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A94261	The crovvne of righteousnes: or, The glorious reward of fidelity in the discharge of our duty. As it was laid forth in a sermon, preached in S. Botolphs Aldersgate, London, Sept. 25. 1653. At the solemn funerall of Mr. Abrah: Wheelock, B. D. the first publick professor, and reader of Arabick, and of the Saxon, in the University of Cambridge. Whereunto is added, an encomium of him. / By William Sclater Doctor in Divinity, now preacher of the Word of God in Broad-street, Lond.	Sclater, William, 1609-1661.	1653 (1653)	Wing S916; Thomason E221_6; ESTC R4044	30,757	39

observed by the Hebrews that in the Essentiall Name of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all the Letters are Litera quiescentes Letters of Rest to denote that without God there can be no solid joy or quietnesse of Soule which will still be tossed in a kinde of restlesse inconsistency till it doe indeed terminate at last in him which made that man so much after Gods owne heart as in a flame of fervent zeale experimentally to put the question Psal 73.25 Whom have I in Heaven but thee and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee The next particular that fals under my consideration is the time of donation when this Reward is to be actually conferred expressed to be in That Day and at the Lords appearing These s 1 Tim. 4.1 and 2 Tim. 3.1 latter times into which the t 1 Cor. 10.11 ends of the world are fallen abounding as men in old age with variety of u Mund●● senescens patitur phantasias Gerson phancies have given us occasion to enquire what Day of the Lords appearance it is which is here meant whether it be the great and w Act 2.20 2 Tit. 4.1 notable day of the x Joh. 6.39 40 41. last generall Judgement or else of some other manifestation of the Lord Christ upon earth before that last day of all doth come There are some otherwise abundantly knowing whose wits have herein proved more wanton than their judgements solid whose apprehensions have led them to conjecture if not to believe an appearance of the Lord Christ personally in a way of raigne and triumph to be manifested upon earth a thousand yeares before the last day of the Generall Judgement such in the Greek expression are called Chiliasts and by the Latines y Vid. Aug. lib. 20. De Civ Dei c. 7 Philastr c. 59. De Heres Aug. De Heres c. 8. Mistenaryes some have fetched the name and conceit so high as from z Euseb 1.3 c. 25. Histor Ecclesiast Cerinthus a blasphemous Heretick even in the dayes of the Apostles themselves who daringly avouching the Lord Christ to be no more than a meer man and borne after the common way of humane generation which gave occasion to S. John that soaring a Euch. 1.10 Eagle to write that his so sublime Gospel wherein in the very b Joh. 1.1 2 c. entrance of it He proves his Divine Nature He gave out that after the resurrection there should be in the great City Jerusalem an outward way of pomp and a kinde of voluptuous indulgence to corporall vanityes and delights during the terme of a thousand yeares which opinion He was thought to have sucked from the Breasts of the Jewish Synagogue that people mistaking the nature and quality of Christs c Mat. 20.21 A 1.6 Kingdome thinking it to be after an externall glory and not as it is indeed consisting d Luk. 17 21. within in the soule after a e Rom. 14.17 spirirtuall manner ruling and raigning over the spirituall part of man But this Blasphemer being exploded and cryed down by all the Primitively-Orthodox Fathers and Christians as the Historyes of those Times informe us The next who most clearely speak of it or was indeed supposed the first who more directly vented the opinion was one Papias Bishop of Hieropolis as f Euseb l. 3. c. 36. Eccl. Hist Eusebius acquaints us a man of a weak and slender judgement who if not utterly neglecting yet but slightly valuing the Authority of the Holy Scriptures pretended for his conceit Apostolicall Traditions and by reason of the venerable name of Antiquity it is not to be denyed but that some of the ancient Fathers received some tang of the same opinion from him as may be seen or collected of g Justin Martyr Dialog Cum Triphon Jud pag. 239 Justin Martyr and in the end of Trajans time h Baron in Annal. Ann 118. sect 2. Hieron in Catalog illustr cap. de Papiâ Apollinarius i Tertul. l. 3. advers Marc. c. 24. Tertullian too much misled by Montane and Lactantius who were in part spiced with this Millenarisme so