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A11608	Death's summons, and the saints duty Laid forth first summarily in a sermon on 2. King. 20.1. in the cathedrall of St Peter in Exeter, Ianu. 24. 1638. at the solemne funerall of a well-deserving citizen. Since somewhat enlarged for the common good, by William Sclater, Master of Arts, late fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge, now a preacher of Gods Word in the city of Exeter.	Sclater, William, 1609-1661.	1640 (1640)	STC 21849; ESTC S116829	73,769	170

lid alwayes poring downwards as King David saith of worldly carnall men they have set their eyes bowing d Psal 17.11 down to the earth thus when Elijah was about to be carryed unto heaven in a fiery chariote it s noted that he cast off or let e 2 King 2.13 Elias dimisit pallium id est bona hujus mundi quandò in curru igneo Spiritus sancti in coelum rapiebatur Hugo de Prato florido serm 60 Dominica infra octav Ascens fall his mantle that now perchance would have cumbred his shoulders so certainly its most true when we wrap our selves too closely bemuffled us in the warm weeds of these earthly businesses we are too dull to mount nimbly into Heaven when Moses was to approach the bush of Gods presence he must ere he shall come hither as David e're he durst to compasse Gods Altar f Psal 26.6 washed his hands in innocency put off his g Exod. 3.5 shoes from his feet that is he must wash the feet of his Soul his affections from all the dirt and sweat and h Ber f. 43. L. Sterquilian soyled cogitations of the world as Saint Bernard glosseth it as when Abraham was to go up to one of the mountaines of Moriah to offer a Sacrifice to the Lord it s noted that he left his * Gen. 22.5 servants and his Asse behinde him at the foot of the hill that is as Barradius moralizeth it his servile and worldly affections as the blessed Virgine having beene saluted by an Angell and greeted with good tidings from Heaven immediately she left Nazareth of which the Proverb it seemes went among the Pharisees that out of Nazareth no i John 1.46 good thing came and went with haste into the k Luke 1.39 Hill Countrey and kept her selfe busied in things above so that great Mercurius Trismegistus professeth that when he fixed his mind to contemplate things l 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Mercur Trismegist in Paemandro cap. 1. initio above the senses of his body were affected even as a man oppressed by the heavinesse of sleepe whilest his soule kept up like a Meteor above the earth still upwards towards Heaven thus finding the speediest issue much like the disposition of the Spouse in the Canticles who whilest her heart was awaked for her Husband Christ she was in her sense of the body m Cant. 5.2 asleepe and drowzie to the world wherefore if we respect with old Simeon our quiet in death and then as Gods servants to depart with him in n Luke 2.29 peace let us though not cast our o Mundo carnem subtrahendam non eo inficias non è mundo tollendam quod ipsum in nostrâ potestate non sit Du Plessis pag. 61. in 8º de vitae mortisque consideratione selves out of the world yet as those Mariners in Saint Pauls tempest p Acts 27.18 19 lightned the Ship by casting out the tackling let us cast the world with the rubbish and appurtenances thereof out of our selves dealing herein as Abraham did with his servant Hagar when through too much cockering and indulgence she began to waxe malapert and sawcy he cast her out and q Gen. 21.10 14 sent her away to wander in the wildernesse of Beer-sheba so when the world and flesh begin to r Gal. 5.24 lust too eagerly against the Spirit it must be subdued though not destroyed it must be in affection cast out ſ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrsost Hom. ad cap. 6. Rom. ver 12. rectified or crucified with the affections and lusts thereof the reason hereof is for that the more empty the soule is of the world the more full it is of God and so on the contrary therefore we read in Scripture that God appeared mostly unto his Prophets and great Saints in extasies in visions and in t Cognitio futurorum meliùs potest fieri in dormientibus quàm in vigilantibus eò quòd quando anima abstrahitur à corporalibus ut in somno aptior redditur ad percipiendum in fluxum Divinum Raynerius de Pisis tom 2. Pantheolog cap. 12. de Prophetiâ pag. 723. in quarto dreames by night when the soule hath beene estranged as it were from usuall commerce with the body God and Mammon be such u Jam. 4.4 enemies that like heate and cold the first qualities in the Elements in intense degrees they cannot dwell together in one and the same heart The x Aristot lib. 3. de animâ cap. 5. text 4. cum Jul. Pacio in comment ibid. Philosopher gives a very rationall argument to prove this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That which is within so intimately existent already that it is in a sort the same with what the minde is fastened upon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the same Philosopher saith so the Scripture it selfe plainely He that is joyned to the Lord is y 1. Cor. 6.17 one Spirit this I say thus fixed within already expelleth and bolteth out what is not of the same but of another nature from without and our Saviour is himselfe expresse that no man can serve God and z Matth. 