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<HEAD>A Di&s;cour&s;e in Prai&s;e of St. <HI>Andrew,</HI> the Saint and Patron of <HI>Scotland.</HI></HEAD>
<P>IT has been the cu&s;tom of all Nations from the very fir&s;t Ages of the World to keep Records of the Famous Actions of their Native Country Heroes, to in&s;ert their Names in their mo&s;t Authentick Hi&s;tories, which relate their Noble Exploits and rare Atchievements, and to erect Monuments on their Graves, to be Monitors and Memorandums to Po&s;terity, to trace the Foot&s;teps of their Valiant and Magnani|mous Ance&s;tors: And this has not been done only by the civilized and mo&s;t refined Na|tions, but even among the mo&s;t Savage, Rude, and Barbarous People we find Remainders of Honour and Gratitude paid to their Victorious Progenitors; otherwi&s;e we &s;hall never be able to give an account and render a rea&s;on of the&s;e rude Monuments yet remaining almo&s;t in every Nation we travel in: The&s;e prodigious heaps of Stones piled up like Py|ramids, are nothing el&s;e but the rude Monuments of Kings and famous Generals of tho&s;e Days, who died nobly in the Bed of Honour in defence of their Native Country.</P>
<P>Now if we find &s;uch effects of Gratitude and Thankfulne&s;s naturally implanted in the minds of tho&s;e Heathen, who had no more Light to conduct them in the Maze and Wil|derne&s;s of this World, but &s;ome faint glimmerings of Light convey'd to 'em through the Crannies of Nature, without the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of Divine Revelations, and Prophets endued with Divine Bla&s;ts from above; let not us Chri&s;tians, who have all the&s;e helps afforded to us which they wanted, prove ungrate to our Benefactors; and &s;eeing all Chri&s;tian Na|tions have their Saints and Patrons who were In&s;truments of planting the Go&s;pel among them, and that Po&s;terity may not forget &s;o great Benefactors towards them, have ap|pointed Fe&s;tivals to be kept in Honour of &s;uch Holy Devoto's for ever: Let us not be be|hind others in paying that Tribute of Thanks to the Memory of St. <HI>Andrew</HI> our Patron, one of the fir&s;t that was called by his Lord and Ma&s;ter to be a Promulgator of the Go&s;pel of Peace, being the &s;econd Per&s;on of the Sacred College of the Apo&s;tles, and had the hard|e&s;t and mo&s;t difficult Province a&s;&s;ign'd to him of all the re&s;t of his Brethren, if we con&s;i|der the va&s;t Nations he travelled over, the Rudene&s;s and Barbarity of the People, the Op|po&s;ition of their Prie&s;ts, the Menaces, Threatnings, and Frowns of the Princes and Great Ones of the Earth, threatning the Holy Apo&s;tle every moment with the mo&s;t bitter and cruel Death imaginable. For,</P>
<P>Who but &s;uch another as the Holy Apo&s;tle would have had the Courage and Magnani|mity to enter <HI>Scythia,</HI> to face tho&s;e barbed Darts and poy&s;oned Arrows which had &s;till been a terror to the effeminate <HI>Per&s;ians,</HI> gall'd the <HI>Grecians,</HI> and long vexed the very <HI>Ro|mans,</HI> before they were &s;ubdued, and obliged to pay Homage to the conquering City? Who would have forced his way thro' the va&s;t <HI>Hyr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">inian</HI> Forre&s;t, a Wood of more than a thou&s;and Miles long, inhabited only by the voracious Generation of Wolves, Bears and Tygers, but St. <HI>Andrew?</HI> Who would have had the confidence to encounter the cruel <HI>Sog|dians,</HI> the treacherous <HI>S<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">cians,</HI> and pilfering <HI>Arabians,</HI> who have ravaged in a continued Chain of Plunder and Rapine &s;ince the time of their Father and Founder <HI>I&s;hmael,</HI> but &s;uch a Saint as St. <HI>Andrew?</HI> But once more, who but one endued with Heavenly Fortitude would have taken his Life in his Hand, and enter the <HI>Taurik Cher&s;one&s;e</HI> (now <HI>Crim Tarta|ry</HI>) inhabited by a People more cruel and barbarous than any of the former, who&s;e con|&s;tant cu&s;tom was to drink the Blood and &s;uck out the Brains of their Enemies, and adorn their Temples with Skulls of the Vanqui&s;hed.</P>
