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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

ver 6. The arguments of Consolation are two each depending on the other 1. The first taken from his Holy course of life constantly continued comfortably finished ver 7. 2. The second from the certainty of his Blessed estate assured to him after this Life ver 8. And indeed the Apostle seems to put on him the affection of a dying * 1 Thes 2.11 Father willing to inhibit or at least to a 1 Thes 4.13 moderate the passions which like Ambergreese may doe well in a compound of grace of his indeared children encompassing as b Gen. 49.1 2. Jacabs Sons his Death-bed as if he had thus c Deut. 32.2 dropt his words upon them What doe ye thus d Act. 21.13 weeping and breaking my Heart e 1 Thes 1.10 God my owne f Rom. 9.1 Conscience your selves are witnesses how holily and without crime I have g 1 Pet. 1.17 passed the time of my sojourning here God by his grace hath according to his promise h 2 Tim. 4.18 preserved me i 1 Cor. 1.8 1 Thes 3.13 blamelesse unto the end You know what happy things he hath k 1 Cor. 2.9 prepared for them that love him into the l Heb. 11.40 Beginnings whereof my Soule shall enter at my m Phil. 1.23 Dissolution the n Psal 16.11 fulnesse and consummation I expect at that great and o Act. 2 20 notable day of the generall Resurrection and Retribution Right so the Apostle here to the same effect to comfort Timothy whom having p 2 Tim. 1 2. and 2. ● begotten him spiritually through the Gospell to the Faith of Christ he found even as a Naturall q Phil. 2.22 Son with his Father most affectionately tender obedient and observant unto his very last expiration I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand yet neverthelesse be comforted for I have fought a good fight c. and henceforth there is laid up for me a Crown of Righteousnesse c. This for the Context and scope of this Scripture I have fought a good fight The expression is borrowed from those who strive for r 1 Cor. 9.25 2 Tim. 2 5. masteryes and after a sharpe incounter or heate of Contention doe at last prove s Rom. 8.37 Conquerors I have finished my Course id est Cursum certaminis qualis est corum qui in stadio currunt as Estius expounds it The speech being taken from such as runne in a race who give not out till the prize be obtained see 1 Cor. 9.24 25 26. I have kept the Faith That is That Fidelity or trust and faithfulnesse which he had constantly made good in the discharge of his Apostleship and Ministery in preaching the Gospell far and neere throughout many t 2 Cor. 10.14.16 Gal. 1.16 Regions from the time of the first Commission of the same unto his u 1 Cor. 9.17 Dispensation The Apostle in his owne practise accomplishing that which he required in all other the Stewards of like sacred Mysteries 1 Cor. 4.2 for this also he gave God thankes for counting him faithfull in putting him into the Ministery committing the glorious Gospell unto his w 1 Thes 2.4 trust 1 Tim. 1.11.12 upon which he was assured of his Euge Bone serve fidelis Well done good and x Mat. 25.21 faithfull Servant enter into thy Masters joy Ere I come to the more particular elucidation of the parts I may not omit to mention those quaeries and resolutions which some of the antient Fathers have not unprofitably raised and given upon these words Quaer 1 The first whereof is this Whether Saint Paul did not under this profession boast in a kinde of vaunting ostentation Answ Answ To this Saint y S. Chrys in Loc. Chrysostome makes answer thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He doth not magnifie himselfe or boast in any way of vaine-glorious z Non haec jactantiae verba sunt sed bonae Conscientiae Estius ad Loc. 1 Cor. 10.31 Ostentation a sin which else where he extreamely cautions against Phil. 2.3 Gal. 2.16 but they are the words of a Saint uttered in a modest meek and humble protestation whereby he owneth the graces of God within him and gives all the * glory in their vigorous exercise to God the Originall Fountaine and bestower of them Quaer 2 Quaest Whether Saint Paul did well to Commemorate and make mention of his gracious Actions and good Deeds Answ Answ To which Saint Gregory makes answer thus Fas est viris sanctis in morte recordari imo recolere virtutes vitae actae c. It is lawfull for Holy men and Saints of God in Death to recollect and to recount the vertuous deeds of their former lives past Not indeed as an occasion of exaltation in themselves for the same But Vt fiduciam praebeant desperantem timorem premant for the suppression of feare and Desperation in the last Houre in as much as good workes are the a Jam. 2.18 fruit of a saving Faith that as Faith justifies the person in a Correlation to Christs merits it as an hand b Rom. 5.17 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 receiving apprehending and applying them as all-sufficient to the soule so good workes being the way to eternall life Eph. 2.10 Declaratively and Praesentially justifie the Faith shewing it not to be Counterfeit or dead but Reall and living It being the innate property of such a Faith to be c Vera sides viva est Nec potest esse otiosa Juell in Apolog vivacious manifesting it selfe in its godly d Gal. 5.6 Operations Hence was the saying of the Schoole Divines that Charitas was forma virtutum Charity which is the e Rom. 13.8 summe of the Law consisting in love towards God for his own sake and towards our f 1 Ioh. 3.14 Neighbour for Gods sake it was the Forme of the Theologicall Vertues Not but that Faith and Hope and other graces of the Spirit have their owne severall and particular Formes which doe specifically forme them to their owne Identicall Natures and diversifie them from others so that Faith is not Hope nor Hope is not Charity but for that love doth as it were forme them to acceptability before God to this purpose may be applicable that practise of zealous Nehemiah Chap. 13.14 Remember me O my God saith he concerning this and wipe not out my good Deeds that I have done for the House of my God and for the Offices thereof and the like is that we also read of good King Hezekiah upon a Summons to Death Isa 38.3 And he said Remember now O Lord I beseech thee how I have walked before thee in Truth and with a perfect Heart and have done that which is good in thy sight Quaer 3 A third Quaerie is Whether Saint Paul spake all this as out of a selfe-confidence without having an eye to Gods