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<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
<PB REF="1">
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<HEAD>TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL, SYR <HI>Iames Altome</HI> Knight, one of the Barons of the Exc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">equer, and &s;ir <HI>Edward Phillips</HI> Knight, his Ma|ie&s;ties Sergiant at Lawe, Iudges for the Northeren Circuit. Grace be multiplied in this life, and happines in the world to <HI>come.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THough the Vo|lume be little, and the leaues but fewe, I here offer, either to expre&s;&s;e the
<PB REF="2">dutie I owe, or to vnfolde a|nie project worthy your iu|dicious eye and cen&s;ure: yet for that the &s;ubiect in &s;ome &s;ort is &s;utable to your place, and calling, Pardon me in your patience, if I craue pa|tronage. The booke <HI>Iohn</HI> took from the Angels hand, was but a little one, yet was it pa&s;&s;ionate in the eating, &s;weet in the mouth, and bit|ter in the bellie; voyces, roa|rings, &amp; thunderings went with it, and a powerfull &s;peech bound with a &s;acred oath, that <HI>Time</HI> &s;hould be no more; The vi&s;ion was
<PB REF="2">for an appointed time, and now is the time. For iudge|ment is at our doores, and that which deuoureth all, with mortalitie, is eue~ now ready to be &s;wallowed vp it &s;elf with Aeternitie, for time &s;hall bee no more: <HI>E&s;t dies, &amp; Deus vltionis;</HI> There is a day, and a God of reuenge. A day of doome, and a God of Iudgement; A day of death, and a day of deliue|rance from death &amp; doome. <HI>Inde venturus,</HI> &s;hall ende all time in this world, and be|ginne Eternitie in a better; when all iudgement &s;halbe
<PB REF="3">deuolued into the hands of Chri&s;t, who&s;e fanne is in his handes, now readie to win|nowe the Chaffe from the Wheate, with an eternall doome of Life for the one, and of Death for the other. Spare mee to &s;peake of that great Day, and when I haue done, pardon my boldne&s;&s;e, if I pre&s;&s;e it as a pre&s;ident for Iudges of the Earth to iudge, and to be iudged by: next vnder God &amp; the King, you doe worthilie po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e one of the greate&s;t Circuits of Iu&s;tice within the King|dome; &amp; with what feare
<PB REF="3">of God, loyaltie to your Prince, loue of the &s;ubiect, and integritie towardes all, I appeale to the con&s;cience of tho&s;e Countries, where it is both dulie &s;eene, and tru|lie felte; I &s;ay felt, in the &s;weet temper of mercie and iudgement, euer cancelling the rigour of the Law, with the mildnes of the Go&s;pell, and beating backe the &s;wel|lings of <HI>Iordan,</HI> that runneth roughly, with the &s;weet ru~|ning waters of <HI>Sylo,</HI> that go|eth &s;oftly by <HI>Syon:</HI> Til I leaue to liue, I &s;hall neuer forget your religious care at <HI>Lanca|&s;ter,</HI>
<PB REF="4">ouer the dead, (I meane the poor condemned pri&s;o|ners, then ready to die by the doome of <HI>Iu&s;tice</HI>) how they might be wrought willing to leaue this mi&s;erable <HI>world,</HI> and be prepared for a better.</P>
<P>And finding in your right iudgements, (being rightlie re&s;olued) that it could neuer be but vpo~ the &s;ight of their &s;innes, and feeling of their Sauiour; your holie re&s;olu|tion was, they &s;hould bee brought to publique praier, and Preaching, in the after|noone, the day before their <HI>executio~,</HI> wher honored with
<PB REF="4">your pre&s;ence, &amp; &s;anctified with your Prayers, <HI>w^t</HI> much &s;weet Baulme of that great congregation, powred vpon their heades, to burie them withall: It was &s;trange to &s;ee, how <HI>Dauids</HI> harp abated <HI>Saules</HI> rage: I meane how that heaue~ly harmony quie|ted the de&s;perate, confe&s;sing their &s;innes, and longing for the houre of their di&s;&s;oluti|on, with de&s;ire to be loo&s;ed, and to be with <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> there to walke, in the land of the liuing. They mooued your L: yet further, that this their Faith might bee confirmed,
<PB REF="5">and &s;ealed vp, with the Sa|crament of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> his ble&s;&s;ed death &amp; pa&s;sion, which be|ing graunted by you, &amp; cele|brated by vs, a little before their going to Execution, I appeale to the Sheriffe of the Countrie, and at lea&s;t to a thou&s;and lookers on, how cheerfullie they died, &s;euen vpon the tree, and one at the &s;take: truly confe&s;sing their &s;innes to God, in the &s;ight of men and Angells, with an a&s;&s;ured hope of pardon, in, and through the bloud&s;hed of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> their alone &s;auiour, &amp; redeemer; not doubting,
<PB REF="5">but vpon the di&s;&s;olution, as their body mu&s;t to the earth from whence they came, &s;o their &s;oules &s;hould immedi|ately pa&s;&s;e to God, that gaue them, there to be tyed, as in the bundle of the liuing.</P>
<P>It were to be wi&s;hed this memorable acte of yours, might be co~tinued &amp; made exe~plarie, to the re&s;t of your Ranke, in their &s;euerall Cir|cuits, you may take &amp; leaue, as you &s;ee occa&s;ion; Yet if you plea&s;e, after iudgement whil&s;t they yet liue, to lappe your dead in &s;uch <HI>Syndon,</HI> it wil be honorable to you, as
<PB REF="6">it was to <HI>Io&s;eph</HI> of <HI>Arimathia,</HI> and <HI>Nicodemus;</HI> when they for the Head, &amp; you for the members, are &s;o charitablie deuoted: &s;ith he that &s;ancti|fieth, &amp; they that are &s;ancti|fied, are both one.</P>
<P>It was v&s;uall with the <HI>Ae|giptians,</HI> in their &s;ole~ne fea&s;ts, to drinke the la&s;t draught in a dead mans skull: thereby, in the height of their &s;olace, to put them in mind of their mortalitie: I haue &s;aid, <HI>Ye are Gods,</HI> that's your pray&s;e: yet <HI>mu&s;t ye die like men,</HI> that's your check. It will not be ami&s;&s;e therefore, as you &s;lide from
<PB REF="6">your thrones of Honour, to look vpon the du&s;t of tho&s;e yee haue condemned, &amp; to tender the &s;aluation of tho&s;e poore &s;oules, who&s;e bodyes you haue re~dred vnto death, not doubting <HI>Quin patibulo ad Polum patent jis aditus:</HI> I meane to all &s;uch as &s;hall re|deeme a bad life, with a pe|nitent death: and &s;ay, in the patience of their &s;oules, ble&s;|&s;ed is the tree whereon righ|teou&s;nes hangeth, wee are iu&s;tly puni&s;hed, &amp; haue &s;in|ned, but hee that &s;aueth vs, hath done nothing ami&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>To this GOD and Saui|our,
<PB REF="7">I leaue you both, with all your religious endeuors, pre&s;sing your affections to|wards mee, no further, but as in dutie and true deuoti|on, I &s;hall merit the &s;ame.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your VVor&s;hips, much bounden, VV. Leigh.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<PB N="1" REF="7">
<HEAD>THE DREAD|FVLL DAY.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The fir&s;t Sermon.</HEAD>
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<Q><BIBL><HI>Hebrewes. 9. ver&s;. 27.28.</HI></BIBL>
<P N="27">27. And as it is appointed vnto men that they &s;hall once die, and after that commeth the iudgement.</P>
<P N="28">28. So Christ was once offered to take away the &s;innes of manie, and vnto them that looke for him, &s;hall he appeare the &s;econd time, without &s;in vnto &s;aluatio~.</P></Q>
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<P>_THIS Scripture which I haue read i&s;&s;uing from the ri|uer of life, being pure as gold, and cleare as Chri&s;tall, doth di&s;couer
<PB N="2" REF="8">vnto vs, a threefold day-dawning out of the bright cloud of the Lords decree and determined coun&s;ell ouer all fle&s;h.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>One is the daie of death in the&s;e</HI> words. <HI>It is appointed vnto all men that they &s;hall once die.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2 Another is, the daie of doome, out of the&s;e words; <HI>And after that commeth iudgement.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3 The third and la&s;t is, the day of deliuera~ce fro~ both by Chri&s;t, out of the&s;e words; <HI>So Chri&s;t was once offered to take away the &s;innes of many, &amp; vnto them that looke for him, he &s;hal appeare the &s;econd time, without &s;inne vnto &s;aluation?</HI></P>
<P>The day of death, it killeth all, and bringeth to the graue.</P>
<P>The day of doome, it rai&s;eth all, and bringeth vnto iudgement.</P>
<P>The day of deliuerie, it &s;en|deth all, and de&s;tinateth for euer,
<PB N="3" REF="8">the good to the re&s;urrection of &s;aluation, whither God bring vs: And the euill to the re&s;urrecti|on of condemnation, from which the Lord deliuer vs.</P>
<P>Or thus, death is the Empre&s;&s;e of this world, it &s;eazeth vpon all.</P>
<P>Iudgment hath the command of another world; it &s;ommoneth all: Chri&s;t hath the &s;oueraigntie of both worlds, he &s;entenceth all, irreuocable is his doome, and there lies no appeale from it.</P>
<P>Pardo~ me my brethre~, if I &s;pare to &s;peake of death, hauing hereto|fore &s;pent my &s;pirits &amp; &s;tre~gth on that &s;ubiect, whe~ with the poore <HI>Gadaren</HI> ofte~ I haunted the graues of your dead in their &s;euerall Fu|neralls, &amp; wounded my &s;elf with the &s;tones of their &s;epulchers.</P>
<P>Two &s;ermons are publi&s;hed to the world, I pray God they
<PB N="4" REF="9">may be profitable, it was the be&s;t perfume I had for the liuing, and fine&s;t Syndon, I could prouide for the dead.</P>
<P>So di&s;charged of death as I haue &s;aid, heare me in your won|ted patience, while&s;t I di&s;couer vnto you the day of doome, and that other of our deliuerance by Chri&s;t, I &s;ay deliuerance from darke <HI>Egipt,</HI> into bright <HI>Go&s;an:</HI> from great <HI>Sodome,</HI> into litle <HI>Soar:</HI> from the mi&s;erie of this life, to the mercie of a better: from death here, to life there: and as it is in my text, from &s;inne, to &s;aluation, to all &s;uch as looke and long for Chri&s;t his &s;econd comming.</P>
<P>To the due con&s;ideration whereof, and the rather to &s;tir vp your due deuotion, and like pre|paration both of lampe &amp; light, again&s;t that great day, giue me
<PB N="5" REF="9">leaue with milde <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> to charge all men, that their thoughts are extrauaga~t, without &s;en&s;e or fee|ling of that fearefull fire. O that men were wi&s;e (&s;aith he) then would they vnder&s;tand this,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Deut.</HI> 32.29.</NOTE> then would they con&s;ider their latter end.</P>
<P>As, and if he &s;hould &s;ay, that which another hath well &s;aid from his &s;pirit &amp; pa&s;&s;ion: O that men were wife, then would they vnder&s;tand things pa&s;t, things pre&s;ent, things to come: things pa&s;t with griefe, things pre&s;ent with &s;hame: things to come with feare, things pa&s;t as the euill we haue committed: the good we haue omitted, and the time we haue lo&s;t, all pa&s;t, and yet we grieue not.</P>
<P>Things pre&s;ent, as &s;hortnes of life, difficultie of &s;aluation, &amp; the
<PB N="6" REF="10">&s;mall number of the &s;aued, all pre|&s;ent, and yet we &s;hame not.</P>
<P>Things to come, as death, the~ which theres nothing more mi|&s;erable: Iudgement, then which theres nothing more terrible: &amp; the paines of hell, then which there is nothing more intollera|ble, and all to come, and yet we feare not.</P>
<P>The rea&s;on of all this defecti|on is rendred by <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> in the pre|cedent 28. ver&s;e, we are a Nation (&s;aith he) (we are a world &s;ay we voyd of coun&s;ell, neither is there any vnder&s;tanding in vs, we feele no mercy, we feare no iudgme~t, he hath &s;pent his plagues vpon vs, he hath &s;hot his arrowes at vs, tipped with gall and &s;orrow, as famine, &s;word, and pe&s;tilence, &amp; yet we are &s;ecure in our &s;innes, we are frozen in our dregges, we
<PB N="7" REF="10">melt not, what would we haue God to do, &s;hall he come in mer|cie &s;till, &amp; not in iudgment? &s;hall he in his loue cheari&s;h vs? and not in his wrath rebuke vs? What will we haue God to doe?</P>
<P>The Go&s;pell of our Chri&s;t hath run floudwi&s;e into the re|mote&s;t parts of this world, and thou&s;and of yeares haue enioyed our Chri&s;t with his &s;olemne fea&s;ts, Sacraments and Sabboths, now if we &s;inne willingly after we haue receiued and acknow|ledged that truth, there remaines no more &s;acrifice for &s;innes as the Apo&s;tle &s;aith,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Hebr.</HI> 10.26.</NOTE> but a dreadfull loo|king for of iudgement, and vio|lent fire which &s;hall deuour the aduer&s;aries. Fire, I &s;ay fire, euen that fire wherewith <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> threat|ned the <HI>I&s;rael</HI> of <HI>Iuda,</HI> and in them the <HI>I&s;rael</HI> of all the world, for the
<PB N="8" REF="11">like contempt,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Deuter.</HI> 32.22.</NOTE> fire is kindled in my wrath, and &s;hall burne into the bottome of hell, &amp; &s;hall con|&s;ume the earth, with her increa&s;e, and &s;et on fire the foundations of the mountaines, <HI>Et lugenda dei iudicia in delinquentes,</HI> as one &s;aith; That there &s;hall be a fire is much, that this fire &s;hall be kindled is more, but that it &s;hall be kindled in the wrath of God, is mo&s;t of al: the flame whereof &s;hall burne in|to the bottome of hell, con&s;ume the earth, and the foundations of the mountaines.</P>
<P>Now of this fearefull &amp; finall fire mu&s;t I &s;peake if God will, and therefore flie out my voyce, and be &s;tro~g my &s;pirit, to &s;peake with pa&s;&s;ion what the iudgment &s;hall be.</P>
<P>When Lord <HI>Aeneas</HI> &s;hould relate vnto <HI>Dido,</HI> Queene of <HI>Car|thage,</HI>