<P>What could our Apo&s;tle think of tho&s;e &s;igns of Barbarity? what &s;trange thoughts, mor|mo's and uncouth amu&s;ements would tumble in his Brain at &s;uch a hideous pro&s;pect, be|yond the &s;avagene&s;s of the fierce&s;t Animals? He could in all probality imagin nothing el&s;e but that him&s;elf &s;hould be the next Sacrifice of their Cruelty, and his Skull fixed on a Spike in Honour of their Godde&s;s <HI>Diana Taurica.</HI> What mu&s;t he do in the&s;e extraordinary
<PB N="2" REF="2">and amazing circum&s;tances? mu&s;t he skulk off, and make the be&s;t of his way, and get him out among the&s;e Savages? but that was it he was not acquainted with; he mu&s;t not fal&s;ifie his Tru&s;t, and &s;tifle his Commi&s;&s;ion he had received from his Lord and Ma&s;ter, which was to preach the Go&s;pel, and di&s;&s;eminate the glad tidings of Salvation to the <HI>Bar|barian</HI> and <HI>Scythian,</HI> wi&s;e and unwi&s;e, bond and free. That &s;aying of his Ma&s;ter when he was fir&s;t called to be an Apo&s;tle, <HI>Follow me and I will make you Fi&s;hers of Men,</HI> was rivetted in his &s;oul, and never &s;lip'd out of his mind; but fulfilled that &s;aying in bringing in many thou&s;ands to the Chri&s;tian Faith; for he was certainly a Fi&s;her of Men who catched in his Net va&s;t hords of roving <HI>Tartars,</HI> great multitudes of <HI>Sacians,</HI> and mighty Caravans of pil|fering <HI>Arabians,</HI> &s;couring off the barbarity, and mitigating the ferity of the&s;e wild People, making their Dagons of Idolatry fall on their faces to the ground to pay Homage to the Son of the Eternal born in <HI>Jury.</HI> The four great Monarchies of the World had made &s;ome, but fruitle&s;s Attempts and faint E&s;&s;ays to civilize tho&s;e Barbarians, &s;eeing their Banners were only &s;et up on the Confines of the&s;e Nations; but the compleat conque&s;t of 'em was left to our Holy Patron, who &s;ubdued the pa&s;&s;ions, conquer'd the hearts, and captivated the minds of the fierce&s;t Creatures of all the &s;ons of <HI>Adam.</HI></P>
<P>Who but the &s;oul of the Holy Apo&s;tle would have &s;unk under &s;uch innumerable Calami|ties that &s;o fa&s;t trod upon the heels of one another? his Lord and Ma&s;ter crucified, his na|tive Country &s;hortly to be over-run by the <HI>Romans,</HI> and their Eagle to pearch on the lof|tie&s;t Turrets of the Holy City, his Friends di&s;couraged, and black Idolatry now become impudent in the World: All which was enough to di&s;courage and exanimate the &s;toute&s;t Hero and mo&s;t &s;tupified stoick imaginable. But all the&s;e were no Bugbears to him who was proof again&s;t all the di&s;a&s;ters this World could pre&s;ent unto him, &s;eeing he was a&s;&s;u|red that his Redeemer lived, and would plentifully reward him at the latter day.</P>
<P>So wandered our Holy Apo&s;tle up and down his Province, who&s;e con&s;tant Companions were Hunger and Thir&s;t, Cold and Nakedne&s;s, with all the other &s;orrows and mi&s;eries that accompany this mortal Life, he went about always doing good till the time of his di&s;|&s;olution drew near, and the time that he &s;hould be offered up approached.</P>
