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A11591	An exposition with notes vpon the first Epistle to the Thessalonians. By William Sclater D.D. and Minister of the Word of God at Pitmister in Sommerset	Sclater, William, 1575-1626.	1619 (1619)	STC 21834; ESTC S116799	377,588	577

to increase and abound in loue one towards another and towards all men euen as we doe towards you To the end bee may establish your hearts vnblameable in holinesse before God euen our Father at the Comming of our Lord Iesus Christ with all his Saints WE haue here the practice of what was professed an earnest and deuout Prayer wherinto the Apostle breakes out vpon occasionall mention of his vsuall practice in that kind Wherein are considerable First the persons to whom it is directed to God the Father and our Lord Iesus Christ Secondly the matter of the request First his prosperous iourney towards them verse 11. Secondly their increase and abounding in loue verse 12. Thirdly the reason of this latter petition intimating the benefit they shall receiue by such their increase and abounding in loue verse 13. God our Father our Lord Iesus Christ direct c. In ancient Diuinitie the inference was fluent sith Christ partakes equally with his Father in the honour of inuocation Athanas serm 3. contra Arian therefore also in diuine Essence The honour equall therefore the excellency of Nature Secondly To which adde his participation of diuine office and propertie here also intimated by prouidence ordering the affayres of men is not the illation sound for the Deitie of our Sauiour r Iohn 1.3 By him all things without him nothing was made ſ Heb. 1.3 hee beares vp all things by the Word of his Power is therefore God with the Father blessed for euer Vse Build wee our selues in this Article against all Cauils of damned Arians This once ouerthrowne our faith is vaine and we are yet in our sinnes First Suppose Christ a meere Creature how canst thou be assured his obedience or passion was satisfactory for thee by right of Creation God hath absolute power ouer his creature to inioyn it any thing to be done or suffered the creatures because creatures stand bound to subiection Nothing was supererogatory in our Sauiour nor therefore satisfactory for vs in case these Heretikes bee teachers of Truth that Christ is a meere creature Secondly Neyther could we beleeue any thing hee did or suffered to be satisfactory to Gods Iustice The offence required an infinite satisfaction So could not Christs haue beene saue onely through the excellencie of his diuine person wherefore it is that wee are so often put in minde of t Heb. 9.14 1. Iohn 1.7 his Deitie giuing vertue to his Sacrifice Thirdly Besides it belongs to the Mediatour not only to merit for vs eternall Redemption but to protect vs by his Grace and Power till wee bee in possession of the purchased inheritance to tread Satan vnder our feet to destroy Death and Hell to iudge the World in righteousnesse to giue vs admittance into that Kingdome prepared and purchased for vs in his bloud Are these workes of a meere creature The World once groned to see it selfe become an Arrian Hieron the Patriarch of that Heresie God tooke away by a remarkeable vengeance The famous Councell of Nice cursed to Hell the Blasphemie it contayned Could wee thinke it possible in this cleere Light of the Gospell it should dare to peepe out amongst vs It seemes the father of lyes remembring how of olde it aduantaged his Kingdome hauing tryed his skill and malice in sowing Discords and Dissensions in matters of smaller moment to his no great aduantage hopes once againe to taint vs with Arrianisme if to no other issue yet to make our Church and Religion odious sith from amongst vs there rise vp men of peruerse mindes speaking so peruerse things But blessed be God that hath kept our Teachers from the least taint of that Heresie and stirred vp the heart of his Anoynted to fire out this Blasphemie from amongst vs. Gods people may yet be admonished to furnish and fortifie themselues in this mayne piller and foundation of faith their being none so firme but impudencie of Heretikes dares assay to shake Direct our way vnto you The first thing in the matter of the Petition is that God would please in his prouidence to order him a streight and prosperous course vnto them Obser So doe Gods Children wait for Gods hand to lead them and thinke those iourneyes prosperous wherein God is the Pilot. Saint Paul on this ground makes request for a iourney to Rome and defines