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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

with abundance God graunt the day come not vpon vs when we would wish to run from sea to sea to heare and shall find no meanes When children begin to play with their bread discreet● Father● take it from them or keepe them shorter let vs feare lest this delicacy bring on vs a scarcity of hearing the word of God Home-deuotions are comfortable if vsed in their seasons but we know who hath sayd Pro. 28.9 The prayer of him that turneth his eare from hearing the law is abominable And if we would auoyde Apostasy take heede how wee forsake the gathering together of the Saints Beware how the garishnesse of the world dazle thine eye and bewitch thine heart 2. Tim. 4. Demas ouertaken with the loue thereof forsakes Paul And Loue not the world sayth the beloued Apostle the fashion thereof passeth away ● cos nos paragetas 1. Ioh. 2.17 or as some render the glittering shew thereof withdrawes and steales away the heart from God How many haue our owne eyes seene mirrours of holy carriage in their meane estate whom the loue of aduancement and the enioying thereof hath made ouer dissolute would God not also scandalous to their profession Keepe good conscience precisely neyther allow thy selfe in any thing no not the smallest which conscience rightly informed condemnes Rom. 14.22 Blessed is hee which condemnes not himselfe in that which he allowes As blessed he that allowes not himselfe in that which his heart condemnes Herein therefore be precise Do nothing no not the least with a doubting or recoyling conscience The stroke of Conscience neglected in small things it growes by insensible degrees to swallow greater without reluctation Fearefull are the instances we haue daily in this kind But I spare to trouble you One reason onely I will annexe to set edge on this exhortation and then shal be the end Beloued in Christ Iesus The Lord hath long bene amongst vs by the heauiest of his temporall iudgements Those arrowes of his displeasure Famine and Pestilence haue bene made almost drunken with the blood of our slaine And yet behold the wrath of the Lord is not ceased but his hand is stretched out still Wonder we at this that the Lord should walke thus stubburnly towards vs More wonder it is but that his mercies are endles that wee haue not bin vtterly consumed For that which Isaiah speakes of Iudah Is 1.5 is it not true of vs That wee fall away more and more I can well remember since the one halfe of these miseries hath brought vs on our Knees in sack-cloth and ashes in prayer and fasting for our sinnes that haue drawne downe the wrath of God vpon vs. And a man would thinke these Afflictions should haue that effect in vs which the Lord teacheth to bee the end of his Iudgements Hos 5.15 To make vs seeke him the more diligently Oh that it were not true that wee harden our hearts the more continuing and encreasing our Apostasies scarce euer bethinking our selues of humiliation As if we meant to stout it out with the Lord and to dare him to do his worst Oh Iob. remember who hath sayd Hath any bin fierce against the Lord that hath prospered and what himselfe threatens viz. Leu. 26. to walke as stubburnly towards vs as wee can do against him and to encrease our plagues seuen times more except the lighter preuaile to humble vs. Some course therfore betimes let vs take to stop the fierce wrath of the Lord that is gone out against vs. It 's a fearefull thing saith our Apostle to fall into the hands of the liuing God who is in his wrath a Consuming fire If our houses had taken fire we haue this wisdome to thinke one bucket of water may do more good to stop the flame then almost a riuer when it hath begun to gather strength Would God we were as wise for our liues and soules as we are for the trash of this world Surely more preualent to quench the fire of Gods displeasure in the beginning is one teare then a whole showre streame of them when it 's once inflamed Other meane thē this I know none to stop the course of Gods wrath 2. Par. 7.13 14. If I send pestilence among my people If my people among whom my name is called vpon do humble themselues pray seek my presence turne from their wicked wayes then will I heare in heauen and be mercifull vnto their sinne and will heale their land Right honorable why are not you a petitioner to those in authority that a Fast may be proclaimed Stay you til you come againe to your thousands in a weeke Alas how agrees that with Christian compassion to those that in the Interim lose wiues children those that are deerest vnto them and what a seruile and Pharoah like resolution is this neuer till needes must to send for Moses and Aaron to intercede for vs vnto the Maiesty of God I beseech you therefore in the bowells of Christ Iesus if there be any consolation in Christ if any cōfort of loue if any fellowship of the spirit if any compassion and mercy fulfi●l my request importune the performance of this duty proue the Lord with these things see if he rebuke not the Destroyer for your sakes If you consent and obey Is 1 19 20. you shall eate the good things of the land But if yee refuse and be rebellious God graunt I proue not a true Prophet you and your children and your people shal be deuoured of the Pestilence If these things preuayle not with authority let me yet admonish euery of vs that in our houses by our selues and our families we may be carefull this way we shall then see that gracious promise performed to vs and ours when thousands fall at our right hands Ps 91.7 and ten thousands at the left it shall not come nigh vs. Ezek. 9.4 A marke is set by commaundement from the Lord on the forheads of th●se that mourne for the abominations that are done in the middes of Ierusalem And let vs be assured of the same LORDS protection for vs and ours if we be such as from our hearts mourne for the detestable things are done amongst vs. Now the God of all grace that hath called vs to his eternall glory by Iesus Christ make vs perfect confirme strengthen and stablish vs that we may be kept blamelesse vnto the day of the Lord Iesus Christ To him be glory and dominion for euer Amen FINIS

