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A11608	Death's summons, and the saints duty Laid forth first summarily in a sermon on 2. King. 20.1. in the cathedrall of St Peter in Exeter, Ianu. 24. 1638. at the solemne funerall of a well-deserving citizen. Since somewhat enlarged for the common good, by William Sclater, Master of Arts, late fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge, now a preacher of Gods Word in the city of Exeter.	Sclater, William, 1609-1661.	1640 (1640)	STC 21849; ESTC S116829	73,769	170

yet they z Psal 50.22 forget him saith the Prophet that is as Saint Paul interprets they doe not like to a Rom. 1.28 reteine God in their knowledge that is to * Haec est summa delicti nolli agnoscore quem ignorare non possis S. Cyprian de Idolor vanitate sect 5. acknowledge him to be such a God as he hath revealed himselfe to be in all his glorious attributes of Omnipotency Omnisciency Omnipresence Infinitenesse Eternity did we not onely know but also acknowledge and b Psal 45.10 consider these things aright did we labour thoroughly to c Isa 42.25 44.19 lay them to our hearts to d Psal 107.43 ponder them by continuall meditation and as we ought to be affected with them it could not be but that we should often remember how Eternity depends upon a moment how great an e Rom. 14.12 account every one of us even from the f Eph. 5.12 secret and g 1. Cor. 4.5 hidden workes of darknesse to an h Matth. 12.36 idle word must in particular make to this i Psal 77.13 great God and k 2. Tim. 4.8 righteous Judge of l Gen. 18.25 all the earth when after death wee must all m 2. Cor. ● 10 appeare before his dreadfull Tribunall and awfull seate of Judgment how could we then but as Enoch walke n Gen. 5.24 with God and with Abraham o Gen. 17.1 before God as alwayes in his presence as to whose eyes all things lye open and p Heb. 4.13 naked yea as one who knoweth all our thoughts long q Psal 139.1 before they be and when they are findeth them all to be but r 1 Cor. 3.20 vain certainely did we seriously consider this we would in our severall places speedily set our houses in order whether it be the house spirituall Corporall Mysticall Ecclesiasticall Secular or oeconomicall our Conversation would be in heaven ſ Phil. 3.20 even whilest we are alive here upon earth And so being ready as the good t Matth. 25.4 Virgins with oyle in our lamps how joyfully may we meet our Bridegroom and cry out with those blessed Spirits u Rev. 22.20 Come Lord Jesu come quickely This foregoing preparation made the ancient Martyrs to embrace death as the prooeme unto immortality x Isidor Pelusiota l. 4. epist 52. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Isidore Pelusiota told his good friend Theon Labour we to get the meditation of the Lord thus to become as David professed y Psal 104.34 sweet unto us we shall then with St. Paul groane under the z Rom. 7.24 misery of this body of death even a Phil. 1.23 long to be dissolved and to be with Christ which is best of all Lord open thou our dim yea our blind eyes that we may see him fasten our hearts upon him by a lively Faith alwayes give us right apprehensions of thee and heavenly things that living the life of thine b 1 Pet. 1.14 obedient children * Matth. 25.23 and faythfull servants in a conversation c Psal 50.23 ordered aright wee may so honor thee our good God here in this life of grace below that in the end of all wee may enjoy the fulnesse of thy promised and d Matth. 25.34 prepared glory above in Heaven even at thy right hand at whose right hand are e Psal 16.11 pleasures for evermore even where there is health without sicknesse life without death joy without sorrow even joy f Pet. 1.8 unspeakeable and full of glory And that only and alone for his sake who hath so dearely g 1 Cor. 6 ●0 bought us Jesus Christ the h 1 John 2.1 righteous to whom with thee ô Father and thy blessed spirit three all-glorious persons one infiite and all 〈…〉 s God our God be given of us and of all thy Saints all glory praise dominion and Salvation in the Church i Eph. 3.21 by CHRIST JESUS throughout all ages World without end Amen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 FINIS Imprimatur JOHANNES HANSLEY Novem. 7th 1639.