6.24 Mammon at the same time in intense degrees and in that manner as God himselfe expects it from him Matth. 6.24 Hence we observe that the Israelites after they had once eaten of the old corne of the land they found the Manna from Heaven on the next morrow to a Josh 5.12 cease nor had they any of that b Psal 78.25 food of Angels more Josh 5.12 Saint Austin gives the reason of it clearely Si animus habet undè delectetur extrinsecùs sine delectatione manet intrinsecùs that is if the Aegyptian flesh-pots of fat and greazie delights from without can content the minde enough then it cannot finde true inward chearefulnesse and delectation within and yet from c Psal 45.13 within all the glory of Gods Church is brought yea there principally it is and lyes Certainely what an honourable person of great parts said of Riches and other appurtenances of the world at large is much more true in death they are the very d Lord Verulam Essay 34. baggage of vertue the Romane word is better impedimenta for as the baggage is to an Army so are riches to vertue it cannot well be spared nor left behinde but yet it hindereth the march yea and the care of it disturbeth often loseth the victory and it 's worth our notice how Saint Paul hath joyned those two together set your affections on things above and e Col. 3.2 not on things below Col. 3.2 necessarily implying that whilest men do keep scraping with Aesops cock and spurle for pearles of contentment in the dunghill of the earth below and as our Apostle saith doe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 f Phil. 3.19 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mind earthly things and as the greeke word signifyes do place their

at the full is blemished with some darke blots not capable of any illumination and all those outward things are under her feet to shew how she spurnes at and tramples them even as we finde the Primitive Christians when they had in the Churches great necessity sold their lands and possessions they came and laid the money at the Apostles g Acts 4.37 feet docentes calcandam esse pecuniam shewing how that price was to be valued and dealt withall and indeed my Brethren saith Saint h Bern. fol. 96. K. L. confer eund fol. 3. D. Ser. 4. de Adventu Dom. Bernard quid in hoc mundo agimus aut quid facimus de hoc mundo as the Lord said to Elijah on another occasion What dost thou here Elijah so I i 1. King 19.9 what have we to doe here in this world at least what doe wee much make or meddle with it loe saith St Paul we are men of k 1. Tim. 6.11 God should we then be l 2. Tim. 2.4 entangled with the affaires of that world the love of which is m Jam. 4 4. enmity with God besides doe we not know that we are here but as mere n Heb. 11.13 strangers and pilgrims having here no continuing City but seeking one to o Heb. 13.14 come whose p Heb. 11.10 builder and maker is God seeke we not another q Heb. 11.14 Countrey and whilest we are at home in the r 2. Cor. 5.6 body we are absent from the Lord should our ſ Phil. 3.20 conversations then be here or else in Heaven where our God t Acts 27.23 whose we are and whom we serve hath his u Matth. 5.34 Throne and who esteemeth of the earth but as of a x Verse 35. ibid. foot-stoole yea saith holy y Calvin lib. 3. instit cap. 9. Sect. 4. Calvine Si coelum patria est quid aliud terra quàm exilium c. If Heaven be our Countrey what is the earth other then a very banishment and who can take pleasure in the richest soyle under the Sun persecuted and in such a condition if we consider it simply nay if you should like children dally with these fond knacks and be taken with those toyes of the world that when God sends us into the world as he shewed sometimes wonders unto Israel z Psal 105.45 That they might keepe his statutes and observe his lawes loe we like those that were sent to Ophir for gold bring backe home no trafficke but a 1. King 10.22 Peacocks feathers or as those silly people in America of whom b Maginus C●● 〈…〉 Maginus tells the story that they part with gold the choicest metalls and jewels merely for glasse and bawbles if we will like those infatuated Gentiles needs become thus c Rom. 1.22 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 foolish yet what will be the issue behold saith King David this love or dotage rather is but to love d Psal 4.2 Vanity yea as his sonne King Solomon doubles and redoubles it e