proficere Non Vis ergo deficere Nequaquam What then Where I am I will hold my selfe Nec peior fieripatior wee melior cupi● c. Beloued he could not haue spoken fitlier to the state of these times Nee peior fieri patior nec melior cupio Would God it were not the Embleme of our Church But I leaue this Polypus come to our people Marueilous hath God bene in his mercy towards vs in this kingdome granting vs meanes of knowledge such as our fathers desired to inioy but could not inioy them And as Paul speakes of this people for the time we might haue bene teachers and would God it were not so euen in congregations where the word hath bene most plentifully preached that they had neede to be taught againe the very first principles and rudiments of Christian Religion I will tell you strange things yet true in places where the Gospell hath long bene taught are people notwithstanding found so grossely ignorant of Christ Iesus that they know not eyther what he is or why sent into the world what he wrought to procure redemption or how they may be partakers of him Neyther need we wonder there should be weakenes where is so grosse ignorance after such plentifull instruction What then should be the reasons Impediments of proficiency of this so little or no bettering in grace One is Opinion of sufficiency Semper tibi displiceas sayth Saint Augustine No maruell if there be so little care of proficiency where there is so proude a conceit of perfection I striue forward to perfection Phil. 3.13 sayth the Apostle what was his spurre Opinion that he was not perfect A second is Comparing of our selues with inferiors or equals where yet meanes of bettering are not equall Our fathers with their modicum say some were saued why not we I will tell you in few words where men commit much Luk. 12.48 Pro. 4.18 they expect the more where lesse committed lesse is expected Proceed we The way of the righteous shineth as the light that shineth more and more to the perfect day It was a wonder in Iosua his time that the Sunne stood still a greater Ios 10.13 2. Reg. 20 11. Gal. 5.7 Apoc. 2.4 which befell in the dayes of Hezekiah when he went backe so many degrees Strange that our Church should stand at a stay more wonder me thinks and horrour also that shee should go backward You did run well sayth the Apostle who did let you I haue a few things against thee that thou hast lost thy first loue Me thinks when I but mention these things we should iudge our selues the people here meant For what is become of that ancient detestation of Antichrist and his corruptions while we begin to thinke we may separate too farre from Antichrist as Antichrist and to study as some to-fore compounding of the two Religions Cassander when as soone shall we compound light with darknes Christ with Belial as CHRIST with Antichrist Gods pure worship with Popish superstition Shall I adde this one particular further let it not be offensiue Time was when we knew to put difference betwixt professed enemies and friends to vs in affection though peaceably dissenting from vs in some small poynts of iudgement And then seuerity ran her course against the greatest and most Capitall enemies How is it now that Iustice knows no epiegcegan towards friends is so full of conniuence towards obdurate enemies Me thinkes yet the sword of Magistracy should be distomos two-edged if it pearce so deepe as the flesh and bones of friends it should bee sheathed in the bowels of vnreconcileable aduersaryes 1. Thess 5.13 1. Tim. 5.17 Mortmaine Let me come now to our people That singular loue to Ministers for their works sake what is become of it that double honor for them that labour in the word and doctrine Moses of old was faine to proclaime a Sufficit and statutes were once made with vs to restraine ouerlauish contribution Those were the times of giuing these are of withdrawing And brethren at that first rising of the Gospell amongst vs how did the kingdome of heauen suffer violence The word of God was precious in those dayes 1. Sam. 3.1 As the Israelites when they first saw Manna cryed out in wonder Man-hu what is this so excellent food that the Lord hath vouchsafed vs so we of the Gospell admiring the rich grace of God that began to shine vnto vs in the face of IESVS Christ How are we now sated with the plenty of it and cry out contemptuously Nothing but this Manna The world pestered with preaching To say nothing of that temper which many of vs begin to hold euen in Moralities and to be halfe perswaded there may be Virtutis nimium too much precizenes euen in morall dutyes and abstinence from euill But leaue we these vlcers come to the second thing in the text The second member of the text The first step of a Reprobate The progresse of Reprobates for so I iudge it because their fall is without recouery Their degrees are fiue First Illumination that whereas naturally men know not the things of GOD nor can know them walke in the blindnesse and vanity of their minds embracing errour for truth darkenesse for light the Lord thus farre vouchsafeth grace euen to Reprobates that they see and acknowledge the truth of Religion distaste errours discerne acknowledge approue that which is truth in Iesus Christ That Castawayes go thus farre Peter playnely affirmes speaking of some men 2. Pet. 2.18 20. cleane escaped from those that are wrapped in errours who yet are intangled againe and ouercome What need many instances Come not very Reprobates in the last day professing that they haue prophecied in Christs name Mat. 7.22 Mat. 10.1 and was not Iudas as his fellowes instructed in the truth of the Gospel when dismissed with the rest to preach the Gospell I might be infinite this way How then is knowledge by our Sauiour made a pledge of eternall life Ioh. 17.3 Ans Knowledge of God in Christ admits sundry differences according to Measures Mannor Efficacy First there is a confused knowledge of Christ much like that light 2. Pet. 1.9 Mu●paxontes which men poare-blind haue of things farre distant Such for the most part is the knowledge of Reprobates To heare how fluently those men can discourse of the secrets of Nature how distinctly they vtter things which naturall reason apprehends it many times breedes admiration in the mindes of the hearers But when they come to speake of the mysteries of Religion alas how confusedly tumble they out their little or no apprehension that euery man may see they are but smatterers in the secrets of Christ The knowledge of Gods children is much more distinct Secondly there is a generall knowledge of CHRIST and Redemption by him wrought and there is another particular In generals some castawaies go farre perhaps beyond the Elect