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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

our Soules be rightly set in order our minds o Eph. 1.17 illightned with knowledge our wils furnished with p Heb. 5.9 obedience our affections cleansed by q 1 Joh. 3.3 2 Cor. 7.1 purity our passions allayed by r Luke 21.19 patience our conscience ſ Heb. 9.14 sprinkled from dead workes the whole house so well fitted drest up and prepared that when our Saviour shall t Rev. 3.20 knock at the doore of our hearts by the u Jer. 23.29 Hammer of his Word or call to us by the x Isa 30.21 voice of the Spirit we may readily open unto him and welcome him to supper with us in the y Rom. 5.1 peace of soule and z Rom. 15.13 joy in the Holy Ghost and may walke in that way which he shall shew us both of Repentance and Faith and that by the direction of himselfe who is onely the Essentiall a John 14.6 way the truth and the life that in the issue we may not faile of the end of our faith even the b 1. Pet. 1.9 salvation of our soules Thirdly there is yet another house besides these and that is the house mysticall and this house is the c 1. Tim. 3.15 Church of God yea of the living God as Saint Paul hath fully taught us 1. Tim. 3.15 this house is builded upon a d Matth. 7.24 Rock and that Rock is e 1. Cor. 10.4 Christ the members of this house are resembled unto and called by the name of a f Eph. 3.15 Family in this family the great g Matth. 20.1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Householder is God himselfe he hath h Matth. 15.26 Children in this family and being an indulgent Father he hath a Son an i Matth. 21.38 heire and not onely so but divers other both k 2. Cor. 6.18 Sonnes and Daughters too and as children so l Matth. 21.34 Luke 17.10 Servants also Of these servants some are chiefe as m Luke 12.42 Stewards of the Household others emphatically Servants of speciall notice and favour such an one was Job whom the Lord the great Householder would have to be observed above ordinary and n Job 1.8 considered as a patterne to others some againe are remarkable for fidelity and o Heb. 3.5 faithfulnesse in all the House so was Moses the p Num. 12.7 Servant of the Lord q 1. Cor. 7.25 and Paul Others as for faithfulnesse so also for r Luke 12.42 Wisedome joyned with it some of these againe are so endeared that though in themselves they be Servants yet in their Masters high esteeme they be his ſ John 15.15 Friends and so he usually calls them and of these servant-friends some walke t Gen. 5.24 with him so did Enoch some as Abraham whom St James calleth the u James 2.23 Friend of God doe walke x Gen. 17.1 before him in a word some are so y Psal 19.13 Psal 119.76 servants that withall they are such men as are * 1. Sam. 13.14 Act. 13.22 after the Lords owne heart too and such an one was David out of all these and much more that might be added to this purpose concerning the severall offices and imployments of these children and servants in this house of the Church according to their a 1. Cor. 12.4 5 6 c. severall degrees and orders of which the Apostle hath written at large 1. Cor. 12.4 5 6 c. there is made up one whole entire b Heb. 3.6 house of Christ namely if we as Saint Paul admonisheth us hold fast the confidence and rejoycing of the hope firme unto the end how justly may I here take up that saying of the blessed Aegyptian c Macarius Homil. 49. pag. 535. in 80. Macarius on this occasion and cry out in wonder and admiration at Gods great mercy in this regard to man as he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Oh the unspeakable mercy of God who freely gives himselfe unto beleevers to inherite him in a short time as a full possession and oh wonder that God should inhabite in the body of man and that the Lord should have as it were a specious house to dwell in man To which even of the Angels though by creation farre more glorious creatures than man is for he is made d Heb. 2.7 lower than the Angels hath God said this at any time that he would either come to e Rev. 3.20 sup or else to f Eph. 3.17 2.22 dwell with them but loe thus hath he said and doth doe to men and the Church built up of men upon the g Matth. 7.24 Rock Christ Jesus as the chiefe h Eph. 2.20 corner-stone of i 1. Pet. 2.5 living stones unto a compleate k Eph. 2.21 building in the Lord nor doth he onely lodge with us as the Angels did with Lot for a l Gen. 19.3 4 15. Night and so away but he m John 14.23 abides and stayes with his Church for ever even unto the n Matth. 28.20 end of the world If then Lot was highly honored in entertaining and lodging of Angels what honour have we to lodge the God of Angels and if the Babe o Luke 1.41 sprang in the wombe when yet there was a double partition-wall two wombs betweene Saint John Baptist and his Lord and Master Christ when he came but in a p Luke 1.40 visite oh how should we rejoyce who have him in us by a perpetuall q Eph 2.22 inhabitation which meditation should by the way admonish us how religiously carefull we should be of preserving these houses from r Veniunt ad candida tecta columbae pollution and all uncleanenesse that we may not occasion our best guest by meanes of some ill order or entertainment within us to be ſ Eph. 4.30 grieved to divert and t Hos 5.15 go away to some other better and sweeter mansion oh let us not make our bodies and soules the u 1. Cor. 6.15 Brothel-houses of lust as a Babylonish x Rev. 18.2 cage of all foule birds of flying and of wandring thoughts of impurity but let us rather purge our selves from all y 2. Cor. 7.1 filthinesse of the * Domus Dei spiritualis est qui non in carne ambulat sed in spiritu Bern. f. 17. flesh and spirit perfecting holinesse in the feare of God purge we our hearts from pride by Humility for with the z Isa 57.15 humble spirit God will dwell yea let us in all godlinesse and a 1. Tim. 2.2 honesty glorifie God both in our b 1. Cor. 6.20 bodies and in our soules sith both are Gods and that not by Creation onely but by c Ibid. purchase This is the way to make both bodies and soules not styes or stews of filthinesse but as Saint Paul saith the very

