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A11610	The worthy communicant rewarded Laid forth in a sermon, on John 6.54. Preached in the Cathedrall of St. Peter in Exeter, on Low-Sunday, being the 21. of Aprill, Anno 1639. By William Sclater, Master of Arts, late Fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge, now chaplaine of the Right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop's Barony of Saint Stephens, and preacher also at S. Martin, in the same city.	Sclater, William, 1575-1626.	1639 (1639)	STC 21850; ESTC S100965	42,655	89

a beleever thus feeding upon Christ by faith hath Christ himselfe who is stiled eternall life Joh. 17.3 for Christ by faith a Eph. 3.17 dwelleth in such an one and he in him Joh. 6.56 yea Christ himselfe saith as much Joh. 11.25 I am the life and hee that beleeveth in me shall never dye for he hath in him life eternall Again if eternall life be here set as I think it is as the Reward of faith then how hath the beleever it already Ans In Spe though not in Re In hope and expectation he hath it though not in actually complete fruition and by this hope they are i Rom. 8.24 saved Or else they have it in arrhabone in the k Eph. 1.14 earnest in sigillo in the l Eph. 4.30 seale and marke of the spirit which marke is for ever indeleble it 's as a foundation m 2 Tim. 2.19 sure not to be shaken no not by all the machinations or n Mat. 16.18 policies of Hell it selfe But how so sith they that beleeve dye Ans What of that sith he that beleeveth in Christ though he were o Joh. 11.25 dead yet shall hee live Dye hee must because of the statute Heb. 9.27 But let not this trouble the beleever for as Christ is the life so is he also the resurrection too and therefore in the Text it 's added by way of assurance that I will raise him up at the last day and I like * Beza ad locum Beza his guesse well that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here stands for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the and here is a causall note serving by way of prolepsis or of preoccupation to remove that objection likely to bee raised by a weakling though a Beleever Thus You promise life eternall and loe I die where then is your promise Ans Why I will raise thee up againe at the last day and if yee note it at your leisure you shall finde this speech of the Resurrection no lesse then p John 6 39 40 44 54. foure times in this one Chapter repeated to double the observation and comfort The fourth generall part And at this saying of a Resurrection at the last day we may well resume that of the Disciples John 6.60 Durus est hic sermo This is a hard saying who can beare it Surely no unbeleeving meerely naturall man on earth yea more then so the very Apostles themselves were q Luke 24.25 slow of heart at the first to beleeve it and the reports of those good soules the women that having seene Christ after his Resurrection told it to the Disciples seemed to them as r Luke 24.11 idle tales saith S. Luke cap. 24.11 yea S. Thomas expresly protested that for his part hee would ſ John 20.25 not beleeve it till he felt him John 20.25 The Philosophers at Athens derided the doctrine and made a mock of S. Paul when hee delivered it to them Act. 17.32 At other times he was not onely called in t Act. 23.6 question but in danger almost to be torne in u Ver. 10. ib. pieces for the same the x Ver. 8. ib. Sadducees a certaine sect in the Apostles dayes yea rise also in our y Math. 22.23 Saviours owne time flatly denied that there was any Resurrection or Angel or Spirit for alas the poring eye of z To conceive of Divine things by Philosophy is no other then to take out a red-hot Iron with our fingers and not with tongs My L. of Exon Sect. 18. No peace with Rome Nature was too dimme to discerne so high a mystery as this was so farre remote from her best-disposed Organs The wisest Ethnick was no better at this then S. Peters a 2 Pet. 1.9 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one that was pur-blind like to a Bat or Owle or like S. Austins man betweene sleeping and waking That Common Principle of à privatione ad habitum non datur regressus that from a totall privation of life from the Body there was no possibility of a returne was so fastened in them that like to a first Principle or a Mathematicall Rule it must be taken True for granted and he that should offer a disputation against it he was as S. Paul at Athens to be esteemed a b Act. 17.18 Babler or as a Naturall Ignaro the ground of all is because this is a businesse meerely of Faith to which all Carnall c Thom. 1ª qu. 1ª Art 8. ad 2um Oportet quòd naturalis ratio subserviat fidei Reasonings must give way in the Naturall man both the medium which is Faith is wanting or unprepared and the object Christ risen stood at too great a distance to bee kenned no not so much as Moses did from mount d Deut. 34.1 Nebo the land of promise a farre off by him It 's the proper work of Gods spirit only as he did those Dead bones in e Ezek. 37.14 Ezekiel which were a figure of the Resurrection to quicken and enliven his first apprehension and faith for this purpose Some Heretiques there were after the Apostles dayes in f Tertul. de praescript adv Haer. c. 46 48 49 51 Saturn Basilides Carpocrates Cerdon c. Tertullians time that were against the Bodily Resurrection the Anabaptists and Libertines of late were all for the Spirituall Resurrection of the soule from sinne unto the life of grace in this life though that good Martyr Polycarpus S. Johns Disciple stileth such whether Epicures or others g Polycarpus Epist ad Philip. Primogenitos Satanae the first-begotten of Satan yea even h Tertul. lib. de Monogam Tertullian himselfe that ancient Father of the Church after his infection by the heresie of Montanus whom hee stiled his Paraclete and his Prophet i Lactant. lib. 7. instit Div. c. 21 24 26. Lactantius also and divers other Doctors of the Church having a tang of the errour of the Millenaries these though they granted a Resurrection to bee yet were out in the understanding of it for mis-understanding that Prophecy Rev. 20.5 where there is mention of a first Resurrection imagined that there should be a first Resurrection of the Just that should raigne here a thousand yeares even upon earth and after that a second Resurrection of the Wicked at the day of the generall judgment Whereas we know there shall bee but k John 11.24 one generall Resurrection of the Bodies of the just and unjust at the last day that first Resurrection in S. John being to be understood onely of the inward and spirituall Resurrection of the soule out of the grave of sinne which as a body in the grave lies too much rotting and corrupting of the soule for which cause S. Paul hath called it the l Phil. 3.10 see Rom. 6. Power of Christs Resurrection These some then and divers more that might happely be named have either flatly denied or else