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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

that too in his verie best estate Be yee in your vain imagination as teeth that dwell in the mouth of eminence grinding the faces of the poore thereby thunder in your words q 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 de oculis Agamemnonis irati paulò pòst 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ib. lightening in your looks stay a while and this bladder shall burst anon and as a wall that swels before it fall so shall your pride bring you all down as low as dust and if impenitent as Hell what though yee dwell in Cedar stretch your selves as Amos speaks on beds of * Amos 6.4 ivorie and carrie your houses over your heads as snails painting the earth as you go with your silver slime alas what 's all this to purpose if death but spurn upon you yee are all crushed instantly into worms meat and must shortly become provant for crawling Creatures to revell with in the grave t is not Belshazzar's greatnesse that can keepe him from or rid him of a fit of r Dan. 5.6 trembling where once the handwriting on the wall had startled him amidst his cups nor the vaingloriousnesse of an haughty Herod that could exempt him from the stroke of a destroying ſ Act. 12.23 Angell or make him other then a t B● Morton c. 13. sect 5. p. 252. grand imposture edict 1628. Rex Herodes Agrippa sub claudio Jacobum interfecit qui ipse non multo post phthiria si periit Joh. Carrion Chron in claudio l. 3. p. 234. 228. edict 1584. in 8º confer Euseb l. 2. c. 10. Histor ecclesiast see placina in vita formosi de Arnul●ho Imperatore lowzy god no nor the bigmouth'd ostentation of that peerelesse prodige of pride great Nebuchadnezzar keep him from the society of an u Dan. 4.33 oxe that eateth hay so besotted was he in his intellectuals that for quality and disposition through the predominacy of his owne melancholique humour in him that though he had perhaps the forme and figure yet he had altogether lost the reason of a man In a word as that little stone in Daniel cut out of the mountaine x Dan. 2.45 without hands brake in peeces the yron the brasse the silver and the gold in that great image of the same mighty Babylonian by which is meant in mystery saith y Hierom ad Eustoch Hierom z Sulpit. Sever. l. 2. sac Hist p. 93. in 8º cum Drusio Barrad l. 3. c. 4. p. 95. l. 6 c. 2. p. 282. concord Evang. Sulpitius severus and other greatly learned our Lord and King Christ Jesus who as that stone was cut out of the mountaines without hands was borne of a pure virgine without contamination or deflowring who shall when installed to his spirituall throne and Kingdome crush and shiver into nothing all the foure great monarchies of the world Assyrian Persian Graecian Roman and make all Kings and nations of the earth as the a Matt. 2.11 Magi of East did at his birth in Bethlem bring b Psal 72.10 68.29 presents to him and to bow before him that is he shall make all scepters in the world to stoop to his one Scepter of the Gospell in token of submission homage and obedience in like sort shall all potency and greatnesse under heaven be forced at last to yeeld to those his instruments of subjugation either sicknesse or death or both Loe here and see even Hezekiah though a mighty and a wealthy Prince yet could not wave off sicknesse no nor much time Death so sayth my text Hezekiah though a mighty King was Sicke Now as Hezekiah's greatnes could not exempt him so neither could his goodnes for howbeit he were as eminent in grace as rich in outward pompe glory yet sayth my text even he was sick It's true indeed that Hezekiah's graces though sometimes they might seem sick to be weak and languish as the Angel of the Church in Sardis had in regard of use exercise his graces almost ready for to c Rev. 3.2 dye within him for which cause Saint John excites him to stengthen by more vigorous employment that life which yet remained in him yet his body that was as the d Exod. 26.1 vide Granatens tō 3 concio de Tenpore conc 1 Dominica post ascens p 413 in 8º Latin Tabernacle of testimony with imbroyderies and works of divers colours adorned with those eximious ornaments of grace that must stoope not unto sicknes only but to death surely it 's true even the best men for castigation or at least probation are exposed to these outward miseryes and calamityes as well as others and by what we can discerne without we can descry no sure judgement of their mutuall future blisse or woe e Eccles 9.1 Eccles 9.1 These outward things sayth Solomon come a like to all though it be true not to all a like for either in the cause or in the end or in the use and carriage under them in these modifications here is indeed a difference not in the things themselves yea if wee judge only after the appearance and not as we are commanded f John 7.24 righteous judgement then we shall soon subscribe to that etymology of Christianus to be quasi Crucianus to come from Crux as well as Christus the Hebrew letter η tau in the figure of the Crosse was that which Ezekiel with his pen and inkhorn g Ezek. 9.4 marked the chosen peeces of election under the old law with Ezek. 9.4 and old Jacob when on his death-bed he blessed the sons of Joseph Manasses and Ephraim Gen. 48.13.14 is noted by Gods spirit to have h Ge. 48.13 14. crossed his hands of purpose thereby to note say some that either all blessings of this life have their mixture in them of sure i see below pa. 140. crosses as Christ is said to have had wine offered him but such wine as was mingled with k Mar. 15.23 myrrh which is of an harsh and uncouth taste or else that the whole vertue of a parents benediction was alone and only from the crosse of Christ for it is only the blood of his crosse that made heaven at peace with man l Col. 1.20 Col. 1.20 all the partriarchs of the first Testament had therefore their share therein the Jews reckon up ten severall afflictions that even Abraham the m Rom. 4.1 Father of the faithfull met withall in all the Psalms of David yee have nigh as many hearse-like ayres as carols and for us Christians now who sees not the n My Lord Veculam Essay 5. blessing of the new Testament to consist almost in crosses which yet carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer Revelation of Gods favor for which cause we see it 's set before the Alphabet of our little ones and we receive it as the badge of of our enstalment into the Church

