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A11603	Sermons experimentall: on Psalmes CXVI. & CXVII. Very vsefull for a vvounded spirit. By William Sclater D.D. sometimes rector of Limsham, and vicar of Pitmister, in Summerset-shire. Published by his son William Sclater Mr. of Arts, late fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge, now a priest, and preacher of the Gospel in the city of Exeter, in Devon-shire.	Sclater, William, 1575-1626.; Sclater, William, 1609-1661.	1638 (1638)	STC 21844; ESTC S116824	112,358	217

send me hence Saint Austin Da quod jubes jube quod vis Reasons why it should be so are First It is all the Lord requires of us Deut. 10.12 Secondly It is the Condition of continuing them wherefore when either we grow slack in our acknowledgement or divert our selves to other Authours God is pleased to remove them from us Rom. 1.21 Gentiles cared not to keep God in their acknowledgment therefore Gods gives them over to their own hearts lusts Hos 2.8 9. She knew not that it was I that gave her her corn and wine and oyl c. therefore I will take away my corn in the time thereof Thirdly Adde hereunto that hereto is linked the increase of Gods favours 2 Sam. 12.8 If that had been too little I would have given thee more Oh that there were such hearts in us How would the Lord delight still to do us good marvellous have his favours been in the preservation and deliverances of our State yet what hath it bred but increase of our rebellions Should not the Lord be avenged on such a nation as this It is amongst others a notable presage of our approaching calamity that we have so turned his grace into wantonnesse and as Saint Paul speaks abused his long suffering and bountifulnesse to occasion of hardnesse of heart Rom. 2.5 See then and examine how Gods favours work upon thee It is something not to be despised amongst the testimonies of a gracious disposition to be wrought to acknowledgement and dutifull tendring of our selves unto God you shall never or seldome see that disposition in the unregenerate but the more they apprehend or taste the favours of God the more indulgent they grow to their own lusts Whether it be First That they apprehend not Gods good in them as they in the * Zeph. 1.12 Prophet He will do neither good nor evill Secondly Or whether they think him to work after the necessity of his Nature in loading them with his benefits Thirdly Or whether they think them merited by their own formality and lip-outward-performances Fourthly Or whether they misapprehend the Nature of God making him an Idoll made all of mercy and goodnesse though Saint Paul command to behold the * Rom. 11.22 severity as well as the bounty of God But let such mindes be farre from Gods people Certainly it suits not with grace is not in the ordinary course of it compatible with it Hos 3.5 They shall fear the Lord and his goodnesse and because there is mercy with him Therefore they will fear him Psal 130.4 Thus ye shall discern it in your selves or others excepting the common interruptions that accompany humane infirmity First Every new favour brings accesse to the measure of serviceablenesse to God That which Ichu speaks of Baal Ahab served Baal a little I will serve him much more 2 Kings 10. they much more truly say of their God therefore see the greatest Favourites have been most serviceable Moses more then Aaron or Miriam Num. 12. Saint Paul more then all the Apostles 1 Cor. 15.10 The woman in the Gospel loves much because many sinnes have been forgiven Luke 7. The means to frame our hearts thereto are First Observation and due record of Gods speciall favours to us they are * Lam. 3.23 renewed with every morning if we had the wisdome to keep a Diary of them a daily Register Experto credite they would warm our languishing affections Secondly There is a holy Reminiscentia calling to minde of ancient favours such especially as in times of our ignorance and vanity God bestowed on us even when we knew not God served lusts and divers pleasures how many his loving kindnesses did we experiment David thus fetcheth it Ab ovo Thou art my God even from my youth and on thee have I been cast even since my mothers womb see Saint Austin in his Confessions Thirdly Next see how little we have merited at Gods hand as * Gen. 32.10 Iacob I am lesse then all thy goodnesse and trueth which thou hast shewen me Fourthly How contrary our merits have been as Saint Paul amplifies it Eph. 2. Tit. 3. 1 Tim. 1.15 16. Fiftly How we have requited the Lord Deut. 32.6 since we have received mercy from him Sixtly How notwithstanding our slender retailings God still is pleased to crown us with mercy and loving kindnesse Seventhly How in our best performances we come short of our duties Isa 64.6 Rom. 7.18 so that all we can say is this we would do good yet evill is present Eighthly See how many are behinde us in the favours of God we enjoy He hath not dealt so with other nations Psal 147.20 And my servant Moses is not so Num. 12. Follows now the matter of the Protestation in which observe we the manner of utterance in two things First Rhetoricall Apostrophe Secondly Ingemination expressing either vehemencie of affection or ardour and heat of affection Secondly The grounds of service two First Filius ancillae see Psal 86.16 Secondly Thou hast broken my bonds see Nah. 1.13 Thirdly The expression of it ver 17. I will sacrifice praise We also have causes the same to subscribe and professe our selves the servants of God yea more by many then David here alledgeth for he instanceth in Temporall favours onely First We also are filii ancillae sonnes of his handmaid First Borne children of the Church Secondly Many of us having had Christian education under Christian Parents Certainly these much increase our obligation It is no small favour of God to be borne in the Church of God no slender tie to his service that accrues from our imitation by Baptisme thereunto if ye consider Turks Pagans Infidells what can you say of them but as Saint Paul of Ephesians Chap. 2. They are without God without Christ without hope aliens from the covenants of promise from the common wealth of Israel They do not-derogate from Gods mercy who say That without Gods extraordinary mercy they perish all in their sins die under guilt of eternall damnation Reasons First No name given under heaven whereby we can be saved but onely the * Act 4.12 Name of Iesus Secondly No means to partake him but the knowledge and faith of him The * Isa 53.11 Knowledge of my righteous servant shall justifie many Thirdly No means to know him ordinary but the * Rom. 10.14 Word Nor Creatures nor any Naturall notice can reveale him 1. Cor. 1.21 Secondly If we look back to ancient Times where was a feed of Election the Lord was pleased extraordinarily to grant means of Vocation so to Naa●an he sends him to the Prophet so to the Eunuch he sends him to Hierusalem and Philip to him Act. 8. Secondly If we consider other Assemblies of men that boast themselves to be orthodox Churches of God and are not so will the Blessing farther appear False and erronious faith in Fundamentalibus is as perilous as flat Infidelity for example To beleeve that there

