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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

life shall never thirst again The Prophet Isay hath a comparison to the same purpose cap. 58.10 If thou draw out thy soul to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul the Lord shall satisfy thy soul continually in drought and withal make fat thy bones and thou shalt be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not Love therefore thy Neighbor as thy self and love the poor for Gods sake and love God above all we are to love God above all 1. Appretiativè setting a higher price upon his glory and command than upon any other thing besides 2. Intensivè with the greatest efforts and intention of our spirits setting no bounds and measure to our love of him 3. Adequatè as the compleat perfect and adequate object of all our love in whom it must begin and in whom it must end But there is a sort of love or lust rather which is condemned and that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the passion of concupiscence whereby many lascivious men do wholly devote and dedicate themselves to some vain creature pleasing their fancies to the displeasing of God and to the piercing of their souls one day for it and except it do to the utter ruine both of body and soul Who admires not the wisdom of Demosthenes in the answer he returned to Corinthian Lais Paenitere tanti non emo I will not buy repentance at so dear a rate Certainly had he not known it from a self-experience 't is not possible an Heathen should have spoken so divinely for all our dishonest actions are but earnests laid down for grief sin on the best condition brings repentance but for sin without repentance is provided hell Yea 't is not folly but madness even the highest that makes a man buy his vexation O let us force our selves to want that willingly which we cannot enjoy without future disgust so that the sum is this there is no entrance to the city but by the gates no passage to glory but by grace to those spirits of just men made perfect must be admitted none save they that are justified none are entertained but such as are washed white in the blood of Christ and keep white their own Innocency The Adulterer for a while may flatter Beauty the Swearer grace his words with Oaths the Drunkard kiss his Cups and drink his bodys health till he bring his soul to ruine but do they think to enter this city No the gate is kept as the gate of Paradice with a Flaming Sword of Justice to keep them out The Adulterer shall satisfie his lust when he lies on a Bed of Fire all embrac'd with those Flames the Swearer shall have enough of Wounds and Blood when Devils torture his body and wrack his soul in Hell the Drunkard shall have a plenty of his Cups when scalding Lead shall be poured down his throat and his breath draw Flames of Fire instead of Air as is thy sin so is the nature of thy punishment the just Judge shall give just measure and the ballance of his wrath poise in a just proportion so that those that will not pass thro the gates of holiness in this life shall not enter the city of happiness in the life to come thus have we passed the gates and are now come to the city Now if I had been wrapt up to the third heaven or had the Angels Reed wherewith he measured the Wall Rev. 21.17 I might say something to the description of this City but it is not for us saith Bernard in these earthly bodies to mount into the Clouds and peirce this fulness of light to break into this bottomless depth of glory this is reserved to the last day And yet because God in his word hath given us a taste of heaven by comparing it to the most precious things on earth let us consider in this City three things the Immensity Society Glory And first we may guess at the immeasurable magnitude of this City by those many Mansions spoken of by Christ Jo. 14.2 In my Fathers house are many mansions How many So many saith one as would suffice a thousand worlds of men and tho all men in this world attain not to it it is not for want of room but of will they believe not in him who hath prepared these gates for them Secondly If such be the immensity what think you is the glory Is it not a most glorious City whose Walls are of Jasper whose Building is of Gold whose Gates are of Pearls whose Foundation is of precious Stones Yea when I behold the Pavement of Heaven stuck with Stars as so many sparkling Diamonds how despicable is the stateliest Pallace of the greatest Monarch and if the Pavement be so glorious what shall we think of those better parts yet unseen great and glorious things are spoken of thee thou City of God a glorious City indeed where there is Holiness immaculate Peace inviolate Joy ineffable Pleasure inexpressible no Time but Eternity no Place but immensity But because no tongue can so well express it as his whose eyes did clearly behold it be pleas'd to hear it in St. John's own words Rev. 21.4 and may we not be well contented to serve an Apprenticeship here so we may come to be free of this City hereafter God shall wipe away all tears from all eyes there shall be no more sorrow nor crying nor pain neither any more death The dying life we live here 't is a lamp that must out a shadow that will vanish a grass that will wither in Heaven it is protracted into Eternity beyond the threats of mortality or corruption PART II. Shewing the Happiness of those that mind their Creator betimes ECCLES XII 1. Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy Youth before the evil days come c. THey are the words of the wisest Preacher next our blessed Saviour who vouchsased the honour not to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gods own Secretary to pen this holy Tract this heavenly Treatise who spake not quicquid in buccam c. as his own fancy carried him or ideated to him but as the Holy Ghost directed him his tongue being but the pen the blessed spirit the ready writer which therefore ought to be read with reverence felt with passion followed with perseverance and this for the Preacher to wit Solomon Remember therefore thy Creator The Memory of man is indeed a most excellent faculty being that thing whereby we preserve those things which time hath spent and wasted whereby the things that are absent are still present and the things that are gone from us do abide with us Indeed it is that without which the life of man would be most wretched and miserable Seneca therefore saith well he that keeps not in memory the things that are past hath little better than lost his life given him in this world Now if our memory be so excellent a faculty how great