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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Mat. 23.37 misused insulted on even for the Conscientious discharge of their Function The pretious Sons of Sion comparable to fine Gold how were they esteemed as earthen Pitchers the worke of the hands of the Potter Lam. 4.2 And who knowes not the exact accomplishment of old Simeons Prophecy of our Saviour himselfe Luke 2.34 How he was set for a signe which was and should be r In signum contrad cib●le Tert. de Ca●ne Christi cap. 28. Is 8.13 spoken against 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for a signe of contradiction he should be as a common s Illirio Bishop Hall in Paraphr Piscator Franciscus Lucas marke whereat the arrowes of reproach shall be fully shot Of all the Holy Apostles its noted 1 Cor. 4.13 They were made as the filth of the world and the t Confer Lam. 3.45 off-scouring of all things continually 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth that rejectament which is scraped from the dirty pavement from whence the shooes gather defilement and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it being a word in a Composition carryes with it the greater Emphasis and denotes the polluted rakeings of the streets fit for nothing but the common Dunghill In so low a state of abjection and in so vile an esteem were those very u 2 Cor. 5.20 Ambassadors of Heaven among an Atheisticall and w Act. 2.40 Phil. 2.15 crooked generation our very Apostle here professeth 1 Cor. 15.32 That he fought with Beasts at Ephesus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which some would have meant Literally of his being dilaniated and rent in his body as many Primitive Christians were in the first Cruell times of raging persecution by wilde Beasts to which Nero that Dedicator Damnationis x T●rt in Apologet. as Tertullian styles him being himselfe a y 2 Tim. 4.17 Lyon was wont Tyrannically to cast the bodies of the Christians But others better in my poore understanding expound it of those Ethicall or Morall Beasts who with Demetrius and the rabble that cryed up the great Diana of the Idolatrous Ephesians so violently withstood and opposed Saint Paul who cryed downe that their abhominable superstition at Ephesus Act. 19. in which place a great door and effectuall was opened unto him but there were many z 1 Cor. 16.9 Adversaries 1 Cor. 16.8 9. those Apostles indeed experimenting the proofe of what their Lord and Master foretold them that they must be sent forth even as Sheep among a Mat. 10.16 Wolves who would attempt to teare them in pieces and which of us in particular encounters not his discouragements Yea woe is me We seeme to be fallen into those times wherein many men as if directly b Isa 6.10 infatuated from Heaven out of a grosse misprision apprehend the Ministery it selfe the greatest inconvenience and that great cheat that grand Pantomime of Christendome the cunning Jesuit now almost bare-fac'd hath instilled as is feared so pernicious a principle into such as are for ought we can see willing to be deceived as to question the c 1 Tim. ● 1 Rom. 11.13 office it selfe and to dispute the Institution as if they would have men scorne the Physitian when sickest and shun the Chirurgion when sorest And which must not be forgotten there are not wanting some who are apt to charge on that sacred Calling the occasion if not the cause of all the Calamities of this latter Age just as those of whom Suidas reports that they were wont to write with Inke or blood on a glasse and so set it against the Moon making all those spots or blurres that were in the glass to be in the Moon and not at all in the glasse upon which alone they were written meane while never at all anatomizing their owne Ulcerous Corrupt insides or repenting for their d Prov. 13.5 Ezek. 36.31 loathsome selfe-abhominations and among them as principall for the contempt of Gods faithfull Ministers Which sins becomming so Epidemicall and Nationall as they are call for Wrath and Indignation from that Lord who is here styled in my Text the Righteous Judge And yet though this be a Fight neverthelesse it is for the quality a good Fight and that for these reasons First of all because it s undertaken for the e 1 Tim. 6.12 Faith of Christ and for the Salvation of Soules whereof even one single one is more worth than a f Mat. 16.26 whole World O what comfort will it be in the day of retribution when a g 1 Cor. 4.2 faithfull Minister after all his sharpe conflicts with the * Act. 2.40 wayward oppositions of corrupt men shall say Loe me and the h Isa 8.18 Heb. 2 13. people which thou hast given me as the fruit of all my labour in thy Gospell being able thus to give up an i Heb. 13.17 account with joy and not with griefe Secondly Because it s undertaken for a good reward which is no lesse than a Crowne of Righteousnesse What S. Gregory said of afflictions for a good Conscience will hold here alone Consideratio praemii minuit vim flagelli The consideration of the Reward abates of the Difficulty of the Fight even so it s noted of Moses that having respect unto the recompense of the reward he preferred the reproach of Christ to all the richest treasures in Aegypt Heb. 11.26 the same was it likewise that animated that noble Prophet under all his discouragements and fruitlesse endeavours among men Isa 49.4 I have laboured in vaine and spent my time for nought yet surely my Judgement is with the Lord and my worke that is the reward of my worke is with the Lord who rewardeth his Ministers secundùm laborem though not secundùm proventum as S. Bernard speakes according to their Labour and pious endeavours which themselves undergoe in the Gospell though not according to the successe of their Labours which is k 1 Cor. 3.6 Gods alone to bestow And thus farre of the words in their first acception uttered by S. Paul as an Apostle I might next consider them also as spoken in the name of all other Christians at large even of all such as who love the appearing of the Lord Christ Jesus at his comming And under that notion of them we may observe That the Life of a Christian is a continuall warfare upon the Earth so Chrysologus Christiano militare est id quod vivit in seculo suitably unto that of Job Chap. 7.1 Where the word rendered an appointed time is by many translated a Warfare which was hinted to us in the first l Gen. 3.15 enmity between the two seeds after againe in Esau and Iacob m Gen. 25.22 strugling together in the same wombe and to this effect is that speech of our Saviour I came not to send Peace on the Earth but War Division n Mat. 10.34 35. and variance namely between Grace and Corruption which was experimented mightily in the breast of this our