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A11591	An exposition with notes vpon the first Epistle to the Thessalonians. By William Sclater D.D. and Minister of the Word of God at Pitmister in Sommerset	Sclater, William, 1575-1626.	1619 (1619)	STC 21834; ESTC S116799	377,588	577

is it of Man that sleepeth Some Heretiques made question and at length resolued the separate soules cast into a dead sleepe to remaine without action till the generall Resurrection which if they would limit to the organicall actions of the Soule that without commerce with the bodie cannot be exercised the strife were ended But Experience hath taught vs the Soule hath her immateriall acts which without bodily organs shee is enabled to exercise First wee see it in the streightest tie of the Sences by Sleepe Thinking Meditating Discoursing Secondly yea the most perfect actions of the mind are what time it hath least commerce with the bodie In f 2. Cor. 12.3 4. Extasies Paul had his greatest Reuelations and Iohn in his g Reuel 11.10 rauishment saw his most heauenly Visions Thirdly perhaps also that h Reuel 5.12 place of Iohn implyes that separate Soules haue their imployment in lauding and praysing God and the Lambe Limit therefore this sleepe to the Bodie whence I thinke it is that our Graues are called i Isai 57.2 our Beds wherein our Bodies not our Soules rest from their labours Reasons of the resemblance are thus conceiued first for that it rests from all toyle and trauell and sense of euils secondly because it riseth againe by the power of God thirdly and is as easily reuiued by the voice of God as the liuing man is awaked out of his shallowest slumber So that they erre not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God that teach the Bodie to be resolued by death into its first principles without hope of restoring to life What then trow we is the Resurrection promised They say Tertull. de Resurrect Carnis of the Soules But Tertullian well obserued They fall not being immortall therefore haue no need nor are capable of Resurrection And that the Bodies also shall rise againe that same societas operarum as hee termes it is abundant conuiction Partners they were with Soules in doing good or euill must therefore participate in the reward or punishment Secondly And how fitly hence flowes Pauls exhortation To keepe meane in mourning As men without hope He meanes of Resurrection to glorious life and a better condition after death The Periphrasis of Gentiles and all aliens from the Church of God accorded by the like Eph. 2.12 how fittingly applyed to their state iudge by these Reasons first they were without Christ the ground of hope secondly out of the Church the place of hope thirdly without the Couenant the reason of all our hope and beleeuing Vse So that the Opinion sauours of more pitie then iudgement that giues Gentiles out of the Church hope of saluation whether by light of Nature as some or by secret and extraordinarie Inspirations as others haue dreamed First I wonder then the Prophets Dauid and Moses so much magnifie Gods grace to Iewes before Christs comming in k Psal 147.19 20. giuing to them his Statutes and entring with them Couenant of Peace and Saluation Secondly And why is that Blessing so much amplified to vs Gentiles since Christ l Act. 14.27 that to vs also God hath opened the doore of Faith and made vs m Ephe. 2.13 neere by the bloud of his Sonne I say rather as the Apostle n Rom. 15.9 Let vs Gentiles of these times prayse God for his mercie whom he hath regenerated to a o 1. Pet. 1.3 liuely hope in Christ Iesus hauing left desperate so many Generations of our Fore-fathers VERS 14. For if wee beleeue that Christ died and rose againe c. THe last reason pressing moderation of sorrow is here couched taken from certainty of resurrection to life Of it hee layes two grounds First the resurrection of Christ Secondly the Power of God withall limits out the persons to whom this blessing belongs The Article of resurrection I meane not here to insist on but so farre onely as it receiues strength from the resurrection of Christ Christ is risen Therefore vs also shall God bring againe from the graue Quest How followes the Argument It might be his priuiledge as being the Sonne of God and hauing in himselfe Diuine Vertue to quicken his body Answ First Probable at least it is made by the resurrection of Christ p Heb. 2.17 Man like to vs in all things sinne onely excepted Gods power in raysing Christ from the dead hath made manifest a possiblity of