<PB N="9" REF="11">the lamentable &s;iege and &s;acking of <HI>Troy,</HI> he began his &s;peech with this pa&s;&s;ion, <HI>Infan|dum Regina iubes renouare dolorem, troian as vt opes &amp; lamentabile reg|num, eruerint Danaj.</HI></P>
<P>A dolefull wo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ke me to renue &ocirc; queene thou doe&s;t con&s;traine, to tell how Greeks the Troyan wealth, and lamentable raigne, did ouerthrowe.</P>
<P>A better &s;pirit bids me &s;peake of the &s;iege and &s;acking of this world, whereof <HI>Troy</HI> was but a drop to the great Ocean, and not to be de&s;troyed by the Grecian Lords, but by the great God of heaue~: how can I the~ tell of that without mourning? How can you heare thereof, without moane, being a worke of woe and wonder, a worke of feare and fire, &s;o is the la&s;t iudgement.</P>
<PB N="10" REF="12">
<P>Of which iudgement, I pray you con&s;ider with me the&s;e two things out of my text.</P>
<P N="1">1 Fir&s;t, that iudgement &s;hall come, for &s;o is it here &s;aid. <HI>After death commeth &iuml;udgement.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2 Secondly, for what cau&s;e this iudgment &s;hall come, to wit, to cleare the godly, &amp; condemne the wicked.</P>
<P>For &s;o it is here &s;aid; <HI>To the~ that looke for him, he &s;hall appeare the &s;e|cond time without &s;inne vnto &s;alua|tion.</HI> Implying thereby, that to &s;uch as looke not for him, he &s;hall then come to their iu&s;t condem|nation.</P>
<P>Now for the former, the&s;e que&s;tions may be moued.</P>
<P N="1">1 Whether there &s;hall be any iudgement?</P>
<P N="2">2 Who &s;hall be iudge?</P>
<P N="3">3 By what proces, examinati|on,
<PB N="11" REF="12">and execution it &s;halbe effec|ted?</P>
<P N="4">4 What &s;halbe the precedent &s;ignes of &s;uch iudgement?</P>
<P>Of the&s;e in order as the time will permit, hoping you will heare with vnwearied diligence what the Lord will bring to pa&s;&s;e in &s;o great a wonder.</P>
<P>For that which is moued in the fir&s;t place whether there &s;hall be any iudgment or no,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">That there &s;hall be a Iudgment.</NOTE> the que|&s;tion is nece&s;&s;arie, becau&s;e the &s;cripture hath foretold that there &s;hould come mockers in the la&s;t daies, which wil walke after their lu&s;ts, and &s;ay,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Peter.</HI> 3.3.4.</NOTE> <HI>Where is the promi&s;es of his comming? for &s;ince the fathers died, all things continue alike from the beginning of the creation.</HI> Trees growe, riuers flowe, &s;unne &s;hi|neth, moone and &s;tarres &s;end out their light as of old, &s;eedtime and
<PB N="12" REF="13">harue&s;t fall out in their due &s;ea|&s;ons, and winter &amp; &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">mmer &s;aile vs not of their appointed times: men are mortall, &amp; yet liue to be|get &s;onnes, &amp; daughters, for this immortall world, that neither wil die, nor yet decay: for if there be no new thing vnder the &s;un, why &s;hould we feare the ruine or fall of &s;o faire a fabricke with the &s;teddie earth, his center to beare vp all, and the cope of heauen a couer to &s;hroud all? Come (&s;ay they) let vs lay our plea&s;ures as on an heape, let vs lap our de|lights together, let vs &s;olace our &s;elues in the &s;weetnes of our &s;in, there is no feare of vengeance, there is no fire of violence.</P>
<P>Of &s;uch mockers the world is full, who being filled with diuers lu&s;ts, haue made a league with death, and a couenant with hell,
<PB N="13" REF="13">in putting farre off the euill day,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Rom.</HI> 2.4.5.</NOTE> not knowing that the patience, long &s;uffering, and bountifulnes of God, leadeth to repentance.</P>
<P>But thou (&ocirc; mocker) after thine hardnes, and heart that can|not repent, heape&s;t vnto thy &s;elfe wrath again&s;t the day of wrath, and of the iu&s;t iudgment of God, who will reward euery man ac|cording to his works.</P>
<P>But leaue we the&s;e fle&s;hly Epi|cures to the iudgement of that great day, &amp; come we to the pre|&s;ent matter in hand, and proofe that it &s;hall be.</P>
<P><HI>Enoch,</HI> the &s;euenth from <HI>Adam,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iude.</HI> 14.15.</NOTE> prophecied of it, &s;aying, Behold the Lord commeth with thou|&s;ands of his Saints to giue iudg|ment again&s;t all men, and to re|buke all the vngodly of all their wicked deeds. Where fir&s;t we &s;ee
<PB N="14" REF="14">how the babe was buried in it birth: I meane the world was no &s;ooner made by God, and mard by man, but euen in the begin|ning there went from <HI>Enoch</HI> a pregnant prophecie of it ending, yea and before the fir&s;t floud was out, the la&s;t fire was in, to a&s;&s;ure the wicked of both worlds, that their &s;innes &s;hould neuer go vn|puni&s;hed. Againe, <HI>Enochs</HI> pro|phecie, was of &s;uch certaintie, that he prophecied it done, ere it was begun: And in vew ere it was ful|ly &s;eene, and not by a probable coniecture, but by a liuely and true demon&s;tration, thus, <HI>Ecce: Behold the Lord co~meth, &amp;c.</HI> La&s;t|ly, as you may there &s;ee, he iud|geth all per&s;ons without excep|tion of any, all &s;innes without mi&s;&s;ing of one, &s;innes of the &s;oule, &s;innes of the body, &s;innes
<PB N="15" REF="14">of omi&s;&s;ion, &s;innes of co~mi&s;&s;ion, and all this in the a&s;&s;embly of all his Saints, for his greater glorie, their good, and for the wofull confu&s;ion of the wicked.</P>
<P>Againe, <HI>Daniel</HI> &s;aith;
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Dan.</HI> 7.9.10.</NOTE> I beheld till the thrones were &s;et, and the fierie &s;treames i&s;&s;ued out, till the iudgment was prepared, and the bookes were opened, with thou|&s;and thou&s;ands mini&s;tring vnto him, and ten thou&s;and thou&s;ands &s;tanding before him. Where I pray you ob&s;erue with me what <HI>Daniel</HI> &s;awe in vi&s;ion by the bancks of <HI>Hulay,</HI> many mi&s;teries co~cerning the <HI>Mes&s;ias</HI> &amp; Sauiour of all the world, his great humi|liation in his birth, death, and bu|riall, with his exaltation to glorie in his re&s;urrection, a&s;cention, me|diation, &s;econd comming, and finall iudgement.</P>
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<P>Of which iudgement, this Scripture was &s;ufficient warning and warrantie to all the world, that the proces were out to &s;om|mon it, &amp; that with expedition: for 1. the thrones were prepared to &s;hew his readines 2. the ancie~t of daies was &s;et, to &s;hew his re&s;o|lution. 3. Garments white as &s;nowe, to &s;hew his integritie. 4. And eyes like flaming fire, to de|clare his &s;eueritie: 5. wheeles bur|ning, to tell vs he is a comming: 6. And &s;treames of fire i&s;&s;uing, to teach vs, that he wil haue no &s;top. What &s;hould I &s;ay more? 7 Me|riads of men and Angels atten|ding, to declare his maie&s;tie. 8. And with bookes opened, to make good his promi&s;es laid downe in his word, which word as the Apo&s;tle &s;aith,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Io<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">.</HI> 12.48.</NOTE> &s;hall iudge all in the la&s;t day.</P>
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<P>treadings of all the godly kee|ping their pathes, hath &s;o tract the way, and beaten the doctrine, as it were a death to our bodies, dan|ger to our &s;oules, nay damnation to both, either to put off the iudg|ment of that great day, or to make doubt thereof.</P>
<P>If &s;criptures cannot per&s;wade you that there &s;hall be a iudge|ment, the end of mans creation may: who vndoubtedly was cre|ated of God, to this end that he &s;hould be the Image, the euer|la&s;ting temple, where he would be wor&s;hipped, dwelll, communi|cate him&s;elfe, and would impart his ble&s;&s;ings, now although the end for which man was created, (which is perfect ble&s;&s;ednes) is hindered diuers waies: yet ne|ce&s;&s;arily at &s;ome time it wil come, and God will obtaine it, for it is
<PB N="20" REF="16">not likely, or probable, that man was made for the&s;e mi&s;eries: but it is al&s;o certaine, that the mo&s;t ex|cellent of all creatures was ordai|red to a better end, and therefore mu&s;t there needs be at length a change from toyle to re&s;t, from mi&s;erie to mercie, and from this wretched life, to a better being.</P>
<P>In hope whereof, the Saints of God haue bene rai&s;ed vp from time to time, in the daies of their affliction, they haue &s;wallowed voall difficulties, and vndergone all dangers, to attaine the end of their ble&s;&s;ednes, whereunto they were ordained. So <HI>Iob</HI> did when he &s;aid, <HI>I know that my redeemer li|ueth, and that <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;hall &s;ee him with the&s;e eyes.</HI> So <HI>Dauid</HI> did, when he &s;aid, <HI>I &s;hould verily haue fainted, but that I tru&s;t to &s;ee the goodnes of God in the la~d of the liuing.</HI> So <HI>Paul</HI> did,
<PB N="21" REF="16">when he &s;aid, I &s;uppo&s;e that the afflictions of this life, are not wor|thy of the glorie that &s;hall be re|uealed.</P>
<P>And by this argument of the Lords abiding in vs, and we in him, in a better life, is confirmed the happines of our bodies: as ha|bitations for the Lord to dwell in, according to that.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 6.19.</NOTE> <HI>Knowe yee not that your body is the temple of the ho|ly Gho&s;t which is in you? &amp;c.</HI> O hap|pie Chri&s;tians, if you knew your owne happines, either what you are, or what you haue, you are the temples of God: &s;uch you are, and ye haue the holy Gho&s;t with|in you, &s;o ye haue. Much adoe there is in this world, where the habitation of God is, where he dwelleth, and where he will be wor&s;hipped. One runneth to <HI>Ie|ru&s;alem:</HI> another to <HI>Samaria:</HI> one
<PB N="22" REF="17">to <HI>Rome,</HI> and another to the ho|lie <HI>Sepulcher:</HI> &s;ome to the &s;hrine of this Saint, and &s;ome to that: as to the Ladie at <HI>Loretta,</HI> or to <HI>Iames</HI> at <HI>Compostella:</HI> &s;ome &s;ay hee is the God of the Mountaine, &s;ome of the <HI>Valley:</HI> &s;ome &s;ay hee is in the <HI>Pax,</HI> &s;ome in the <HI>Oste,</HI> &s;ome in the holy graine, &amp; medal: but we &s;ay no, and for a check to all, that the habitation of God is with men, and that Chri&s;t doth dwell in our harts by faith; Open, &ocirc; o|pen therefore, your euerla&s;ting doores, that this King of glorie may come in.</P>
<P>Newe <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> came downe from God out of heauen, prepa|red as a Bride, trimmed for her Husband, with twelue gates of pearles, and the &s;treete of pure golde, yet I &s;awe no Temple, (&s;aith <HI>Iohn</HI>) therein: to teach vs,
<PB N="23" REF="17">that when fire hath fined vs, fitte for our GOD, wee &s;hall dwell in him, and hee in vs. For as now (in the Kingdome of grace) hee that &s;anctifieth, and they that are &s;anctified, are both one: So then, in the Kingdome of glo|rie, hee that glorifieth, and they that are glorified, &s;hall bee both one.</P>
<P>La&s;tlie, if neither Scripture, not the ende of mans Creation to ble&s;&s;ednes, can per&s;wade you, yet let the Iu&s;tice of God moue you, that there &s;hall bee a iudge|ment; For &s;hall not the God of all the world doe according to right, and that is, that it may goe well with the good, and euill with the wicked and refractory: but this commeth not to pa&s;&s;e in this life, nay rather, it goeth well with the wicked in this world,
<PB N="24" REF="18">and euill with the good and god|ly: and therfore there mu&s;t needs remaine another life wherein the iudge of all the world &s;hall do ac|cording to right: for &s;o &s;aith the ble&s;&s;ed Apo&s;tle,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>The&s;.</HI> 1.6.7.</NOTE> <HI>It is a righteous thing with God, to recompence tribu|lation to them that trouble you, and to you which are troubled, rest with vs when the Lord Ie&s;us &s;hall &s;hewe him|&s;elfe from heauen with his mightie Angels.</HI> Whereunto al&s;o accor|deth that of <HI>Abraham,</HI> to the dam|ned glutton,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Luk.</HI> 16.25.</NOTE> <HI>Remember that thou in thy life time receiuedst thy plea|&s;ure, and Lazarus paine, now there|fore is he comforted, and thou art tormented.</HI></P>
<P>In this life, to &s;hewe that he is mercifull, the Lord beareth with all, and ballanceth none: but in another, to &s;hew that he is iu&s;t, he will ballance all, &amp; beare with
<PB N="25" REF="18">none, for euery one &s;hall receiue according to that he hath done in this life, be it good or euil: here the &s;unne &s;hineth vpon the iu&s;t &amp; vniu&s;t, here the raigne falleth vpon the field of the foole, a&s;well as vpon the clo&s;ures of the wi&s;e: here beautie, &s;trength, honour, and skill, are indiffere~tly be&s;tow|ed, as vpon the elect of God, &s;o vpon the reprobate from God: here be the outward things of this life, it is not po&s;&s;ible to know who is in the fauour of God, and who is not. But when the iudge|ment is out, and the&s;e daies are done, then downe goe the wic|ked, and the godly &s;hall be exal|ted: horror, hell and death, &s;hall be the doome of the damned: heauen, ioy, and life, &s;hall be the lot of the righteous: and there|fore when you &s;ee here on earth,
<PB N="26" REF="19">things &s;o vneuenly dealt: Know the day will come, when the dole &s;hall be more equallie diui|ded; in the meane time, of the pro&s;perity of the wicked, and of their &s;uddaine de&s;truction, read <HI>Iob. 21.7. &amp;c. P&s;alme 37.1.</HI> and <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 10.1.73.3. <HI>Ieremie</HI> 12.1.2.3. <HI>E&s;dras</HI> 3.33.</P>
<P N="1">1 Hauing thus proued vnto you from holy &s;cripture, 2. From the ende of mans Creation, 3. And from the Iu&s;tice of God Al|mightie, that Iudgement &s;hall come, as it is in my Text; It now remaines, we come to the &s;econd part and que&s;tion moued; to wit, Who &s;hall bee our Iudge at that dreadfull day?</P>
