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A11610	The worthy communicant rewarded Laid forth in a sermon, on John 6.54. Preached in the Cathedrall of St. Peter in Exeter, on Low-Sunday, being the 21. of Aprill, Anno 1639. By William Sclater, Master of Arts, late Fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge, now chaplaine of the Right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop's Barony of Saint Stephens, and preacher also at S. Martin, in the same city.	Sclater, William, 1575-1626.	1639 (1639)	STC 21850; ESTC S100965	42,655	89

THE WORTHY COMMUNICANT REWARDED LAID FORTH IN A SERMON ON JOHN 6.54 PREACHED IN THE Cathedrall of St. PETER in Exeter on Low-Sunday being the 21. of Aprill Anno 1639. BY WILLIAM SCLATER MASTER Of Arts late Fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge now Chaplaine of the Right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop's Baronry of Saint Stephens and Preacher also at S. Martin in the same City 1 COR. 11.27 Whosoever shall eate this Bread and drinke this Cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the Body and Bloud of the Lord. Aug. apud P. Lumb l. 4. dist 9. C. Non manducans manducat manducans non manducat quia non manducans sacramentaliter aliquando manducat spiritualiter è converso LONDON Printed by R. Y. for G. LATHUM at the Bishops head in Pauls Church-yard TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL Doctor PETERSON Dean and Canon residentiary of St. Peter in Exeter Chaplaine in ordinary to his Majesty c. my worthily honoured friend the exuberancie of all blessings Reverend Sir THat which was graced with your audience in preaching with your thanks when preached be pleased now to honour with your noble Patronage in print which is a kind of preaching too that as a 2 Sam. 18.23 Ahimaaz did Cushi and Saint b John 20.4 John Saint Peter doth out-run the vocall by so much farther as it can lengthen out its strides as Procrustes stretched his guests in c Plutarch in vita Thesei Plutarch that were for his bed otherwise too short to reach it self unto the hands and eyes of those good Catholike Christians unto whose ears my voice had it bin Stentorian or as a d Mar. 3.17 Boanerges could not come To preach by the pen which in the expression of Clemens Alexandrinus is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is as usefull sometimes as to doe so by the tongue and this instruction by the e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hand like to a wedge of gold beaten into a plate spreads more abroad and often with as large emolument to the Church as that which is by lively f 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Clemens Alex lib. prim Strom. speech or sermocination I may seeme perchance by this to light a candle to the Sun and to cast my spoonfull into that vast Ocean of knowledge which we though sitting upon the very lees and dregs of time for Atheisme and ill practice which with bleeding hearts we view abroad and wonder at have lived to see make up that prophesie of great Daniel who foretold it should g Dan. 12.4 abound and of the Kingly Prophet whose prediction is now at its full height and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of accomplishment God gave the word and great are the company of the h Psal 68.11 Preachers when thus comparatively I lay me in the ballance I finde most others to preponderate sith I must on the generall audit of my selfe confessedly with Paul bring in my account with i 2 Cor. 12.11 I am nothing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and with good Calvin mine empty k Calvin Inst lib. 2. cap 5. sect 13. in fine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saying of all my best parts and performances as S. Andrew of the five loaves and two fishes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 alas l John 6.9 What are these They reach not as I reade of Davids later Worthies unto the dignity of the m 2 Sam. 23.19 former who did not more outstrip in worth then Saul did overgrow in n 1 Sam. 9.2 stature his under brethren or Zacheus o Luke 19.4 climb'd up on the Sycamore o'relooke the company in the way below with Christ But when againe I meditate that even a paire of p Luke 2.24 Turtles and the two q Mar. 12.42 43. Mites where there was no more to give were valued by that God who measureth more by quality then by a Non de patrimonio sed de animo opus ejus examinans considerans non quantum sed ex quanto dedisset S. Cypr. lib. de opere cleemosyn sect 14. quantity as a rich oblation