returning from death to life Secondly if withall wee consider our vnion with Christ by the Spirit whose heauenly influence and Diuine Vertue in raysing our soules to spirituall life all liuing members in his body haue experience of a necessitie wee shall see of our being raysed from death to fellowship of his glory Thirdly his resurrection is vndoubtfull pledge to vs of our q Rom. 4.25 Iustification and full discharge from guilt and punishment of sinne that alone keepes vs vnder the Dominion of death and debarres from entring the glorious presence of God So strangely followes the Argument from the resurrection of Christ to the rising againe of Christians euen as many as are by the Spirit members of his body So that if any desire to know himselfe a sharer in the resurrection of the Iust this let him first learne to know whether hee bee one with Christ that vnion death dissolues not yea shall force the graue to render vp the bodies of Saints that where the Head is r Ioh. 17.24 there may the members be also Signes of this Vnion First Experience ſ Phil. 3.10 Rom. 6.5 of the vertue and power of Christs resurrection enliuing our soules to all gracious and holy conuersation Secondly the Sympathie and fellow-feeling we haue of t Rom. 12.15 the weale and wo of our fellow-members in the body of Christ u 2. Cor. 11.29 Who is afflicted and such burne not They haue no fellowship with Christ whom IOSEPHS afflictions touch not neerely and to whose greatest merriments the remembrance thereof puts not a pause The persons to whom belongs fellowship in this blessed resurrection are described Such as sleepe in Iesus that is That continue in that blessed vnion and fellowship with Christ vntil death and in death To such is the blessing pronounced To that condition x Reuel 14.13 Reuel 2.10.26 are the promises limited In such y Heb. 10.38 as withdraw themselues Gods soule hath no pleasure their former righteousnesse is forgotten z Gal. 3.4 their passi●ns and patience all become vaine vnto them Vse Our care let be a Reuel 3.11 to hold fast what we haue receiued the beginning of our subsistence in Christ Helpes auaileable First Feare of our owne infirmity in which respect we may say as SALOMON b Pro. 28.14 Blessed is the man that feareth alway Such feare first how carefull makes it to flie all occasions that may withdraw our hearts from God! Secondly how conscionable to vse all holy meanes of preseruation in that blessed condition Secondly

Desperate of his strict Iustice Wisdome would teach to fit our meditation to our present state See it in a duty that may seeme most easie suppose hearing the Word of God It is not as is thought a worke of euery Ideot and idle Foole to be a hearer to heare as wee ought requires skill more then ordinary to tye our minds to attention that they may bee free from wandering to apply our affections to the quality of what is taught that when we heare matter of feare our hearts may f Isai 66.2 tremble at the Word of God when matter of griefe they g Neh. 8.9 may mourne when matter of comfort reioyce c. Such skill requires euery Christian Dutie to the Regular performance of it that wee may well conclude of Christianity It is the Science of Sciences euen an Art of liuing well Vse They erre not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of Godlinesse that thinke it a skill most obuious to bee a Christian a worke of one houre or two in the last sicknesse to furnish themselues for Heauen Though in manuall Sciences he is not thought his Crafts-master that hath not serued a seuen yeeres Apprentiship yet to the exactest skill of Christianity seuen houres yea moments are thought sufficient Surely if any where here that hath place that the great Phisician once spake Ars longa vita breuis Compendiums they haue framed to themselues here as in other Sciences To loue God aboue all our Neighbour as our selues This is h Mat. 7.12 the Law and the Prophets To feare God and keep his Cōmandements i Eccl. 12.13 this is the whole of man But foolish men that consider not the infinite particulars which these comprize And that it is the least halfe of a Christian k Iohn 13.17 to know though exactly the heads of Dutie To loue God comprizeth his worship outward inward l 1. Iohn 5.3 keeping of all and euery his Cōmandements To loue our Neighbour exercise of m 1. Cor. 13.4 5 Patience Kindnesse Mercy euery good grace and office wherein we may do good to Brethren Willingly would I perswade our people if it might be of the skill no lesse then artificiall requisite