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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

Sylas singing prayses to their God though in the middest of fetters a Act. 16.25 Act. 16.25 All this layd together makes me admire how so great a Scholar as the Roman Champion Bellarmine was should in this particular point so play the part of an ill Rhetorician who is wont to place some of his strongest arguments in the b Praecepta sunt eorum qui dicendi rationem tradunt ut ad extremam orationis partem quae potentissima atque optima in caussà sunt reserventur quoniam extremum illud in auditorum animis infixum haeret Ludov. Granat●ns quà supra conc 2. p. 447. initio close of his speech as to set this note last after a large catalogue before as a certaine marke of the true Church c Bellar. ● lib. 4. de notis ecclesiae cap. 18. initio nota 15. Temporall prosperity whereas that is no where lesse to be found then there for that precious vessel of d 2 Tim. 2.20 honor would gather rust were it not scowred often by afflictions Beloved Christians our good God deales with us in this regard as a refiner doth with his lumpe of oare of silver or the richer metall to purge it from the drosse and fit it for his use he casts it first into the furnace so doth Almighty God his chosen ones who below are but as gold is in the oare having the drosse of much corruption unmortified in them from which the Lord by sicknesse or some such like affliction would gladly purge them refine them so fitting and preparing them for his own use and glory by this sayth Esay shall the iniquity of Jacob be e Isa 27.29 and Mal. 3.3 purged And thus we read even of this very good King Hezekiah f 2 Chro. 32.31 2 Chro. 32.31 that God left him though a deare Saint by a spirituall desertion to himselfe for some time to know what was in his heart that is sayth Austin not that God meant hereby to informe himselfe for all things lye open and naked to the eyes of him g Heb. 4.13 Heb. 4.13 but to make Hezekiah know that there was in his heart corruption enough which like a Jebusite in Canaan 't is Saint Bernards comparison was not as yet wholly expelled from his inward coasts And here againe in this text whether for probation of his faith as of h Zech. 13.9 Aurum indiget percussione puer verberatione Ben Syra moral sentent 4. est hoc ingenium auri ut quo magis illud malleo diducendo percusseris eò magis fulgeat sic c. Paulus Fagius in exposit ibid in 2. Tim. 2.20 electi vocantur aurum gold or for castigation of some speciall delinquency he is permitted to be as St Paul was by his messenger i 2 Cor. 12.7 buffeted with a disease of sicknesse yea though an k Isa 38.3 upright man and highly in Gods favor for so we read In those dayes was Hezekiah a Prince not more great then good sicke and that unto Death Now for application of this point let me say to all Gods true Children as Saint Peter doth of the l 1 Pet. 4.12 fiery tryall my deare brethren thinke not this strange as if some new thing when yee be afflicted happened unto you for lo this is the surest badge of Christianity the unavoydable portion of all that will live godly in Christ Jesus yea there is a necessity in it we m 2 Tim. 3.12 must suffer sayth Saint Paul n Act. 9.16 2 Tim. 3.12 This meditation made the primitive Saints to be ambitious of such sufferings for the cause of Christ the Apostles o Act. 5.41 rejoyced in it as in the greatest worth and honor in the dayes of persecution when those ten bloody tyrants whereof Nero was the first p Tertull in Apologet c. 5. dedicator as Tertullian cals him the ring-leader to the rest when Christianitie was nick-named a q Act. 28.22 sect and that sect every where spoken against Act. 28.22 when but to name ones selfe a Christian was crime enough to be sent unto the dungeon or the metal-mines or the teeth of Lyons and such like other torments in these crimson-coloured dayes your zealous Saints would so far strive as 't were to suffer that no voyce was oftner heard then this Sum ego Christianus And I am also a Christian so had they then to borrow Jeremies expression r Jer. 30.21 engaged their hearts to approach unto the Lord that they would ſ Heb. 12.4 resist iniquity even unto the shedding of their blood The crosse we read in following times was that which was by Christian Princes displayed in their banners and the figure thereof much preferred to all other pompous shewes what ever so I t See sir Henry Spelman tom 1. concil Anglic. in anno 712. ex concilio Londinensi p. 207 208 edit 1639. find that Constantine the great commanded it instead of his wonted Labarum richly decked with pretious Diamonds to be carried before his souldiers as if with the blessed Paul he had u Gal. 6.14 gloryed in nought else save in the crosse of our Lord Jesus Christ All these Saints well knew that this was the way to glory they were not ignorant that before God rested the seaventh day he did first work six dayes so must we have our Hexameron of labor and enduring before we may expect our Sabbatisme and eternall rest with Christ But when we have thus suffered first we may assure our selves of no lesse Crown then of a Kingdome in eternall glory x 2 Tim 2.12 2 Tim. 2.12 we see there is but a letters difference nay but an aspiration between onerari honorari and the same word in Hebrew signifyeth both a burthen and blisse and the first Martyr under the gospell wore a Crown in his name for y 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Stephen in the greek so signifyeth and surely that I may conclude this point the more we suffer for z Mat. 5.11 12. righteousnesse sake for 't is the cause not the smart that makes the Martyr the ampler will be our glory Qui habet in hâc vitâ multum crucis habebit in alterâ multum lucis this meditation as the burthens did the Israelites should make good Christians to encrease the a Exod. 1.12 more in number and as those precious plants sweet-smelling trees though they bee cut in peeces and dryed yet still do reteine their sweet and pleasant sent yea doe keep within them more true peace of soule then all the barren and unsavory trees of wickednes in their full flowers and blossomes can yeeld out being beaten and scourged with a cursed conscience In a word our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a farre more exceeding and eternall weight of glory b 2 Cor. 4.17 2 Cor. 4.17 yea the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to