<P N="2">2 Wherevnto I an&s;were, that all Iudgement &s;hall be divolued into the handes of Chri&s;t,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Who &s;halbe our Iudge?</NOTE> and he &s;hall be our Iudge then, who is
<PB N="27" REF="19">our aduocate now, <HI>Inde venturus</HI> is an Article of your Creede, yee may belieue it, thence &s;hall hee come to iudge both the quicke and the dead:
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Act.</HI> 17.31.</NOTE> The Lord hath ap|pointed a day (&s;aith the Apo&s;tle) in the which hee will iudge the world in Righteou&s;nes, by that man whom hee hath appointed: whereof hee hath giuen an a&s;&s;u|rance to all men, in that hee hath rai&s;ed him from the dead.</P>
<P>And againe,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iohn.</HI> 3.35.</NOTE> the Father loueth the Sonne (&s;aith Chri&s;t) and hath giuen all things into his handes. And againe, all things are giuen vnto mee of my Father.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Matt.</HI> 11.27.</NOTE> And a|gain, he hath co~mitted all iudge|ment vnto the Sonne. And a|gaine,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ioh.</HI> 5.22. <HI>Matt.</HI> 24.30.</NOTE> then &s;hal appeare the &s;igne of the Son of man in heauen, and all the Tribes of the earth &s;hall mourne, and &s;hall &s;ee the Sonne
<PB N="28" REF="20">of man comming in the clouds of heauen.</P>
<P>I al&s;ty,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Cor.</HI> 5.10.</NOTE> we &s;hall all appeare be|fore the iudgeme~t feat of Chri&s;t, that euery man may receiue the things, which are done in this bo|dy, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or euil: whence I gather, that all power in heauen, in earth, and hell, is giuen to the man Chri&s;t, in heauen to open it, in earth, to redeeme it; in hell, to &s;hut it; the Cherubins giue place and pa&s;&s;age to our Chri&s;t, &amp; to the children whom God hath giuen him, the wide mouth &amp; gulfe of hel is &s;hut from his Saints, by him, and there he keepeth in both diuels and dam|ned: in the might of his power, he hath power ouer the di&s;ea&s;ed to cure them, ouer &s;inners to &s;aue them, ouer death and doome, to
<PB N="29" REF="20">di&s;&s;olue them, he checketh &s;inne with righteou&s;nes, &amp; cancelleth the rigor of the lawe with the mildnes of the Go&s;pell, all power is giuen vnto him to conuert men to the faith, to confirme Angels in the faith, &amp; to confine all con|&s;ciences to &s;uch obedience as ap|pertaineth.</P>
<P>As, &amp; if he &s;hould &s;ay, all rule, all right, all reward, all venge|ance is mine: all power ouer men, I can conuert the~: all power ouer diuels, I can controule them: all power ouer the dead, I can rai&s;e them: all power ouer the dam|ned, I can iudge them, &amp; giue to euery man as his worke &s;hall be.</P>
<P>Or, as and if he &s;hould yet &s;ay more powerfully, It is giuen vn|to me, <HI>Ad creandum, adrecrean|dum, ad glorificandum,</HI> In the cre|ation
<PB N="30" REF="21">I was with the father, I was his mouth, I &s;aid, and it was done. In the redemption, I was my &s;elfe alone, I bled and ye were deliue|red: and for the Diademe of your glorie, it is put into my hand, and I haue power to &s;et it where I wil: It is giuen vnto me, a man as you are in all things (&s;inne onely ex|cepted) and at whom all men are offended, and I vniu&s;tlie cen|&s;ured: but I &s;hall come againe, with my Fan in my hand, &amp; win|now all with vpright iudgement. O wonderfull mi&s;terie of the match of Gods Maie&s;tie with our mi&s;erie. <HI>Carnem nostram regnare in coelo &s;uper omnia:</HI> that our fle&s;h &s;hould iudge all on earth, and raigne aboue all in heauen.</P>
<P>And here you Popes wane your plenarie power of indulgence, you are intruders vpon the Lords
<PB N="31" REF="21">po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, his power is <HI>plena, iu&s;ta, firma,</HI> full without limitation: for &s;o it is &s;aid, all power is giuen, &amp;c. It is iu&s;t without intru&s;ion, it is gi|uen, not &s;tollen: it is firme &amp; &s;ta|ble, without change: it is giuen of the father, according to that all power is giuen vnto me of the fa|ther, <HI>Ruat Orbis, &amp; Orcus, Illa erit &s;ecura.</HI> But I &s;ay againe, you are in|intruders vpon the Lords po&s;&s;e&s;|&s;ion, &s;uch power was neuer giuen you, &amp; therefore your kingdome cannot &s;tand, but fall to hell from whence it came: To tread vpon the necks of Kings and Empe|rours it is your pride, to pine poore &s;oules in a fained fire, it is your folly: &amp; either to pu&s;h &s;oules into hell, or to fetch any thence (as you &s;ay you did the &s;oule of <HI>Traian</HI>) it is your gro&s;&s;e impietie. <HI>Fiat iustitia, &amp; pereat mundus.</HI></P>
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<P>Let the right of Chri&s;t take place, and the world of your wic|kednes vani&s;h.</P>
<P>Pardon me, to expo&s;tulate the right of my Chri&s;t with the wro~g you haue done him, &amp; tell whats the rea&s;on you are &s;o rebellious again&s;t the Lord, his crowne and dignitie, is it for that his pouertie, matcheth not with your pride? or is it, for that his wretched crowne of thornes, wayeth not with the Diademe of your gold &s;et with Saphires? is it for that our poore king tryumphed vpon an a&s;&s;e, and you ride vpon your &s;teeds of &s;tate, trapped with Diamonds &amp; champing vpon gold? Is it for that Chri&s;t conquered in his pa&s;|&s;ion, and you glorie in your per|dition, euery battaile of the war|riour is with noi&s;e, and tumbling of garme~ts in blood, &s;uch is your
<PB N="33" REF="22">fight, euer in fire, &amp; &s;till in blood. But vnto vs a child is borne, and a &s;onne is giuen, and the gouern|ment is vpon his &s;houlders: &s;ure|ly &s;urely, I &s;hould neuer thinke my &s;elf to be of the true Church, but for her lenitie, nor you to be the maligna~t Church, but for your crueltie.</P>
<P>I cannot but wonder to &s;ee &s;o high trea&s;on committed again&s;t the Lord, euen in this particular point of iudgement, by men of this world, of whom I may &s;ay, their madnes is knowne vnto all men, the Lord is at hand.</P>
<P>Madnes (I &s;ay) in this, and trea&s;onable furie, that they dare robbe the Lord of his honour, and take to them&s;elues plenarie power of Indulgence, power to purge &s;inne, power to forgiue &s;inne, and power to iudge &s;inne,
<PB N="34" REF="23">who dur&s;t euer haue pre&s;umed to do this: but that man of &s;inne? who hath aduanced him&s;elfe a|boue all that is called God, and doth &s;it as God in the Temple of God, &s;hewing him&s;elfe that he is God.</P>
<P>You are religiou&s;ly wi&s;e to know whom I meane, I meane that man of <HI>Rome</HI> is that great Rebel again&s;t God, &amp; his Chri&s;t, in that he hath taken vpon him in his papall pride, not onely pri|macie and power ouer men: but iuri&s;diction ouer all creatures, in heauen, earth, and hell, to binde or loo&s;e, &s;aue or &s;pill, in &s;o much, that if he &s;hould thru&s;t thou&s;ands of &s;oules into hell, (as one of their Canoni&s;ts hath it) yet no man may &s;ay, <HI>Curita facis.</HI></P>
<P>And now for conclu&s;ion of this point, and to leaue the&s;e tur|bulent
<PB N="35" REF="23">Iurdens, and to wa&s;h a|gaine in <HI>Shilo,</HI> if any &s;oule be de|&s;irous to &s;earch into the cau&s;es, why the man Chri&s;t &s;hall be iudge ouer all at that day, let him know, that the Church is to be glorified by the &s;ame mediator, by whom, and for whom it was iu&s;tified, according to that,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Acts.</HI> 17.31.</NOTE> <HI>God wil iudge the world in righteou&s;nes, by the man whom he hath appoin|ted.</HI></P>
<P>I &s;ay appointed a &s;acrifice, a me|diator, a iudge, a &s;acrifice on his cro&s;&s;e, a mediator at his right hand in heauen, a Iudge on earth at that dreadfull day, all appoin|ted by God, all vndertaken by Chri&s;t, that he might haue the primacie, prime, and pride (if I may &s;o &s;ay) of our full regenera|tion in grace, and re&s;tauration to glorie.</P>
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<P>Againe, the man Chri&s;t mu&s;t iudge all, that we may haue com|fort: knowing him to be our iudge, who is of vs, bone of our bone: and fle&s;h of our fle&s;h: he is our brother, our husband, our head: and therfore &s;aith <HI>Bernard,</HI> the father of mercies, and God of all con&s;olations, will iudge men by men, that in &s;o great a confu&s;ion of euils, &s;emblance of natures might yeeld comfort: to the which is annexed, a promi&s;e to the faithfull beleeuer, when he &s;aith; He that beleeueth in the Sonne of God, hath euerla&s;ting life, and &s;hall not come into con|demnation: but for the vnbelee|uer, and &s;uch as contumeliou&s;lie haue &s;et them&s;elues again&s;t the Lord, they &s;hall looke vpon the man Chri&s;t whom they haue pierced.</P>
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<P>But to proceed with the re&s;t, I doubt not but out of that which alreadie hath bin deliuered, you are fully re&s;olued that there &s;hall be a iudgment, as al&s;o that Chri&s;t &s;hall be our iudge, in that great day. It now remaines, we make knowne vnto you, how he will iudge the world, and by what proces.</P>
<P>Where fir&s;t ob&s;erue,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Generall Summons.</NOTE> that he wil go by general &s;ummo~s of all, all &s;hall appeare before the tribu|nall &s;eate of Chri&s;t, all that haue bene, all that are, and all that &s;hall be to the worlds ending, young and old, rich, and poore, Iew, and gentile, bond and free, noble and ignoble, from the king in his throne, to the channell &s;weeper in the &s;treete, al &s;hal appeare, giue their attendance, and receiue their doome: Hell &s;hal be &s;haken,
<PB N="38" REF="25">and the graues &s;hall open, the Sea &s;hal giue vp her dead, Bea&s;ts, Fi&s;h, and Fowle, &s;hall render the corps they haue deuoured; Yea, hea|uen it &s;elfe &s;hall be emptied, of Saints and Soules, in that great day.</P>
<P>I &s;ay in that great day, when the Lord &s;hall &s;end his Angells with a great &s;ounde of a Trum|pet,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Matt.</HI> 24.31.</NOTE> and they &s;hall gather toge|ther his Elect, from the fower windes, and from one end of the heauens to another.</P>
<P>I &s;ay,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Reuelat.</HI> 1.7.</NOTE> in that great day, when hee &s;hall come in the clouds, and euery eye &s;hall &s;ee him, yea euen they which pierced him throgh, and all kindreds of the earth &s;hall waile before him: Euen &s;o A|men, &s;aith the ble&s;&s;ed Apo&s;tle, to make it as &s;ure and certaine to bee, as if it were alreadie done.
<PB N="39" REF="25">Whervnto accordeth <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> whe~ to take away the wonder thereof, he &s;aid thus; Maruell not at this, for the houre &s;hall come, in the which, all that are in the graues &s;hall heare his voice. Now if &s;uch shalbe the &s;houte of his &s;ummo~s, &s;o loude, &s;o &s;hrill, and &s;o piercing, that the liuing &s;halbe appalled to heare it, and the gha&s;tly graue to beare it, how should wee but groane, and grieue to tell it?</P>
<P>When hee came in Mercie to redeeme the world, it would not be &s;ommoned, &s;o &s;ofte and &s;ilent was his voyce, like a &s;hower of raine vpon a fleece of woll, but at his comming in iudgement, his &s;ommons wilbe more &s;ounding, for the Lord him&s;elfe &s;hall de&s;|cend from heauen, with a &s;houte, and with the voice of th'ark-An|gell, and wth the Trumpet of
<PB N="40" REF="26">God. As, and if he &s;hould &s;ay, to heighthen the call, If the &s;hout of the Lord reach thee not, the Arkangels voyce &s;hall: and if nei|ther, the &s;hout of the one, nor the voyce of the other, will rou&s;e thee, the trumpet of God &s;hall rai&s;e thee vp.</P>
<P>Seuen rammes hornes weak|ly &s;ounded from the weake mouth of man, ruinated the high walles of <HI>Ierico:</HI> How much more then &s;hall the loud trumpet of God, blowne from his fierie mouth, &s;hake and &s;ommon, both the liuing and the dead? Surely, &s;urely, as his la&s;t comming &s;hal be &s;udde~, like lightning fla&s;hing out of the Ea&s;t, and &s;eene in the we&s;t, and all in the twinckling of an eye, &s;o &s;hall the &s;ommons be, hea|uen, earth, and hell, &s;hall heare it all at once: and no &s;ooner &s;hall
<PB N="41" REF="26">they &s;ee their iudge, but they &s;hal be &s;ommoned to iudgement: of which dreadfull day, &amp; peremp|torie &s;ommons, &s;o ofte~ as I think (&s;aith a good Father) <HI>Toto cor|pore contremi&s;co;</HI> I tremble in my thoughts, and &s;hake in all my ioints; for whether I eate, on whe|ther I drinke, whether I &s;leepe, or whether I wake, or what&s;oeuer thing I do, me thinks I &s;till heare that terrible trumpet &s;ounding in mine eares, <HI>Ari&s;e ye dead, and come to iudgement.</HI></P>
<P>Thus hauing &s;ommoned all to make their appearance, next,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The exami|nation.</NOTE> he will proceed to examine their cau&s;e, euery man according to that he hath done in this life, be it good or euill: for it &s;tands with all right, lawe, &amp; equitie, that no man &s;hould be condemned be|fore he come to his triall, the
<PB N="42" REF="27">Lord would not proceede with <HI>Adam</HI> till hee had examined his cau&s;e, and &s;aide, <HI>Adam</HI> where art thou? what ha&s;t thou done? who told thee that thou wa&s;t na|ked? ha&s;t thou eaten of the for|bidden Tree? Nor would hee proceede again&s;t <HI>Caine,</HI> till hee had called him to an account, and &s;aide, where is thy brother <HI>Abel?</HI></P>
<P><HI>Io&s;hua</HI> examined <HI>Achan</HI> of the Babiloni&s;h garment, and wedge of gold, ere he proceeded to fur|ther iudgement. And the Mar|riners that knewe not God, after the Prophet was taken by <HI>Lot,</HI> and adiudged to be ca&s;t into the Sea, yet did not proceede to execution, till they had exami|ned him vpon the&s;e interrogato|ries, Tell vs what euill ha&s;t thou done? what is thine Occupati|on?
