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A11606	A threefold preseruatiue against three dangerous diseases of these latter times 1. Non proficiency in grace. 2. Fals-hearted hypocrisie. 3. Back-sliding in religion. Prescribed in a sermon at S. Pauls Crosse in London, September, 17. 1609. By William Sclater, Batcheler in Diuinity, and sometimes fellow of the Kings Colledge in Cambridge.	Sclater, William, 1575-1626.	1610 (1610)	STC 21847; ESTC S116857	29,329	42

sanctified throughout in their whole spirit 1. Thess 5.23 and soule and body and that especially in them is eminent Their hearts are renewed to an vnfayned l●ue of God in Christ Iesus so that whatsoeuer they do in Gods seruice proceeds frō this fountaine Loue of God in Christ 2. Cor. 5.14 Followeth their fourth staire The fourth degree Luk 2.10 Rom. 10.15 Haue tasted of the good word of God I like that exposition The good word of God that is the Gospell that tidings of good things and great ioy to Gods people For herewith are the wicked affected euen to reioycing They receiue the word with ioy Mat. 13.20 Now briefly the differences betwixt them and Gods children in reioycing are these 1. Grounds of ioy in the Reprobates are carnall deepe mysteries things nouellons and rare much affect them as Athenians Act. 17.20 Mar. 12.37 2. Misunderstanding the promises rauish them the Conditions are distastefull Restraints vncomfortable As to malefactours in prison the tydings of a generall pardon after a Parliament how welcome is it the preface especially runnes merrily It pleaseth the King of his mercifull inclination to pardon all faults and offences But when the restraints come in the after-clause Except murther Treasons and Burglaries c. how is all that ioy turned into mourning and murmuring at the grace of the Pardoner from which they are excluded 3. This ioy ariseth suddenly like a flash of lightning Mat. 13.20 Incontinently saith our Sauiour they receiue the word with ioy Whereas neuer was child of God suddenly brought frō Hell to Heauen from the discomfort of a wounded conscience presently to reioyce in the Gospell 4. As suddenly wrought so as suddenly and irrecouerably lost whereas the ioy of the Saints is durable Ioh. 16.22 5. This sweetnes once tasted by a child of God by an heart seasoned with grace so affects them Pro. 23.23 that all things are sooner parted with then the Gospell An Hypocrite likes well of the word ad haras vsque till it touch him in his earthly profits howbeit rather then the s●ine should perish Christ himselfe shal be entreated to depart out of their Coastes Mat. 8.34 The last degree Caieton ad locum The highest pitch they can reach vnto remaines Tasted of the powers of the world to come Caieton me thinkes well aymes at the meaning To taste of the powers of the world to come sayth he is when a man for the world to come for the future resurrection and the last iudgement begins to set vp the regiment of the soule ouer the body Thus speaks hee like a Philosopher of flesh and spirit Let me adde something for more distinct explanation Men are sayd to taste of the powers of the world to come when as the meditation of the life to come beginning at the last iudgemēt works powerfully in their hearts How powerfull this meditatiō is Luk. 13.24 we may see in many seeking to enter but not being able Take for instāce those poore soules in the Church of Rome drunken with the wine of that harlots fornicatiōs What volūtary macerating of the body distributing their goods abandoning the world see we in them and all to purchase their heauen Neuer were the Priests of Baal more zealous for their Idoll then these for themselues to winne saluation And shall we say they enter If any man so thinke Rom. 9.31 32. I may commend his charity but shall neuer approoue his iudgement Heare the Apostle Israel which followed the law of righteousnesse attayned not to the law of righteousnes Wherefore Because they sought it not by faith but as by the worke of the law The application is easie And though I will not say but that some man holding iustification by workes in theft may perhaps be saued yet this I think I may be ●old to affirme whosoeuer holds it in hypothesi for his owne particular a Iew or Infidell may be saued as soone as he What is then the odds betwixt Gods child and a reprobate in this behalfe Ans A Reprobate makes himself the onely or principall terme of his intention in all his performances nor otherwise can desire Gods glory then as subordinate to his owne benefit A meere mercenary affection shall you see in all such no one thing done