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A11608	Death's summons, and the saints duty Laid forth first summarily in a sermon on 2. King. 20.1. in the cathedrall of St Peter in Exeter, Ianu. 24. 1638. at the solemne funerall of a well-deserving citizen. Since somewhat enlarged for the common good, by William Sclater, Master of Arts, late fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge, now a preacher of Gods Word in the city of Exeter.	Sclater, William, 1609-1661.	1640 (1640)	STC 21849; ESTC S116829	73,769	170

his Father arose and as a gangrene festered so far that as Saint Hierome saith the whol world even o See B p Morton c. 15. p. 368. sect 5. grand imposture groaned to see it self become an Arian so that the malady being now grown Epidemicall and universall was like to be incurable without a generall remedy His vigilancy therefore was for the speedy redresse thereof to summon a generall Councell wherein according to the rules of Gods word which was still in those dayes long before the monster of papall pride was a hatching the d See Franc. Mason de Minister A●●●● l. 3. c 3. versus sine p. 273 274. c my Lo. Grace ag● A.C. sec 26. nu 1. p. 194 195. s 26 nu 3. p. 196 197. s 93. p. 240 241 c. p. 247 s 38. p. 330 331 332 336 338 344 359. s 39. p. 378 p. 386. nu 0. See my Lo. Usher ser on eph 4. 13. p. 12 13. and D Rainolds p. 322. c. 8. divis 5. and B p Lesly in ser of the authority of the Church multitudes else Mr Jo. Down ag● Baxter p. 213 214 256 257. supream judge and umpire in all controversies of faith by prayer moderation and the like proceeding God gave a blessing choaked the heresie and the Atheist himselfe that vented it voyded out his bowels by the appointment of Gods immediate justice into a sinke whither his proud and blasphemous heresy was also fit to be detruded for ever And that which was remarkeable in that first generall Councell at Nice was this above other That when the Bishops in a great number were assembled and the Emperour in presence he first caused all such private jars or occasions of strife as were risen among the Bishops themselves to be drawn up into a compendium of Articles before they should meddle with the publique cause of the Lord in hand e Ruffin eccles Hist l. 1. c 13. which being accordingly performed and delivered to the Emperor he received them all and sealed them up with his own royall signet and reserving them awhiles in his bosome he then not at all disclosing the secrets of those severall papers made this speech to the Councell and the Bishops Deus vos constituit sacerdotes c. God himselfe hath made you Priests and hath given you power to judge even of us and we are rightly judged by you wherefore expect the judgement of God alone between you that your mutuall complaynings and jarrings whatsoever they be may be reserved to that divine examen and discussion Vos enim nobis à Deo dati estis f Ruffin Hist ecclesiast l. 1. c. 2. Dii for you are given by God unto us as God 's and therefore he alone shall judge you of whom it is written He standeth in the congregation of the mighty he Psal 82.1 judgeth among the Gods wherefore laying aside these matters of private difference without any more dissension of mindes set about the serious discussion of those things that appertaine to the cause of the Lord which said he commanded all those libels of mutuall particular complaynings to be burnt in one flame together Ne innotesceret ulli odium sugillatio sacerdotum as h Carranza in Nicae● Concil apparatu p. 45. in 16. Caranza doth relate it to me that the private discontents of one Priest towards another might not be made publique i Ps 112.6 constat Constantinum sanctum Imperatorem fuisse in calendario Graecorum ejus nomen inter sanctorū nomina habetur vide Bellarm lib 3. c. 6. de cultu sanctor ex Ambrose orat de obitu Theodosii Epiphan haeres 70. Cyrill Catech 14. Blessed Prince for this thou shalt be had in an everlasting remembrance and thy memoriall shall endure throughout all generations and I doubt much whether in those crazy yea broken times if thou hadst not thus primarily respected the welfare of the Church thou hadst ever had so happy a successe I might go on to some other times after even till the weeds of Romish superstition began to roote and grow and flowre in Christendome I let passe the mention of those blinde dayes when Pope Hildebrand otherwise k Otho Frisingensis l. 9. c. 35. in anno 1073. Gregory the seventh first usurped in a day of l See my Lords Grace against A C. p. 180. s 25. nu 12. advantage over the Emperor I come down to the time of Charles the fifth and I might at large discourse of the zelous courage of Frederick m History of the Trent Councell l. 1. p. 7 c. confer Sl●idan Commentary lib. 1. fol. 7. Duke of Saxonie who supported Luther and his cause against that tenth Lyon of Rome so that neither by force of his roaring comminations nor by the fawning as sometimes the Lyons did upon n Dan. 6.22 