which directeth us Ministers to beware how we presume to vent any thing unto our people without our first sure warrant for it from the Lord. If our Saviour gave such great caution to the hearers that they should y Luke 8.18 the Greeke word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which denotes a very earnest seeing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Beza take heed how they heare so must we likewise be as cautionate how we z 1 Pet. 4.11 speake otherwise then as the very oracles of God so our Saviour saith Joh. 12.49 that I have not spoken of my a Joh. 12.49 self and St Paul calleth what he delivered to the Church for Doctrine not his owne but b Act. 20.27 Gods counsell Act. 20.27 the contrary vociferations made by ignorant and wilde c Enthusiasmi id solum habent commodi ut homines in immensum aliquod pelagus abripiant tandemque in Atheismi gurgitem praecipites demergant Duraeus Whitakero l. 1. sect 30. p. 107. apud Whitak contra Duraeum Enthusiasts spuing out their own froth male contented brainsick fancies w th out Gods warrant allowance good lord what noisome weeds of errour Schisme Faction and all mad irregularity do they most dangerously occasion through the d Rev. 12.9 old cunning of the e Matt. 13.25 envious man that delights in tares and hemlock to grow up and spread in the precious field and seed-plot of wholsome and most proper grain oh for the f Matt. 3.12 fanne of Christ thorowly to purge the floore of his Church from the chaffe of all such g Spiritus Anabaptisticus ametia quaedam fuit furor praeceps atque effraenatus quo acti scripturas omnes abjiciunt toti exrepentinis Enthusiasmis pendent Whitak contra Duraeum l. sect 32. Anabaptisticall h Vitanda sunt deliria sectae Anabapsticae quae sine dubio à Diabolo est excitata monstrum est execrabile ex variis haeresibus blasphemiis conflatum Vrsin Catech qu● 74. unscriptured mouthings before the people who are seduced unto error beguiled by this meanes mainly in their i 2 Pet. 2.14 unstable Soules for that their fanaticall conceits have been at last defended as a worthy instrument of much good in this Citty saith well with no pretence but the k Mr. Paynter of Exeter quâ supra p. 27. See Goodwyn p. 118 119 cap. 10. quà supra Motion of the holy Ghost and yet God knows their motions oftimes differ as wide from the sweet unerring inspirations and motions of Gods good spirit as Heaven doth from Hell Pray we therefore for the spirit of wisedome and Revelation in the knowledge of God as St Paul speaketh Eph. 1.17 18. and the spirit of truth as our Savior stiles him Joh. 16.13 that when we speake as in the name of God we may speake the wisedome of God and that not as a soothing time-creature Preacher with the intising words of mans wisdome but in demonstration of the same spirit and of power 1 Cor. 2.4.7 then may we safely assure our hearts of a sic dicit Dominus Thus saith the Lord as the Prophet in my Text. But to whom doth our Prophet here direct his Thus saith the Lord unto the King himselfe So l 2 King 22.18 19. Michaiah to Ahab Nathan to David m 2. Sam. 12 7. Thou art the Man John-Baptist to Herod n Matt. 14 5. non licet see his plaines for thee to have thy brothers wife But yet wee must remember prudence in this poynt for who knows not that in these speciall Prophets there was somthing extraordinary wee ordinary Ministers may soone this way be too bold with royaltie at least in publique Nathan spake down-right to David but it was in privat But notwithstanding whilest we are sure we bring as o Matt. 17.27 Peter's fish did silver in our Mouthes I meane our sic dicit Dominus Thus saith the Lord why are we such dastards as in the cause of Christ when duely called thereto to feare the furrows of a rich or great mans brow And thus farre of the formall part of my Prophets imployment in the delivery of his message from the Lord unto the sick-King Hezekiah Hee said unto him Thus saith the Lord. I come now to the materiall part of his speech and this is set down 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 positively Thou shalt Die and what new thing is this was not this the doom of all mankind immediately upon sin Cinis es in Cinerem reverteris p Gen. 3.19 and Eccles 12.7 Dust thou art and unto Dust thou shalt return The woman of Tecoah long before set a necesse upon it q 2 Sam. 14.14 we