upon which verse 4 5 6. the Prophet is sent back againe unto him from the Lord with gladsome tidings of his sure recovery of that though mortall sicknesse and withall of the adjournment of his day of death to fifteen yeares of longer time And thus much also of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Negative part of the Prophets saying unto the King Thou shalt not live But now before the Prophet had a warrant to returne him tidings of recovery he first found him desperately diseased and sicke unto death and what then doth he he bestowes his most usefull and most seasonable exhortation upon him which is the third branch of his saying to the King the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the advice of the good Prophet to him in his dangerous condition in these words which concerne us every one of us very nearely also even now most seriously to consider of Set thine house in order I might here take occcasion to mention and discourse of the severall sorts of houses that the Scriptures doe at large point us to The first is the bodily house or the house of the * Corpus nostr● quaedam domus est quod in eâ anima velut inhabitat Gerardus Moringus ad cap. 12. Eccles 2.3 body which is also in an Analogicall resemblance styled by Saint Paul a Temple yea the a 1. Cor. 6.19 Temple of the holy-Ghost 1 Cor. 6.19 in regard of the b 1 Cor. 3.16 inhabitation of Gods spirit there 1 Cor. 3.16 in this house of the body the c Eccles 12.3 4. keepers are the hands the grinders are the teeth the strong men are the legs those that looke out of the windows are the eyes the d See Mic. 7.5 doores are the lips all which are Solomons expressions the daughters of Musique are the eares and lungs the kitchin we have in the stomacke where is the pot that e Stomachus propior coquendi alimenti officina Antonius Coranus Hispalensis paraphras ad 12 nm eccles v. 3. boyles our meat as Anatomists observe and after the Chylus and the Chymus the first and second digestion or concoction the liver turns the good nourishment into blood and disperseth it as the spirit of life into the severall and the proper veins the excrementitious part is from the hepar by the spleene conveied unto the spermaticall vessels or else into the ventricle which holds what is as by a chanell conveied unto it till at the backe doore it be voyded out againe to gratifie nature and to ease her of a burthen for this house of the body there is some good order to be set and taken My Son sayth the wise man in thy sicknesse be not negligent but as thou must in the chiefest place pray unto the Lord that he will make thee whole so withall thou must f Ecclus 38.1.9 honor a Physitian with the honor due unto him for the uses which you may have of him for the Lord hath created him But this is not the house to be set in order by Hezekiah now shortly by the Prophets saying to Dye mainely intended in this text Secondly besides this bodily there is also a spirituall house within where the minde the spirit and the understanding is as it were the g Matt. 6.22 eye to see and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the guide to direct all the under and inferiour faculties the servants the will is as the chiefe steward in this rich palace of the soule that receives the immediate h Lege eruditum Hemmingii librum de lege Naturae dictates and commands of the understanding unconstraynedly but but yet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as in Philosophy we use to speake upon election and deliberation too yeelding unto consenting and obeying that as good which the chiefe Master of the house the mind first assented in himselfe unto as true and fit to be obeyed next to this the concupiscible and the Irascible faculties as inferiour servants waite to desire what the will propounds as good or else to fume and fret at what may seeme to crosse eyther the Principall masters or their own propension after these the affections stand as the Pesants or in the lowest rank of service as the lackquaes or the i Animae affectiones pedes sunt dum in hoc pulvere gradimur Bernard f. 35. f. foot-posts ready to bee dispatch'd away in speed and post to execute and to do that which hath with allowance passed down along from the chiefe Master to themselves by the rest of the superiours and the servants of greater authority in this house these at length bring tydings to the waiters at the doores without the senses who were as the k Nihil est in intellectu quin priùs fuerit in Sensu Axioma philosophicum first occasion to move the minde the chiefe Master of the house to bethinke it selfe of businesse to employ his servants in for the whole day following and when thus as by the primum mobile through a strong circumgyration the inferior orbes are whirryed about all the whole house is set a working the businesse by the hands and arms and shoulders and the rest of the outward and field-servants abroad in the body will be done and brought to passe Now as for this house of the soule in the way as I have though in much weaknes now propounded it this is carefully and in the first place to be looked into and set in order as at all times else so principally when as Hezekiah though by no immediate Prophet as he did or by any extraordinary revelation which God now doth not in these dayes multiply in vaine as l Deut. 34.5 Moses did but by some sensible insinuation we receive a summons or a warning by any kind of sicknes or the like harbingers of common dissolutions of our Deaths then principally must we look to set the houses of our souls in order and then must the minde the Master of the whole chiefely labor to be solidly directed and informed in the perfect and right knowledge and faith in God and Christ the reason that I mainly presse this by is only this and 't is a weighty one because the Devill is most busie at such times as these to disturbe the heart and to fill the whole soule as the winds can raise the billows in the sea with a tumultuous hurry and violent perturbation he is the m Eph. 2.2 Prince of the ayery part of the little world in man as well as of that n See Mr Goodwin quâ suprà cap. 9. p. 111. Elementary Region in the great world and so can raise unnaturall storms and vapors that shall darken reason and cause such thunders lightenings as shall hurle all into a black confusion such as if hell and the soul would presently come together wherefore that the shaking of Satans chaines may no way fright us in that pale day of death or sicknesse let the houses of