Self-denyal put in the midst Luk 9. 23. betwixt Doing and Suffering to shew that none of them can be cleanly without it 5. In the point of Duty and Acting Times and Providences are not to be our Rule Sin is still Sin and Duty is still Duty tho Providence seem sometimes to favour the one and discountenance the other for as Eccles. 9. 2 there is one event to the Righteous and to the Wicked c. and therefore make the Word and not single Providence the Square of your Duty Providences alone without the Word are dangerous Guides And 6. Tho there be ordinarly a strong inclination and bensil in Zions Friends towards Acting yet the Church hath ever thriven better under Suffering than Acting Act. 11. 21. And as their Prayers and Tears have been their best Armour so their Testimony and Blood hath been their greatest Trophies and Victory Rev. 12. 11. they overcame by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony for they loved not their lives unto death II. I presume by vertue of my Commission from the King of kings to lay before your Grace their Majesties High Commissioner and this Honourable House of Parliament these particular Duties which our times being well understood obviously call for and shall make no other Apology for my freedom in pressing them than the obligation that lyes on me to be zealous for the Lord of Hosts and as I was never before being but as one born out of time in such a Capacity so it may be I never again have the opportunity of preaching before such an Honourable Auditory 1 Our times upon a narrow and spiritual search call aloud to this Duty that in a ●●eling and uncertain time every one should secure their Souls and put that in sure keeping 1 Pet. 4. 19. wherefore let them that c. commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing as unto a faithful Creator The excellency of the Soul the price Christ payed for Souls the pains that Satan takes to destroy these and the irreparableness of the loss not being to be made up by gaining the whole World plead strongly for this and the Souls of great ones being within the reach of that word 1 Cor. 1. 26. not many wise not many noble c. and obvious to greater and mo temptations are in greater hazard than others And therefore in this uncertain time I obtest you that ye secure your Souls by getting an Interest in Christ Jesus that lose what ye will ye may not lose that which cannot be recovered at the rate of all the World and that if times of trouble come upon you ye may not be both afflicted here and damned hereafter 2 That ye guard against Apostacy and Defection from the Truth and Way of God wherein he hath mercifully engaged you by falling into Idolatry Profanity and Opposition to the righteous ways of God 1 Ioh. 5. 21. Little children keep your selves from idols and be not of them that draw back Heb. 10. 39. lest his Soul take no pleasure in you for few Apostats recover or if they do many of them have bitter Agonies of Spirit and are a very Hell to themselves before they be put among the Children again And if Popery and other Corruptions now cast out by you be imbraced again they will bring with them seven worse Spirits than before O do not sweep the House Mat. 12. 44. for the Devil's return again and it will be a strange thing to see rational men let be professed Christians so prodigal of their Souls Consciences Relations Estates and Bodies as to thirst and long to be back again to Fgypt have ye forget the Burdens and Bondage ye were formerly under will ye again return to Babylon O! for the Lord's sake hate the Whore and all her Rags spotted with the Flesh. I tremble to think what may be the sad Consequence of returning again with the Dog to the Vomit and with the Sow to the Puddle that 's a severe word in Iosh. 24. 20. If ye forsake the Lord and serve other gods then he will turn and do you hurt and consume you after that he hath done you good 3 Labour to perfect the Reformation ye have happily begun and is greedily expected And that speedily in the first place Command as in Ez. 7 23. that whatsoever is commanded by the God of Heaven be diligently done for the House of the God of Heaven Reformation ought to be thorow and not by Halves or sinful Mixtures Hos. 7. 8. It 's a sad mark put upon Samaria King 17. 33. That they feared the Lord and served their own gods and swearing by God and by Ma●cham Zeph 1. 5 streaches out his arm still with fury against a Nation it 's a reproach upon a People to halt between God and Baal 1 King 18. 21. If the Lord be God follow him but if Baal then follow him And it 's a perpetual stain upon Iehu's Reformation That tho he destroyed Baal and his Priests c. yet he departed not from the sins of Ieroboam to wit the Golden Calves at Dan and Bethel 2 King 10. 28 29. Let Reformation I say be perfect and throw to the Door all that belongs to the Whore even the raggs she hath left behind her for an errand to return again And let none of Babels cursed Timber or Stones be taken to build the Lord's House with And let it be done speedily Ezra 6. 13. They went about the building of the Wall speedily Let it not be put off by carnal Policy or Worldly Respects saying as H●g 1. 2 4. It is not time to build the Lords House the time is not come Tho I confess there is a vast difference betwixt pious Prudence which should order all your Affairs and carnal Policy which will but defile and marr your Work For men may apprehend that if they should go on to the settling of the Government of the Church or any piece of Reformation presently many would fall off and affairs would not succeed so prosperously But let me perswade you that ye will find the contrary to be true if ye will consider 1. That the Policy of this kind which Ieroboam used 1 Kings 12. 26. and which the Iews followed Ioh. 11. 28. brought the same very evils upon them which they feared and thought by their carnal Policy to avoid For Ieroboam had laid down this Principle that no Idol no King even as some conclude with as little reason no Bishop no King And the Iews were by their carnal wisdom fixed in this That Christ and the Gospel and their peace and safety could not consist together But both their measures failed them and that which they feared and thought by their carnal Policy to evite came upon them 2. If ye will consider that good King Hezekiah was not guided by this carnal Policy in his reformation 2 King 18. 4. But in the first year of his