of loue towards God or with sincere desire to glorifie his name Gods child though he vseth meditation of saluation as a spurre to obedience yet beholds something beyond it more to be desired that is That God in all things may be glorified And if euer the question could come betwixt Gods glory and the saluation of his soule whether should be preferred Rom. 9.3 rather had he be Anathema from Christ then that the glory of GOD should be impeached It s an excellent speach of Bernard Bernard de diligendo Deo cap. 3. Non sine praemio d ligitur Deut etsi absque praemit intuitu di●gendus sit and againe Vacua ●amque vera charitas esse non potest nec tamen mercenaria est And this is the vndoubted character of our adoption and regeneration to that immortall vndefiled and neuer-fading inheritance reserued for vs in the heauens Now brethren for closing vp of this point Application 2. Cor. 13.5 giue mee leaue to exhort as the Apostle doth Prooue your selues whether you be in the faith or no examine your selues Hee doubles the exhortatiō because its a matter waighty and of most difficult performance and Peter 2. Pet. 1.10 Giue diligence to make your calling and election sure Beloued in Christ Iesus it s no so ordinary a grace as we commonly imagine to be assured of saluation or adoption For behold how many great things euen Reprobates attaine vnto Knowledge of the mystery of Christ apprehension of his excellency worthy gifts of the holy Ghost reioycing in the Gospell many powerfull effects of the world to come and yet are neyther chosen to saluation nor indeed truely regenerate to a liuely hope in CHRIST IESVS Alas beloued how many are there amongst vs boasting of vndoubtfull assurance of saluation that neuer reached to this scantling of Reprobates I say therefore againe Proue we and examine ourselues sift we these deceitfull hearts of ours to the bottome that we may attaine some measure of wel grounded assurance that we are the sonnes of God Let this also be the touchstone which the Lord seemes to commend vnto vs. Compare we our measure of grace with that wee find Reprobates to haue attained nor let vs euer please our selues in any one till we can say of euery one Herein yet I goe beyond a Reprobate Thus farre could neuer cast-away ascend What if wee haue the knowledge of Christ what if faith so that wee could remoue mountaynes and want obedience Can that knowledge saue vs can that faith assure vs Behold euen Reprobates alleadge for themselues Lord Mat. 7.22 haue not wee prophecied in thy name and in thy name cast out Deuills

receiued I cannot in fewer or more pithy termes expresse it then Master Iunius hath done before me thus Paralel lib. ● Cap. 6. when as a man falles 1. Totus 2. Ex toto 3. In totum The whole man in iudgement will affections actions from all grace to all impious enormityes Saint Peter thus When a man turnes away from the holy Commandement giuen vnto him 2. Pet. 2.21 22. is againe intangled and ouercome returnes like the Dog to his vomit and with the Sowe to her wallowing in the mire The Repentance of such men so falling is impossible Impossibility is of 2. sorts one Absolute the other ex hypothesi Absolutely impossible it is not they should be renewed for what contradictiō implies it But supposing the vnchangeable wil of God to the contrary so it is impossible they should euer repent because the righteous Lord hath determined thus to punish their malicious desertiō Repentance they may come perhaps ad metamelegan so did Iudas Sap. 5.4 and if the damned in hell befoole themselues for impiety why may not these men come to such an after thought-taking and wish that their sinnes had neuer beene committed But to a godly sorrow and change of their minds ad metanogan it's impossible they should euer be renewed 2. Pet. 2.21 Therefore saith Peter It had bene better neuer to haue knowne then after Knowledge to turne backe And their latter end because more hopelesse therefore worse more discomfortable then their beginning that is then their state before Calling Will you now see the equity of this will in God weigh 1. their fact in it selfe 2. Compare it with the courses of mē such as we all hold equall For their fact They crucify to themselues againe the Sonne of God expose him to infamy The Scripture vseth to implead our actions not so much considering their euent which the Lord by his power vsually disappoints as waighing our intentiōs and the nature of our deeds in themselues considered Example 1. Cor. 8.11 By thy meat shall thy weake brother perish for whom Christ died Vnderstand it not of the euent