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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

rei aenigma one thing mentioned and another meant to wit that God loves that we should consecrate and dedicate our young and tender years to his service and not put it off as too many do to the very Autumn and fall of their lives Optima quaeque dies c. our best days first run and our worst at the last and shall we offer that indignity to the divine Majesty as to give him the Devils leavings Florem aetatis Diabolo consecrare faecem Deo reservare to consecrate the flower of our age to the Devil the World and the Flesh and to reserve the Lees and bitter Dregs for God and what is this then to offer up Malachi 1.8 13. the blind and the lame for sacrifice which God abhorreth and to break that golden rule laid down by our Saviour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 seek first c. Mat. 6.33 seek his face always not when but when not so with these few to shut up therest that run in the same current Hear ye now my reasonings to speak in Job's language Job 13.6 and hearken ye unto the arguments of my Lips thereby to give it an edge that so it may make the better expression to you the speedier the deeper impression upon you The first reason may be drawn from the infinite mercy of God which is as the Psalmist speaks Psalm 100.5 From everlasting to everlasting from everlasting election unto everlasting glorification a fit theme for Angels to descant on for what man of art or art of man can describe or decipher it for if God remembred man before he or the world was cannot the simplest Intellect extract the inference shall we not remember him in time betimes Secondly If all examples have an influence on the practice of the beholders then especially the deeds of good men registred in Scripture the Calendar of eternity are most attractive of imitation Pray then cast your eye upon Joseph who withstood the impure and impudent solicitations of his wanton Mistriss in the Flower of his Youth Gen. 39.9 the most slippery time of his age an age as most prone to many others so especially to this sin Josiah the King sought the Lord while he was yet young 2 Chron. 34.2 Obadiah seared the Lord from his youth but to bring my best wine at the last and to trace the Apostle in his own Rhetorick if these prevail not Look to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith Heb. 12.2 not only the author to call us to it and set us in it but the finisher also to help us thro it and reward us for it look to him who at the age of twelve years went about his fathers business Thirdly We ought and 't is our duty to spend the prime of our days in the service of God who being our Creator and exceeding great Rewarder is most worthy of it and that is whilst our sences are sharp our memories quick our wits ripe our capacities ready our understandings deep not knowing how soon these may fail us and how suddenly death may find us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. such is the generation of men as of leaves saith the Heathen Poet Homer for as many leaves are nipped off in the bud so many young men are cut off in their youth for are we not poor mortal creatures brothers to the worms and sisters to the dust do we not carry about with us souls full of corruption and skins full of diseases is not our breath in our nostrils where there is room enough for it to go out and possibility never to come in again Each of these by it self all these laid together will make a weighty argument bearing down and forcing our assent to this assertion that the Spring of Youth is that age which God hath most inabled us to do him best service Now to make some improvement of this doctrine First The word of God hath two edges Heb. 4.12 and if it go one way thus pro primis unquiculis for the timely beginnings of grace and goodness it cuts as deep on the contrary even beyond admiration of many imperious and impetuous youth who have built the frame of their lives upon the foundation of long practised wantonness guiding their lives by pleasure and their reason by lust and being reproved What say they Are we not young and strong As if God had given them their strength to rise up against him and to run with others into all manner of excess of riot or as tho they had learned that language of the unwise Tutor in the Comick non est mihi crede vitium c. it is nothing for a young man to let loose the reins to all licentiousness to drink wine in bowls and to take their fill of pleasure here as if they were resolved with Dives that they should not get a drop of water in Hell If this be no sin why doth David lament him of the sins of his youth why doth Job threaten them with the sins of their youth that shall lie down with them in the grave Job 36.14 he who for one sin punished a world of men how will he plague one man tho a young man for a world of sin Secondly Since our Creator is to be remembred in the days of our youth here is a use for Parents to bring up their Children in the fear of the Lord to catechize initiate and enter them properly to dedicate them as they did their new houses unto the Lord. St. Paul requireth the performance of the same duty saying 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. bring up your children or as the word in the original insinuates nurse up your children in the fear of the Lord he would have them to suck in religion if not with their Mothers milk yet shortly after assoon as they are capable of it It 's storied of Alexander that he had children born and brought up in military discipline and exercise which made them so victorious and valiant in battle even so let all Parents bring up their children in the fear of the Lord that they may prove constant and couragious Soldiers under their King and Captain Jesus Christ to kill overcome and subdue all the enemies of God and their own souls salvation sin and their corrupt affections Hence it is that David stileth children the Inheritance of the Lord to denote unto us that they should be brought up with such care and sedulity as tho they were not the children of men but of God indeed there is a great necessity of this duty that Parents instruct their children betimes for by nature we are born blind and ignorant of heavenly things therefore Parents should take pains to bring their children to knowledge The Bears as the Naturalist observes when they bring forth their young ones they are an ill favored lump and a mass without shape but by continual licking of them they bring to some shape and form So thy child who is by nature the child

