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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

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