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A62382	The royal-pay and pay-master, or, The indigent-officers comfort delivered in a sermon preached before the honorable the military company at St. Pauls Covent-Garden, July 25th, by William Sclater ... ; and now printed at their earnest intreaty.	Sclater, William, d. 1690.	1671 (1671)	Wing S921; ESTC R34026	17,196	38

or cunning or valiant or learned or rich but Well done good and faithful Servant enter thou into thy Masters joy And here in my Text is the same Proclamation Be faithful unto the death and I will give thee a Crown of life In the words we have but these parts to consider First here is the word of Command Be faithful Secondly Here is the stint and extent of our duty unto death Be faithful unto death Thirdly Here is a promise of Reward where we will consider 1. Our Pay-master and that is Christ I will give 2ly The Pay it self and that is a Crown with this addition a Crown of life Be faithful then c. First then I begin with the Word of Command Be faithful Fidelity is required of all Christians Faith in Christ must be seconded with faithfulness unto Christ As we must have faith in Him so we must keep faith to Him For those are onely His true Souldiers who are elect called and faithful I have received mercy of God to be faithful cries St. Paul 'T was of Gods mercy to be kept faithful to the righteous Cause of God and the King when there were so many temptations to withdraw us from our Loyalty Be faithful And the necessity of this will appear First From the terms of Relation that are betwixt Christ and us Fidelity and Loyalty is in a more especial manner required in a Subject towards his Soveraign in a Souldier towards his Commander in the Wife towards her Husband 'T is treason in a Subject to fight against his Soveraign 't is death for a Souldier to forsake his Colours 't is an unpardonable crime in a Woman to be unfaithful to her Husbands Bed But Christ is our Lord and Master You call me Lord and Master and you say well for so I am Matth. 23.8 He is the Captain of our salvation Heb. 2.10 He is our Husband and every Christian soul is His Spouse Hosea 2.19 I have espoused thee unto me in much mercy and fidelity And therefore 't is all the reason in the world that we should shew all loyalty and fidelity unto this our Prince Captain and Husband Consider-seriously with your selves these Relations and then tell me what he deserves that breaks faith with Him Secondly The Faith that must save us must be a Faith unfained What 's a Souldier good for except he will fight To take pay and quarter and plunder the Countrey and when it comes to blows whip my Gentleman 's gone Such a person is onely fit to be ram'd into the mouth of a Cannon and shot into a Field of Corn to affright the Crows So Faith severed from Fidelity is no Faith but a meer fansie Fides enim ab eo dicitur quia id fit quod dicitur Faith without faithfulness is a false glavering counterfeit Faith like Copper Coin that hath the lustre but not the worth of gold It is a faithless Faith and a Trust without truth You trust in a lie saith the Prophet Jeremy 7.8 For a man to repeat all the Articles of his Christian Faith to profess with his mouth to believe the Resurrection of his body the General Judgment and the Life everlasting and to live like a Devil and swear like a Turk and yet hope to goe to Heaven with a little of the Extream Unction and a few Ave Maria's Oh foolish people and unwise this pretended faith without practice is no better than a Musket charged only with powder which will give a great report but doe no execution at all Men trust in a Lye when they expect that God should keep Covenant with them when they have no care to keep promise with him Rabshekah's Argument against Hezekiah had been good if his words of Hezekiah had been true Esai 36.7 Little cause indeed could Hezekiah have to trust in God whose Altars he had taken down and whose places of Worship he had demolished How little Reason hath any man to hope that God should save him when he dies that hath no care to serve and please God whilst he lives Alas when we cease to keep Faith with God we free him from the performance of His Promise to us For however it be true that the Apostle says 2 Tim. 2.13 Though we prove unfaithful yet God abides faithful He cannot deny Himself Man's distrust and incredulity cannot annul God's fidelity 'T is a deplorable Position that the Romanists hold and cutteth asunder the sinews of Humane Society That Faith is not to be held with Hereticks Better said Heathen Tully Etiam infideli recte servatur fides even with the unfaithful Faith is to be kept Where Agreements between Party and Party are grounded on Conditions to be mutually performed on either side he that in such case breaketh first doth thereby absolutely free the other Party Unfaithfulness therefore it is not in God to deny to make his Promise good unto those that have no care to keep Covenant with Him Frustra sibi Fidem quis postulat ab eo servari cui fidem à se praestitam servare recusat They kept not Covenant with me and I regarded not them saith the Lord Heb. 8.9 Thirdly There is nothing among Generous Men more odious than Falshood and Treachery in Friendship To find them false to us whom we have trusted To be betray'd by those that we thought our surest friends This cuts a man to the very heart This made David complain Psal 55.12 'T was not an open enemy that didst me this dishonour for then I could have born it neither was it mine Adversary that did magnifie himself against me for then peradventure I would have hid my self from him But it was even thou my Companion my Captain and mine own familiar Friend Surely it wounded deep the heart of the Great Buckingham when he was betray'd by his Servant Bannister whom he had raised to a great Estate and it was a bitter ingredient which was put into the Cup of our late Martyr'd Sovereign to have those that eat of his bread to lift up their hands against him To see some of his own Domestick Servants whom he had fed and advanced to sit in that unjust Court to take away his Life So there is nothing that God takes more to heart or can worse endure than disloyalty and breach of Covenants by those which pretend to be in League with Him To acknowledge as we do all that in Him we live and move and have our being To take our Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacie to Him that we will serve Him faithfully and fight against the Devil the World and the Flesh and continue His faithful Souldiers unto our Lives end and yet notwithstanding break all these Obligations and never regard the performance of our Vows but basely betray our Trust and serve his enemies How can God endure this at our hands Will he not judge for these things and shall not his Soul be avenged on such perfidious wretches as we See how God complains

