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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

THE CROWNE 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. DAN 12.3 They that be wise or Teachers shall shine as the brightness of the Firmament and they that turn many to righteousness as the Starres for ever and ever LONDON Printed by J. G. for John Clarke and are to be sold at his shop under S. Peter's Church in Cornhill 1654. To the Right Worshipfull Thomas Adams Esq Alderman of the City of London a Patron of Learning and a Patterne of True Piety the eternity of Happiness Worthy Sir THat which I have in my inward thoughts secretly wished for the Divine Providence hath now by an unexpected Act presented to my hands a seasonable opportunity wherein I might make you some more than a private Testimony of my acknowledgements for your personall regards to my selfe and withall as publick as might be for your munificence to my ever honoured Mother the Vniversity of Cambridge where for above twenty years last past out of a pure glory to God in the advancing the Orientall Learning you erected and ever since continued at your own proper cost an Arabick Lecture the praise whereof were a task more meet I confesse for an elegant Orator chosen by her selfe than for one of my so retired and obnubilated a condition The much lamented decease of the learned Professor Mr. Abrah Wheelock who read it and of whom a more full mention is made in the close gave occasion to this sudden Sermon which being through a vehement importunity extorted from me beyond all imagination of mine own after preaching and so put to the Press there could be no more proper Patron for it thought upon than your self of whom I have many things to say but that I am overwhelmed with copiousness of matter there being no spirituall or good gift wherein you are as S. Paul said of his Converts the Corinthians a 1 Cor. 1.7 behind yea wherein you do not excell your very outward presence as some rare beneficent star appearing with a desired and pleasing influence winneth you a venerable observance of all Orthodox Christians and good men who cannot depart from you but much improved and made better by your most eximious and transcendent example in * Luk. 1.6 Act. 24.16 all piety towards God equity towards men I need not mention your Ethicks or moral part sith if the vigorous exercise of all the vertues were not interrupted only but lost elsewhere it might be all repaired from your † Eph. 5.15 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 accurate practise in your religious part an Israelite b Joh. 1.47 indeed without faction without ostentation your soule is made the c 1 Cor. 3.16 Temple for the Holy Spirit to dwell in by his graces which are diffused in so delectable a variety that as those fragrant spices upon which the South winde blew in the Garden of the spouse they d Cant. 4.16 flow out and are become as a sweet perfume to attract Observers To men of learning a known Maecenas yea a Sanctuary To Gods faithfull Ministers an e Rom. 12.13 hospitable f Rom. 16.23 Gaius a bountifull and a most encouraging Benefactor g 1 Thes 5.12 13. 1 Tim. 5.17 esteeming them highly in love for their works sake of all Gods k Ps 122.1 publike Ordinances a due honouror a most conscientious l Act. 26.7 frequenter In private also the devotion of your house hath made it an house of m 1 Cor. 16.19 devotion where like the double motion of the lungs what is drawn in by prayers is breathed forth again in n Psal 118.15 prayses and thanksgiving Your faith is operative o Gal. 5.6 working by love expressed p 1 Tim. 6.18 in rich r 2 Cor. 9.13 Prov. 11.25 liberality towards every good work full of s 2 Cor. 9.7 cheerfull t Act. 10.2 Almes-giving the u Job 311.20 loynes of the poore and naked blesse you in the streets and the bowels of many w 2 Tim. 1.16.18 refreshed by your hands as S. Paul's were by Onesiphorus occasion uncessant prayers for you And that which yet adds a beauty to all the rest and proves alwayes as the most rich and fairest * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a curious Knot knot decking the garment of other graces is your great x 1 Pet. 5.5 humility attended with all y 1 Pet. 3.8 courteous affability and most z 2 Cor. 6.6 Col. 3.13 2 Pet. 1.7 kind a Ro. 12.16 condescensions as in whose lips is the b Pro. 31 26 law of kindness and in whose life a c Phil. 1.15 shining exemplar of the d 2 Ti. 3.5 power of godliness and all solid Christianity All which considered my weak endeavours cannot but triumph in such a protection which now they shrowd themselves under not doubting to speed the better for the Name of the Patron The discourse I acknowledge is impolite yet Orthodox I hope and Thelogically substantiall the subject matter is no less than of a Crown of Righteousness so that however as it comes from me it casteth no great lustre outwardly yet much what like to the stone Garamantides intus habet aureas guttas it hath drops of gold within it selfe enriching the believing soule with the hopes and assured expectation of a joyfull reward of its fidelity in Gods service by a blissful immortality Vnto the certain fruition whereof that you and with your selfe all yours all your relations yea all Gods e Mat. 24. elect by Christ nay after you have yet continued longer to f Tit. 2.10 adorn the Gospel be at last advanced is and ever shall be the most constant prayer of Sir Your most affectionate Servant to be commanded in the Lord Christ Will Sclater 2 TIM 4.7 8. I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the Faith Henceforth there is laid up for me a Crowne of Righteousnesse which the Lord the Righteous Judge shall give me at that Day and not to me only but unto them also who love his Appearing I Shall not deteine you by any impertinent Preface sith the shortnesse of time for this Service together with the indulgence of this so Learned an Auditory anticipates an Apology and gives hopes of much Candor under so manifold Impraeparations And so I addresse my selfe to the serious businesse of my Text The scope whereof amounts to this summe Namely to comfort Timothy about the nigh approach of Saint Pauls Martyrdome mentioned