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A30337 A discourse on the memory of that rare and truely virtuous person Sir Robert Fletcher of Saltoun who died the 13 of January last, in the thirty ninth year of his age / written by a gentleman of his acquaintance. Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715. 1665 (1665) Wing B5778; ESTC R37517 24,758 193

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Tepidity of Mind in the Service and Converse with God And in stead of all This it Enters Heaven Where it is received and welcomed by Innumerable Companies of Angels and Spirits of Iust men made perfect and is by them led into the Presence of that King of Saints Who is Glorious in Holinesse whose Majestick Greatness being then clearly discovered by the Purified Soul will occasion the greatest Transports of Ioy the Rational Nature is capable of For We shall then see with the Evidence of Sense the Brightnesse of the Fathers Glory the only begotten Son of God whom while on Earth we behold in the Obscurity of Faith Believe me This Glory were too dazling a sight to us while we are in the Body Moses when he saw but the Outside of the Divine Glory yet such a Brightnesse from that Passing View was imprinted in his Looks that he must needs vail himself What Eye could then behold an Vnvailed God And if a Passing Sight of that Exalted Prince did so swallow up the Spirit of the Apostle of the Gentiles What could resist the Ecstasies and Ruptures a Fixed Looking on the Sun of Righteousnesse would occasion If the One made S. Paul forget his Body T'other would have made him abandon it But in Glory those Ravishing Objects shall not consternate the Beholders into a languishing faintnesse but being Transformed it will Rouse them into a Vigorous Activity and Sprightfulnesse of Blessing Adoring Loving and Rejoycing in their Maker that Fountain of Life And this by no Short or Passing Returns but by a Constant Efflux of Soul So the Creature is wholly swallowed up of and overwhelmed by the Vision of its Creator Now into the Number of that Coelestial Quire is received the Soul of Him who while on Earth having seen the Glory of that Land which is a far of and tasting some of the Grapes of Canaan did Run his race with joy and Pressed forward toward the mark even the Prize of the high Calling of God in Iesus Christ. And having now finish'd his Course he hath entered into His Masters joy and and hath received that Crown of Righteousnesse which is Incorruptible and fadeth not away Now being uncloathed of all Dulnesse and Frailty doth his Soul as an unsullied Mirrour yeeld a bright Reflexion of that Uncreated Light with whose beams he is irradiated And in that Purest Light of Divine Illumination doth he see light seeing Him that is Invisible If an Vnknown Saviour did by a Secret Influence warm the hearts of the two Disciples while He talked with them Sure then the Hearts of this Disciple is now inflamed with Love and Zeal while He closely embraceth and Immediately converseth with an Vnmasked Redeemer O how much doth He rejoyce and blesse himself in the Possession of that Glory the meanest degree whereof he preferreth to the Empire of the World What Hallelujahs is he now singing With what delight doth He keep his Part in those Heavenly Anthems With what Pleasure feels he himself beyond the Assaults of Corruption How doth it Rejoyce him that He needs no further Incentive of the Love of God and that no Cloud doth disturb or darken the Excellent and Magnificent Glory no Drowsinesse of Mind doth steal him into sleep For there is no Night above But day and night do they see the Face of God Know ye not then there is a Great Man raised up this day in the New Ierusalem It followeth to be Considered Where hath this Great man fallen Even in Scotland our Israel A Nation of which it may well be doubted Whither its Mercies or Ingratitude be greatest And though at some time it might have compared with any round about being barren in nothing but the Soil But now indeed the case is altered To instance it in one thing It not the Power of Godliness whose Effects should be a Reformation of our Spirits into a Likeness and Conformity with our Glorious Master and Redeemer turned into Formes and Words With what violence and eagernesse may we daily see Inconsiderable and Controverted Opinions pressed and advanced What severe Censurings bitter Reproaches and scurrilous Invectives are we daily forced to hear And we are become so keen on such stuff that the Great and Indispensable Precepts of the Law of Jesus Holinesse Charity and Obedience are counted but mean and sorry Doctrines What Triumphs are made upon the Failings and Errours of those that differ in Opinion though such had no truth in them and are but the Forgeries of Gall and Despite And how well pleased are we when we get the Inglorious Advantage of Crushing and Ruining These whom Blind Zeal tinctured with Malice and Revenge makes us account our Enemies Thus for all our Canting if one should give a judgment of us by our Lives and Conversations He should not miss of calling us Christned Heathens We are called Christians and professe our selves to be such and do wisely in so doing for there is Nothing that would make any suspect us guilty of Religion save our Outside Are we not Covetous Proud Passionate and Self-conceited Thus have we flatly contradicted the Great Design of the Gospel Which Doctrine was proclaimed to the World by the Wisedome of God not to disturb our heads with Harsh and unprofitable Questions But to Prick our hearts with a sorrow and hatred of Sin Not to make us Talk big But to Live Sublimely and to become like unto his Glorious Self Yea How degenerate by such work are we become and what Loathing this hath begot of the great Truths of Religion in the Hearts of our Supernumerary Gentry I should rather mask with a silent Sorrow than with a Brisk Forwardnesse discover the Nakedness of my Parent my Countrey But their detestable and impious Lives their Irreligious and Blasphemous scoffing at Piety and Holinesse and their daily falling off to the Superstitions and Idolatry of the Church of Rome do give too evident a testimony what kind of Cattel they are Neither hath this contagion only corrupted the Morals of this People but their very Spirits are become mean and sordid And how receptive their Vitiated Minds are of the worst impressions may appear from the Great footing that French Contagion of Atheism more to be abominated even then the sicknesse which goeth under that name hath among us The furious wits of some rampant Hectors who having immersed themselves into all brutalism and apostatized from that God-like nature conceive the deepest hatred against the adored Deity and with a monstruous arrogance proclaim an open feud against God and Religion And if they can with Blustring and Sophistry elude those arguments where with some lesse experienced with their cursed Arts do assail them and with a wide-mouthed impudence run down the Modester Thence do they conceit themselves the only sons of Wisdom of whom I dare boldly pronounce that in themselves we have the greatest Instance of their so eagerly contended for principle that a man hath no real Preheminence over or