perilous a thing it proves to the Supine and out of a secure or carelesse disregard to suffer Humane Tradition to become a Diotrephes and to have the l 3 Epist John 9. preheminence above the infallibity of the undoubted Scriptures which sacred and unerring written Word of God doth hold forth as of certaine credibility inspired by the Divine and first verity that can never deceive no such clear truth that the Lord Christ shall in Person before the General Resurrection come visibly and corporally upon the earth and as by a m Re 20.6 first resurrection cause all those who dyed n Re. 14.13 in and for him to arise and with him in a peacefull tranquility and glory to reigne and to beare sway over the wicked as Vassals for a thousand yeares which date of time being expired immediately shall ensue the General Resurrection and the day of the last Judgement No such evidentiall verity is demonstrated in Holy Writ as of Absolute Necessity to be believed unto salvation But whatsoever is alledged out of the prophetick Scriptures for the stablishing of that opinion is to be understood either of the first coming of Christ in the flesh or of the state of the N. T. in generall or else of the glorious estate of the Church triumphant to be expected hereafter in the eternall Kingdome for ever in Heaven as o Joh Gerard loc com To. 9. c 7. sect 80 Gerard judiciously I have not time to alledge or you patience to heare on this occasion the severall Texts cited by the Chiliasts or of the Orthodox many p See Bish Hall in his Revelations unrevealed edit 1650. D. Prid serm on 2 Pet. 3.13 serm on Joh. 6.14 Per. Dem. of Probl. vid. Dierer In die fest Bar. Ap. p. 7 14. c. vol. 4. Bul. l. 2. c. 11. con●r Anabapt sixt Senens l. 6. Annot. 347. reverend and renowned Divines have eased us all of that labour let it suffice at the present to take notice from our Saviours own lips that his Kingdome is not of this world John 18.36 but within us Luke 17.21 and from Heaven and besides we finde in our Creed which is founded on k Lactant. l. 7 c. 24. Institut the Scriptures and may in every article thereof be q Art 6. of the Ch of England proved by them we finde I say in our Creed mention made but of two visible comings of Christ the first in r Phil. ● 8 Mat. 21.5 Humility to suffer and to be judged the other at the end of the world but not before in the s 2 Pet. 1.17 glory of his Father to t Acts 17.31 2 Tim. 4.1 1 Pet. 4.5 judge the world both quick and dead in righteousnesse and unto them that look for him

cautionately understood thus possible notwithstanding it is very difficult and hard to be attained and that for many weighty and important reasons As First in regard of the difficulty to put a distinction between seeming Vertues and reall Graces which are the signes and fruits of Election and which give the best evidence of glory so that there needs much discussion and an exact spirit of l Phil. 1.9 10. Discerning to put a Difference and to discriminate the one from the other yea we are to take notice that there are many Vices neere of * Fallie cnim vitium proximitate honi kinne to many Vertues and carry in semblance a neare affinity as it were with them There is saith devout Bernard à minium virtutis a certaine kinde of Vermilion wherewith Satan paints over the outside of Vices and makes them shew like Vertues and but by an Eye and an Heart m Heb. 5 14. exercised in piety hardly discernable each from the other thus Flattery sometimes carryes the style of affability Covetousnesse of Frugality Rashnesse of Fortitude a Divellish Matchiavelisme of a lawfull policy excesse and ryot of good fellowship and under this mistake of judgement that is taken for zeale which is nothing but an impetuous n 2 Tim. 3.4 headinesse or a fiery kinde of vehemency that in stead of heating the house is apt to burne it Thus in short presumption passeth often for Faith this being the o Jer. 17.9 2 Cor. 11 3. guile of our hearts and Satan complying with it who can transforme himselfe into an p 2 Cor. 11 14. Angell of Light and set a faire glosse upon naughty wares making the tinsell of Hypocrisie to passe for the Silver of sincerity we must not too much relye upon our q Prov. 3.5 owne Judgements in this matter but bring things to the r 1 Thes 5.21 beame of the Sanctuary and there s Rom. 12.2 prove and weigh them the Word of God ever giveth right Judgement and the searching hereinto John 5.39 t Act 17.11 and examining of these matters hereby requiring great deliberation this makes