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

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

upon which verse 4 5 6. the Prophet is sent back againe unto him from the Lord with gladsome tidings of his sure recovery of that though mortall sicknesse and withall of the adjournment of his day of death to fifteen yeares of longer time And thus much also of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Negative part of the Prophets saying unto the King Thou shalt not live But now before the Prophet had a warrant to returne him tidings of recovery he first found him desperately diseased and sicke unto death and what then doth he he bestowes his most usefull and most seasonable exhortation upon him which is the third branch of his saying to the King the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the advice of the good Prophet to him in his dangerous condition in these words which concerne us every one of us very nearely also even now most seriously to consider of Set thine house in order I might here take occcasion to mention and discourse of the severall sorts of houses that the Scriptures doe at large point us to The first is the bodily house or the house of the * Corpus nostr● quaedam domus est quod in eâ anima velut inhabitat Gerardus Moringus ad cap. 12. Eccles 2.3 body which is also in an Analogicall resemblance styled by Saint Paul a Temple yea the a 1. Cor. 6.19 Temple of the holy-Ghost 1 Cor. 6.19 in regard of the b 1 Cor. 3.16 inhabitation of Gods spirit there 1 Cor. 3.16 in this house of the body the c Eccles 12.3 4. keepers are the hands the grinders are the teeth the strong men are the legs those that looke out of the windows are the eyes the d See Mic. 7.5 doores are the lips all which are Solomons expressions the daughters of Musique are the eares and lungs the kitchin we have in the stomacke where is the pot that e Stomachus propior coquendi alimenti officina Antonius Coranus Hispalensis paraphras ad 12 nm eccles v. 3. boyles our meat as Anatomists observe and after the Chylus and the Chymus the first and second digestion or concoction the liver turns the good nourishment into blood and disperseth it as the spirit of life into the severall and the proper veins the excrementitious part is from the hepar by the spleene conveied unto the spermaticall vessels or else into the ventricle which holds what is as by a chanell conveied unto it till at the backe doore it be voyded out againe to gratifie nature and to ease her of a burthen for this house of the body there is some good order to be set and taken My Son sayth the wise man in thy sicknesse be not negligent but as thou must in the chiefest place pray unto the Lord that he will make thee whole so withall thou must f Ecclus 38.1.9 honor a Physitian with the honor due unto him for the uses which you may have of him for the Lord hath created him But this is not the house to be set in order by Hezekiah now shortly by the Prophets saying to Dye mainely intended in this text Secondly besides this bodily there is also a spirituall house within where the minde the spirit and the understanding is as it were the g Matt. 6.22 eye to see and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the guide to direct all the under and inferiour faculties the servants the will is as the chiefe steward in this rich palace of the soule that receives the immediate h Lege eruditum Hemmingii librum de lege Naturae dictates and commands of the understanding unconstraynedly but but yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as in Philosophy we use to speake upon election and deliberation too yeelding unto consenting and obeying that as good which the chiefe Master of the house the mind first assented in himselfe unto as true and fit to be obeyed next to this the concupiscible and the Irascible faculties as inferiour servants waite to desire what the will propounds as good or else to fume and fret at what may seeme to crosse eyther the Principall masters or their own propension after these the affections stand as the Pesants or in the lowest rank of service as the lackquaes or the i Animae affectiones pedes sunt dum in hoc pulvere gradimur Bernard f. 35. f. foot-posts ready to bee dispatch'd away in speed and post to execute and to do that which hath with allowance passed down along from the chiefe Master to themselves by the rest of the superiours and the servants of greater authority in this house these at length bring tydings to the waiters at the doores without the senses who were as the k Nihil est in intellectu quin priùs fuerit in Sensu Axioma philosophicum first occasion to move the minde the chiefe Master of the house to bethinke it selfe of businesse to employ his servants in for the whole day following and when thus as by the primum mobile through a strong circumgyration the inferior orbes are whirryed about all the whole house is set a working the businesse by the hands and arms and shoulders and the rest of the outward and field-servants abroad in the body will be done and brought to passe Now as for this house of the soule in the way as I have though in much weaknes now propounded it this is carefully and in the first place to be looked into and set in order as at all times else so principally when as Hezekiah though by no immediate Prophet as he did or by any extraordinary revelation which God now doth not in these dayes multiply in vaine as l Deut. 34.5 Moses did but by some sensible insinuation we receive a summons or a warning by any kind of sicknes or the like harbingers of common dissolutions of our Deaths then principally must we look to set the houses of our souls in order and then must the minde the Master of the whole chiefely labor to be solidly directed and informed in the perfect and right knowledge and faith in God and Christ the reason that I mainly presse this by is only this and 't is a weighty one because the Devill is most busie at such times as these to disturbe the heart and to fill the whole soule as the winds can raise the billows in the sea with a tumultuous hurry and violent perturbation he is the m Eph. 2.2 Prince of the ayery part of the little world in man as well as of that n See Mr Goodwin quâ suprà cap. 9. p. 111. Elementary Region in the great world and so can raise unnaturall storms and vapors that shall darken reason and cause such thunders lightenings as shall hurle all into a black confusion such as if hell and the soul would presently come together wherefore that the shaking of Satans chaines may no way fright us in that pale day of death or sicknesse let the houses of