Daniel of his sly promises and other cunning insinuations was he able to subvert his courage in or divert his purpose from the cause of God Come we to our own times what a blessed course did the devout Prince Edward enter on How was this seconded by that famous o Isa 49.23 nursing mother of the Church p Queen Elizabeth for the virtues proper to her sex deserved to be the Queen of women and for her masculine graces of learning valor wisdome c. the Queen of men B. Hall holy panegyr p. ●67 edi 1617 Queene Elizabeth how victorious was she and for her constant love to Religion what wonders did shee our Chronicles have long since astonished all the neighbour and forraine Princes How againe was the honor of the same our mother Church furthered and advanced by the mirror not more of Kings then learning King James of blessed memory what care vigilancy did he undergo to settle first the publique Liturgy and Ceremonies of of most laudable decency and uniformity in this Church How was he as Christ was at Hierusalem still found disputing among the q Luke 2.46 Doctor and Bishops asking them questions yea how gloriously did he himselfe r See my Lord Bishop Halls Sermon styled An holy Panegyricke pag. 569. edit Anno 1617. moderate in all professions even in the publicke University But I shall but darken so rich a Topaze by my rude polishing And to conclude this large and copious point should I here take as I might occasion to blazon the excellent graces of our owne present Prince seene in his matchlesse piety and zeale for the Church of England one of the ſ Religion as it is professed in the Church of England is nearest of any Church now in being to the Primitive Church My Lords Grace against A. C. pag. 376. Sect. 39. num 3. in sine purest Churches in all Christendome since the dayes of the Apostles mine Oratory would faint under a thirst of such fit Metaphors as might serve to amplifie and expresse them in short

which directeth us Ministers to beware how we presume to vent any thing unto our people without our first sure warrant for it from the Lord. If our Saviour gave such great caution to the hearers that they should y Luke 8.18 the Greeke word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which denotes a very earnest seeing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Beza take heed how they heare so must we likewise be as cautionate how we z 1 Pet. 4.11 speake otherwise then as the very oracles of God so our Saviour saith Joh. 12.49 that I have not spoken of my a Joh. 12.49 self and St Paul calleth what he delivered to the Church for Doctrine not his owne but b Act. 20.27 Gods counsell Act. 20.27 the contrary vociferations made by ignorant and wilde c Enthusiasmi id solum habent commodi ut homines in immensum aliquod pelagus abripiant tandemque in Atheismi gurgitem praecipites demergant Duraeus Whitakero l. 1. sect 30. p. 107. apud Whitak contra Duraeum Enthusiasts spuing out their own froth male contented brainsick fancies w th out Gods warrant allowance good lord what noisome weeds of errour Schisme Faction and all mad irregularity do they most dangerously occasion through the d Rev. 12.9 old cunning of the e Matt. 13.25 envious man that delights in tares and hemlock to grow up and spread in the precious field and seed-plot of wholsome and most proper grain oh for the f Matt. 3.12 fanne of Christ thorowly to purge the floore of his Church from the chaffe of all such g Spiritus Anabaptisticus ametia quaedam fuit furor praeceps atque effraenatus quo acti scripturas omnes abjiciunt toti exrepentinis Enthusiasmis pendent Whitak contra Duraeum l. sect 32. Anabaptisticall h Vitanda sunt deliria sectae Anabapsticae quae sine dubio à Diabolo est excitata monstrum est execrabile ex variis haeresibus blasphemiis conflatum Vrsin Catech qu● 74. unscriptured mouthings before the people who are seduced unto error beguiled by this meanes mainly in their i 2 Pet. 2.14 unstable Soules for that their fanaticall conceits have been at last defended as a worthy instrument of much good in this Citty saith well with no pretence but the k Mr. Paynter of Exeter quâ supra p. 27. See Goodwyn p. 118 119 cap. 10. quà supra Motion of the holy Ghost and yet God knows their motions oftimes differ as wide from the sweet unerring inspirations and motions of Gods good spirit as Heaven doth from Hell Pray we therefore for the spirit of wisedome and Revelation in the knowledge of God as St Paul speaketh Eph. 1.17 18. and the spirit of truth as our Savior stiles him Joh. 16.13 that when we speake as in the name of God we may speake the wisedome of God and that not as a soothing time-creature Preacher with the intising words of mans wisdome but in demonstration of the same spirit and of power 1 Cor. 2.4.7 then may we safely assure our hearts of a sic dicit Dominus Thus saith the Lord as the Prophet in my Text. But to whom doth our Prophet here direct his Thus saith the Lord unto the King himselfe So l 