to Christianity not to deterre them by the difficulty but to reforme their negligence and to excite their industry And if they would but seriously consider that part of this Art that stands in speculation they would easily acknowledge it to be no idle mans occupation to bee a Christian To know necessaries of Gods Nature and Will can wee thinke it obuious when as Dauid hauing long trauelled in the Word of God with an extraordinarie Spirit yet prayes illumination that hee n Psal 119.18 might see the wondrous things of the Law Who euer sounded the depth of any one Commandement to know all particulars of duetie therein comprized Who so quick-sighted as to vnderstand thorowly particular circumstances of knowne dueties Dare any arrogate prudence so exact as to obserue them regularly in all his practice Thou knowest thou must pray but knowest thou how thou must pray To pray is not to vtter a Petition which a Parrat may doe but thou must pray with o 1. Cor. 14.15 vnderstanding with p 2. Chron. 6.29 feeling of wants with q Iam. 1.6 faith to be heard with feruencie of affections the practice of all these how full of difficultie to guide affections of wrath feare ioy griefe c. Heathens obserued to require much prudence may not Christians more to their Christian moderation That I be not infinite It will be sufficient if I may but conuince our people that Christianitie is an Art that the practices thereof require skill more then ordinarie that once euinced I hope those out-cryes against ouer-much teaching will cease for suppose you know all we are able to teach you for substance of faith and practice yet to learne skilfull practice of them the wisest amongst vs may not blush to goe to schoole To possesse his Vessell in holinesse and honour The particular wherein Paul requires this skill is the preseruing of Chastitie in his phrase the possessing of our Vessell in holinesse What is the Vessell saith AVGVSTINE * August cont Iulian. Pelagian lib. 4. cap. 10. lib. 5. cap. 7. the Wife the Woman or wife is the r 1. Pet. 3.7 weaker vessell Al the body the vessell or instrument of the soule Al the instruments of generation 1. Sam. 21.5 The vessells of the yong men are cleane that is their bodies or instruments of generation That first interpretation S. Austine fell into by this occasion Dealing against Pelagians in the question of Originall sinne and the manner how it is conueyed to posteritie he was thus vrged by Iulian The soule is created pure the body propagated by a lawfull act of generation in the marriage bed for that bed ſ Heb. 15.4 is vndefiled by what chinks creeps in this infection of Nature Saint Austine answeres that howsoeuer the vse of the marriage bed be for the substance of the act vndefiled yet may impuritie insinuate it selfe through intemperance and ouer-much feruor of delight Truth is there is as well Coniugall as Virginall chastitie which stands not only in keeping our faith inuiolate to the wife of our Couenant but also in the temperate and moderate vse of the marriage bed And I am halfe of his mind in this whatsoeuer in that act is not either for procreation or preuention of Fornication comes of euill Rather by the vessell vnderstand the body Not that the heart hath libertie to lust so the body be kept from the act of vncleannesse t 1. Cor. 7.9 burning lusts are commanded to be remedied but so speaks he fittingly to reforme opinions corrupt and monstrous that to the u 1. Cor. 6.13 body was permitted a kind of libertie so the heart were kept pure from that vncleannesse Possesse that is keepe and rule the body in holinesse vnderstand it chastitie and freedome from pollution by vncleane lust Honour of the body stands in two things First x Col. 2.23 Health and chearfulnesse Secondly dedication of it to the holy Ghost as y 1. Cor. 6.19 a Temple for him to dwell in and an z Rom. 6.13 instrument to be vsed to the glorie of God The summe is this that not the heart only but the body also must be preserued in chastitie a 1. Cor. 6.20 Glorifie God in your bodies and soules they are both the Lords his Creatures his purchase both bought with the price of his bloud It seemes the Corinthians were carried away with that errour to thinke pollution of the body almost indifferent The bodies they thought should not rise againe therefore it was not much materiall to what vncleannesse they were abused yet saith the Apostle First the body is for the Lord dedicated in creation to the glorie of the Maker and by Redemption to Christ Secondly the Lord for the body