<PB N="43" REF="27">and whence comme&s;t thou? which is thy Countrey? and of what people art thou?</P>
<P><HI>I&s;rael</HI> may not enter <HI>Canaan,</HI> till they haue &s;ent forth <HI>Explora|tores terrae,</HI> Searchers of the land, and before the de&s;truction of the Cittie, the Lord will &s;earch <HI>Ieru|&s;alem</HI> with Lights,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Zeph.</HI> 1.12.</NOTE> and will vi&s;ite the men that are frozen in their dregges.</P>
<P>And now (good Lord) <HI>Quid in Babilone tutum, &s;i in Ieru&s;alem manet &s;crutinium?</HI> How &s;hall <HI>Babylon</HI> bee &s;afe, if <HI>Ieru&s;alem</HI> mu&s;t be fyned; and if a virgin daugh|ter <HI>Syon</HI> may not pa&s;&s;e without a &s;earch? how can <HI>Babylon</HI> e&s;cape without triall? This world is chaffe, it mu&s;t be winnowed, in the great day of the Lords &s;cru|tinie, betwixt the &s;ommons and the &s;entence, there mu&s;t be an ex|amination,
<PB N="44" REF="28">that when the Lord hath made inqui&s;ition for blood,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;alme</HI> 9.12.</NOTE> hee may remember it, and not forget the complainte of the poore.</P>
<P>Now if any man doubt wher|of he &s;hall be examined in that great day, let him be &s;ure that the Lord will examine all our thoughs, all our words, all our deeds, and all the time we haue &s;pent in this world, all our thoughts according to that In|qui&s;ition &s;hall be made, <HI>for the thoughtes of the vngodlie,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Wi&s;edome.</HI> 1.9.</NOTE> <HI>and the &s;ound of his words &s;hall come vnto God for the correction of his iniqui|ties.</HI> Whereunto <HI>Oregen</HI> agreeth. Our very thoughts &s;hall either acquit or co~demne our &s;oules, in that fearefull day, and not the thoughts that then &s;hall be, but the thoughts that are euen now
<PB N="45" REF="28">in vs, who&s;e impre&s;&s;ions left in our hearts, are as letters in paper, which when all &s;ecrets &s;hall be di&s;clo&s;ed, will be ea&s;ily read.</P>
<P>Next vnto our thoughts, the Lord will examine our wordes, yea all our words, <HI>Non tam mali|tio&s;a, quam otio&s;a,</HI> a&s;wel &s;uch as are &s;poken in our myrth, as in our malice, for of euery idle word &s;aith Chri&s;t, that men &s;hal &s;peake, they &s;hall giue an account there|of at the day of iudgement.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Matt.</HI> 12.36.</NOTE> And &s;urely all are idle that are not pro|fitable, and tend either to the glo|rie of God, or good of his Church;
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Hierom: &s;uper Le|uit.</HI> 12.</NOTE> <HI>Quicquid non adificat au|die~tes in periculum vertitur eloquen|tium,</HI> what&s;oeuer doth not edifie the hearer, turnes to the danger of the &s;peaker.</P>
<P>Now may you &s;ay, your tongues are your owne, for they
<PB N="46" REF="29">are bought with a price, and if you will be quit of your recko|ning at the great accou~t, let your words be few and faithfull, euer poudered with grace, that you may finde grace in time of need.</P>
<P>When the Lord hath done with our thoughts and words, then will he come to our deeds for God will bring euery worke into iudgement.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Eccles.</HI> 12.44.</NOTE> With euery &s;e|cret thing, whether it be good or euill. All our workes &s;hall then be di&s;couered, examined, &amp; try|ed, by the touch of fire, which if they can abide, then &s;hall they be fined for heauen: if not, they mu&s;t be fuell for hell.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, all our time mu&s;t come to tryall, and the Lord will ex|amine how we haue be&s;towed euery yeare, euery moneth, eue|ry day and minute thereof, and
<PB N="47" REF="29">when time &s;hal be no more, they that haue redeemed it in the kingdome of grace, &s;hall haue e|ternitie in glorie. But all &s;uch as haue neglected time, and haue not knowne the day of their vi&s;i|tation, nor the things that belong to their peace, they &s;hall haue &s;hame, and confu&s;ion for euer|more:
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Bernar|dus.</NOTE> <HI>Omne tempus nobis impen|&s;um: requiritur a nobis qualiter &s;it expen&s;um,</HI> All the time the Lord hath be&s;towed vpon vs, he will require how it hath bene be&s;tow|ed for him.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Witne&s;&s;es produced.</NOTE> To this fierie triall and due examination, &s;ufficient te&s;ties, and witne&s;&s;es &s;hall be pro|duced, to conuict the &s;inner, though him&s;elfe would be &s;ilent and an&s;were nothing, in that dreadfull day all creatures &s;hall accu&s;e them of guilt,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The crea|tures.</NOTE> and pre&s;&s;e the puni&s;hment. Now they that
<PB N="48" REF="30">grone with vs after a deliuera~ce, &s;hall grieue for vs, and witnes to our woe, that we haue bene wan|ting, <HI>In illo die</HI> (&s;aith <HI>Chry&s;ostome) nihile&s;t quod re&s;pondeamus vbi coe|lu~, &amp; terra, Sol, &amp; luna, dies, &amp; noc|tes, &amp; totus mundus &s;tabunt aduer|&s;us nos, in testimoniu~ peccatoru~ no&s;|trorum.</HI> In that day we &s;hall haue nothing to an&s;were, when hea|uen, and earth, &s;unne, &amp; moone, daies and nights, &amp; all the world &s;hall &s;tand again&s;t vs as witne&s;&s;es of our &s;innes.</P>
<P>If the creatures &s;hould &s;ay no|thing,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Our &s;innes.</NOTE> yet our proper &s;innes &s;hall then accu&s;e vs, for all our offen|ces that now lurke in vs, &s;hall then creepe forth and &s;peake to our &s;hame &amp; endles confu&s;ion. The Idoll we haue adored &s;hall ac|cu&s;e vs of Idolatrie, the mothes of our gaie garments, &s;hall then
<PB N="49" REF="30">accu&s;e vs of intollerable pride, the ru&s;t of our gold and &s;iluer, here cankering, our &s;oules &s;hall then accu&s;e vs of auarice, and the &s;tone in the walles &s;hall cry to the timber, oppre&s;&s;ion: all the&s;e &s;hall &s;ay we were thy creatures which thou didde&s;t abu&s;e, &amp; now thou &s;halt be iudged for vs.</P>
<P>The diuell that old aduer&s;arie,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The diuell.</NOTE> and accu&s;er of our brethren, &s;hall come in the rancke and &s;ay, <HI>E|qui&s;sime iudex iudica hinc e&s;&s;e me|um ob culpam qui tuus e&s;&s;e nolint per gratiam, tuus e&s;t per naturam, meus per mi&s;eram, tuus ob pa&s;sionem, me|us ob &s;uationem,</HI> O righteous iudge, doome him to be mine for &s;inne, who would not be thine by grace: thine in mercy, mine in mi&s;erie: thine by thy pa&s;&s;ion, mine by per&s;wa&s;ion: yea Sathan &s;hall then &s;hift to euery circum|&s;tance
<PB N="50" REF="31">and corner of our &s;innes, &s;aying; In &s;uch a time, at &s;uch a place, with &s;uch a per&s;on, and in &s;uch &s;ort ha&s;t thou &s;inned: It was done in the &s;ight of thy God and his &s;onne, therefore crie &s;onne, cry &s;inne, cry con&s;cience with me, &s;hall not the iudge of all the world doe according to right?</P>
<P>La&s;tly,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Our con&s;ci|ence.</NOTE> and not the lea&s;t of wit|ne&s;&s;es, the con&s;cience &s;hall &s;tep forth in that dreadfull day, a iudge of our &s;oules, either accu|&s;ing or excu&s;ing all our actions: with a Iurie of witne&s;&s;es, euerrea|die to giue vp the verdit; I &s;ay a iudge of it &s;elfe, for who knowes the things that are in a man, but the &s;pirit which is in man? where doubtles the &s;pirit is taken for the iudge of the con&s;cience: nor only that, but God him&s;elfe &s;hall be it iudge. In which &s;en&s;e the
<PB N="51" REF="31">Apo&s;tle &s;aith, <HI>God is greater then our hearts.</HI> And <HI>Iob,</HI> my witnes is in heauen: Nay more, the con&s;ci|ence will haue Sathan a iudge, &s;ugge&s;ting the &s;inne, and vrging the iudgement, &s;tirring vp &s;uries to affright the &s;oule, as he did in <HI>Nero,</HI> who after he had murthe|red his mother <HI>Agrippina,</HI> neuer tooke plea&s;ant &s;leepe, but was frighted with feare and furie, till he was dead.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, men withall,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Men with whome we haue con|uer&s;ed.</NOTE> will be witne&s;&s;es to accu&s;e our con&s;ci|ence, <HI>Nam in hac re valde &s;umus improuidi: quod peccamus raro &s;oli.</HI> Herein are we improuident, that &s;eldome we doe &s;inne alone. But for the mo&s;t part, haue a&s;&s;ociats and fellowes in tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion, to witnes our woe: the thiefe, the Adulterer, the wanto~, the Braw|ler, the Idolater: the drinker, and
<PB N="52" REF="32">drunkard, &s;eldome &s;inne alone, but haue men their a&s;&s;ociates to witnes their wickednes: <HI>Ananias</HI> had his wife priuie to his fact: <HI>A|dam,</HI> had <HI>Eue,</HI> the Serpe~t &amp; God, priuie to his tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion: <HI>Iudas</HI> had the Iewes acquainted with his &s;inne: the Soldiours who&s;e guide he was to take Chri&s;t, the Di&s;ciples who &s;awe his trea&s;on, Chri&s;t whom he did betray, Sa|than his per&s;wader, and God the gouernour of all things to their appointed ends. Whereupon I may &s;ay, that the con&s;cience is a thou&s;and witne&s;&s;es, it is both iudge and iurie, accu&s;er and exe|cutioner, neuer forgetting, or for|giuing the delinquent.</P>
<P>It is the readie&s;t remembran|cer, and the &s;harpe&s;t cen&s;or that can be in the &s;oule of man; accor|ding to that, <HI>&s;cit con&s;cientia omnia,
<PB N="53" REF="32">&amp; adcen&s;uram reuocat, dicta, facta, cogitata,</HI> it knoweth all words, deeds, and thoughts, &amp; yeeldeth no grace, but pronounceth &s;en|tence again&s;t it &s;elfe rigorou&s;ly, and &s;peedily.</P>
<P>One calleth it <HI>Sillogi&s;imus prac|ticus,</HI> a re&s;tle&s;&s;e rea&s;oning euer in contemplation: another calls it vicegerent, from who&s;e face and furie thou can&s;t neuer, flee, &s;hun thou maie&s;t the &s;ight of man, but neuer can&s;ts thou auoyd the eye of God, nor the &s;ighes of thy hea|uie hart, it is a worme euer grow|ing, it is a fire euer burning, the further thou flie&s;t, the fa&s;ter it ha&s;teth after, &amp; when thou dee|me&s;t thy &s;elfe &s;afe&s;t, then art thou in greate&s;t danger: &s;leeping it frighteth, waking it feareth, <HI>Alas|tor e&s;t,</HI> it is a furie, tied to a life euer dying, and to a death euer liuing:
<PB N="54" REF="33">To co~clude, it is horrible as hell, endles, ea&s;eles, and remediles for paine and pa&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>Now if &s;uch be the con&s;cience that &s;hall accu&s;e vs: then ble&s;&s;ed is the good con&s;cience that &s;hall quit vs, in that great day, of which the Apo&s;tle &s;peaketh, when he &s;aith;
<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Cor.</HI> 1.12.</NOTE> <HI>Our reioycing is the testimonie of our con&s;cience, that in &s;implicitie and godly purenes, and not in fle&s;hly wi&s;edome, but by the grace of God, we haue had our conuer&s;ation in this world, and mo&s;t of all to you wards.</HI></P>
<P>This con&s;cience is the title of honour, the Temple of <HI>Salomon,</HI> the Orchard of delight, the gol|den bed, it is earths &s;olace, &amp; hea|uens ioy. <HI>Nihil iucundius, nihil tutius, nihil diutius bona co~&s;cientia, fremat or bis &amp; orcus, illa erit &s;ecura:</HI> there is nothing more &s;weet, no|thing more &s;afe: nothing more
<PB N="55" REF="33">durable then a good con&s;cience.</P>
<P>Rage world, roare hell, it is al|waies at quiet. Children in their play, &s;aith the poet can tell one to another, thou &s;halt be great if thou be good. <HI>Hic murus Aeneus esto: Nil con&s;cire &s;ibi, nulla palle&s;ce|re culpa.</HI> Let this be thy brazen wall, to knowe no guilt by thy &s;elfe, nor feare no fault to appall thee.</P>
<P>For the con&s;cience, as another &s;aith more diuinely, <HI>Tenella res est, adeo, vt in magnis, it a in paruis &s;ape grauiter hareat,</HI> It is a tender thing, &s;ticking as much at little &s;innes, as at great ones, which made the king to charge <HI>Shemey</HI> with the tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion of all he had committed again&s;t <HI>Dauid</HI> his Father, when he &s;aith:
<NOTE PLACE="marg">1. <HI>Kings</HI> 2.44.</NOTE> <HI>Thou knowe&s;t all the wickednes whereunto thine hart is priuie:</HI> thy great &s;innes
<PB N="56" REF="34">and thy little &s;innes, all are alike, and now thou &s;halt bee iudged for both.</P>
<P>And now for further proces in the Lords bu&s;ines,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">His &s;ente~ce wilbe right, not wicked.</NOTE> at that fear|full day, hauing thus &s;o~moned all fle&s;h, and brought euery thought to tryall; it remaines we &s;ee how hee will come, <HI>Ad &s;ententiandum, &amp; ad &s;eperandum:</HI> to &s;entence our cau&s;e, and &s;euer our per&s;ons.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1"> For his &s;entence, it will bee right,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">with might.</NOTE> for what might, or power in this world can wre&s;t it? No feare, no loue, no reward, no ha|tred, which oftentimes doe per|uert Iu&s;tice on earth, can &s;taine it in heauen; For if Iu&s;tice be a Virgin, and may not be deflow|red with men, how much more &s;hall the Iudge of all the world proceed without corruption? </P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2"> Neuer will he be backed with
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nor feare.</NOTE>
<PB N="57" REF="34">feare, in that hee is more mightie then all: acccording to that of <HI>Eliphaz</HI> the <HI>Temanite,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iob.</HI> 32.</NOTE> Is it for feare of thee that hee will accu&s;e thee, or goe with thee to iudge|ment? Nay, the Lord is &s;o farre from feare of anie, that the more mightie they are who offend, the more &s;euere hee is to plague,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Wi&s;edome.</HI> 6.8.</NOTE> <HI>Po|tentes, potenter, tormenta patientur;</HI> the mightie abide the &s;orer triall, and hee that is Lord ouer all, will &s;pare no per&s;on: neither &s;hall he feare anie greatnes, for hee hath made the &s;mall and great, and ca|reth for all alike; wherevnto ac|cordeth that of <HI>E&s;ay, Topheth</HI> is prepared of old,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>E&s;ay.</HI> 30.33.</NOTE> it is euen prepa|red for the King, he hath made it deepe and large, the burning thereof, is fire and much wood, and the breath of the Lord, like a riuer of brim&s;tone doth kindle it.</P>
<PB N="58" REF="35">
<P N="3">3 Nor will he be moued with the loue or affection of any,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nor loue.</NOTE> who is mo&s;t iu&s;t: no people, no kindred, no pare~tage, no kindnes, no cur|te&s;ie, may pleade priuiledge with the Lord, not <HI>Iudah</HI> his harts de|light, not <HI>I&s;rael</HI> the pla~t of his plea|&s;ure; If <HI>Ieconiah</HI> were as the &s;ignet of my right hand,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iere.</HI> 5.1.</NOTE> yet would I ca&s;t him off, &amp; though <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> &amp; <HI>Samuel</HI> &s;tood before me (&s;aith the Lord) yet mine affection could not be towards this wicked people:
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ezec.</HI> 14.14.</NOTE> yea if the&s;e three men, <HI>Noah, Daniel,</HI> and <HI>Iob,</HI> were among&s;t the~, they &s;hould deliuer but their owne &s;oules by their righteou&s;nes, &s;aith the Lord: the iu&s;t iudge of all the world, will doe according to right, and euery one &s;halbe iudged according to that he hath done with vpright iudgement.
