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A94261	The crovvne of righteousnes: or, The glorious reward of fidelity in the discharge of our duty. As it was laid forth in a sermon, preached in S. Botolphs Aldersgate, London, Sept. 25. 1653. At the solemn funerall of Mr. Abrah: Wheelock, B. D. the first publick professor, and reader of Arabick, and of the Saxon, in the University of Cambridge. Whereunto is added, an encomium of him. / By William Sclater Doctor in Divinity, now preacher of the Word of God in Broad-street, Lond.	Sclater, William, 1609-1661.	1653 (1653)	Wing S916; Thomason E221_6; ESTC R4044	30,757	39

THE CROWNE OF RIGHTEOUSNES OR The glorious Reward of FIDELITY In the Discharge of our DUTY As it was laid forth in a Sermon preached in S. Botolphs Aldersgate London Sept. 25. 1653. At the solemn Funerall of Mr. Abrah Wheelock B. D. The first Publick Professor and Reader of Arabick and of the Saxon in the University of CAMBRIDGE Whereunto is added An ENCOMIUM of HIM By WILLIAM SCLATER Doctor in Divinity Now Preacher of the Word of God in Broad-street Lond. DAN 12.3 They that be wise or Teachers shall shine as the brightness of the Firmament and they that turn many to righteousness as the Starres for ever and ever LONDON Printed by J. G. for John Clarke and are to be sold at his shop under S. Peter's Church in Cornhill 1654. To the Right Worshipfull Thomas Adams Esq Alderman of the City of London a Patron of Learning and a Patterne of True Piety the eternity of Happiness Worthy Sir THat which I have in my inward thoughts secretly wished for the Divine Providence hath now by an unexpected Act presented to my hands a seasonable opportunity wherein I might make you some more than a private Testimony of my acknowledgements for your personall regards to my selfe and withall as publick as might be for your munificence to my ever honoured Mother the Vniversity of Cambridge where for above twenty years last past out of a pure glory to God in the advancing the Orientall Learning you erected and ever since continued at your own proper cost an Arabick Lecture the praise whereof were a task more meet I confesse for an elegant Orator chosen by her selfe than for one of my so retired and obnubilated a condition The much lamented decease of the learned Professor Mr. Abrah Wheelock who read it and of whom a more full mention is made in the close gave occasion to this sudden Sermon which being through a vehement importunity extorted from me beyond all imagination of mine own after preaching and so put to the Press there could be no more proper Patron for it thought upon than your self of whom I have many things to say but that I am overwhelmed with copiousness of matter there being no spirituall or good gift wherein you are as S. Paul said of his Converts the Corinthians a 1 Cor. 1.7 behind yea wherein you do not excell your very outward presence as some rare beneficent star appearing with a desired and pleasing influence winneth you a venerable observance of all Orthodox Christians and good men who cannot depart from you but much improved and made better by your most eximious and transcendent example in * Luk. 1.6 Act. 24.16 all piety towards God equity towards men I need not mention your Ethicks or moral part sith if the vigorous exercise of all the vertues were not interrupted only but lost elsewhere it might be all repaired from your † Eph. 5.15 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 accurate practise in your religious part an Israelite b Joh. 1.47 indeed without faction without ostentation your soule is made the c 1 Cor. 3.16 Temple for the Holy Spirit to dwell in by his graces which are diffused in so delectable a variety that as those fragrant spices upon which the South winde blew in the Garden of the spouse they d Cant. 4.16 flow out and are become as a sweet perfume to attract Observers To men of learning a known Maecenas yea a Sanctuary To Gods faithfull Ministers an e Rom. 12.13 hospitable f Rom. 16.23 Gaius a bountifull and a most encouraging Benefactor g 1 Thes 5.12 13. 