but of the Nature of the action So here the Lord Christ indeede risen from death now dieth no more but liueth for euer clothed with maiesty and honour Yet for that their facts in themselues considered are semblable to the cursed cruelty of the Iewes they are sayd againe to crucify the Sonne of GOD. What to make Christ our pack-horse for our wilful sinnes to frustrate as much as in vs lieth the end of his death to draw him downe againe from Heauen to make new satisfaction for our presumptuous rebellions to fill the mouthes of Pagans with blasphemy of that holy name after which we are named What had the Iewes cruelty more execrable in it Such Mis-creants who will not say but they are iustly depriued of the benefit of Christs sacrifices and perish eternally in fearefull expectation of vengeance Heb. 10.26 27. and of violent fire to deuoure them Againe Compare the Lords dealing with that which we all coūt equal amōgst men When a man hath spent the vtmost of his paine and cost and s●ill in manuring his ground hoping to reape benefit by his industrious and costly husbandry yet finds no crop but thornes and briefs say we not of such soyle that it deserues not the second paynes of the owner but to be left as a Desart and dwelling for wild Beastes yea to be accursed for euer and deuoted to the fire And when the Lord hath laboured with such barren hearts ploughed vp their fallow ground sowne the seedes of eternall life watered them with the dew of heauen lookes as iustly he may for fruits of obedience reapes none but the cursed fruites of contemning his graces and wilfull Apostacy is it not equall with the Lord to giue hardnesse of heart to destinate to destruction neuer to be recouered This is the righteous Lords dealing with Apostates this the recompēce he reapes for all his paines bestowed on them Holy therefore and iust and equall is this will of God in giuing vp such to hardnesse and impossibility of repenting Now Brethren we haue heard the meaning of the Text we haue seene the truth of what is here taught Application with the equity of this iudgemēt of God vpon their soules Let me now exhort in the Apostles words Heb. 3.12 Take heed I say againe take heed lest there be in any of vs an euil heart and vnfaithfull to depart from the liuing God Surely except the Lord should presently send vs downe to the place of our iniquity where is payne endlesse easlesse remedilesse he could not inflict a greater iudgement then thus to permit vs to Apostasie And let no man say this caueat concernes not him If any man seeme to himselfe to stand 1. Cor. 10.12 let him of all others take heede lest he fall Yea I would to God there were not too euident tokens I say not of Apostasie but of declinings at least to a worse condition in many of vs. There is beside this vniuersall reuolting another kind of Apostasie which we call partiall a fearefull incliner to this irrecouerable conditiō And it is of three sorts 1. in Iudgement 2. in Affection 3. in Practise In Iudgement when a man in some particulars falls frō the soundnes and sincerity of iudgement The Apostle layeth this to the charge of the Galatians that hauing bin rightly instructed in the meanes of iustification and saluation Gal. 1.6 3.3 they were presently carried away to another Gospell and hauing begun in the spirit would be perfected in the flesh And are there not euidences ynow of such Declinings in many of vs We were wont to haue our Schooles and pulpits ring of this truth Apoc. 18.4 The Pope is Antichrist Rome Babylon and that whosoeuer wil be saued must forsake communion with her Of late we haue be thought our selues of a new See for Antichrist new Rome rather then the old a new Citty set on seuen hills neuer dreamt of till of late discouered by Popish Geographers But blessed be God that hath directed the heart and pen of our learned Soueraigne M●●it pref prefix Apol. so graphically to be be paint him by his place properties time of reuealing c. So that now I doubt not Antichrist shall againe be Antichrist Rome Babylon and our people exhorted not so much to bethinke themselues of returning to Rome as their mother as to flye frō that scarlet whore made drunk with the bloud of Gods Saints We were wont to be taught iustification by faith onely without workes of Nature Law yea or of Grace it selfe Shall we not say they decline apace that will haue workes enter Iustification tincta sanguine Christi died red in the bloud of Christ Auricular Confession we were iustly taught to detest as a snare of mens Consciences a burthen not to be indured by Christians How then say