<P>And when he fini&s;hed his cour&s;e, and di&s;patched his Commi&s;&s;ion, he returned from his Northern Pro&s;elites towards the warmer Climate of <HI>Arabia,</HI> where he ended his mi&s;era|ble and tedious Life; For <HI>&AElig;geas</HI> the Procon&s;ul of that Province laid hold on him, and Crucified him; O how glad was he of the&s;e Tydings, how acceptable was this News to him that he &s;hould mount the upper Regions on the Ladder of the Cro&s;s, certainly Old <HI>Jacob's</HI> heart was not more extended with Gladne&s;s when he &s;aw his Son <HI>Jo&s;eph,</HI> than the Apo&s;tle's was with joy to &s;ee the Sign of that which had been the chief de&s;ign of his Tra|vels, and the principal Theam of his Orations. O, how did his Soul leap within him for joy that he was honoured to die after this manner! Now he was &s;ure with the end of his days to obtain the end of his Faith, even the Salvation of his Soul.</P>
<P>Now let out thoughts go along with him, to the place of Execution, and &s;uppo&s;e our &s;elves po&s;ted in the Ring of his Di&s;ciples and Pro&s;elites, &s;tanding round the Cro&s;s, and hearing our ble&s;&s;ed Patron Preach his farewel Sermon to them in the&s;e words. O ble&s;&s;ed and happy Plants of the Chri&s;tian Faith. O plea&s;ant Blo&s;&s;oms of the Infant Church. O my exceeding great Joy and Crown, my Darling and loving Babes, whom I have Begot, in Chri&s;t Je&s;us through the Go&s;pel.</P>
<P>You know my beloved Children, that after many hazardous Journies and great Toils, I have at la&s;t Arrived in this City, and gained many Souls to Chri&s;t in it: But the Go|vernour <HI>&AElig;geas,</HI> who &s;hould have been a good Example to others, has rejected the Go&s;pel, and &s;topped its Progre&s;s very much: But I ble&s;s God, thro' our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, That notwith&s;tanding his Malice and Cruelty, I &s;ee &s;o many Witne&s;&s;es of my Death, &s;o many Amba&s;&s;adours behind me, to water tho&s;e Barren Places I have Planted.</P>
<P>Therefore, my Dear Children, be &s;tedfa&s;t in the Doctrine which you have heard from me, which indeed is not mine, but his who is the Author and Father of all things, it's his who&s;e mercy knows no limits, who had Compa&s;&s;ion on the deplorable Condition of the
<PB N="3" REF="2">Sons of <HI>Adam,</HI> whom the <HI>Old Sepent</HI> has endeavoured to Circumvent from the Beginning: But our heavenly Father to put check to this <HI>Old Deceiver,</HI> has &s;ent beloved Son in|to the World to de&s;troy the works of the <HI>Devil,</HI> and to re&s;cue his Children out of the thick mi&s;t of Darkne&s;s, and bring them into his marvellous light, to re&s;cue them from the precipices of De&s;truction and confines of Hell, into the heavenly <HI>Canaan,</HI> to the place of the Spirits of ju&s;t men made perfect.</P>
<P>Wherefore return, never any more to abominable Idolatry, which has bewitched the minds of Men for &s;o many Ages; but believe and tru&s;t in the everliving God, Father, Son, and Holy Gho&s;t, the eternal and uncreated Trinity, for God is one and three, who is great without quantity, who&s;e will is his power, who governs all things without trou|ble, and there is nothing that can in the lea&s;t di&s;turb the order of his univer&s;al Empire, who is always communicating and doing good to his Creatures without wearine&s;s; &s;o that we need no inferior Mediators to carry our Petitions into the Court of Heaven, after the manner of the Heathen, but let all your reque&s;ts be put up to your omni&s;cient Creator, who will hear your Prayers and grant your Petitions by the infinite Merits of his Son.</P>