1 Tim. 5.17 esteeming them highly in love for their works sake of all Gods k Ps 122.1 publike Ordinances a due honouror a most conscientious l Act. 26.7 frequenter In private also the devotion of your house hath made it an house of m 1 Cor. 16.19 devotion where like the double motion of the lungs what is drawn in by prayers is breathed forth again in n Psal 118.15 prayses and thanksgiving Your faith is operative o Gal. 5.6 working by love expressed p 1 Tim. 6.18 in rich r 2 Cor. 9.13 Prov. 11.25 liberality towards every good work full of s 2 Cor. 9.7 cheerfull t Act. 10.2 Almes-giving the u Job 311.20 loynes of the poore and naked blesse you in the streets and the bowels of many w 2 Tim. 1.16.18 refreshed by your hands as S. Paul's were by Onesiphorus occasion uncessant prayers for you And that which yet adds a beauty to all the rest and proves alwayes as the most rich and fairest * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a curious Knot knot decking the garment of other graces is your great x 1 Pet. 5.5 humility attended with all y 1 Pet. 3.8 courteous affability and most z 2 Cor. 6.6 Col. 3.13 2 Pet. 1.7 kind a Ro. 12.16 condescensions as in whose lips is the b Pro. 31 26 law of kindness and in whose life a c Phil. 1.15 shining exemplar of the d 2 Ti. 3.5 power of godliness and all solid Christianity All which considered my weak endeavours cannot but triumph in such a protection which now they shrowd themselves under not doubting to speed the better for the Name of the Patron The discourse I acknowledge is impolite yet Orthodox I hope and Thelogically substantiall the subject matter is no less than of a Crown of Righteousness so that however as it comes from me it casteth no great lustre outwardly yet much what like to the stone Garamantides intus habet aureas guttas it hath drops of gold within it selfe enriching the believing soule with the hopes and assured expectation of a joyfull reward of its fidelity in Gods service by a blissful immortality Vnto the certain fruition whereof that you and with your selfe all yours all your relations yea all Gods e Mat. 24. elect by Christ nay after you have yet continued longer to f Tit. 2.10 adorn the Gospel be at last advanced is and ever shall be the most constant prayer of Sir Your most affectionate Servant to be commanded in the Lord Christ Will Sclater 2 TIM 4.7 8. I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the Faith Henceforth there is laid up for me a Crowne of Righteousnesse which the Lord the Righteous Judge shall give me at that Day and not to me only but unto them also who love his Appearing I Shall not deteine you by any impertinent Preface sith the shortnesse of time for this Service together with the indulgence of this so Learned an Auditory anticipates an Apology and gives hopes of much Candor under so manifold Impraeparations And so I addresse my selfe to the serious businesse of my Text The scope whereof amounts to this summe Namely to comfort Timothy about the nigh approach of Saint Pauls Martyrdome mentioned

hand are pleasures for evermore And thus my brethren after my measure as I could upon so short notice of about a day though not so fully after my desires as I would in so great so learned and serious an Auditory have I dispatched my discourse upon this Scripture your candour will I hope connive at the want of polishing and entertaine it as it is according to the weight and importance of the matter of it And may the g 1 Pet. 5.10 God of all grace reap the Totall h 1 Tim 1.17 glory Amen f Psal 16.11 An ENCOMIUM of M. Abraham Wheelock B.D. Late Prosessor of Arabick and Saxon in Cambridge AS concerning our reverend and learned Brother deceased Mr. Abraham Wheelock Batchelar in Divinity many yeares fellow of Clare Hall in Cambridge I could seriously have wished that some silver Trampet of that University to which he was an ornament within his station had sounded out his Encomium upon this occasion He was there best knowne where Learning of all sorts is now in the Zenith and the exquisite perfection in the Tongues much advanced by his skill in the very Tropick of Cancer But sith it is now fallen to my lot I may more truly say of him than a Paterc l. 1. Paterculus did of AE milius Paulus Vir in tantum laudandus fuit in quantum Virtus ipsa intelligi potest He was a man to be praised so farre as vertue it selfe can be understood he therein indeed being as the Moon at the b Eccles 50.6 full For his Theologicall part a Divine of c Tit. 1.9 Orthodex judgement of a d Tim. 2.2 godly an e 1 Tim. 4.12 exmeplary and of a f Prov. 11.30 Dan. 12.3 1 Pec. 3.1 winning conversation g 1 Tim 3.3 Heb. 13.5 abhorring covetousnesse who did both 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rightly h 2 Tim. 2.15 divide that word of truth after which he walked with i Heb. 12. ●3 strait steps to his feet wee might have read in his * Noclurni juvat impallcsare charis pale countenance the expresse Characters of his unwearied industry and studies cujus vultum nec fuscavit maeror nec levigavit risus as s. k S Bern. de Mac. Bernard