for God and desire to do good to his Church willingly suffering the respit of their own glorious reward to the end they might though on hardest tearms bring glory to God and do him service in the land of the living Therefore this reason themselves give alwayes First For that they saw the one half then of them which also was made to be an instrument of Gods service to lie brute and senslesse in the grave Secondly For that they desired to benefit the generation then living and to propagate Gods praise to succeeding posterities Psal 71.18 Isa 38.19 20. See also Psal 30. and 88. and 6. and 115. Beloved Remarkable is Gods providence to me in casting me without any thought or choice of man upon a Text presenting to my memorie even according to the time this great mercy of God to my soul delivering my soul from the pit of corruption that I might yet live to do him service in the land of the living Worthy were my tongue to cleave to the roof of my mouth my right hand for ever to forget her cunning if I should now forget or passe over with silence the great love God hath shewen to my soul in delivering it from the pit of corruption O Lord enlarge my heart to praise thee At Bristoll Even upon this day according to the time of life this time twelve moneths was I in the jaws of death none that beheld me saw so much as the least hope of life my soul had not the least commerce with the body so farre as I know Much about this hour God was pleased graciously to look upon me to shew me some glimpse of his mercy some beginnings of life some hope that I should walk before him in the land of the living and hitherto by Gods mercy I live performing him weak but hearty service in his Church Lord what is man that thou so visitest him Who am I the least of all Saints the chief of all sinners on whom thou thus magnifiest thy mercie What is that service poor I have done What that service thou reservest me to do O Lord be pleased to reveal it unto me to make me worthy by thy grace chearfully to perform it Da quod jubes jube quod vis for thou hast redeemed my soul from hell my life from death thou hast continued abilities and opportunity to do thee service to walk before thee in the land of the living Blessed be thy glorious Name O Father of mercies and God of all consolation blessed be thy Name for ever and ever and let all thy people say Amen Secondly Correct that errour of your judgements wherein I know you please your selves many of you ignorantly as if it were a matter of grace more then ordinary to pray for death untimely in respect of the tearm of nature This hold for a Rule I dare say it is certain While God gives ability to do him service or opportunity or hath use of us in meanest service be it but as David to declare Gods righteousnesse to the generation present as Hezekiah the father to the childe to shew Gods truth Isa 38.19 so long ought we to desire to live we sinne in wishing our premature death And well weigh it and tell me whether such desires upon what ground soever argue not rather self-love more love of our selves then of our God when God hath use of our service on earth to wish our selves out of the world Who can shew me any Saint of God in old or new Testament who ever made prayer to God or approved himself in the desire of death when God had use of him here in the land of the living without apparant fault Elias * 1 Kings 19.4 14. he indeed in a passion prayes unto God for death and his reason mark which should have been a reason rather to move him to pray for preservation of life because now there was so great use of his service for the benefit of the Church That of Iob and Ier. 3. and Ier. 20. are apparantly passionate wishes of flesh and blood arising from discontent at their crosses which I think no gracious man allows in himself or another And make what pretences you will I dare undertake to evidence the prayers the desires are sinfull to wish death as long as there is ability or opportunity to do God any service upon earth or use of service upon earth First That of * Iob 6. Iob upon this ground I have not yet denied the words of the holy One seems fair neither can I blame his fear of his own infirmity but yet there was faithlesnesse in the wish for hath not God promised to support 1 Cor. 10.13 Secondly That of imperfection of grace and sinnes by defect in the service of God is as plausible as any thing to legitimate the desire yet it proceeds from a false ground It is false that the longer we live the more we sinne if we be Gods the longer we live the lesse we sinne sinne is mortified daily and we bring forth * Psal 92.14 more fruit in our age Thirdly That of evills to come from which to be taken away aforehand is promised as a favour Isa 58.1 and 2 Kings 22.20 yet warrants not the wish This let us be assured of First Simply if we speak Proroguing of life to the utmost tearm of nature is the blessing untimely death simply considered is the judgement That it turns to a blessing is by accident it is a blessing by accident Secondly I do not think but Iermi●hs blessing was in the fruit as great as Iosiahs for though Iosiah saw not the evill yet Ieremiah endured the evill with patience in the mean time did service to God in sustaining his Church I●siah went before Ieremiah to heaven Ieremiah had more glory in his time In a word Some God takes away from evills to come in mercy and favour they are such as he sees likely to be overcome of the evills in that respect he shews them favour others he reserves to taste the evills to give testimony to his truth To them this is a favour yea and simply the greater favour Is the question which is rather to be desired Answ Simply if we speak Prerogation of life for that is natively the blessing Secondly For the comparison it is to be me●sured by the quality and state of the persons Hath God use of their service upon earth First They ought to preferre Gods glory before their own salvation Secondly They shall be assured God will give issue with the temptation 1 Corinth 10.13 Thirdly Neither loose they ought in the measure of their reward as according to pleasures in sin so much torment so according to pains in this life is the measure of our glory If you will ask me how we shall know whether God hath use of our service upon earth Surely The question is obscure and curious to be measured onely by continuance of abilities opportunities or calling from God