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nor luker.</NOTE></P>
<P N="4">4 Againe, this iudge &s;hall be
<PB N="59" REF="35">corrupted with no gifts, or re|wa ds of any: for that he is <HI>ditis&s;i|mus,</HI> the riche&s;t of all,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Prou.</HI> 6.35</NOTE> what nee|deth he the wealth of anie? The wi&s;e king &s;aith, he ca~not beare the &s;ight of any ran&s;ome, neither will he con&s;ent, thogh thou augment thy gifts: <HI>Veniet, illa dies veniet, in qua valebunt plus pura corda, quam astuta verba, &amp; con&s;cientia bona, quam mar&s;upia plena,</HI> that day will come, in which, pure hearts will more preuaile, the~ guilt to~gues, &amp; a good con&s;cie~ce, the~ a full pur&s;e.</P>
<P N="7">7 La&s;tly, he will be tainted with no malice, or hatred to anie,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">with no ma|lice or ha|tred.</NOTE> <HI>quia optimus, in eo enim qui optimus est, odium cadere non potest, quod pes&s;i mum est.</HI> Hatred, which is the wor&s;t of all,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Wi&s;edome.</HI> 10.</NOTE> can neuer be found in him, who is be&s;t of all: thou lo|ue&s;t all things that are, and hate&s;t nothing that thou ha&s;t made: hee
<PB N="60" REF="36">that loueth all in his <HI>Mercie,</HI> would puni&s;h none, but for his Iudgement: and therefore one &s;aith well, <HI>Egreditur Deus de loco &s;uo dum punit:</HI> the Lord is not at home, while&s;t hee puni&s;heth, which made him to grieue, when he thought vpon the affliction of <HI>Ephraim</HI> and <HI>I&s;rael;</HI> How &s;hall I giue thee vp <HI>Ephraim?</HI> How &s;hall I deliuer thee <HI>I&s;rael?</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ho&s;e.</HI> 11.8.</NOTE> How &s;hall I make thee as <HI>Adniah?</HI> How &s;hall I &s;et thee as <HI>Zeboim?</HI> mine heart is turned within me, my re|pentings are rolled together, and therefore it is worthy due ob|&s;eruation, to &s;ee that euen then, when the firie floud of his iudge|ment is out, how hee cooleth it with the &s;weet &s;prings of his mer|cies, not iudging the wicked in that great day, for &s;innes of com|mi&s;&s;ion, but for &s;innes of omi&s;|&s;ion,
<PB N="61" REF="36">not for that they haue done, but for that which they haue not done: nor for the breach of the fir&s;t table again&s;t God, but for the breach of the &s;eco~d table again&s;t men: according to that, <HI>I was an hungred, and you gaue me no meate: I thursted, and you gaue me no drinke, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>I adde,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">His &s;entence &s;hall be irre|uocable.</NOTE> as his &s;entence &s;hall be right, &s;o &s;hall it be irreuocable, like the lawes of the <HI>Medes</HI> and <HI>Per&s;ians,</HI> neuer reuer&s;ed vpon any intreatie, <HI>Ite &amp; venite,</HI> &s;hall deter|mine all, the one by the lawe, the other by the Go&s;pell: and <HI>Non noui vos</HI> &s;hall &s;hut the doore, the ble&s;&s;ed within, and the damned without: I &s;ay the &s;weet &s;entence of &s;aluation, <HI>Come yee,</HI> &s;hall fall vpon the ble&s;&s;ed, according to the Go&s;pell, the lawe yeelding thereunto, through the righte|ou&s;nes
<PB N="62" REF="37">of faith, but vpon the damned &s;hall fall, <HI>Go yee:</HI> the Go&s;pell yeelding thereunto, for their vnbelief. Be&s;ides, <HI>I know you not,</HI> will be a wofull &s;entence, and the heauie&s;t doome, that euer was determined. For what am I the better that I haue bene knowne in this world, by the ho|nour of my place, or greatnes of my per&s;on, if kings haue knowne me, nobilitie and gentrie haue fa|uoured me, if wife, children, and familie, haue fawned vpon me, what am I the better? If I haue bene knowne by the beautie of my face and comely &s;tature, by the &s;tre~gth of my arme, or excel|lencie of my wit, what am I the better for all the&s;e? If Chri&s;t will not knowe me, at that dreadfull day? If in &s;icknes when all plea|&s;ures &s;hall be for&s;aken, if in death,
<PB N="63" REF="37">when all delights &s;hall be for|gotten, if in doome, when all this world &s;hall leaue me, and I haue none to leane vnto but my Chri&s;t, and if then he will not knowe me, what &s;hall become of me? If they that would cannot, and if he that can will not, what &s;hall I &s;ay, but <HI>O yee hilles couer me.</HI></P>
<P>Surely, &s;urely,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">His wrath implacable.</NOTE> as his &s;entence wilbe irreuocable, his wrath will be implacable, and he will yeeld to no intreatie: for be it the dam|ned &s;hall &s;ay, Lord we are not worthy to po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e thy king|dome, yet let it plea&s;e thee we may &s;it at thy &s;eate: but he &s;hall an&s;were, <HI>Di&s;cedite a me,</HI> not &s;o, but depart from me: betwixt you and me there &s;hall be a great gulfe, ga&s;tly to the &s;ight, and impa&s;&s;ible for any pre&s;ence.</P>
<P>Againe, be it they &s;hall &s;ay, al|though
<PB N="64" REF="38">thou expell vs from thee, yet di&s;mi&s;&s;e vs with a ble&s;&s;ing: but he &s;hall an&s;were no: <HI>Ite maledicti,</HI> goe yee with a cur&s;e. Be it they &s;ay vnto him, Lord, if we mu&s;t a|way, and with a malediction, yet &s;end vs into &s;ome place of re&s;t and refre&s;hing: but he &s;hall an|&s;were againe no; <HI>Ite in ignem,</HI> goe yee into the fire for fuell of hell. Be it yet they plead further, and &s;ay, Lord if we mu&s;t to the fire, let it haue an end, and be but for a &s;ea&s;on, but he &s;hall an&s;were no: yee mu&s;t in <HI>Ignem aeternum,</HI> into euerla&s;ting fire, where is weeping and wayling, and gna&s;hing of teeth.</P>
<P>La&s;tly. Be it they yet &s;ay, Good God if it mu&s;t needs be &s;o, let vs be ruled with &s;ome pittifull prince, and haue &s;ome &s;ocietie that good is: but he &s;hal an&s;were;
<PB N="65" REF="38">euen with the diuell, and his an|gels, <HI>Pro domino habebitis diabolum maiorem, pro &s;ocijs vero doemones minores,</HI> Ye &s;hall haue the prince of diuels for your king, and le&s;&s;er diuels for your companions:
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Reuel.</HI> 9.6.</NOTE> ye &s;hall &s;eeke death &amp; &s;hall not finde it, and &s;hall de&s;ire to die, &amp; death &s;hall flie from you.</P>
<P>Thus hauing &s;entenced all,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Vpon his &s;entence, the Lord will &s;epa|rate.</NOTE> there mu&s;t be a &s;eparation, <HI>Goates</HI> to hell, <HI>&s;heepe</HI> to heaue~, the good to God, euer to be ble&s;&s;ed, the euill to Sathan, euer to be accur|&s;ed: for without &s;hall be dogges, lyers, and libertines, but within &s;hall be the faire flocke, and holy a&s;&s;embly: vpon the &s;entence, the &s;inners &s;hall &s;hrinke downward, and in feare of their fall, cry to the mountaines couer vs, but the godly &s;hall haue boldnes, and be aduanced to &s;it with their Chri&s;t,
<PB N="66" REF="39">as a&s;&s;i&s;tance, knowe yee not &s;aith the Apo&s;tle, that the Saints &s;hall iudge the world.</P>
<P>Death is a diuider, and &s;o is doome, <HI>two &s;hall be in the field, the one &s;hall be taken, and the other &s;hall be refu&s;ed: two &s;hall be on the hou&s;e top, the one &s;hall be taken, the other &s;hall be refu&s;ed, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>What &s;inne hath gathered, righteou&s;nes &s;hall &s;catter, and the Lord like the gathering Ho&s;t, <HI>Dan,</HI> &s;hall come la&s;t of all and ga|ther the good corne into his barne, but burne the chaffe with vnquencheable fire, for the wic|ked &s;hall not &s;tand in the iudge|ment, nor &s;inners in the a&s;&s;embly of the righteous.</P>
<P>And that the &s;euering may be as &s;ure to &s;tand, as the &s;en|tence without change, the iudge him&s;elfe, and none but he, will
<PB N="67" REF="39">pronounce the one, and defie the other: Angels may gather as for|merly we haue &s;aid, but <GAP DESC="foreign"><HI>Officium iudices est &amp; ad &s;olum christum pertinet,</HI> Angels I &s;ay by the Lords appointment, may ga|ther the elect, from the foure cor|ners of the world, in that generall &s;ommons, but to &s;ente~ce all, is in the iu&s;t mouth of the <HI>Lord,</HI> &amp; to &s;e|parate all, is in his powerfull ha~d: and now, that in this world he &s;uffereth a mixture of both, it is his great mercy, therby to moue vs to vnfained repentance, that hauing &s;o long endured corne and cockle to growe together, e|uen till the day of his great har|ue&s;t, they might then groane vn|der a iu&s;t iudgement, who haue neglected &s;o vede&s;erued mer|cies. And &s;o to the re&s;t.</P>
<P>Next in place, are to be con&s;i|dered
<PB N="68" REF="40">the &s;ignes precedent,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Signes of his care approach.</NOTE> or concurring with that great day, as harbingers of his wrath, and neare approach of his comming. It would be tedious to heare, ha|uing your eares &s;anctified, with a better truth, as al&s;o trouble&s; me for me to &s;peake, being (as I tru&s;t) touched with an hotter coale of the Altar, to tell of the idle dreames, and munki&s;h foppe|ries which &s;uper&s;tition hath deui|&s;ed thereof, in the darke &amp; derne cels of their gro&s;&s;e ignorance.</P>
<P>Exceeding the &s;ignes of the <HI>Zodiack,</HI> ouer and aboue all that are mencioned in the booke of God, or haue fallen from the mouth of Chri&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Bonauenture</HI> all at a venter, hath mar&s;halled the~ to fifteene. Ium|ping with <HI>Methodius, Albimazer, Haly,</HI> and others of that rancke;
<PB N="69" REF="40">and yet haue left out &s;ome which <HI>Bellarmine</HI> and the moderne pa|pi&s;ts of the&s;e our daies haue fondly vrged, as of the comming of <HI>Antichri&s;t,</HI> three yeares and an halfe before the iudgement day. In which times &s;ay they, hee &s;hould fight with the three Kings of <HI>Libia, Aegipt,</HI> and <HI>Aethiopia,</HI> per&s;ecute Chri&s;tians, and put to death, <HI>Enoch</HI> and <HI>Elias.</HI></P>
<P>I might tell you further, how they tell vs tales what &s;hal fall out for fifteene dayes, next &amp; imme|diately before the iudgment day: As the 1 day,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Bonauent. Dieta. 9. <HI>Cap.</HI> 48. De general: iudicio.</NOTE> that the &s;ea &s;hall &s;well: 15 cubits aboue the highe&s;t hilles, and &s;tand in his owne cen|ter like a wall of bra&s;&s;e. And in the 2. day, &s;hall fall againe to &s;o great an Ebbe, as &s;carce it &s;hall be &s;eene: in the 3. day, fi&s;hes and ma|ritine bea&s;ts &s;hall appeare, and &s;o
<PB N="70" REF="41">bellow, as their lowing &s;hal reach the heauens: the 4 day, heauen and earth &s;hall burne with fire: in the 5 day, hearbes and trees &s;hall droppe blood: the 6 day, all buil|dings &s;hall be ruinated: the 7 day, Rocks &s;hal ruine and breake into eight peeces, &amp; beate one again&s;t another, yet &s;o as none &s;hall heare the &s;ound but onely God. The 8 day, &s;hal be &s;o general an earth|quake, as neither men nor liuing creature &s;hall be able to &s;tand but fall to the ground: in the 9 day, all the earth &s;hall be euened, moun|taines and hills &s;hal turne to du&s;t: in the 10 day, men &s;hall creepe out of the dennes of the earth, wander like mad men, and neuer &s;peake one to another: in the 11 day, all the bones of the dead &s;hal ri&s;e, and &s;tand vpon their &s;epul|chers, and all graues &s;hall be ope|ned,
<PB N="61" REF="41">that the dead may come forth: in the 12 day, Starres &s;hall fall from heauen, all liuing crea|tures &s;hall come into the fields lowing, and &s;hall touch neither gra&s;&s;e nor water: in the 13 day, men that are aliue &s;hall die, and &s;hall then ari&s;e with tho&s;e that were dead: in the 14 day, heauen and earth &s;hall burne with the &s;u|perficies both of earth and aire: in the 15 day, there &s;hall be a new heauen, and a new earth, and the dead &s;hall ri&s;e, <HI>&s;ecundum virtutes, merita, &amp; demerita, recepturi.</HI> Thus am I bold to touch this their ex|ceeding gro&s;&s;enes, <HI>vt euitetur,</HI> as an euill to be &s;hunned and laugh|ed at, &s;o farre from the light of truth, as is the re&s;t of their popi&s;h doctrine, the Lord in his good time open their eyes that they may &s;ee with <HI>Hager,</HI> the well of
<PB N="72" REF="42">liuing water, and be refre&s;hed with the &s;prings of his word and truth, which yet they haue either rammed vp in their ma|lice, or beaten backe, with the Iorden of their ignorance.</P>
<P>But the &s;ignes of Chri&s;t his comming &s;hewed in the word, are &s;anctified with a better &s;pirit, they implie no contradiction, they &s;auour of no heatheni&s;h or fabulous deui&s;e, they checke no &s;cripture, they grieue no good con&s;cience, they prouoke vs ra|ther to good deeds and watch|fulnes, then to any &s;uch wilde workes of wonder.</P>
<P>Chri&s;t &s;itting vpon the mount of <HI>Oliues,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mat.</HI> 24.3.</NOTE> his di&s;ciples came vnto him apart, &s;aying, <HI>Tell vs when the&s;e things &s;hall be?</HI> and what &s;ignes &s;hall bee of thy comming, and of the end of the
<PB N="73" REF="42">world? <HI>Dominus in monte, Ver|bum in alto,</HI> from the height of the hill, hee tells them the depth of his coun&s;ell, and yet mentio|neth not one of all the former follies, as &s;ignes of his comming. Hee tells them of three euills that &s;hall rule, and be rigorous in the latter dayes, &amp; end of the world: 1. Of <HI>Here&s;ie,</HI> which &s;hall &s;poile the Faith of the Church: 2. Of <HI>Tyrannie,</HI> which &s;hall per&s;ecute the members of the Church: 3. And of <HI>Domesticall Enemies,</HI> who &s;hall corrupt the manners of the Church: of all which, wee may iu&s;tlie complaine, and crie with the Prophet,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Lament.</HI> 1.10.</NOTE> <HI>Manum &s;uam mi&s;it hostis, ad omnia de&s;iderabilia eius:</HI> The enemie hath &s;tretched out his hand vppon all our plea&s;ant things.</P>