2 King 22.18 19. Michaiah to Ahab Nathan to David m 2. Sam. 12 7. Thou art the Man John-Baptist to Herod n Matt. 14 5. non licet see his plaines for thee to have thy brothers wife But yet wee must remember prudence in this poynt for who knows not that in these speciall Prophets there was somthing extraordinary wee ordinary Ministers may soone this way be too bold with royaltie at least in publique Nathan spake down-right to David but it was in privat But notwithstanding whilest we are sure we bring as o Matt. 17.27 Peter's fish did silver in our Mouthes I meane our sic dicit Dominus Thus saith the Lord why are we such dastards as in the cause of Christ when duely called thereto to feare the furrows of a rich or great mans brow And thus farre of the formall part of my Prophets imployment in the delivery of his message from the Lord unto the sick-sick-King Hezekiah Hee said unto him Thus saith the Lord. I come now to the materiall part of his speech and this is set down 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 positively Thou shalt Die and what new thing is this was not this the doom of all mankind immediately upon sin Cinis es in Cinerem reverteris p Gen. 3.19 and Eccles 12.7 Dust thou art and unto Dust thou shalt return The woman of Tecoah long before set a necesse upon it q 2 Sam. 14.14 we must needs die yea there is a statute like those law of the Medes and Persians r Heb. 9.27 irrevocable enacted for it and never to bee repealed even so it is ſ Dan. 6.8 appointed saith Saint Paul And surely it 's true death is that common bag into which all the chessemen upon the table whether they be King or Queen rich or poore good or bad must be all shuffled together at the end of our game death is as an t See Quarles his poëms archer now it hits our superiours and so shoots over us then our inferiours and so shoots under us anon our freind roving on our right hand then our enemy flying on the left hand at last it hits the white and strikes our selves could u Gen. 5.27.969 yeeres age have excused it Methuselah had escaped it could x Judg. 14 6. strength have declined it then Sampson had missed it could y 1 Sam. 10.23 stature have over-looked it then Saul had avoyded it could z 2 Sam. 14.25 beauty have outfaced it then Absalom had never met it yea more could Art have shifted it by any curiosities or contrivals then the Grammarian with a Criticisme might judge it off and yet he that can decline a noune in every case cannot decline death in any case could the windings of wit and the Meanders of reason divisions and distinctions wave it off then surely the Logician would dispute it away and yet whilest he thinks fiercely to frame his argument in Barbara rudely to puzzle it death retorts upon him with another in Ferio and at last ni celarent and that sine modo figurâ Could the naturall Philosopher by his diving into Nature and by his vanity of notions stave it off then that Patriarch of Philosophers as Mr Hooker styles Aristotle had never been swallowed in that sea neither ebbing nor flowing yet all his ens mobile was at last become as Niobe when metamorphosed like to a stone in it's centre a thing without motion could the Mathematician by his strong imaginations phancy it off or by the harmony of the spheares charm it away that so he might still spin-out a thread of immortality on those rowling wheeles and between his two celestiall

d 1. Cor. 6.19 Temples of the Holy Ghost in which as in and among the true Church of God he will e 1. Cor. 3.16 17. dwell and abide even for ever and ever And thus much also of the mysticall house which is as yee have seene the Church of the living God Now whether or no doth the ordering of this House come within the compasse of our Prophets exhortation to Hezekiah in this Text to set his House in order before his Death Saint Paul saith that the f 2. Cor. 11.28 care of all the Churches lay upon him those particular Churches of the Gentiles I thinke he meanes which were the members of the whole body of the Catholique and Universall Church at large Surely so doth the whole Church within the proper Territories of any pious Prince appertaine to him to order for the best advantage of Gods glory and the g Psal 122.6.7 peace and prosperity of the Church it selfe Thus we find good Kings to stand affected in all ages of the Church a speciall example we have in that famous King h 2. Chro. 19.5 6 7 8 9. Jehoshaphat 2. Chron. 