Eccles 1.2 Vanity f Omnis genitivus reflexus supra suum 〈…〉 excellentiam emphasim Dominicus d. Flandria q● 1. Act. 4. in lib. 1 ●oster pag. 4. of vanities all is vanity and more than this too g Eccles 1.14 vexation of spirit yea more still is mere lying and h Psal 4.2 leasing saith his Father David and that we might be sure to notice it he hath set to a Selah in the period of the sentence Psal 4.2 which Selah was a note no where used but in Davids Psalmes and thrice in Habakkuk's third Chapter and in the use it served say the learned to point us to a businesse of speciall observation the Chaunter of the Quire being wont at such stops to i 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 verbo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 exaltavit vide Conr. Heresbachium praefat in Psalmos pag. 16. in quarto lift up his voice and raise it to a higher note But why are earthly things resembled unto k See S Rich. Baker meditat on Psal 11. pag. 32. leasing l Ludolphus de Sax. in Psal 4. ver 2. Ludolphus makes the answer quia amatores suos decipiunt non faciunt quod promittunt because they are never so good as their word nor ever doe they make good their promises yea they are in this like Ephraimites when you thinke most to have them like Davids mercies * Acts 13.34 sure yet then they start aside like a broken or a m Psal 78.57 deceitfull bow and prove as Aegypt was wont to doe to Israel onely as Ezekiel saith a Staffe of n Ezek. 29.6 Reed the condition whereof is such saith the Scripture else where that if a man o 2. King 18.21 leane on it it will not onely faile him as a supporter and be as Jobs friends many of them were in his adversity p Job 16.2 miserable comforters but saith the Text it will goe into his hand and pierce it for saith my Author they promise liberty but pay bondage they promise much like the q See my Lords Grace against A. C. sect 21. num 7. p. 143 144 c. Romanists that invited over John Hus and Hierome of Prague the Venetian r See Bishop Morton sect 24. cap. 15. thes 2. pag. 405 406. sect 16 ib. pag. 389. 390. in fine Fulgentius the French Abbot of Boys and after them the Dalmatian Spalatensis which like silly sheepe were enticed by the faire pretences of safe conduct and dismission againe in security but loe here is nothing but leasing they pay feare yea blood for like the simple creatures in the Fable they went to visite the Lyon in his den but their blood was so sweet that he sucked it out all it were a happy spirituall use of the Foxes craft if we perceiving no prints of ſ Omnia te advorsum spectantia nulla retrorsum Horat. lib. 1. epist 1. returning foot-steps would be wary of the pawes of the old t 1. Pet. 5.8 Lyon the Devill or of the ginnes of his under-broakers the flesh and the world for these must needs resemble their chiefe Master and prove u Rev. 12.9 deceivers even of the whole world Well then weigh these things thorowly and know thy selfe aright oh man and then love the world if thou canst loe 't is for brutes to looke downwards and for none but a besotted Babylonian to eate x Dan. 4.33 grasse with Oxen tanquàm vos poeniteat non y Lactant. lib. 2. de orig error cap. 2. cap. 3. ibid. ver fin id ipsum vel maximi erroris est vitam pecudum sub figurâ hominis imitari Nec figura corporis nec ratio excellens ingenii humani significat ad hanc unam rem natum hominem ut frueretur voluptatibus Cic. lib. 2. de finibus quadrupedes esse natos saith Lactantius

our house in order My speech now like Hezekiah on this his supposed death-bed is ready to be dissolved suffer it to gaspe a few minutes more and it shall expire Ye have heard what it is to set our house in order and the benefit thereof our worthy ſ Mr Peter Taylor Brother and my deare friend here departed a man not more respective of my person than a professed profitable Auditor of mine He was not now to seeke to levell his accompt with God nor to set the spirituall house of his soule in order having had before this often sensible intimations within him of the decay of Nature the stroke indeed of death it selfe and the summons thereof was somewhat t We of this City have very lately had divers examples of suddaine death of persons of no meane quality and heare of more abroad suddaine but a very few houres before his dissolution yet not the expectation and surely death can never be too suddaine if it be not unlooked for from a suddaine and unlooked for death good Lord deliver us but he that with Saint Paul dyes u 1. Cor. 15.31 dayly to sinne and with King David carryeth his soule alwayes in his x Psal 119.109 hand in expectation of a dissolution can never be unhappy in the speediest passage from the body into Heaven and he that lives y Mors mala putanda non est quam bona vita prae●esserit Augustin de Civit. Dei lib. 1. cap. 11. well can never dye ill The manner of his deceasing I know not to what better to resemble than to St Peters comming unto Christ upon the waters z Matth. 