and a large additament to the common corban and the treasurie of the Church and when I think that my little light though but as a candle or a glimmering ray of that orient b Mal. 4.2 Sun of righteousnesse is given and derived to me not to be hidden under the c Mat. 5.15 bushell whether of covetousnesse or obscurity nor to be set under the d Luke 8.16 bed of lazinesse or sluggish ease much lesse to be dipped in the liquour of what is e Isa 5.20 called good but is the worst of fellowship till it be quite extinct but as Saint Paul saith even of the commonest gift of the Spirit that it s bestowed not for ostentation of the haver but for to f 1 Cor. 12.7 profit withall the whole Church Why should I be shie to pay though but my g Eccles 1.7 rivulet as in tribute to this Ocean and to improve though but my one talent to the best advantage of my Lord and Master Christ who is wont to give to him that h Luke 8.18 hath and having doth employ the i Mat. 25.28 more by how much more the good alreadie given spreadeth and doth become diffusive to communitie I would not therefore with the Spider weave this web to thrust it to a corner but with the Silk-worme rather spinne my thread so that it might help to cloath at least some younger children of the Church I must confesse the Presse may now well begin to surfet and as k Gen. 49.14 Issachar to couch down under the burdens of those sons of Anak those Giant-like voluminous writers on this my subject those are your bulky Elephants that with whole l 1 Mac. 6.37 castles-full of paper on their backes occasion the common Readers to keep aloofe their purse-strings are too weake to tye and hold them and the acies of their eie-sight hebetated by so too-big objects I have not written m Tenuis mihi campus aratur such Iliades after Homer Many before me have done worthily this * Est illud magnae fertilitatis opus Ovid. Trist lib. 2. larger way in Ephratah and for it are become as the people in the gates told Boaz very n Ruth 4.11 famous in our Bethleem I have chosen to present my Mother-Church as Saint Austin did Laurentius with an enchiridion onely as having limmed out what is more copiously pourtraied by others into a smaller draught and so doe offer it as were Homers Iliades to that mightie Monarch in a Nutshell to her I must expect having thus hoised up my saile to steare amaine some surges some whistlings of your windy spirits that like to summer flies will blow corruption on the sweetest of provision Wee are fallen into those times wherein all Sermons are most sure of censure most of all unsure of practice

11.28 Corinthians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let every particular man examine himselfe and as the word imports put himself upon the tryall Examination is the eye of the soul by which reflexively it seeth it selfe and knoweth what it hath done Other meates saith St. Chrysostome are e're they be taken to be first proved lest they hurt us but here lest this heavenly meat prove noxious to thee thou must first goe prove thy selfe Judge p 1 Cor. 11.31 your selves therefore Brethren that ye be not judged of the Lord let us be impartiall in the scrutiny of our hollow and q Jer. 17.9 deceitfull hearts and like the woman that sought her groat in the Gospel light up the candle of our best faculties and leave no corner of our soules a Luk. 15.8 unswept till we have found out that sin of our soules that doth as Paul speaks so b Heb. 12.1 easily beset us and as that Jebusite in Canaan that will not out of our coasts and when we have discovered it to c Col. 3.5 mortifie it and to d Gal. 5.24 crucifie it with the affections and lusts thereof And as the speciall sacrifice that was offered upon the Altar in Jerusalem was wont diligently to bee looked into by the high Priest and his Ministers to spy out the blemishes or otherwise of it before the actuall oblation so let us S. e S. Clement epist ad Cor. pag. 53 54. Clement in his Epistle to the Corinthians a late and * See Mr Mede Serm. of the reverence of Gods house p. 14. genuine monument of antiquity set forth hath expressed it to the life thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which word is interpreted by e Philo Judaeus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Philo Judaeus thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it implyeth such a disquisition so exact as if Momus himselfe with a Lincean eye were to come after hee should not finde a thing to carpe at in the very entrails of our sacrifices of our soules The same word is used by St. f