19. who tooke care not onely to appoint Judges able and holy to end and order secular affaires but also in Hierusalem did Jehoshaphat saith the Scripture verse the 8th ibidem set of the Levites and of the Priests and of the chiefe of the Fathers of Israel for the judgment of the Lord and for controversies when they returned to Hierusalem and he charged them saying Thus shall ye doe in the feare of the Lord faithfully and with a perfect heart and certainely when the Sword of a valiant Goliah and the Ephod the Sword of the Magistrate and the Sword of the Spirit are brandished or drawn forth together as David said to Ahimelech of the Sword of Goliah there is i 1 Sam. 21.9 none to that so there is no union no ordering of the house of the Church like this whilest the prophane Sensualist and the hypocriticall Atheist shall be smitten to the ground together Steddily and happily must the Arke of God needs go when it is drawn by peace and holinesse tyed together as those two milch kine keeping the high way and turning not aside to either hand saith a learned and most elegant k Mr. John Bury one of the Prebends of Exeter in his epist dedicat before his Visitation serm styled the Moderate Christian edit 1630. Preacher of our western parts Now the way to obteine or to settle both these is when as Davids Palace and Gods Tabernacle dwelt together upon Mount Sion both the spiritual first directs the temporall and then the Temporall sword doth back the spirituall to defend and ayd or like to Hippocrates twins they breathe and live and alwayes go l Inprom●venda justitia usque quaque gladius gladium adjuvabat nihil inconsulto sacerdote qui velut Saburra in navi fuit agebatur D Hen. Spelman epist dedicat ad Regem Car. praefix Concil Aug. together for which cause we find also that King David could not m Psal 132.4 sleep till he had provided for Gods house and taken speciall order for the establishing and observation of Gods statutes and divine ordinances not only in the Tabernacle at Sion but by the whole Church of God under his dominions furnishing it with Priests and Levites singers and the like yea cherishing and honoring the Prophets of the Lord of hostes and therefore he so earnestly importunes the devotions of all good people to n Psal 122.6 7. pray for the peace of Hierusalem and the prosperity of her palaces as being the known type and representation of the o Jerusalem civitas sancta est sancta ecclesia Catholica spiritualis Jerus●lem as Paulus Fagius in libro Precationum Hebr. prec 8. Church of God for by that antonomafia St Paul expressely calleth it Gal. 4.26 Hierusalem that is the Church of God which is above that is either as triumphant actually enthronized into her glory as the woman in the Revelation cloathed with the sun to wit the p Mal. 4 2. Sun of righteousnesse Christ Jesus him selfe who is her q 1 Cor. 1.30 righteousnesse is above all in r Rev. 12.1 heaven already being there safe and set out of the gunshot of the Devill and all his annoying temptations or else above because though militant as yet below notwithstanding in ſ Col. 3.2 affection she is still above and her t Phil. 3.20 conversation is in heaven alwayes howbeit shee here as Abraham in a strange Country u Heb. 11.9 sojourneth a while in these earthly Tabernacles for this Hierusalem the Church of God was King David so sollicitous and carefull Nor did this care give up the ghost with those x See D. Buckeridge his excellent serm upon Rom 13 5. preached at Hampton court before the Kings Ma● sept 23. 1006. to this purpose godly Princes but as if there had been a Pythagoricall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that zealous disposition hath passed by happy Transmigration to the rest of those good Kings that succeeded and save only when the woman was driven into the y Rev. 12.14 wildernesse sometimes and persecuted with the Dragon so that she hath been faine to seeke for z Heb. 11.38 dens and caves to shelter her in all ages by the providence of good Princes she hath prospered and for that very cause too the pious Kings themselves as a See 2 King 22. Josiah Asa and the rest good Princes the better also we find in the Ecclesiasticall story of the Church since the dayes of the Gospell that the like care of her welfare hath not slumbered for after that sore long lasting tempest in the first three hundred yeeres after Christ of persecution raised by those ten Scarlet Tyrants of those times there was a dawning againe of some ease and rest peeping out b Narrant hunc Philippum Arabem primum ex imperatoribus Romanis factum esse Christianum ●●quid intellexerit ille Arabicus mi●●●● qua●is ejus pietas fue●it n●scimus J● Carion Chron. l. 3. p. 272. in 8 in Anno Christi 248 〈…〉 252. first in the short reigne of Philip an Arabian but he being nipped in the very bud or blossome of his government within five yeeres space or there abouts could not bring any thing this way to any noted perfection but his pious intentions for the Church were interpretativè I doubt not esteemed as actions by the Lord Immediately upon this God raised up Constantine the great the honor of whose birth our Britaine was enobled with his care was not purposed alone but put in execution for he spread the gospell of Christ in the sign of whose crosse he still gloried and prevailed erected Churches countenanced the Clergy and indeed was famous for the Churches cause And when that foul heresie of Arius about the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Christ with