the assurance difficult when the Evidence is perplexed and not presently cleared Secondly its hard in regard of the plenty of Lusts and of the u Gal. 5.19 workes of the flesh which too much over-grow and abound in every mans Heart but graces are but rare and come up thin much chaffe and little solid graine our graces are like Gideons Army but a handfull in comparison but our sinnes and like Midiknites w Jude 7.12 Innumerable as Grashoppers Hipps and Hawes saith one grow in every hedge when choycer fruits are but in some few Gardens and every soyle almost yeilds stone and rubbish but Gold and precious stones are found in very few places ●nw S. Peter who exhorts to give diligence to make Election sure exhorts also 2 Pet. 1.5 6. to adde to Faith Vertue to Vertue Knowledge c. a large enumeration or induction of graces is required to clear up this assurance and certainly that is a matter of no ease Thirdly that I may hasten this is difficult in regard of the great progresse that an Hypocrite or a Cast-away may make in the wayes of Christianity and yet never attaine to this assurance He may have some degrees of Illumination Heb. 6.4 much like a Coruscation that a suddaine flash of Lightning maketh in the Ayre He may have good wishes as Balaam Numbers 23.10 A sight of sinne as Cain had Gen. 4.13 Confesse sinne as Judas did Matthew 27.4 have zeale as Jehu had 2 Kings 10.16 in these and in like other gifts may a very Cast-away make a great progresse But no child of God can have any reall comfort in any thing wherein he cannot say he hath yet therein gone beyond a Cast-away and yet but in the ground or rule or end of doing these things are hardly discernable each from other All which and much more that might be added to the same purpose shew though not the utter impossibility yet surely the very great difficulty of attaining unto this assurance that a man can say as S. Paul doth here in a particular application unto his soule Christ loved me and gave himselfe for me and henceforth is laid up for x Gal. 2.20 me a Crown of Righteousnesse There yet remaines but one Pearle more in the Cabinet of this Text which I shall onely offer to your short notice and so conclude it is that due qualification which renders other Christians as well as it did S. Paul capable of the Crown of Righteousnesse they must be such as who do love the Lord Christ's second appearing in the day of Judgement And indeed it is the property of none but Saints to love it and long for it See Phil. 1.23 Rev. 22.20 Amen even so come Lord Jesus Some cautions notwithstanding must be here remembred sith it 's possible that times may fall out when we tremble at the thought or mention of it as when conscience is wounded afresh with some gross act of sin this made David afraid yea to roar out and to make a noyse through the disquietnesse of his spirit Psal 38.8 Psal 55.2 and under that state of soul to begg earnestly to be spared that he might recover strength in Gods favour before he went hence and was no more Psal 39.13 or else when the Lord shall for divers ends and reasons surcharge the soule and conscience with the sins of youth for which perhaps men have not as became them been sufficiently humbled thus dealt he even with his servant Job writing bitter things against him Job 13.26 see also Job 1.6.4 But out of those cases it is proprium quarto modo onely the Saints love it all such love it and alwayes and no mervaile sith by this second coming and appearance of Christ in the day of the last Judgement they receive very great and inestimable benefits such as are finall Redemption of the Body from corruption Rom. 8.23 Freedome from the society of the wicked which here y Psal 119.136 afflict the godly by their violation of Gods Law and Precepts Deliverance not onely from the z Rom. 6.12 raigne and a Psal 19.13 dominion but even from the inhabitation and being of sin which here they finde as a clogg and a b Ps 38.4 burthen to c Mat. 11.28 heavy for them and so long to be rid of it Rom. 7.24 and lastly the beatifical d 1 Joh. 3.2 vision and perfect fruition of the ever-blessed and all-glorious Trinity in the e Heb. 12 2 23 24. Heavenly Hierusalem among the innumerable company of Angels being admitted to the generall Assembly and Church of the first-borne which are enrolled and written in Heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect and to Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant in whose presence there is fulnesse of joy and at whose right