reign which I pray and hope our King shall make the parallel of removed the high places brake down the images cut down the groves and brake in pieces the brazen serpent tho Moses made it and called it Nehushtan And that which in this affair was his best policy ye have in the 5 vers He trusted in the Lord God of Israel And 3. If ye will consider what Luther that famous Reformer saith That there are three great hinderances of Reformation Security among the people of God secret treachery of enemies and carnal policy in managers of the work For to offer to cure the disorders of the Church by carnal wisdom and to determine the great controversies of Religion by humane Reason is cum ratione sapientia insanire to go mad with Wisdom and Reason And I have read what Livy saith That carnal policies are in their contrivement pleasant in their management difficult and in their issue sad to them that use them and will leave them with that sad lamentation of that great Polititian Tully whose Policy had kept him in Place Honour if I remember in the time of four Emperors yet at his end cryed out O me miserum nunquam beatum It must needs then be a wicked Maxim which some Father upon Matchiavell That all the Laws and things of God are to be subjected and stoop to that which they call Reason of State 4. It 's a duty of our times if we understand them right to crucifie that grand Idol Self And all self-ends and interests when they come in competition with Christ and his Truth and when the case is Christ or Barabbas O! How many worship this Idol Self Phil. 2. 21. All seek their own not the things of Iesus Christ. But the voice of our times to you Most Noble Patriots is not to seek great things for your self with Baruch Ier. 45. 5. But with Mordecai Esth. 10. 3. to seek always the wealth of your people and labour for a more Publick Spirit Moses and Paul seem to lay their Soul and part of Heaven in Pawn for the glory of God and delivering of the Church Will ye prefer your little Stock to the safety of the whole Cargo and Vessel O cursed Self away with it away with it crucifie it crucifie it You were lately by a great Light of this Church exhorted to prefer Ierusalem to your chief joy and I hope the impression of it abideth with you For 1. It is a Spring and Source of many evils from whence flows our Pride Ambition Covetousness Vanity c. but from this they are all the Children of this cursed Mother and if ye do not slay this Idol ye will not have a heart to life at the fallen Tabernacle or to help to set on the Crown on Christ's Head 2. It is the fostering and feeding of this Idol Self that is the sad occasion of all those breaches divisions and animosities that are amongst a people for according to the frame of their Idols so are all their Methods taken and some have an Idol of one shape and some of another and according to that Mould so are all their actings to support it And 3. This selfish disposition and temper as it doth cause the enemy to blaspherne and opens the mouths of the wicked to say lo this is the man that pretended so highly for Christ now he hath left him when he hath drawn his Stake or he hath left him because he cannot mount up to preforment that way and gain nothing from that quarter so hath it provoked the Lord to cut down these self-interests that men have preferred to Christ and his Interest how many Crowns hath this made to totter and fall to the Ground because they sought a Crown to themselves and not to Christ. And how many great and fair Houses have been laid waste because they built their own Houses and let the House of the Lord ly desolat Iehu his self-ends Hos. 1. 4. brought ruin upon him and his House and all his policy could not prevent it he that saves himself this way shall lose himself 5. They that rightly understand our times will find that moderation and sobriety is one of the great duties of it Phil. 4. 5. Let your moderation be known to all men c. winding up of Instruments to the highest Peg doth not only marr the Harmony but breaketh the Strings Let not the Stretches of former times edge you to the same methods You know who it was who being inquired what was the best way of governing Kingdoms wrot only in return upon a large Paper at a great distance from other three times Modus Modus Modus moderation moderation moderation The Records of experience show us that violent Administrations and running things to the height have not been long-lived Omnis felicitas ad culmen producta Retrogreditur nihil violentum durat And 6. The Duty of our Times seems to be that ye should lay such sure and lasting Foundations as not only these two strangers in our Land Righteousness and Peace Psal. 85. 10. may meet and kiss one another but that they may live together and be perpetuated to the generations to come that the Children yet unborn may bless you As we in this time do bless you in the Name of the Lord and from the House of our God for what ye have done already Go on then I say against whatsoever opposition either from Enemies or false Builders and lay such a sure Basis that after-Generations may build upon it hear that word in Zech. 8. 9. Let your hands be strong ye that hear in these dayes these words by the month of the Prophets which were in the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid that the Temple might be built III. Let me press these Duties of our times upon you by some Motives 1. The Concerns ye have among your hands in this time are great your Grace and this Honourable Court of Parliament have not only the Matters of an Earthly King whom God hath singled out to do Exploits for him among your hands for which ye are obliged as ye have already done to evidence a great deal of care and zeal but ye have under your care and tutory Christ's own Bride she is a tender Virgin and hath yet but little Breasts she hath been wounded in the house of her Friends as well as by Enemies and she is not yet heal her Wounds are yet bleeding for the Lord's sake prove to her as the compassionat Samaritan Luke 10. 34. Bind up her Wounds pour Oyl into them and take care of her she is Nobly-Born she is a King's Daughter Psal. 45. 13. New come from her Banishment and for her Father's Blessing for her Bridegroom's Blessing and for her own Blessing who is ready to perish deal kindly with her and be faithful Tutors to her Yea ye have Christ's Crown his Glory among your hands and if you take away or