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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

of God Rom. 16 7. In dying in the Lord Rev. 14.13 Found in Christ Phil. 3.9 United to Christ John 17.23 ● in them and thou in me Commiting the Soul to him as a God of truth Psal 31.5 Trusting Christ as a safe Vessel to to carry the through O what an excellent Death is it to dye in the Faith of these Six things 1. That thou are Elected called adopted justified and he is thy God and that thy name is Written in the Lambs Book of life And thou has no more to doe but say Father in thy hands I commend my Spirit as said Christ Luke 23.46 2. To dye in the Faith of this that all his dealings to thee in thy life have been Mercy and truth and for good Psal 25.10 and thou wilt not question his favours To dye in the Faith of this that thy Works have been accepted and to say with old Simeon Now lets thou thy Servant depart in peace for mine Eyer have seen thy Salvation Luk 2.29 3. To dye in the faith of the promised Glory and of the out making of all the promises that thou can say as Psal 17.15 When I awake I shall see his face in Righteousnes and be satisfied as with the likness of God 4. To Dye in the Faith of this That Christ hath taken away the Sting of Death and thou hast interest in his Victories over Death Hell Sin and the Grave and that he will be with thee and measure out thy pain and make all thy Bed in Thy Sickness 5. To Dye in the Faith That God will visit his Church as did Joseph Gen. 50.24.25 6. To Dye in the Faith That all the enemies of his Glory shall be brought down and his Kingdom shall be exalted Death will give people experience of these five things Of the Vanity of the World of the Truth of the Word of the Bitterness of Sin of the Terribleness of falling in the hands of the living God and of the Sweetness of Gods Service to them that shall rest from their Labours Many Dye with strong Terrours not prepared and some Stupid ly down with a Lye in their Right-hand Isai 44.20 And yet are said to Dye like Lambs They are like a Man put out at the window of a high Tower in a Dark-night and falls in a deep Ditch sad is his Wakning Happy are they who are ready Willing and desirous to Dye 1 There is a Childish desire of Death like Achab who would Dy in a pe●t for Naboths Vineyard 1 Kings 21.4 2. A passionat desire like Jonahs for the Gourds withering Jonah 4.8 3. A Rebellious desire like that of the Isaraelites Numb 14 2. 4 A solid and Judicious desire That is attended 1 with diligence in every duty knowing that shortly wee must put off this Tabernacle 2 Pet. 1.14 2. With laying up a store that wee may be accepted of him 1 Tim. 6.19 3 With a constant waiting for a change Job 14.14 Trimming the Lamps and girding up the Loyns with the wise Virgins Math. 25.4 4 With the knowledge of their Well being after Death 2 Cor. 5.1 Wee know if our earthly house of this Tabernacle were dissolved Wee have a building with God an house not made with hands eternal in the Heavens 5. It 's attended with an heart deadness to things here-away using the World as if wee used it not because time is short 1 Cor. 7.29.31 O for such grounds of desire The second thing I would speak to is That who would expect favour at Death would study Uprightness 1. There is a Moral Uprightness in reference to Mens Actions which a Graceless Man like Abimeleh may have by restraint Gen. 20.2 an Evangelical Uprightness that sets the Eye and Heart God-ward which is not an Act but a Gracious frame and habit wrought in the Heart which is the chief seat of it Hypocrisy is like a paint that only colours the Skin This is God's Work for no Man can make his Heart clean Prov. 20.9 It fits the Soul to walk with and serve God in the right manner and to design the Lords Glory as the main end The upright Man knows no other fountain of Mercy but God's Grace and no end of duty but God's Glory For confirming the point 1. It is the paremptor will of God which is the highest of Reasons God remits from the first Covenant with Adam of absolute personal perfection but requires a second Covenant perfection Gen 17. 1 Uprightness Truth in the inward parts Psal 51.6 Which is the highest Believers can attain while on Earth 2. It is highly well pleasing to God 1 Chron. 29.17 I know O Lord saith David thou takes pleasure in Uprightness O how well pleased was Christ with Nathaniel an Israelite indeed in whom there was no guile John 1.47 His countenance doth behold the upright Psal 11.7 they get a good look of God Wee should imitat Christ if wee would do what delights God John 8.29 He did alwayes those things that pleased his father who has no pleasure in sin Psal 5 4. ● This is the great and characteristical distinction that puts a difference between the Saint and Hypocrite in point of duties as between the Publican and the Pharisee Luk. 18. Between Cain and Abel Gen. 4.4 It is that without which a man cannot be a true Christian under the highest profession and with which a man is a true Christian with Less profession It is the very standart of every Grace and duty Grace without it is but hypocrisy and duty without it is but iniquity A Saint cannot want it to Season all his Graces and duties it qualifies all It 's like the blood that runs through all the veins the very life of the Christian 1. Faith most be unfeigned 1 Tim 1.5 There werea sort of people seemed to trust in God but were not sincere they thought not as they spoke the Lord could not abide them Psal 78.35.36.37 2. Repentance must be sound the Lord challenges feigned turning to him Jer. 3.10 Wee have need to pray Lord wish our Teares from hypocrisy 3 Love to God must be sincere or elss wee are cursed Eph 6 24 1. Cor 16.22 There were some who pretended great respect to God and undertook fair Jer. 42 2.3.6.20.21 but stood not by it they were false dissemblers in their hearts they never kept a word Jer. 44.16 They down right gave themselves the Lye and declared they would not do as they had said 4. Love to our neighbour must be sincere wee must love him with a pure Heart fervently 1. Pet 1.22 5. Prayer to God must be sincere 1. Tim. 2 8. Wee must lift up pure hands 6 preaching must be as of fincerity in the sight of God 2 Cor. 2.17 In a word wee have so much grace in good earnest as we have sincerity and no more Last reason none else can expect Heavens glory and who wants Hope of Heaven cannot dye with comfort Math. 5.8 Blessed are the pure in heart they