must needs die yea there is a statute like those law of the Medes and Persians r Heb. 9.27 irrevocable enacted for it and never to bee repealed even so it is ſ Dan. 6.8 appointed saith Saint Paul And surely it 's true death is that common bag into which all the chessemen upon the table whether they be King or Queen rich or poore good or bad must be all shuffled together at the end of our game death is as an t See Quarles his poëms archer now it hits our superiours and so shoots over us then our inferiours and so shoots under us anon our freind roving on our right hand then our enemy flying on the left hand at last it hits the white and strikes our selves could u Gen. 5.27.969 yeeres age have excused it Methuselah had escaped it could x Judg. 14 6. strength have declined it then Sampson had missed it could y 1 Sam. 10.23 stature have over-looked it then Saul had avoyded it could z 2 Sam. 14.25 beauty have outfaced it then Absalom had never met it yea more could Art have shifted it by any curiosities or contrivals then the Grammarian with a Criticisme might judge it off and yet he that can decline a noune in every case cannot decline death in any case could the windings of wit and the Meanders of reason divisions and distinctions wave it off then surely the Logician would dispute it away and yet whilest he thinks fiercely to frame his argument in Barbara rudely to puzzle it death retorts upon him with another in Ferio and at last ni celarent and that sine modo figurâ Could the naturall Philosopher by his diving into Nature and by his vanity of notions stave it off then that Patriarch of Philosophers as Mr Hooker styles Aristotle had never been swallowed in that sea neither ebbing nor flowing yet all his ens mobile was at last become as Niobe when metamorphosed like to a stone in it's centre a thing without motion could the Mathematician by his strong imaginations phancy it off or by the harmony of the spheares charm it away that so he might still spin-out a thread of immortality on those rowling wheeles and between his two celestiall

g Luke 16.8 wisdome in them they cannot then seeke those things which be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 above and h Jam. 1 17. from above neither glory the end nor grace the way to that end and indeed what is wealth but the meer carkase of happinesse many times the silver hath more guilt and the world more i Matt. 13.22 thornes then as true godlinesse k 1 Tim. 6.6 contentment or great gaine and if wealth be a carkase it 's a prey fitter for a vulture and such ravenous creatures then the repast of any cleane birds and herein the comparison holds between the Vulture and an envious slanderer and a worldly muckworm For as a malicious Shimei or Doeg or an hypocriticall slanderer lookes like an hooting owle or a blindish bat upon the virtuous 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rectitudes and actions of the party envyed with a neglective eye but loves to be like flyes upon a rawgalled back still sucking and stinging and buzzing upon his infirmities so doth the carnall worldling looking askue upon heaven as the Vultures passing over with speed the pleasant gardens of delight to the dead carkase that lyes noysome to the senses pitch his most intended thoughts upon the spirit-grieving garbage of the world 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 m Isidor Pelusiota l. 3. Epi. 237. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Isidore Pelusiota hath it St. Paul hath expressely given that title to all worldly things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 n Phil. 3.8 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phil. 3.8 which signifyeth dung or dirt quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or that which is cast out to dogs and swine quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pleonasmo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And yet in this I must not be mistaken as if eyther the things of this world in themselves were simply thus or simply to be undervalued but o Ubi anima ipsa in contēplatione quae est dulcedo quaedam divina supra se evehitur exultans cum cognoscat omnia haec mundana in comparatione boni● illius incommutabilis nullius valoris esse Stella ad c. 10. Luc. in fine comparatively Pharaohs p Gen. 41.18.19 leane kine were kine