14.29 30 31. Matth. 14.29 30 31. when St Peter was bid to come for he would not adventure on so high a businesse without a warrantable command first from his Lord Christ he was come downe out of the ship and he walked on the water to goe to Jesus but when he saw the winde boisterous he was afraid and beginning to sinke he cryed saying Lord save me and immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand and caught him even so he a Luke 24.1 early on the Lords day Januar. 20. 1638. in conscience of Christs command to b Psal 27.4 visite his Temple and not to forsake the c Heb. 10.25 assembly of the Saints arising and as St Peter from the ship going downe from his bed was about to fit himselfe to goe to Jesus though not on the Sea yet in the Temple where he knew he might in his Word as old Simeon did in his d Luke 2.28 Armes embrace him and where he was no slacke but a frequent and diligent visiter of him and a sincere honourer without saction without ostentation of his worship but as he assayed to goe loe the winde was boisterous Death summons him and beginning to sinke not in despaire but under bodily weaknesse he cryed out saying as Saint Peter Lord save me so he Lord be mercifull unto me and speedily Jesus caught him and as I am perswaded commanded his good Angell to carry up his soule into the e John 14.2 mansion of blisse f Matth. 25.34 prepared for him from the beginning of the world It is a notable both signe and effect of true faith in suddaine g My Lord the Bishop now of Exon in his second 〈…〉 on the History of th● New Testam pag. 135 〈◊〉 1634. extremities to ejaculate holy desires and with the wings of our first thoughts to flye up instantly to the throne of grace for present succour Upon deliberation it is possible for a man that hath beene carelesse and prophane by good meanes to be drawne to holy dispositions but on the suddaine a man will appeare as he is what ever is most rife in the heart will come forth at the mouth it is good to observe how our surprisalls finde us the rest is but forced this is naturall out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh And when the strings of speech are broken and the outward senses have lost quite their externall prospects who knows what things of joy h 2. Cor. 12.4 unspeakable in that abstention of the soule from the body as St Paul in his rapture a good man though seized suddainly by death may heare Should I here next bestow my selfe in a copious Panegyrick I should finde an houre more too little to dispatch my laudatory Oration as Elihu in Job said on another occasion I am i Job 32.18 full of matter I could tell you how as Onesiphorus did St Paul he oft k 2. Tim. 1.16 refreshed the bowells of the poore and impotent he was as l Job 29.15 eyes to the blind as a staffe and feet to the lame and what a great and a secret m Rom. 16.3 helper of poore Tradesmen in the dead time of Trading and how carefull to see the hirelings n Levit. 19.13 wages discharged let them acknowledge who I beleeve shall hereafter finde him wanting and for fidelity to his friend no o Fidus Achates saepè apud Virgil. faithfull Achates ever out-went him nor was Jonathan ever more true to David or David to Jonathan of whom yet we read that in their lives they were lovely and pleasant and in their deaths they were not p 2. Sam. 1.23 divided were these vertues capable of bequeathment I could wish that he had left them as Legacies to all that yet live and survive him But I must remember that I am now in the Pulpit not at the Deske onely let me adde this as the conclusion of all which also my entire affection to his memory urgeth from me He was a true Nathaniel an Israelite indeed in whom was no knowne no approved or allowed q John 1.47 guile and such as these were they whom CHRIST commended and hee saith Paul is r 2. Cor. 10.18 approved whom the LORD commendeth and what is CHRISTS approbation but the sure earnest of an eternall glorification My beloved Christians we have much to answer to Almighty God for pious and good examples and who is there amongst us but must be forced to cry out Lord be mercifull unto me in this Now at last yet let us ſ Jam. 4.8 cleanse our hands and purifie our hearts as St James adviseth us let us desire God to fit us for the worst of times and the best of ends let us t Psal 119.109 continually carry our soules as in our hands ready to resigne them unto the hands of the God that by infusing created them and by creation infused them We have breath yet indeed but 't is but in our u Isa 2.22 nostrills ready each moment to give up Wherefore let us with King David x Psal 16.8 set the Lord alwayes before us and not onely so but as St Peter saith let us y 1. Pet. 3.15 sanctifie this Lord God in our hearts Many know God but