<P>Don't Grieve and Lament, becau&s;e I am fixed to this Cro&s;s; for this Tree is to me <HI>the Tree of Life,</HI> a Plank of Safety in the Shipwrack of Sinners;<NOTE PLACE="marg">In hoc &s;igno Vinces.</NOTE> 'tis a Trophy which our Saviour has erected over his Vanqui&s;hed Enemies, in this you &s;hall overcome, Triumph, and to Valiantly, in after Ages Kings and Emperors &s;hall glory to have the Sign of it for their Banners; and &s;hall rejoyce to Fight under the Standard of the Holy Je&s;us.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, Dear Children, let not the Allurements of this World entice you, nor Honours, Plea&s;ures, and Preferment en&s;nare you, nor the mo&s;t horrid In&s;truments of Torture af|fright you, to run out of the right Road of a Holy Life: But when the mo&s;t di&s;mal Cala|mities &s;hall a&s;&s;ault you, have recour&s;e to our Ble&s;&s;ed Redeemer, look back to his Cro&s;s and Bitter Pa&s;&s;ion which he patiently endured, and all to &s;ave us from Eternal Woe and Mi&s;ery.</P>
<P>The&s;e and &s;uch like Exhortations, you may &s;uppo&s;e, the Holy Apo&s;tle uttered to his mourning Di&s;ciples from the Theatre of the Cro&s;s: I h&agrave;ve given you this Ab&s;tract of a very long Sermon, (the longe&s;t that ever was Preached,) a Sermon of Three Days (for &s;o long he lived on the Tree) and &s;pent all the time in Exhorting and In|&s;tructing his Pro&s;elites, to adher to the word of Truth he had delivered to them, a|mid&s;t all the Temptations, Mi&s;eries, Calamities, and Per&s;ecutions they &s;hould be tru&s;t|ed with for the &s;ake of the Go&s;pel, O what rare Emblems are wrapt up in this Circum|&s;tance of the Apo&s;tles Preaching Three Days on the Cro&s;s: He was Three Days fixed to his Cro&s;s, to Sympathi&s;e with his Ma&s;ter, who continued Three Days in the Grave un|der the power of Death: He was Three Days Tormented on the Tree, becau&s;e his Lord was &s;o long Chained with the Fetters of Mortality: He Three Days out-braved and dared all the Cruelty and Malice of his Enemies, becau&s;e his Redeemer &s;o long a time was triumphing over Death, Hell, and the Grave. He preached Three Days from the Theatre of the Cro&s;s, to &s;ignifie to his Di&s;ciples, that the Church &s;hould groan under cruel Per&s;ecution for Three Hundred Years.</P>
<P>O Happy! yea, Thrice Happy People of <HI>Ede&s;&s;a,</HI> who had the Honour to Hear this Mirrour of Love and Patience make his Will, and Harrangue &s;o long from the Excrucia|ting and Tormenting Pulpit. The <HI>Ede&s;&s;eaens</HI> were not the only Spectators of this Specta|cle; but the Holy Angels were Hovering over him in the Air, and greatly rejoycing to &s;ee him do &s;o valiantly; altho' his Di&s;ciples were Weeping and Mourning, the Heaven|ly Coire was Singing an Anthem, which continued till his Soul was lodged in a &s;tate of Joy and Bli&s;s; now he had Fought a Fight and Fini&s;hed his cour&s;e, and di&s;patched the Commi&s;&s;ion he was intru&s;ted with, and wafted above the Stars in a croud of Ble&s;&s;ed Spi|rits, to receive that Crown which his Ma&s;ter had prepared for him, and not for him on|ly, but for all tho&s;e that love his appearing.</P>
<P>Now my dear Country-men I have given you this &s;hort Account of our Holy Patron, to the end we may imitate him in all Piety and Virtue, to follow his Steps in a continu|ed
<PB N="4" REF="3" MS="y">chain of Patience and Long-&s;uffering, with an unwearied diligence in being good our &s;elves, and performing all good Offices to others, in extending our Charity not only to uphold the outward Shell of the frail Bodies of Men, but to have a true and brotherly Compa&s;&s;ion for their Souls by our good Example, Holy Life, Sea&s;onable Admonitions, and frequent In&s;tructions; weaning them from all worldly Lu&s;ts; and &s;o we &s;hall have the honour of being In&s;truments of &s;aving Souls, and re&s;cuing them from the coa&s;ts of eternal Ruin.</P>
<P>And the only way to put us in mind of the&s;e things, is to pre&s;erve the Memory of Holy Men; and the way to pre&s;erve their Memories, is to commemorate them; on the&s;e Solemn Times the Church in all Ages has thought fit to &s;et apart for the Com|memoration of the Piety and Suffering of good Men, to &s;tir up others to imitate them in their good Works and holy Lives.</P>