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 Minister of the Gospel at the West-kirk EDINBURGH Printed by George Mosman and are to be sold at his Shop in the Parliament-closs 1695. GOOD READER The Author being threatned by some that they would cause Print his Sermon as written from his Mouth however uncorrect it might be And that severals had made wrong accounts of the matter spoken He was pressed upon these Reasons by Friends to offer a correct Coppy to the Press Which he condescended to do upon their Importunity without alteration of words or Sentences The Text Isaiah Chapter 38.3 And said Remember now O Lord I beseech thee how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart and have done that which is good in thy sight and Hezekiah wept sore HEzekiah was a Good Man a Great Man a Rare Man a Praying King Of all the Three and twenty Kings of Israel and Judah before and after the Schisme Wee find only Nine commended for Good viz. David Solomon Asa Jehosaphat Amasiah Azariah Jotham Hezekiah Josiah Of the Twenty Kings of Israel after the Rent Wee find none commended for Good but only Jehu commended for cutting off the house Ahab and destroying the Worshippers of Baal 2 Kings 9.10 Yet was he reproved for cleaving to the Sins of Jeroboam 2 Kings 10.31 Hezekiah was a Good King but not faultless his Heart was lifted up with Pride and he Pay'd dear for it 2 Kings chap. 20. verses 14. c. Nor did his Goodness exeeme him from Trouble in the preceeding Chapter he was sore distressed by a seige and now sick unto Death The words contain his fervent Prayer I shall not trouble you with tedious Explication nor Curious Division 1. He Prays that the Lord would Remember him not that God is subject to forgetfulness but he would have the Lord effectually to mind him according to his promise made to Abraham when he indented with him Gen. 17.1.2 Walk before me saith the Lord and he thou perfect I am God Almighty And I will make my Covenant between me and thee and I will multiply thee exceedingly Now he had in some measure Human Frailty excepted kept the condition there required 2. He reflects on his Heart and Way I have walked before thee That is under the awful apprehensions of an Omniscient every-where present God In truth and with aperfect heart It 's the same on the matter with simplicity and Godly sincerity 2 Cor. 1.12 Mentioned in opposition to Carnal policy called there fleshly Wisdom Would he say I have studied to be sincerely and honestly minded and am not conscious of gross Exorbitancies in my course which uses to shorten Mens Days 3. Wee have the proof of his Sincerity in a Good Conversation I have done that which is good in thy sight 4. Wee have his present Melancholy temper and Hezekiah wept sore for Deaths aspect was not pleasant to him he would sam have lived a while longer either to have throughed the begun Reformation or forseeing what might follow to Church and state upon his removal especially they being for present in a distracted miserable condition or probably he Scunnered at Death as nature will do in the best of Saints I shall only take up this one point from the words Doct. That these who would expect comfort at Death must make conscience of a sincere Religious walk in their life Whose Heart condemns them not in this may be very confident of that I shall speak to those three Branches 1. of Death 2. of Uprightness 3. of a Religious walk 1. First for Death I would say these five things 1. It is certain it is appointed for all Men to dye and but once Heb. 9.27 All are born with the seeds of Death in their bosom The prophanest Atheist who defyes Death shall not shift it when his day cometh 2. It is certain Death is uncertain 1. As to the place where at home or abroad by Sea or by Land 2. As to the manner how a violent or narural Death sudden or lingering 3. As to the time when wee read of no Man who ever got a lease of their time but this Hezekiah 3. It 's certain Death waits no Mans readiness if a Man be not prepared that Messenger when he cometh will not defer one moment 4. Death cannot properly be said to be a surprize to Believers in Christ it may be sudden the Christan not being in that frame and Exercise desirable may fall short of Consolation but his state being sure his Salvation is secured 5. It is certain we may have a day better and another worse in time but after Death there is no change Eternal Well or Eternal Wo where the Tree falls there it Lyes Eccles 11.3 Vse 1. Wee shall make some practical improvement of this And 1. Be convinced That this Tyrant Death is the indispensible fatality of all Men Altho' some adjourn the thouh●s of it which is their sin and folly and they may be refuted from the consideration of the frequent warnings of Mortality and the shortness of time compared to an Hand-breadth Psal 39.5 To a Vapour Jam. 4.14 to the fading Grass 1 Pet. 1.24 Yet many put that Day far away Amos 6.3 teasing up their thoughts anent the increase of their Riches the standing of their Family the advancement of their Honour the filling of their Cup of pleasure and before they are aware Death puts in the sickle and their Breath goes out they return to their dust in that day their Thoughts perish ●sal 14.6 4 5. their fair white thoughts as the word is all their designs endeavours either for themselves or others O if people would take leasure but to Commune with their own Hearts till they had some impression and present Heart-affecting thoughts of Death then reflecting on their way in the World for the World they would conclude that all their Labour amounted to no more than what is imported in that Verdict Eccles 1.2 Vanity of Vanitys all is Vanty and Voxation of Spuit Then should Self-designing-men Self-deceivers whose desires designs and endeavours did rise no higher then Self find that they had played the fool and cheat to their own Souls when their hearts shall overcast with the confusion of these thoughts and challenges that they sh●ned in due time to intertain Altho' death be in the Creed yet it is not in many peoples belief such as 1. The stupid and secure who are not moved with Terrours and threatnings like to those of Noah his days who did eat and drink till the flood came Math. 24.38.39 2ly The worldly minded whose time and cares are Swallowed up with vanities of this life as if they were never to separat like