THE ROYAL-PAY AND PAY-MASTER OR THE Indigent-Officers Comfort Delivered in a SERMON Preached Before the Honorable the MILITARY COMPANY at St. Pauls Covent-Garden July 25th BY WILLIAM SCLATER D. D. Minister of St. James Clerkenwel And now Printed at their earnest intreaty Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito London Printed by Rich. Hodgkinson and are to be sold by E. Brewster at his Shop at the Sign of the Crane in St. Pauls Church-yard 1671. To the Right Worshipful Sir ROBERT PATON PRESIDENT Mr. JOHN CANNON Mr. JOHN GARDINER Mr. RICHARD COOPER Mr. STEPHEN BURKS Mr. EDMUND BRACE Mr. ROBERT WHITE STEWARDS of the HONORABLE The Military Company And to the STEWARDS Elect Capt. GRATIAN LINCH Capt. JOHN PERRY Capt. SAM BOUGHEY Lieut. GEORGE CLARK Lieut. JOHN BADHAM Lieut. THO. CURTISE Worthy GENTLEMEN T Is not truly any ambition that I have to be known in the world who have too much cause to wish my self out of it that occasioneth the publication of this Discourse I pretty well know the fortune of those that dare appear in publike but it was your kind acceptance of this Sermon when it was preached and your earnest desire since that I would let it come abroad and here you see your Commands are obeyed and so let it take its fortune it cannot suffer much having so many valiant Champions to defend it The principal Subject that is commended to your practice is the Noble Principle of Loyalty and Fidelity that 's our duty to the great Captain of our Salvation whose Souldiers we are and have taken our Oaths in our Swadling-clothes to be true and faithful to him unto our lives end Treachery and Falshood as well as Cowardize is the highest Crime that can be laid to a Souldiers charge To betray his Trust and run from his Colours and take part with his Generals Enemies is not to be expiated but by the death of the Traytor Therefore Noble Souldiers Consider how many great things Christ your Captain and General hath committed to your charge He hath trusted you with an immortal Soul which can never die with the Reprobate nor perish with the vertuous parts of mortal men but must have a Being either in Eternal Bliss or woe Oh! do not betray this precious Jewel into the hands of her deadly enemies Abstain from those fleshly lusts that fight against her and deliver her out of the hands of those that gape for her destruction Be saithful unto her in preserving her in the Love of God and in obedience to his will that when God shall call for her you may deliver her up pure and spotless into his merciful hands And say with thy Great Captain Father into thine hands I commit my Spirit He hath entrusted you with his Word which is the best weapon in the world to defend you from your Ghostly Enemies Do not let it lie and rust by you as Swords Halberts Armor doth in Gentlemens Halls But buckle it about you and handle it lustily When you are tempted to Infidelity to Drunkenness to Whoredom or the like draw out thy weapon and fight against them it is written Rev. 21.8 That the fearful and unbelieving the abominable drunkards murtherers whoremongers lyars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone Hide his Word therefore in thine heart always that thou may'st never sin against God He hath intrusted you with his truth and with a pure Religion Oh! do not betray either of them fight for Truth against Error And stand for thy Religion to the death Live as thou professest to believe Nothing will uphold dying sinking Religion like a holy and a heavenly conversation Practice is the best Syllogism and Argument we can use to prevail with others for he that lives a debauch'd wicked life is an Apostate from the truth and a Traytor to his Religion 't is not a pin matter what side a wicked man takes for he will bring a curse where e'r he comes Let your light then so shine before men that they may see your good works that the world may know that you are Loyal Subjects indeed true Noble Royallists not by your damning and sinking not by your whoring and drinking but by your temperance chastity soberness and devotion do not betray so good a Cause and so holy a Religion by your vicious lives and conversations He is the faithfullest Subject to his King and the truest friend to his Religion and the greatest lover of his Countrey that lives soberly righteously and Godly in this present world Be not Hector'd neither out of the holy Principles of the Reformed Profession some have changed sides on purpose to live more losely thinking that's the surest Haven to put into where they may sin and yet be safe Be not fool'd out of it neither for a song for delicate Musick or ravishing Voices for fine shews and pretty nacks but stick fast to the gravity and sincerity of the Catholick Church of England which is a most safe way unto salvation and where you will surely find rest unto your Souls And this Fidelity will cause the great Rewarder to look upon you and to bless you your pay shall be certain part in hand and the rest in reversion in being Faithful and keeping his Commandments there will he and is great Reward Vertue is a reward to its self and Godliness hath the promise of this life And that which remains to be received shall be surely paid you he hath promised it who is the Amen the faithful and true witness who is Yea and Amen God blessed for evermore To whose Gracious Protection I commit you and am Worthy Sirs Your Faithful Servant in Christ Jesus W. SCLATER From my House on Clerkenwel-Green Aug. 17. 1671. THE ROYAL-PAY AND PAY-MASTER OR THE Indigent-Officers Comfort Revel 2. part of the 10th verse Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a Crown of life WIth what reluctancy and unwillingness I appear to day in this place those can best bear witness who pressed me to this service not considering those heavy afflictions I now lye under which wet my cheeks too often nor yet how unfit a Man of peace who seeks it and pursues it who loves it and prayes for it and fain would live in it not considering I say how ill such a person is qualified to make a Military Oration to expert Commanders and valorous Souldiers And therefore seeing you have overborn me by your importunities I hope you will accept the will for the deed and chide your selves if you goe away disappointed of your expectation Versa est in luctum cythera mea organum meum in vocem flentium The weapons of our warfare are not now carnal but spiritual And though my self amongst others might say with the Prophet Jeremy 4.19 My bowels my bowels I am pained at my very heart my heart maketh a noise within me because O my soul thou hast heard the sound of the trumpet and the