<P>There is certainly a Civility in Humane Nature, which will not &s;uffer men to wrong the Dead, e&s;pecially tho&s;e who have been Good and Virtuous; for as bad as the Phari&s;ees were, and they certainly were as bad as we can imagine, yet they built Monuments and &s;et up Tombs on the Graves of the Prophets, whom their Fathers had Slain and Butcher|ed, and prote&s;ted, if they had lived in tho&s;e Days, they would not have been guilty of &s;uch horrid Cruelty, and ba&s;e Ingratitude, and Inhumanity to the Men of God; it is true, the be&s;t of Men in this World have the luck to be ill Treated and ba&s;ely Handled while among us in this World of Pride, Malice, and Emulation; but when removed from us, then we lament the want of 'em, and are anxious for want of their Society and Fellow&s;hip, which was little regarded when pre&s;ent, but very much valued, when we can't recover it. So that Virtue is &s;till mo&s;t e&s;teemed, and Piety mo&s;t regarded at a di&s;tance, but when pre&s;ent, it's de&s;pi&s;ed and rejected, becau&s;e the per&s;ons where it lodges are fallible like our &s;elves. But what ever thoughts the World may have of Good Men and their Actions, the P&s;almi&s;t has told us that the Righteous &s;hall be in everla&s;ting remembrance, and how can they be in remembrance, except we &s;et apart &s;ome time to commemorate their Virtuous Actions, our Saviour's pre&s;ence at the Fea&s;t of the Dedication, altho' not appointed by God, but the Jews them&s;elves is warrant enough for us to keep Fe&s;tivals in memory of Good and Holy Men, in order to imitate them.</P>
<P>Is it not very &s;trange to &s;ee &s;ome people &s;o Inhumane and Ungrate to the memory of the Saints, that they will &s;carce be &s;o kind to them as the great <HI>Ce&s;ar</HI> was to his Hor&s;e, who cau&s;ed him to be Buried and Interred out of a pure humour of Gratitude, to &s;ave his Carca&s;s from Dogs and Ravens, becau&s;e the Bea&s;t had done him good Service, and &s;a|ved his Life many times in the Wars.</P>
<P>Now &s;eeing every Nation have their Patron, to whom they pay a grateful re&s;pect to the memory of their A&s;hes, let us not be behind with them in Commemorating the holy Apo&s;tle St. <HI>Andrew,</HI> let not <HI>France</HI> boa&s;t of their St. <HI>Dennis,</HI> the <HI>Ru&s;&s;ians</HI> of St. <HI>Nicholas,</HI> the <HI>Norwegians</HI> of <HI>Ula,</HI> or St. <HI>William,</HI> while we can glory of St. <HI>Andrew,</HI> a part of who&s;e remains, <HI>viz.</HI> his Arm is Interred in our Kingdom, brought thither (as the Story goes) by one of his Di&s;ciples St. <HI>Regulus</HI> of <HI>Rule,</HI> and Buried at St. <HI>Andrews,</HI> which City retains the Name of the Saint to this very day; &s;o that though our Kingdom lieth in a Cold Cli|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters"> towards the North-pole, yet it is no &s;mall Honour and great cau&s;e of Glorying, that &s;ome of th&egrave; remains of &s;o great an Apo&s;tle, and one of the mo&s;t renowned Saints, is Buried in the Heart of our Antient Kingdom, &s;o as with our Crown for its Antiquity, &s;o with our Religion and Patron, we can contend and compare with our Neighbour Nations, if we have not the better of the mo&s;t of 'em. Therefore all I &s;hall &s;ay more on this subject, is this, that we ought in all gratitude to Commemorate this Saint on this day, which the Church in all Ages a&s;&s;igned for his Fe&s;tival, not that any re&s;pect we pay to his Memory, can add the lea&s;t thing to his Glory, who is now in full Joy and perfect Bli&s;s, but only to &s;hew our &s;elves grateful and to make us better, by following his Example and excellent Pattern.</P>
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