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A41745 Three sermons preached at the cathedral in Norwich, and a fourth at a parochial church in Norfolk humbly recommending I. True reformation of our selves, II. Pious reverence toward God and the King, III. Just abhorrence of usurping republicans, and, IV. Due affection to the monarchy / by John Graile ... Graile, John. 1685 (1685) Wing G1479; ESTC R38763 64,056 194

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Course and never stop till Gray Hairs overtake them if they forsake not their Sins while they have Strength to commit them but follow their Lusts until a decrepit Age puts out their Fire the Repentance of such old Sinners may be very doubtful whether it be sincere and acceptable to God as well as that of the Death-bed Penitent He that hath had a Male in his flock and yet hath kept for God onely a corrupt thing will hardly escape the Curse of the Deceiver There is but little Hope that God should be pleased with that man who never draws nigh to him until the years draw nigh in which himself hath no pleasure who comes with the very Ruines of Nature with a shatter'd Understanding a crazy Body feeble Limbs and decayed Senses presenting himself a rotten and unsavoury Sacrifice like that old decrepit Mimick at Rome who being grown out of date and slighted by the People made his Recourse to the Capitol and there acted his Part as well as he could before the Image of Jupiter and the rest of their Gods as if they would accept what Men had despised But perhaps we do not intend so unworthily to requite the Author and Preserver of our Lives by pouring out unto him only the Dregs and Lees of them Neither will we so improvidently adjourn the Care of our Souls to those evil Days when we can hardly bear the Infirmities of the Body We will repent and serve God and reform our selves very speedily Onely we desire that this Work may be postponed a little while until we have a more convenient Season when we hope to be in a better Temper for it And do we onely hope Alas alas if we cannot infallibly foretel that such a fitter Opportunity and better Disposition will both together happen to us we still run a great Hazard How foolishly do we boast of to morrow when we know not what a day may bring forth Nay perhaps to morrow may never be brought forth For who can tell whether the Sun may live to make another Day or whether the next Night may not close his Eye bury him in Darkness and hang the World in Mourning at his Funeral Or if he shine forth again we may not live to see his Light There is no future Time that we can certainly promise our selves no not that of which we have the nearest Prospect Perhaps this very Time is our last Opportunity and if we let it slip 't is irrecoverable For ought we know our eternal State in Happiness or Misery may depend upon our well or ill employing the few Hours that are left of this very Day And these are passing from us with a swift and insensible Motion one of them is gone while I have been speaking to you and the rest will follow apace And although when this Day is spent we may possibly have many more to come yet all the moments of our Time are winged and will continually fly away like an Eagle or Post or Ship or like an Arrow that leaves no Path. So that unless we be very watchful and take a strict Account of them they will slip from us and be utterly lost And if we carelessly or wilfully lose those pretious Moments which now offer themselves to us it is much to be feared that we shall still do so with the next and the next and the next until all our Time be expired If we be unwilling to reform to day we have no Reason to imagine that we shall be more willing to do it to morrow The longer men walk in their evil ways the more strongly are they inclined to continue in them and the Difficulty of forsaking them grows greater and greater by every Delay their vicious Habits are still more deeply rooted Gods Patience more highly provoked and the obtaining hi● Favour and Mercy more uncertain So that if men refuse to repent now they can have no Assurance that they shal● ever have either the Time o● the Grace to do it hereafter and i● they die impenitent and unreformed they may be most certainly assured that they shall perish everlastingly Let us therefore be Wise before it be too late let us understand this and consider our latter End God Almighty give every one of us this Wisdom to lay hold on the present Opportunity and to perform that without delay which is so much our Safety as well as Duty to repent and turn our selves from all our Transgressions that Iniquity may not be our Ruine to deny all ungodliness and worldly Lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present world looking for that blessed Hope and the glorious Appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be all Honour Praise and Power Now and for ever Amen PIOUS REVERENCE TOWARDS GOD and the KING SERMON II. Preached Feb. 4. 16. 82 83 Prov. XXIV 21 22. My Son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change For their Calamity shall rise suddenly and who knoweth the ruine of them both IF the Counsel which Solomon hath given to Subjects should be suspected to be guilty of any Error or Partiality or any sinister self-seeking design because himself was 〈◊〉 King as if therefore he regarded ●nely the Princes Interest and not the Peoples whoever considers the admirable Perfections of his Heroick Mind the vastness of his Understanding and the Largeness of his Heart may easily clear him from all Suspicion of that Nature that can possibly arise from the Quality of his Place and Office For since he was not only the King of Israel and Judah but the Prince of all the Philosophers in the World the Wisest of all Mankind his Dictates are worthy to be received as Oracles and where he speaks in his own Cause the Greatness of his Wisdom puts his Truth and Justice beyond Question At least his Integrity cannot be disputed nor his Authority denyed where he speaks by Divine Inspiration as he doth in this Collection of his Proverbs Amongst which that that I have pitched upon is not the least remarkable Melanctho● and others of the first Reformers who were for promoting at once both Piety and Peace have recommended it as one of the Principal Sentences of this Book and not undeservedly For it hath in it the best Advice that can in so few words be given to prevent our Ruine and to make us happy both in this Life and in that which is to come It contains these following Parts First A serious Exhortation to Religion My Son fear thou the Lord. Secondly A parallel Exhortation to Loyalty to fear also the King Thirdly A useful Caution against ●oyning or associating with Seditious innovators who are some of the chief Enemies both to Religion and Loyalty Meddle not with them that are given ●o change or according to the old Translation Meddle not with them that are seditious Fourthly