<P>And &s;urely, if there were no
<PB N="74" REF="43">ther, the&s;e were &s;ufficient &s;ignes to warne vs euen now, of his nere approch to iudgement.</P>
<P><HI>Antichrist</HI> in the Ea&s;t, and <HI>An|tichrist</HI> in the We&s;t, haue banded them&s;elues again&s;t the Lord, and again&s;t his Saintes, practi&s;ing by all po&s;&s;ible and potent meanes, to de&s;troy the Faith of our Lord Ie|&s;us Chri&s;t, and as <HI>Pilate</HI> dealt with the <HI>Galileans,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Luk.</HI> 13.1.</NOTE> to mingle the blood of his Saintes, with their owne &s;acrifices.</P>
<P>If any man &s;ay this Prophecie of Chri&s;t cannot be meant of the Pope, pardon me, whil&s;t I proue in a word, by the words of Chri&s;t there laide downe, that it can be meant of none other, vnle&s;&s;e you plea&s;e to drawe in <HI>Mahomets im|posture,</HI> to make full the &s;innes of the <HI>Amorites:</HI> the wordes of Chri&s;t are the&s;e; <HI>Take heede that no
<PB N="75" REF="43">man deceiue you, for many &s;hall come in my name, &s;aying, I am Chri&s;t, and &s;hall deceiue many:</HI> whereout I ga|ther, that they are men, who &s;hall deceiue: Beware of men, &s;o &s;aith Chri&s;t el&s;ewhere, as the mo&s;t fa|miliar euill, to worke euill with tho&s;e that are euill: 2 Chri&s;t &s;aith they are many, &s;o is that <HI>Hierar|chy,</HI> which makes them &s;o to bragge of their multitude, with their king of <HI>Locu&s;ts,</HI> and filthy froggs crawling out of the bot|tomles pit, and &s;o great a num|ber, as well-neere they haue bla&s;ted the greene gra&s;&s;e, and growth of the Church in all Chri&s;tendome, I meane all the orders of <HI>Cardinals, Fryers, Mun|kes, Anchorists Ie&s;uits, Seminaries, Nunnes, and Nouices,</HI> all &s;ubiect to the pope, that king of <HI>Locusts;</HI> who&s;e name in <HI>Hebrew</HI> is <HI>Abad|don,</HI>
<PB N="76" REF="44">and in <HI>Greeke Apollion,</HI> 3. &s;aith Chri&s;t, they &s;hall come in my name: therby &s;hewing their pre|tence of holines, but haue denied the power thereof: 4. they &s;hall come &s;aith Chri&s;t, v&s;urping that they were neuer&s;e~t about, but fit as intruders vpon the Lords po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ion, without mi&s;&s;ion, or com|mi&s;&s;ion: 5. &s;aith Chri&s;t, they &s;hall &s;ay, I am Chri&s;t, vttering their great bla&s;phe my agai~&s;t the Lord: <HI>Popes</HI> haue &s;o &s;aid of them&s;elues, <HI>Popes</HI> haue endured to heare it of others, none but Popes euer ro&s;e to that height of pride, as to &s;ay, Chri&s;t and I make one con&s;i&s;torie, and I can doe all that he can: <HI>Claue non errante:</HI> 6. and la&s;tly, their &s;ucce&s;&s;e &s;hall be mightie, for as Chri&s;t &s;aith, they &s;hall deceiue manie, as an infal|lible note of popi&s;h impietie,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Timoth.</HI> 3.13.</NOTE>
<PB N="77" REF="44">to deceiue, and be deceiued.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides their here&s;y they haue euer bin branded with the grea|te&s;t crueltie, and of all per&s;ecuti|ons that euer were in the Church of God, that of popery hath bene mo&s;t bloudy in her de&s;igns, yet is, and euer (I feare) will bee. Wit|nes their &s;anguinarie Inqui&s;ition of <HI>Spaine,</HI> intended again&s;t the <HI>Moores,</HI> but inflicted vpon the faithful Chri&s;tians, who&s;e blood, with his &s;ub&s;tance, is thereby &s;uc|ked out. Witnes their late Ma&s;|&s;acre in <HI>France,</HI> when the &s;treetes of <HI>Paris</HI> &s;treamed with the blood of poore prote&s;tants. Witnes the dayes of Queene <HI>Marie,</HI> times of triall, when fire and fagots were welnere quenched &amp; &s;pent with the blood of the Innocent. Wit|nes the ran&s;acking of the bones and graues of the dead, buryed
<PB N="78" REF="45">fir&s;t, and burned after. Witne&s;&s;e their late pouder plot again&s;t our &s;tate, and of greater con&s;equence for killing cruelty, then euer man could haue deui&s;ed: if hell had not holpen out, the&s;e per&s;ecuti|ons are prea~bles of the latter day, harbingers of wrath to come, and &s;ure &s;ignes of future iudgement, as if the Lord had plainelie &s;aid, <HI>Popi&s;h curelty</HI> &s;hall forerun my fie|ry comming.</P>
<P>As for the la&s;t of euills, when I tolde you from Chri&s;t, that iniquitie &s;hould abound, and the manners of the Church &s;hould be corrupted, towards the iudge|ment day, that's nothing but the invndation of &s;inne, wherein the religion &s;hall blend in tran&s;gre&s;|&s;ion again&s;t the Lord, with A|thei&s;ts, Nullifideans, Mi&s;creants of the world, and damned crew,
<PB N="79" REF="45">to iu&s;tifie that of Chri&s;t, <HI>Iniquitie &s;hall abound, loue and charitie &s;hall waxe cold:</HI> what &s;aid I, &s;hall we of the religion, &s;ort with &s;inners in their &s;inne? <HI>O telit not in Gath, &amp;c.</HI> Surely it breaks my hart to think how we faile in faith, and fall in tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion, by lying, &s;tealing, &amp; oppre&s;&s;ing, &s;o as bloud touch|eth bloud, generall &s;innes, will haue a generall iudgement, and when we are mo&s;t &s;ecure, then will the Lord be mo&s;t &s;euere; as it was in the daies of <HI>Noah,</HI> &s;o &s;hal the comming of the &s;onne of man be.</P>
<P><HI>Domestica mala maiora &s;unt la|chrimis,</HI> our home euills are grea|ter then that they can be expre&s;|&s;ed with teares: Prote&s;tants &s;innes are Prote&s;tants &s;taines, and wor&s;e then all that, we growe &s;hameles, we dare to &s;inne with <HI>Ab&s;olon</HI> in<PB N="80" REF="46">the &s;ight of the &s;unne, no feare of God or man, no loue of vertue, no hatred of vice, no remor&s;e of con&s;cience, no danger of &s;oule, no griefe of the &s;pirit of God within vs, no horror of hell or death without vs, can re&s;traine the violence of our affections, but &s;inne we will: &s;urely, if there were no other &s;igne in our <HI>Zodi|ack</HI> of a declining world, but our wofull declination from God, it were &s;ufficie~t to warne vs. I might here &s;hift from the &s;innes, to o|ther &s;ignes of the latter day, as warres, famine, plagues, and pro|digies.</P>
<P>I might tel you that the Turks &s;word is drunke with the bloud of chri&s;tians, I might tell you of a famine more general then v&s;uall, and of a greater dearth of all things, then euer yet this world
<PB N="81" REF="46">felt, I might tell you of plagues depopulating the faire&s;t coun|tries &amp; cities of the world, and &s;o, <HI>Vt viui non &s;unt pares mortuis &s;epeli|endis,</HI> as the liuing haue bin &s;carce enough to burie their dead. I might tell you of mo~&s;trous births and prodigies. I might tel you of earth-quakes, Inundations, and fierie inflamations, all more fre|quent and fearefull, then former ages euer &s;awe, but I had rather keepe &s;till my current, to tell of &s;innes within vs, then of &s;ignes without vs, tolling on that feare|full day: Nor will I rancke them but out of the regi&s;ter of the li|uing, our di&s;cord within, cries vengeance without, and there is no poy&s;oned &s;hot to the nu&s;l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">d &s;eedes of &s;edition, could the hea|uens aboue endure the mutinie of Angels? or <HI>paradi&s;e</HI> belowe, the
<PB N="82" REF="47">groweth of two contrarie &s;eedes? &s;hall kingdomes then &s;tand, if they be diuided? and &s;hall the world abide thus di&s;tracted, &s;ure|lie if euer, much more now, <HI>Mi|cha</HI> his co~plaint is verified,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Mich.</HI> 7.5.</NOTE> <HI>Tru&s;t ye not a friend, neither put ye co~fide~ce in a coun&s;eller, keepe the doores of thy mouth from her that lyeth in thy bo|&s;ome, for the &s;onne reuileth the fa|ther, the daughter ri&s;eth vp again&s;t her mother, the daughter in lawe a|gain&s;t her mother in lawe, &amp; a mans enemies are the men of his own hou&s;e.</HI></P>
<P>Nay more then all this, <HI>Diuul&s;a, &s;unt a &s;e inuicem ecele&s;iae Christi membra,</HI> the members of Chri&s;t his Church are mi&s;erably rent, and torne, one from another, <HI>Ephraim</HI> again&s;t <HI>Mana&s;&s;es,</HI> and <HI>Mana&s;&s;es</HI> again&s;t <HI>Ephraim,</HI> both with open mouth, to deuoure poore <HI>Iuda.</HI> It was &s;aid of old, that
<PB N="83" REF="47">the warres of Infidels were the peace of Chri&s;tians, but now the warres of Chri&s;tians, are the peace of Infidels: and &s;o to con|clude this &s;inne, if di&s;cord be the fore runner of ruine, and not &s;o much in regard of priuate &s;tate, as of the generall di&s;&s;olution of all the world, I may &s;afely re|&s;olue that the Lords approch is &s;o much the neerer, by how much we are the more diuided.</P>
<P><HI>Paul</HI> is yet more particular in his prophecie, of &s;uch &s;innes, as &s;hould abou~d in the latter daies, which and if you either feele in your &s;elues, or finde them in o|thers, let them be like <HI>Balta&s;&s;er,</HI> handwriting vpon your walles, threatning downe-right iudge|ment, for new done &s;innes.</P>
<P>Into who&s;e holy regi&s;ter if you looke you &s;hall finde them
<PB N="84" REF="48">thus dige&s;ted,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">1. <HI>Timoth.</HI> 4.1. <HI>&amp;c.</HI> 2. <HI>Timoth.</HI> 3.1. <HI>&amp;c.</HI></NOTE> 1. into &s;innes of <HI>A|posta&s;ie</HI> from the faith, 2. into &s;ins of <HI>Rebellion</HI> again&s;t the faith.</P>
<P>In the latter times the &s;pirit &s;peaketh euidently, that men &s;hal depart from the faith, giue heed vnto &s;pirits of error and doctrine of diuels, they &s;hall &s;peake lies through hipocri&s;ie, and haue their con&s;cience burned with an hote iron, forbidding to marrie, and commaunding to ab&s;taine from meates, which God hath created to be receiued with gi|uing of thankes, of them which beleeue and know the truth: was there euer in any age more fal|ling from the faith, and &s;liding into error? did euer men &s;peake lies with more hypocri&s;ie? was con&s;cience euer more branded? doctrines of diuels &s;o diuulged? forbidding to marrie, and enioy|ning
<PB N="85" REF="48">ab&s;tine~ce fro~ meats, appoin|ted by God? if thus to faile in faith be an <HI>Aposta&s;ie</HI> from God, &amp; if af|ter &s;uch fals followeth iudgment, then is it nere, euen at our dores. Again, if (as the &s;ame Apo&s;: &s;aith) in the la&s;t day &s;hal come perilous times, wherin me~ &s;halbe louers of their owne &s;elues, couetous, boa|&s;ters, proud, cur&s;ed &s;peakers, di&s;o|bedie~t to pare~ts, vntha~kful, vnho|ly, without natural affectio~, truce|breakers, fal&s;e accu&s;ers, intempe|rate, fierce, di&s;pi&s;ers of the~ which are good, traytors, headie, high minded, louers of plea&s;ure more the~ louers of God, hauing a &s;hew of godlines, but haue denied the power thereof: I &s;ay, if euen now the world be full of &s;uch rebelli|ons again&s;t the Lord, wee had neede to turne from &s;uch, lea&s;t he be vpon vs ere wee be aware.</P>
<PB N="86" REF="49">
<P>And &s;o for further &s;earch into this holie <HI>Register,</HI> looke and yee &s;hall finde that <HI>Peter</HI> and <HI>Iude</HI> a|gree in one,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iude,</HI> 18. 2. <HI>Pet.</HI> 3.</NOTE> that there &s;hould be mockers in the la&s;t time, which &s;hould walk after their owne vn|godlie lu&s;tes, makers of Sects, fle&s;hlie, hauing not the &s;pirit; now if the world be burdened with &s;uch a byrth, what can wee expect, but the time of its deliue|rance to be at hand?</P>
<P>La&s;tlie,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>E&s;dra.</HI> 8.15. 2 <HI>Eldr.</HI> 15.16.</NOTE> I might tell you out of <HI>E&s;dras,</HI> of manie mi&s;eries and ca|lamities, for them that &s;hall liue in the latter time, that they &s;hall walk in great pride, how the peo|ple &s;hall be &s;editious, not regar|ding their king, and the Princes &s;hould mea&s;ure their right, by their might.</P>
<P>I might tell you out of him, that the weaker the world is by
<PB N="87" REF="49">rea&s;on of age,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>E&s;dr.</HI> 14.16.</NOTE> the more &s;hall the euills be increa&s;ed vppon them that dwell therein, that the world hath lo&s;t his youth, and the times begin to waxe olde, for the world is diuided into 12 parts,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ver&s;.</HI> 9.</NOTE> ten parts of it already are gone, and halfe of the tenth part, that <HI>E&s;au</HI> and <HI>Iacob</HI> &s;truggle in the wombe of <HI>Sara,</HI> and <HI>Iacobs</HI> hand held fa&s;t the heele of <HI>E&s;au,</HI> intimating as hee &s;aith,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>E&s;dr.</HI> 6.8.9.</NOTE> that <HI>E&s;au</HI> is the ende of this wic|ked world, and <HI>Iacob</HI> is the begin|ning of it that followeth. <HI>Sara</HI> is heauie of her byrth, and would be di&s;-burdened.</P>
<P><HI>Mu&s;culus</HI> in his Epi&s;tle Dedi|catorie before the P&s;almes, and written to the Senate &amp; Con&s;ull of <HI>Berna,</HI> &s;heweth the accom|pli&s;hment of all the&s;e, and tells that they are pa&s;t, come, &amp; gone, harbengers of the Lordes wrath,
<PB N="88" REF="50">and neere approach of his com|ming: Adding further, that the impunitie of &s;in, is a &s;igne of pre|&s;ent iudgement, in the&s;e wordes; <HI>Excre&s;cunt omnis generis flagitia, id&abque; multis in locis pror&s;us impune.</HI> Sinnes of all natures growe vp, and in mo&s;t part of the world, go vnpuni&s;hed.</P>
<P>It was the &s;ubuer&s;ion of <HI>Ely</HI> his hou&s;e, it will be the de&s;tructi|on of all the world. Further he &s;aith, <HI>Non licet impune &s;tudere pieta|ti, innocentiae, &amp; vt illa ait de deo nec male nec bene loqui conceditur,</HI> though &s;inne go vnpuni&s;hed, yet righteou&s;nes &s;hall be afflicted in the latter day, when it &s;hall not be &s;afe, to &s;peake either well or euill of God him&s;elfe, to &s;peake euill of God, will be thought diuelli&s;h, to &s;peake well of God, wil be dee|med too &s;ainti&s;h.</P>
<PB N="89" REF="50">