wrote of his friend Malachy be carried mortificati on in his very looks continuing without interruption a constant and l 1 Tim. 3.3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 12.15 Ps 1226. H.b. 12.14 peacefull son of the Church of England herein exercising Himselfe to have alwayes a † Conscience void of offence toward God and toward men Those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mentioned by the learned Apostle m 1 Cor. 12.28 diversities or kinds of Tongues he was in much variety from Heaven superlatively endowed with by the gift of Gods spirit He being so eminent a Linguist he might have said without envy or disparagement to any be it spoken I thank my God I speak with n 1 Cor. 14.18 Tongues more than most of them all the intricacies whereof he had a faculty and withall a facility hoth to finde out and to make pervious elucidating what was obscure enucleating what hard that as the Jewish Rabbins so oft as they met with Texts which were as S. Peter saith of some things in S. Paul's Epistles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 o 2 Pet. 3.16 hard to be understood out of which they could not extricate themselves were went to shut up all their discourse with this Elias cum venerit solver dubia Elias shall anser this doubt when he comes in like sort was he as another Elias to the doubts and difficulties of many who being p D. Lightfot Mr. of Katharine Hall in Camridge in his Harmory accurate in the Rabbinicall Learning were very well able to judge gave him this testimony a good while since in print that scarcely anything that way proved too hard for him for his condation or decisian Yet one thing I cannot but observe to you of him whom I so well and so long knew and it is this That whereas his experience found that sentence of Thucydides a most authentick verity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the lesse the Art usually the more the vaunting but the more Ratiocination the slower the Determination suitably to that of the great Dactor of the Gentiles 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unball anced know ledge like a bladder blowne up with wind q 1 Cor. 8.1 puffeth and swelleth with ostentation waking many out of en overweening upon their superficiall excellencies as Antipheron Orietes in Aristotle to imagine that every where they see their own shapes and pictures going before them yet that I say which I observed remarkable and werthy of universall imitation in him was under his many and exceeding abilities his humble and exeeding modestie so that others took more notice of him than he did of himselfe much like to the Violet a flower of a sweet and delicous scent yet groweth lowest in the Garden covering it selfe often with its owne leaves Howbeit as the odorife rous fragrancy thereof cannot but be discovered so he together with his accomplishments could not be concealed yea as r Eccles 50.6 Syracides said of Simon the Son of Onias he was as the morning Star in the midst of a Clound His sufficiencies and withall his integrity having made him thus known to his custody and ever sight were committed the rich Treasives of Learning laid up in the choice Library of the University of Cambridge And about two and twenty yeares past beyend his owne expectation though not beyend his merit he was chosen the first publique professor and reader of Arabick there A Lecture first founded at the sote and proper charges of an eminent and truly religious Gentleman of this Citie of London to which having like him selfe bornall the principall offices therein he hath long been an honour Mr. Alderm Thomas Adams who ever since continned is by his bounty to him of full 40 l. per annum constantly paid for which munificent Act he deserves of all Schollars whom co nomine he affectionately regardeth an honour able mention and of all learned posterity and s ps 112.6 everlasting memoriall Et memorem famam qui bene gessit habet Ovid. To this worthy Citizen of so high a t Gal. 2.2 reputation must be added the example of a noble Knight to whom and to whose Heires inheriting his learning and u 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 isocrat Vid 1 Reg. 5.7 vertues as well as his lands the Common wealth of Literature rests deeply engaged by name Sir Henry Spelman of pious memory who with great expence of time and treasure restored many precious monuments of antiquity very usefull to Gods Church and very tart * Monumentum quasi monimentum warnings to pitchy Sacriledge from dust and obscurity to beauty and light who at his owne cost first erected about ten