it u Rom. 1.10 prosperous when it is according to the will of God In iudging of Gods direction eye must be had First not onely to the x Act. 16.6 7. ends intended whereon Popish Pilgrimages and such like dotages are founded but Secondly as much to our calling that we run not into praecipitia Protectiō is promised vs while y Psal 91.11 we are in our wayes Suppose thus when first some worke of our calling leades vs Secondly or z Gen. 12.10 necessitie Thirdly or such like occasion and oportunity cals vs from our station In a word when we can say Digitus Dei est hic Gods finger is our Mercury to point vs out our way Vse 1 I say then as IAMES a Iam. 4.13 Goe to now ye that say To day or to morrow we will goe into such a Citie c. without any respect to the prouidence or hand of God for that yee ought to say If God will and If it sort with his gracious pleasure and direction What is your life or what know yee what shall bee to morrow or how can ye promise your selues prosperitie or protection where Gods direction is neglected Not lesse blame-worthy are our superstitious Votaries or Intentionaries that walke out of Gods Church to the Shrines of Saints and that spectacle of Gods wrath the Holy Land The places they say affoord helpes and excitements to deuotion whereas the date of those Prescripts is long since expired Time was when Ierusalem and Mount Garizim were the places of worship but now the dayes are come wherein as our Sauiour neither in b Ioh. 4.21 23. Ierusalem nor in that Mountaine men should worship God but the true Worshippers should worship him in Spirit and Truth and c 1. Tim. 2.8 De Hierosolymis de Britanniā aequaliter patet aula coelestis Hieron ad Paulum de institut Monachi in euery place wee may lift vp pure hands free from wrath and doubting while the heart is cleane the affection feruent faith stedfast places and times are indifferent to priuate Deuotions Heauen is a Circumference the Earth the Center God is euery where nigh vnto them that call vpon him in sinceritie To these we may adde our curious Trauellers that to see fashions wander from Gods presence Vagabonds as Cain about the Nations d Gen. 34.2 Dinah her iudgement is vsually their portion their returne is with spoyle of bodily or spirituall Chastitie They will fetch vs strange Languages though it be from Babel with their owne confusion bringing home as Seneca once plainted Non solùm verba sed vitia

beene therefore despicable amongst Idiotes because nor Birth nor Vniuersitie degrees haue commended them to the world so idlely are silly people carryed away with trifles yet when gold is offered them their care is not great how base the person is that brings it Nor should it be much materiall by whom Gods Word is brought vnto vs whether by Isaiah as some thinke a Prophet b Rabbi Salomon apud Lyram Hieron in Prolog ad Isaiam of the bloud Royall or by Amos from c Amos 1.1 amongst the Heardmen of Tekoa His Associates are Siluanus and Timothy Siluanus seemes the same with Silas who d Act. 17.4 ioyned his paynes with Paul in first preaching to this people Timothy had also his imployment there not without profit for their confirmation Quest It is here inquired how associated to Paul whether as ioynt Authours in inditing the Epistle Answ It no where appeares that they had diuine inspiration as Apostles and Prophets or were chosen by Gods Spirit to pen Scripture rather thinke them mentioned as Approuers of the Doctrines and Exhortations here deliuered Quest Was not Pauls authoritie sufficient to commend them to Gods Church Answ Sufficient no doubt in it selfe yet inasmuch as the reuerence of these two was great in the Church of Thessalonica Paul ioynes them vnto him that by all meanes he might procure respect to his doctrine Obser It is lawfull then to vse humana subsidia humane helpes for aduantage of the Truth c Act. 15.23 The Apostles and Elders and Brethren goe ioyntly in the decrees at Ierusalem that by vniuersall consent Gods people might be more swayed to obedience Very f Act. 17.28 Iames 1.17 Heathens testimonies are not refused by Apostles to aduantage the Truth Vse Like course is warranted to vs where we may see Gods Truth may thereby get aduantage What if the name of a Father or some later Writer be sometimes heard in the Pulpit what preiudice receiues the Scripture thereby I neuer liked that thicke heaping of Fathers sentences in popular Sermons It sauours too much of ostentation and tends little or nothing to edification much lesse can I approue their