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 ECCLES XII 13. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter fear God and keep his Commandments for this is the whole Duty of Man LONDON Printed for Hen. Hammond Bookseller at Bath and at the Devizes 1694. To the Reverend Dr. Tho. Burnet Master of the Charter-House and Clerk of the Closet to His Majesty Reverend Sir WHere I owe a true Deference and Respect I would willingly declare it for I less dread the censure of Ostentation than Ingratitude I am sensible that the Age wherein we live is quick and critical sharp and censorious in her descant of those that appear in Print However I will rather hazard the imputation of a dull melancholy Man than of an unthankful he that doth but tacitly confess the Kindnesses of a Friend in a manner interrs them when he that publisheth them hath in part requited tho not fully compensated To whom should I commend the Patronage of this Discourse better than to him who is a Favourite and Lover of Truth and of such as favour and love the Truth Besides I have tasted of your Kindness towards me which I ever esteemed as a Debt lying upon me and am therefore desirous so far to discharge it as to leave some small Memoir to others of a kind Resentment My earnest Prayer to God even the Father of all Mercies is and ever shall be to protract your Days and to preserve You unto his heavenly Kingdom which is the sincere Desire and unfeigned Vote of Worthy Sir Your most obliged and humble Servant Fr. Gallimore PART I. Shewing the Blessedness of those that keep his Commandments REVEL XXII 14. Blessed are they that do his Commandments that they may have right to the Tree of Life and may enter in thro the Gates into the City BLessedness is the mark we all aim at if that be once named there needs no other Rhetorick to make us all attentive most properly therefore it is placed the first word seeing the first words are the proper place to perswade attention But who are they that are blessed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they that do his commandments Keep my commandments and live saith wisdom Prov. 7.2 Live indeed live cheerfully with the comforts of this life which makes life to be life and live happily in the life of glory hereafter Now the benefit being so great of keeping Gods Commandments our care must not be little for the keeping of them that so we may have right to the tree of life even that tree which is in the midst of the Paradice of God Rev. 2.7 and may enter in thro the Gates into the City To these last words of the verse I have bounded and limited my discourse wherein I find these three particulars readily offering themselves to be considered First The motion what an entrance Secondly The manner how thro the Gates and Thirdly The place whither into the City Of these in their order and first of the motion enter in They are blessed that enter in perseverance only makes happy we know who hath taught us that only continuers to the end shall be saved It is observable that in the holy Spirits letters sent to those seven Churches in the second and third Chapters of this Book all promises run to perseverers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to him that overcometh nec paranti ad praelium nec pugnanti ad sanguinem sed vincenti ad victoriam not to him that draws the Sword nor to him that spendeth his blood but to him that overcometh to Conquest To him that overcometh pleasure and abstains from sinful delights I will give hidden Manna to him that overcometh covetousness and esteemeth not of worldly trash and earthly treasure I will give a white Stone to him that overcometh ambition and seeketh not for a name upon earth I will give a new name written in heaven For tho all vertues run in the race of a Christian lise yet perseverance alone obtaineth the Garland Suppose a Ship fraught with rich Merchandize to have held a prosperous course all the way and escaped both Rocks and Pirats yet if it be cast away in the Haven the owner is nothing the better for it but loseth both his goods and hope So all our voyage is lost through the perilous Sea of this world if we suffer shipwrack in the Haven and lose our reward there where we should land to receive it Cicero tells us of one Lepidus lying all along upon the grass cried out utinam hoc esset laborare O that this were to labour and get the mastery So many stretching themselves upon their Ivory Beds and living at ease in Sion say within themselves Oh that this were to go in warfare and fight under the Cross but let them not deceive themselves Heaven is not got with a wish nor victory with a breath it will cost us many a sore blow and wound too before we overcome wherefore the Apostles exhortation Eph. 6.11 comes seasonably in here 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 put on the whole Armor of God that ye may be able to stand against the assaults of the world the flesh and the devil strenuously valiantly constantly never putting off your armour till you put off your bodies nor quitting the field till you enter into the celestial Canaan Saint Paul sought out this combat even to victory tho he bore in his body the marks of the Lord Jesus I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Therefore now there is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give me c. There is a last enemy to be destroyed Death we must hold out to the conquest even of this last adversary which if it conquer us by the sting of our sin shall send us to the doors of hell if we conquer it by our faith it shall send us to the Gates of this City Heaven my second particular And now awaits your observation the manner how thro the gates not singularly a gate but gates for Chap. 21.12 the City is said to have twelve gates on the East three gates on the North three on the South three and on the West three to declare that men shall come from the East and from the West from the North and from the South and shall sit down in the Kingdom of God these gates are not literally but mystically to be understood pro modo intrandi for the manner of entrance These gates are those passages whereby we must enter