Chrys Hom. 20. in Rom. Chrysostome upon this occasion of pre-examination 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Thus we should doe from the bottome of our soules wherefore g Jam. 4 8. cleanse your hands you sinners and purifie your hearts ye double-minded Thus if we doe at least in * Tota vita boni Christiani est sanctum desiderium desire and endevour we then come under this same ὁ Whoso in my Text and are the men whosoever we be for externall condition in state or place that be all invited hither to eat and to drinke and that of no meaner cheare then the very flesh and bloud of Christ Jesus himselfe And thus I passe from the guests unto the provision made ready for them the flesh and the bloud of Christ Whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my bloud The second particular 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Flesh and bloud these are strange cates to make a banquet of We read in the Scripture that h 1 Cor. 15.50 flesh and bloud cannot enter into the Kingdome of heaven but that 's meant of flesh corruption not of flesh the substance as the words ensuing shew for as there is Iron so the rust of Iron how much lesse shall he that feeds upon it for his food Satia te sanguine quem sitisti saith Tamyris as I remember in i Justin hist lib. 1. Justins history to Cyrus when his head was off and cast into a vessell full of bloud Now surfet on that bloud which thou so much thirstedst after It was a law of Gods owne enacting He that sheds k Gen. 9.6 mans bloud by man also shall his bloud be shed My flesh and my Bloud Surely what the Israelites said of Manna when first they saw and tasted it crying out in admiration l Exod. 16.15 Man-hu What is this portion or meat prepared for us for they wist not saith Moses what it was so may many a man that knowes not how to discerne the Lords Body such an one is apt to thinke with that monster Cacus in the Poet who from his wickednesse in abstracto had his name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith * Foribusque affixa superbis ora virûm tristi pendebant pallida tabo Virg. Aeneid 8. Servius that nought but * Servius ib. fol. 505. mans flesh must be drawn into his den and as some savage Cannibal professing anthropophagie as some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 man-hating Miso some Minotaure or bloudy * Sen. Tragaed in Thyeste Atreus or the like prodigies of nature that man was made to be m 2 Pet. 2.12 taken as St. Peter saith of brute beasts and to be destroyed and as the n Judg. 19. Levites concubine to be chopt in pieces Thus surely may your dull Capernaites and unilluminated men imagine for so they strove among themselves saying How can this man give us his flesh to eat John 6.52 yea more then so ver 60. many even of Christs owne Disciples when they heard this said Durus est hic senno this is a hard saying who can beare it And the very truth is this its that which poseth nature utterly and makes her stand as he without his wedding garment in the Gospel upon conviction o Mat. 22.12 speechlesse But though the words as they are in the shell be hard to pierce into yet when as our Saviour hath to our hands broken it for us we may easily take out the kernell of them The main scope of the Text. The mind of our Saviour in this Text which is but repeated from the former verses is to shew us the sweet effect of the spirituall eating of his body and drinking of his bloud by faith above that other orall eating and drinking of the bread and wine which are but the Sacraments thereof and may be taken as well by Hypocrites as by True believers This mysticall partaking instrumentally procureth eternall life after the resurrection whereas the other which is meerly outward and no more may yet engage to p 1 Cor. 11.29 judgement and damnation the reason is because the one partakes of the Lord himselfe who is the Bread of life Joh. 6.35 whom to know and with whom to have communion aright is life eternall Joh. 17.3 The other onely of the bread of the Lord which hath no vertue without faith at all to procure such endlesse blisse yea more Dum Sacramenta possunt obesse as St. Austin truly when those elements of Bread and Wine once consecrated by the lawfull minister and changed by that act of his duely and as it ought performed though not from their q Neque enim id Christus egit ut panis friticeus abjiceret naturam suam ac novam quandam divinitatem indueret sed ut nos potius immutarer utque Theophylactus loquitur in Joh. 6. transe lementaret in corpus suum Juel Apol. p. 41 vol.