allegation as of Authours so authentique as to impose on vs a necessitie of beleeuing because they so teach yet are there Times and Places and Respects wherein their mention may be of some auayle for Truth First As with some men who knowes not but their Names more sway then the Names of Prophets and Apostles What if in that case we deliuer the same Truths vnder other Names condescending so farre to their infirmitie for a while g August cont epist Fundamenti cap. 5. Sayth S. Austen I had not beleeued the Gospel had not the Authoritie of the Church swayed with me It was his Introduction to Faith afterwards h Ioh. 4.42 as Samaritans he beleeues vpon firmer grounds If by vs they be vsed as Introductions for a time I see not what impeachment it is to credit of Scriptures Secondly We cannot be ignorant how vsuall the imputation of Noueltie is to reuiued Truths i Mar. 1.27 What new Doctrine is this say the people in Christs time Admiring his Miracles say ours denying the Truth for shew of Noueltie In such case if wee shew the Succession lineall of our Faith and Practice and so take that Cauill from the Ignorant me thinkes the Truth still gets aduantage Thirdly And heare we not oft how we goe alone and delight in singularitie Why may wee not remoue that Imputation by shewing content of Churche Ancient and Moderne Fourthly There are extant in Fathers Expositions and Doctrines of Scripture in termes so significant as better occurre not to our most serious Meditations why it should bee vnlawfull to vtter them in termes of the Authors rather then our owne I know not k August cont dua● Epist Pelag ad Bonifac. lib. 4. cap. 8. Ad Curam nostram existimo pertinere non solùm Scripturas Sanctas Canonicas aduersus cos testes adhibere Verumetiam de Sanctorum literis qui eas ante nos famà celeberrimâ ingenti gloriâ tractauerunt aliqua documenta proferre non quo Canonicis libris à nobis vllius disputatoris aquetur authoritas sed vt sciant a nobis rectam antiquitùs fundatam Catholicam fideus aduersus recentem Pelagianorum haereticorum praesumptionem perniciemque defendi l Polan Praefat in Hoseam Patres allego non tanquam principium probandi dogmata Ecclesiae nec tanquam Iudices sed vt testes duntaxat consensus in doctrinâ interpretatione Scripturarum vtsi ex meis verbis quod sentio dico quispiam non assequatur ex Patrum verbis intelligat The persons to whom the Epistle is directed are next intimated and described To the Church of the Thessalonians The Citie whence the inhabitants haue their name is famously knowne to haue beene the Metropolis or Mother-Citie of Macedonia anciently called Thermae Suidas new-built by Philip King of Macedonie after his conquest of Thessalie for Monument of which Victorie it was so reedified and enlarged and obtayned that name Euen now a famous Emporie for Indian Merchandise Maginus in Geograph but subiect to the Dominion and Idolatrie of Turkes knowne by the name of Saloniki In this Citie God was pleased by the Ministerie of Paul and Silas to collect a Church the Historie see Act. 17. noting the Tumults raysed against them by the Iewes such that Paul was forced for safetie of his person to flye to m Act. 17.10 Beraea and the Saints that gaue him entertainment especially n Ver. 5. Iason scarce found securitie in their owne houses yet there God pleased to collect him a Church Obser So true is it That where God will gather him a Church no opposition of Men or Deuils can hinder it Yea oft Experience hath shewed where haue beene most violent Oppositions Gods Word hath most mightily grown and preuayled At Ephesus what Tumults were raysed by o Act. 19.23 24 25. c. DEMETRIVS and the Crafts-men yet a more worthie Church wee scarce find amongst them of Asia The Apostle mentioning it by occasion sayth There was opened p 1. Cor. 16.9 a great Doore and effectuall great occasion of doing much good but many aduersaries Like read wee of q Act. 18.16 Corinth Yea in the Court of Nero vnder the nose of that bloudie Tyrant in r Philip. 4.22 CaeSARS household was a Church collected And generally it hath beene obserued in Places and Times where Gods Truth hath beene most opposed by Persecutions it hath most preuayled that the Church may say of it selfe as Ioseph The Lord hath made me fruitfull in the Land of my affliction That made Tertullian insult ouer the crueltie of Tyrants and after a sort exasperate it ſ Tertullian in Apologet. ad Calcem Cruciate torquete damnate atterite nos Exquisitior quaeque crudelitas vestra illecebra est magis sectae