<P>Thus to cen&s;ure &s;inne and &s;in|ners, in the la&s;t day (euen in this our day) as the &s;ure&s;t &s;igne of our &s;auiours neere approch, I hope it will be no preiudice to the god|ly, who &s;igh to &s;ee it, and grieue to feele it: and if any man thinke otherwi&s;e, and be contrarie min|ded, he may put farre from him the euill day, and &s;leepe in his &s;e|curitie, till the trumpet blowe, yet with this caution, that as &s;e|cure &s;inning ha&s;tned on the iudg|ment of water, &s;o will it doe of fire, &amp; with the floud of our wic|kednes, will ri&s;e the vengeance of our God, till it come fifteene cu|bits aboue the highe&s;t mountaine of <HI>Ararat,</HI> that is, til fire haue fined vs fit for our God, who will emp|tie all vpon his &s;ommons, and fill all vpon his &s;entence, heauen with the &s;aued, and hell with the
<PB N="90" REF="51">damned. And &s;o to conclude this worlds di&s;&s;olution with it tran&s;|gre&s;&s;ion, &s;ure I am, that all &s;uch as are &s;encele&s;&s;e in &s;inning, &s;hal be &s;en&s;ible in burning, as al&s;o that the &s;icke body, is neare&s;t death when it hath no feeling of it maladie, the world is no le&s;&s;e &s;icke then &s;encele&s;&s;e, &amp; in a dead|ly <HI>Lathtrgie</HI> it feeleth no maladie: what hereafter may be I know not, he knoweth be&s;t who know|eth all: but &s;ure I am of this, that &s;inne was neuer more &s;infull, &s;hameles, nor &s;encele&s;&s;e, the &s;ou~d thereof in this our Iron age, is I kethefall of <HI>Nilus, ad itla quae ca|tadupa nominentur,</HI> where falling from the &s;teepe hilles to the owe bottomes, the inhabitants are dea&s;e with the co~tinuall fall ther|of: I &s;ay dea&s;e, in regard of cu|&s;tome, but apprehen&s;iue enough
<PB N="91" REF="51">of things le&s;&s;e frequent. Or it is like the motion of the heauenlie <HI>Orbes,</HI> of &s;o &s;peedie a cour&s;e, and high an harmonie, as <HI>Tully</HI> &s;aith, <HI>Vt aures hominum capere non po&s;|&s;unt,</HI> that mens eares can not catch it.</P>
<P>Woe is mee to tell, <HI>Hoc &s;onitu completae aures hominum ab&s;oraue|runt:</HI> the drumme of &s;inne hath made deafe the eares of men, and like the people of <HI>Catadupa,</HI> wee heare anie fall but that of <HI>Nilus,</HI> wee apprehend anie &s;ounde but that of &s;inne, &s;o loude, &s;o &s;peedie, and &s;o v&s;uall, as it whirleth about the whole world, &s;en&s;eles, either of the &s;hower or &s;hout of it invn|dation; the Lord dimini&s;h our &s;innes, &amp; increa&s;e our Faith, &s;o as our loue may abound yet more and more, in all knowledge, and in all feeling, that wee may allow
<PB N="92" REF="52">tho&s;e things that are be&s;t, that wee may be pure, and without offence, vntill the day of Chri&s;t, filled with the fruits of righteou&s;|nes,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Phillip.</HI> 1.9 <HI>&amp;c.</HI></NOTE> which are by Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, vnto the glorie and prai&s;e of God. Amen.</P>
<CLOSER>Amen.</CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 N="2" TYPE="sermon">
<PB N="93" REF="52">
<HEAD>THE DREAD|FVLL DAY.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The &s;econd Sermon.</HEAD>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q><BIBL><HI>Ver&s;e. 28.</HI></BIBL>
<P>So Chri&s;t was once offered to take a|way the &s;innes of many, and vnto them that looke for him, &s;hall he appeare the &s;econd time without &s;inne vnto &s;aluation.</P></Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<P>_THe day of doome thus di&s;couered, it now remaines, we come to the di&s;&s;o|lution thereof, by Chri&s;t the worker of al our good, and the determiner of all our e|uils. In deliuerie wherof, it is with
<PB N="94" REF="53">me as it was with <HI>Tymothius</HI> the Mu&s;itian, of whom it is &s;aid, that when he plaide before <HI>Alexander</HI> the great, he euer changed his tune, as he &s;awe the king affected. From the <HI>Ionick</HI> to the <HI>Lidian</HI> if he &s;aw him dumpi&s;h, and from the <HI>Lidian</HI> to the <HI>Ionick</HI> harmo|nie, if he &s;aw him too mirthfull. If &s;uch force was in Mu&s;ick, to com|po&s;e the kings heart, and to bring it within the compa&s;&s;e of his key and melodie, of how much grea|ter power is the word of God, to rai&s;e vp the &s;oules of his Saints, as we &s;ee them either deiected with too much iudgement, or embol|dened with too much mercy.</P>
<P>When the law hath wounded, the Go&s;pell mu&s;t cure, and in the temper of both, mu&s;t be our in|gredience, oyle and vinegar mu&s;t be powred alike into the woun|ded
<PB N="95" REF="53">man, lea&s;t vinegar without oyle might too much corrode, or oyle without vinegar might make too &s;upple: it may be the keene knife of inci&s;ion hath lan|ted too deepe in your religious hearts, and that the day of doome like a dampe hath put out all the delights of plea&s;ure, it may be the feare of fire, and combu&s;tion of this bad world, hath made you doubtfull of a better: it &s;tands vs vpon therefore to helpe the mala|die with a more gentle pulte&s;&s;e, to beate backe the dampe with a more glorious light, &amp; to quench the feare of fire with the Ocean of a greater mercy.</P>
<P>And that is by Chri&s;t, who&s;e painefull pa&s;&s;ion, as it hath can|celled all our &s;innes, in his fir&s;t comming &s;o theglorie of his re|&s;urrection &s;hall giue vs life, when
<PB N="96" REF="54">he &s;hall appeare the &s;econd time <HI>without &s;inne vnto &s;aluation.</HI> In a word, Chri&s;t his owne &amp; alone &s;acrifice, hath taken away our &s;inne, death and doome, and to all that looke for him he &s;hall ap|peare againe, tread vpon all, and lead captiuitie captiue.</P>
<P>It is &s;aid of Chri&s;t in re&s;pect of his per&s;on, that he is fairer then the &s;onnes of men: and it may be likewi&s;e &s;aid of his offices, that in all excellencie, they are aboue the dignities of men, a Prophet more powerfull, then euer <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> was, a <HI>Prie&s;t</HI> more plea&s;ing then euer <HI>Aaron</HI> was, and a <HI>King</HI> more pui&s;&s;ant then euer <HI>Me<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">chi&s;edec</HI> was, for the&s;e are gone, but of his kingdome, prophecie, and prie&s;t|hood, there is no end.</P>
<P>So vrged by the holy Gho&s;t, in the whole cour&s;e of this E|pi&s;tle
<PB N="97" REF="54">again&s;t the Iewi&s;h nation, who while&s;t he liued, maligned his per&s;on, and &s;ince his death hath per&s;ecuted his cau&s;e. Giue me leaue the~ my deare brethren, to di&s;&s;wade you from &s;uch impie|tie, and as an abetter of the cau&s;e of Chri&s;t, yet further to build you on, that being raui&s;hed with the beautie of his brightnes, you may be enamored with the loue of his per&s;on, and &s;o euer liue to loue him, who hath loued you, and gi|uen him&s;elfe a &s;acrifice for the &s;innes of all the world, and in whom now all things are be|come anew, new heauen, new earth, new Prince, new Prie&s;t, new Altar, new &s;acrifice, new te&s;tament, new tabernacle, old things are pa&s;&s;ed away, <HI>Aaron</HI> is buried with his &s;inagogue, Law and all, in the bowels of Chri&s;t,
<PB N="98" REF="55"><HI>Michael</HI> our great Prince, &s;tan|deth for the children of his peo|ple,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Dan.</HI> 12.1.</NOTE> &amp; <HI>Melchi&s;edec</HI> our high Prie&s;t is prie&s;t to bleed, &amp; plead for the children, &ocirc; Lord, which thou ha&s;t giuen him.</P>
<P>Now of this holy offering and &s;ole &s;acrifice of Chri&s;t, for the &s;aluatio~ of our &s;oules, once done by him, but often pleaded by vs, as the la&s;t i&s;&s;ue of al our pleadings again&s;t &s;inne, hell, death, doome, and diuell, I am to &s;peake if God will, and as the text &s;hall guide me in that truth. Wherein fir&s;t I doe ob&s;erue <HI>&s;ufficiencie,</HI> to make the &s;acrifice more &s;oueraigne, in that Chri&s;t by once &s;uffering, tooke away the &s;innes of many. The worlds perfection, grewe from one daies worke to &s;ixe, and then came the Sabboth of re&s;t, wherein the Lord &s;awe with &s;o|lace,
<PB N="99" REF="55">the perfection of all his crea|tures. But in the ble&s;&s;ed worke of our redemption, all was done at once, not many &s;ufferings, ma|ny deaths, or many &s;acrifices, like <HI>Aaeans</HI> were required, for our re|paire, but one was &s;ufficient to &s;a|tisfie his father, &amp; &s;aue his Saints: and therefore I may well &s;ay, as it is in my text, <HI>So Chri&s;t once &s;uffered</HI> and it was &s;ufficient.</P>
<P>All things in Chri&s;t are ab&s;o|lute and vniuer&s;all, from who&s;e &s;ufficiencie to &s;atisfie and &s;aue, who detracteth any thing, is &s;ub|iect to a rufull raze: who addeth any thing as of his owne, is in danger of a cur&s;&s;e, with an exe|cration.</P>
<P>I &s;ay, he is all &s;ufficie~t in name, nature, and office, his name is <HI>Ie|&s;us,</HI> and that &s;ufficient to &s;aue: his nature is <HI>Emanuel,</HI> God with vs,
<PB N="100" REF="56">God in vs, and God for vs, all &s;ufficient in him&s;elfe, all &s;ufficient for vs, we need none other. And for his offices wherein is he defi|cient, as a <HI>Prophet</HI> he in&s;tructeth our &s;oules, as a King, he conquers our enemies: and as a <HI>Prie&s;t,</HI> he plea&s;eth our God, and none but he, of whom the Father &s;aid, <HI>This is my welbeloued &s;onne, in whom I am well plea&s;ed, heare him.</HI></P>
<P>The Saint at <HI>Sychar,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ioh.</HI> 4.5.</NOTE> run to the citie, and &s;aid; <HI>Come &s;ee a man that hath told me all that euer I did,</HI> is not he that Chri&s;t? &s;o may I &s;ay, come &s;ee a man that hath vn|done all the euil that euer we did, and is not he a Sauiour? by our fir&s;t fall we lo&s;t our place, we di&s;|plea&s;ed our God, &amp; wee brought vpon vs and ours, a cur&s;e with corruption, but he hath recoue|red our lo&s;&s;es, repaired our ruins,
<PB N="101" REF="56">plea&s;ed our God, and conferred vpon vs and our children a ble&s;|&s;ing with eternitie.</P>
<P>If any man &s;ay I haue done it for him, let him be the vnitie, and if any dare &s;ay, I haue done it with him, let him be of the trini|tie: if not, be &s;ilent &ocirc; heauens, and thou earth &s;ay nothing: &ocirc; men be ye mute, Angels hu&s;h, and ye fie|rie Cherubines couer your faces, ere ye pre&s;ume to flie before him. Its not one of you in particular, nor all in generall, that are &s;uffici|ent to purge our &s;innes, plead our cau&s;e, or purcha&s;e our place.</P>
<P>The Prophete&s;&s;e hath concei|ued and borne a &s;onne,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>E&s;ay.</HI> 8.3.</NOTE> <HI>Maher|&s;halalha&s;h-ban</HI> is his name: that is, make &s;peed to the &s;poile, ha&s;t to the prey. Its he that hath taken a|way the riches of <HI>Dama&s;cus,</HI> and the &s;poile of <HI>Samaria,</HI> before the
<PB N="102" REF="57">king of <HI>A&s;hur.</HI> It is he that hath led captiuitie captiue, &amp; giuen gifts, euen remi&s;&s;ion of all our &s;innes, and euerla&s;ting life, to the which God bring vs. It is the Lord all|&s;ufficient, who alone of all the world, &amp; none other, hath fulfil|led the lawe, &s;atisfied for &s;inne, broken the &s;ting of death, and conquered hell: it is he that hath &s;ubdued all by the might of his power, and redeemed all in the depth of his mercies, the &s;erpent &s;tung vs, and none could kill the venome, or expel the poy&s;on, but the blood of the Phy&s;ition: no pulte&s;&s;e, no play&s;ter, no cunning, no craft, no art of the Apotheca|rie, no Fullers &s;ope, could worke or wa&s;h out the &s;taines of &s;inne, but the alone blood of our Saui|our: no gold, no &s;iluer, no merit of Saint, or might of Angell, could
<PB N="103" REF="57">beg, or buye out our bondage, but it mu&s;t be the deare death of the Redeemer.</P>
<P>Our aduer&s;aries haue endan|gered them&s;elues in ramming vp the perfect, plea&s;ing, and perpetu|all &s;acrifice of Chri&s;t his death, once offered for all, by their day|ly &s;acrificing in their ma&s;&s;e, as if his alone &s;uffering once for all vpon the cro&s;&s;e, were not &s;uffi|cient without iteration, which were an argument of it imperfec|tion. Againe, haue they not im|peached the honour of their Chri&s;t, as in&s;ufficie~t to &s;aue, when they make his mercy not &s;uffici|ent without their merit, his grace not &s;ufficie~t without their works, his free pardon not &s;ufficient, without their deare indulgence? his true and tried word not &s;uffi|cient, without their tyring tradi|tions,
<PB N="104" REF="58">his &s;acraments not &s;uffici|ent without their additions of oile, creame, and &s;pittle, in the one, and of Pix, print, and &s;a|cring in the other: his Sabbaoths not &s;ufficient, without their farre fetched fe&s;tiualls and ferialls, his heauen not &s;ufficient without their helli&s;h purgatorie, his medi|ation not &s;ufficient without their interce&s;&s;ion of Saints, &amp; Angels. Nay more then all that went be|fore, and I yearne to &s;peake it, his blood not &s;ufficient, without the blood of <HI>Hales,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">In a Primer of Salisbu|rie v&s;e prin|ted at Paris. 1532.</NOTE> and <HI>Becket,</HI> accor|ding to that, <HI>Tu per Thomae &s;angi|nem quem parte impendit, fac nos christe &s;candere quo Thomas a&s;cen|dit.</HI> Thou by the blood of <HI>Tho|mas,</HI> which for thee he did &s;pend: make vs &ocirc; Chri&s;t thither to clime where <HI>Thomas</HI> did a&s;cend.</P>
<P>But good Lord, how long wilt
<PB N="105" REF="58">thou endure &s;uch indignitie a|gain&s;t thy Chri&s;t? how long &s;hall they thus and thus &s;pit in his face, nip his cheekes, beate his body, cur&s;e his &s;oule, &amp; trample vnder foote the blood of his couenant? Surely, &s;urely, this people haue committed two &s;innes, they haue for&s;aken thee, the fountaine of liuing water, and digged vnto them&s;elues ce&s;ternes, euen bro|ken ce&s;ternes, which will hold no water.</P>