though not so well-liking in comparison of the fat ones and riches Gods left-hand blessings be blessings though in comparison of those of the right-hand blessings they be as none as when the Queen of Sheba saw Solomon in his glory though shee came to him in a visit from far South laden and full of wonder q Pro. 3.16 but onely upon hear-say yet when she beheld all her self it 's sayd there was r 1 King 10.5 no more Spirit in her how no more not simply none but none in exercise none in comparison besides we must learne to distinguish and indeed Christianity hath yet taught us nothing if we have not learned this distinction between the ſ See my Lord B● of Exeter Decad. 6. epist 2. decad 1. epist 2. Love and between the Use of the world or in Saint Pauls termes between the use and the abuse 1 Cor. 7.31 the vanity of loving of it at least too much appeares from the next words for the fashion of this world passeth away acsi diceret saith St. t Gregor mag cur pastor part 3. admonit 28. Gregory Nolite constantèr mundum diligere quandò ipse non potest quem diligitis stare incassum cor quasi manentes figitis dum fugit ipse quem amatis that is why will you stand loving of and setting your affections upon that which while you love doth vanish and as Jobs riches that had wings fly away often before enjoyment And indeed saith a devout Prelate it is a great weaknesse not to see but we must be inamoured Elisha saw the secret state of the Syrian court yet as an enemy the blessed Angels see our earthly affayres but as strangers Moses his body was in the court of Pharaoh amongst the delicate Aegyptians his heart was suffering with the afflicted Israelites Lot tooke part of the faire medows of Sodome not of their sins our blessed Saviour saw the glory of all Kingdomes and contemned them and cannot the world looke upon us Christians but we are bewitched yea let us but consider how very heathens many have not onely made orations and declaimed against riches and vaine pompe but have even laughed at their losse money is the sinews of all outward negotiations and though as the Scripture saith the love thereof be the u 1 Tim 6.10 roote of all evill yet as King Philip said all x Asellus onustus auro Cic ad Attic. l. 1. epist 15. Castles might be conquered by it when all the brasen gates had shut in Danae yet in a showre of gold Jupiter came in to her it doth wonders y Horat. l. 3. carrod 1 6. Aurum per medios ire satellites Et perrumpere amat Saxa potentius Ictu fulmineo c. saith the Poët and yet the Lacedemonians counted it as a very z Apud Lacedaemonios pecunia fuit inutilis nec expetenda Phil. Beroald comment ad Cic. Tusc quaest l. 5. p. 248. improfitable and a vaine thing and to give themselves wholly Divinae delectationi to divine delight in the study of Phylosophy c. Anaxagoras Democritus others have even quite left their lands and patrimonies Anacharsis the wisest Scythian of his time sleighted it the application is made ready to my hand by the mellifluous a Cic. l. 5. Tuscul quaest Tully An Scythes Anacharsis potuit pro nihilo pecuniam ducere nostrates Philosophi facere non potuerunt shall Anacharsis a Scythian account of gold as of nothing and shall not our Countrey-men the Philosophers doe the like yea shall not Christians shame to be outstripped by Heathens How should we b Bishop Hall Decad. 2. Epist 10. scorne to thinke that an Heathen-man should laugh either at our ignorance or impotence ignorance if we thought too highly of earthly things impotence if we over-loved them Let us rather imitate that woman above in Heaven Rev. 12.1 which types the c See Dr Rainolds cap. 8. divis 4. pag. 483. against Hart. Church cloathed as ye saw above with Christ himselfe the Sun of righteousnesse and upon her head a crowne of twelve Starres which are the twelve Apostles who having borrowed light from the Sun the fountaine of all light Christ Jesus converted many by that light from darknesse and for that doe now d Dan. 12.3 shine as Starres in the brightnesse of the Firmament but under her feet was the Moone By the Moone e Bishop Hall Cent. 3. meditat 100. earthly things are rightly resembled which being nearest to the region of mortality is ever in f Ecclesia militans dicitur Luna propter mutabilitatem S. August epist 119. cap. 6. changes and never lookes upon us twice with the same face and when it is