<P><HI>Samp&s;on</HI> in his daliance with <HI>Dalilah,</HI> lo&s;t but the haire of his head, they in their &s;pirituall daly|ance (as they tearme it) haue cut off, not onely haire, but head and all. There was no &s;mith found in all the land of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> for the <HI>Phi|li&s;tines</HI> &s;aid, le&s;t the <HI>Hebrewes</HI> make them &s;words, or &s;peares. So our aduer&s;aries, while&s;t they robbe
<PB N="106" REF="59">vs of our Chri&s;t,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">1. <HI>Sam.</HI> 3.19.</NOTE> haue taken from vs all meanes of munition, and leaue vs no toole to worke with, but of their owne &s;harpning.</P>
<P>They deale with vs, as <HI>Ier oboam</HI> the &s;onne of <HI>Nebot</HI> did, which cau&s;ed <HI>I&s;rael</HI> to &s;inne, and &s;aid it is too farre to goe to <HI>Ieru&s;alem,</HI> it is &s;ufficient to &s;tay here at <HI>Dan,</HI> and <HI>Bethel,</HI> there is a calfe at <HI>Dan,</HI> and a calfe at <HI>Bethel,</HI> with an holy day to the Lord, a cake at <HI>Dan,</HI> &amp; a cake at <HI>Bethel</HI> with an holy day to the Lord: But good Lord how long &s;hall they waine vs fro~ the pretious blood of our Chri&s;t as in&s;ufficient, and fill vs with the winde of their vaine imaginati|ons? how long &s;hall they dimme the gold of thy &s;anctuarie, and robbe thee of thine honour?</P>
<P>They haue left vnto thee, the wretched crowne of thornes, &amp; taken to them&s;elues the diademe
<PB N="107" REF="59">of worldly honour: they haue put into thy hands an hollow reed, and taken to them&s;elues, the Imperiall &s;cepter: they haue left thee poorly ryding vpon an a&s;&s;e, and painfully hanging vpon the tree, while&s;t them&s;elues in their papall pride, do iu&s;tifie their <HI>Per|&s;ian</HI> pompe, ride vpo~ their tamed and trapped &s;teeds, and hang vp|on the &s;houlders of men.</P>
<P>And yet as if all this were not &s;ufficie~t to &s;et vp them&s;elues, and to pull thee downe as in&s;ufficie~t, they haue dimmed the glorious light of thy word, derned thy prophecy, with <HI>Romi&s;h</HI> iu&s;titutio~s, <HI>Decretals</HI> apo&s;taticall, lying <HI>Ora|cles, Illu&s;ions,</HI> &amp; flattering <HI>Diuina|tions,</HI> but good Lord how long?</P>
<P>Finally, for the honour of thy Prie&s;t-hood, how haue they ex|tenuated the vertue therof, as not &s;ufficient, either to &s;acrifice, or to
<PB N="108" REF="60">be &s;acrificed once for all, with out their iteration of a daily ma&s;&s;e, in their mi&s;&s;all, with an v&s;urped au|thoritie of <HI>Melchi&s;ecks</HI> order, which is &s;o proper to Chri&s;t, as it cannot pa&s;&s;e from one to ano|ther, the words in the originall will &s;o beare it:
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Heb.</HI> 7.24.</NOTE> <HI>This man becau&s;e he endureth euer, hath a Priest-hood which cannot pa&s;&s;e from one to an other.</HI></P>
<P>I doe &s;econdly ob&s;erue in this once offering of Chri&s;t to make it the more &s;oueraigne, <HI>vniuer&s;a|litie,</HI> where it is &s;aid to take away the &s;innes of many: and in ano|ther place, the blood of Chri&s;t doth clen&s;e vs fro~ all our &s;innes: and againe, he is the propitiation for our &s;ins, &amp; not for ours only, but for the &s;ins of al the world: to teach vs, <HI>y^e</HI> al the promi&s;es of God run vpon an vniuer&s;all grace of
<PB N="109" REF="60">fered to all, though receiued of fewe, according to that, <HI>Omnia in christo &s;unt noua, categorica, &amp; ca|tholica.</HI> All things in Chri&s;t are new, ab&s;olute, &amp; vniuer&s;all, pro|mi&s;es in the &s;criptures run vpon an vniuer&s;all grace offered; As, <HI>Come vnto me all, &amp;c. He gaue his onely begotten &s;onne, that all that be|leeued in him, &amp;c.</HI> Yet euer with limitation of co~ming, beleeuing, and looking for him, that &s;hould appeare the &s;econd time.</P>
<P>And here a little examine the words, and &s;ee the effectuall wor|king of Chri&s;t his death, in this his &s;ole &s;acrifice, which is, as you here &s;ee, to take away the &s;innes of many.</P>
<P>He tooke to him&s;elfe no king|domes, crownes, or dignities of this world, but cro&s;&s;e, cur&s;e, and crueltie, to heale our maladie. A
<PB N="110" REF="61">different death, of his &amp; ours, for our death is the reward of &s;inne: his death is the ruine of &s;inne: our death doth credit it, his death doth cure it; he died that did no &s;inne, to take away the &s;innes of many: we die, who neuer did wel to take away the righteou&s;nes of one: &ocirc; &s;oueraigne death, &amp; &s;weet &s;acrifice, that tooke away, not the &s;ins of one among all, or of &s;ome few among many, but it tooke away the &s;ins of all, who &s;ought into his death for life, &amp; &s;earched into his wounds as <HI>Thomas</HI> did.</P>
<P>No age, no condition of per|&s;on, no &s;exe, but either of all &s;orts &s;ome, or many among all, haue benefited &s;o much as the &s;alua|tion of their &s;oules commeth vn|to, by the death of their deliuerer: yea I may &s;afely &s;ay with the ble&s;|&s;ed Apo&s;tle, that through peace
<PB N="111" REF="61">made by that blood, of that his cro&s;&s;e,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Collo&s;&s;.</HI> 1.20.</NOTE> it plea&s;ed God to re|concile to him&s;elfe, through him, all things which are both in earth, and which are in heauen, a &s;acrifice &s;o &s;oueraigne, as you may there &s;ee, that not onely the Saints haue longed for it, but the very Angels haue de&s;ired to be|hold it, being the co~firmation of their high &amp; angelicall &s;tate, ther|by &s;o e&s;tabli&s;hed, as now they &s;hall neuer fall againe.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, &s;oueraigne in the gene|rall, that it left no &s;taine behind, but tooke away the &s;innes of ma|ny: and (as I may &s;ay) quit vs of all tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion. And if any man aske how I an&s;were by curing, couering, not imputing, and forgetting: as and if he &s;hould &s;ay, that &s;inne which I cannot cure, I will couer: that which I can neither cure nor couer,
<PB N="113" REF="62">I will not impute, that which I can, neither cure, couer, nor but impute, I will forget, and this is the free forgiuenes of &s;inne, and pardon of our offe~ces done with|out meede or merit of any,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>E&s;ay.</HI> 63.1.</NOTE> but of him who &s;pake in righteou&s;nes, and is mightie to &s;aue.</P>
<P>I doe further ob&s;erue to make this &s;acrifice more &s;oueraigne, a facilitie in vs, to apprehend &s;o great a benefit onely applied by faith, in looking, &amp; longing after Chri&s;t, his glorious appearing. For &s;o it is here &s;aid vnto the~ that looke for him, he &s;hall appeare the &s;econd time without &s;inne vnto &s;aluation.</P>
<P>When <HI>Naaman</HI> the <HI>Syrian,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Kings.</HI> 5, 10. <HI>&amp;c.</HI></NOTE> &s;hould be healed of his lepro&s;ie, <HI>Eli&s;ha</HI> &s;ent a me&s;&s;enger vnto him &s;aying, goe and wa&s;h thee in <HI>Ior|den</HI> &s;eauen times, and thou &s;halt
<PB N="115" REF="62">be clean&s;ed, but <HI>Naaman</HI> was wroth, and went away, &s;aying: Are not <HI>Abanah</HI> and <HI>Phatpat,</HI> ri|uers of <HI>Dama&s;cus,</HI> better then all the waters of <HI>I&s;rael?</HI> But his Ser|uants came and &s;aide, Father, if the Prophet had co~manded thee a great thing, woulde&s;t thou not haue done it? How much rather then, when he &s;aide to thee, <HI>Wa&s;h and be cleane.</HI> The Lepro&s;ie of <HI>Naaman</HI> cleaueth vnto vs, &s;inne hath &s;eazed vppon all fle&s;h, and ther's no wa&s;hing can cle~&s;e it, but the bloud of our Chri&s;t, which to apprehend by faith, looking, and longing after it, is the meane of our clen&s;ing, be it farre from anie to value tho&s;e Springs, with the waters of <HI>Dama&s;cus:</HI> Nor is it a|ny great thing (as it is in my text) to looke, and be &s;aued, to wa&s;h and be clen&s;ed, all done by faith,
<PB N="116" REF="63">which apprehends Chri&s;t Ie&s;us, with all the benefites of his pa&s;|&s;ion, which is remi&s;&s;ion of &s;innes, and euerla&s;ting life, to the which, God bring vs.</P>
<P>So then I &s;ay, for the &s;urer &s;eale and certainty of this our clen&s;ing by Chri&s;t his bloud, our &s;oules are filled with the &s;weetnes ther|of, &amp; all is thus conueied vnto vs. 1. <HI>Verbo. quo offertur. 2. Fide, qua recipitur. 3. Spirita, quo applicatur.</HI> 4. <HI>Sacramento, quo con&s;ignatur.</HI> The word of God, it offers this grace: the hand of Faith, it re|ceiues this grace: the &s;pirit of Truth, it applyes this grace: and the holie Sacrament, confirmes this grace: and thus are we a&s;&s;u|red of our daily clen&s;ing, and the bloud of Chri&s;t is yet &s;prinkling, and fre&s;h bleeding, to all the re|generate.</P>
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<P>Yet as you &s;ee with this cauti|on, that we look &amp; long for his &s;e|cond co~ming, otherwi&s;e it is but a defeiza~ce of all the good that he hath purcha&s;ed, for though grace preue~ting, grace a&s;&s;i&s;ting, &amp; grace perfecting be al his, &amp; none ours; yet we mu&s;t by Faith apprehend that grace, ere euer wee can be crowned with glory: for true it is, <HI>Qui fecit te, non &s;aluabit te, &s;ine te,</HI> he that made thee, without thee, wil neuer &s;aue thee without thee: a&s;ke, and haue, &s;eeke, and ye &s;hall finde, knocke, and it &s;hall be ope|ned, looke for him, and hee will appear vnto your &s;aluation. I loo|ked (&s;aith <HI>Iohn) and loe a Lambe &s;tood vpon mount Syon:</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Reu.</HI> 14.1.</NOTE> he &s;aw no Lambe till hee looked, and he lif|ted vp his eyes, before hee &s;awe the mountaine of his holine&s;&s;e: I lifte mine eyes,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 121.</NOTE> (&s;aith <HI>Dauid</HI>)
<PB N="118" REF="64">vnto the hills, and my helpe came from the Lord: his eyes were a|boue, ere he gained any help be|low.
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ho&s;.</HI> 12.4.</NOTE> And it is &s;aide of <HI>Iacob,</HI> that hee wept and prayed, and found God at <HI>Bethel,</HI> he found him not, till he &s;ought him in prayers and teares.</P>
<P>And heere I would ob&s;erue a difference betwixt the godly and the wicked of this world, in their different lookes, much looking in this world, little longing after another: one looks vpon his ho|nour, wealth and witte: another, vpon his wife, children, and &s;er|uants: one lookes vpon his plea|&s;ure: another vpon his profites: but who looketh towardes him that &s;hall appeare the &s;eco~d time, without &s;inne vnto Saluation? one &s;eeth his &s;in, &amp; is &s;encele&s;&s;e: another &s;eeth his death, &amp; is de&s;|perate:
<PB N="119" REF="64">both loathe the daye of Chri&s;t his co~ming, they neither looke nor long after the redemp|tion of their bodies, the rea&s;on is, they haue no Faith. For as it is true, how can they call on him, of whom they haue not heard? &s;o is it as true, how can they looke or long for him, on whome they haue not belieued? <HI>Abraham</HI> was glad to &s;ee my day (&s;aith Chri&s;t) hee looked and longed for him: &s;o did <HI>Symeon, Elizabeth, Anna,</HI> and <HI>Zacharie:</HI> they looked after the con&s;olation of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> they lon|ged after grace, that they might come to glorie. So haue the E|lect of God euer done, they haue longed after the redemption of their bodies, and they de&s;ired to &s;ee the Sonne of God comming in the cloudes, whereas the wic|ked &s;tand in dread of that gloo|mie
<PB N="118" REF="65">day, and looke for the moun|taines to fall vpon them.</P>
<P>O well,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>E&s;ay.</HI> 30.18.</NOTE> &s;aid the Prophet; <HI>The Lord is the God of iudgement, ble&s;&s;ed are all they that waite for him.</HI> And <HI>Paul,</HI> after hee had wept ouer the damned crue of his dayes, when he came to mention the memory of Gods Saintes on earth, he &s;aid with &s;olace,
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Phil.</HI> 3.20.</NOTE> to his &s;aued &s;oule, <HI>But our con&s;olation is in heauen, whence al&s;o wee looke for the Sauiour, euen the Lord Ie&s;us Christ, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Peter</HI> is much more &s;peedie in the expecta~ce of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> his &s;econd comming:
<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Pet.</HI> 3.12.</NOTE> who after he had told to the terror of the wicked, that there was <HI>Dies, &amp; Deus vitionis,</HI> a God, and a day of reuenge, in which the heauens &s;hould pa&s;&s;e away with a noy&s;e, and the Ele|ments &s;hould melte with heate, and the Earth, with the workes
<PB N="121" REF="65">that are therein, &s;hould be bur|ned vp: &s;eeing (&s;aith hee) that all the&s;e things mu&s;t be di&s;&s;olued, what manner per&s;ons ought wee to be in holie conuer&s;ation and godline&s;&s;e; looking for, and ha|&s;ting vnto the comming of that day of God, by the which, the heauens being on fire, &s;hall be di&s;|&s;olued, and the Elements &s;hall melt with heate, but we looke for newe heauens, and a new earth, according to his promi&s;e, where|in dwelleth righteou&s;nes, &amp;c.</P>
<P>To incourage the Saints at <HI>Co|rinth,</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">1. <HI>Cor.</HI> 1.7.</NOTE> that they are not de&s;titute of anie gifts, hee tells them they are wanting of none, in that they are euer wayting for <HI>y^e</HI> appearing of our Lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;t. If then he that wayreth, is de&s;titute of no good gift, &s;urely, hee that neuer loketh therafter, is de&s;titute of all.</P>
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<P>La&s;tlie, after that <HI>Paule</HI> had told <HI>Titus,</HI> that the grace of God that bringeth &s;aluation to all men had appeared, and taught, that wee &s;hould denie vngodline&s;&s;e, and worldly lu&s;ts, that we &s;hould liue &s;oberlie and righteou&s;lie,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">2. <HI>Titus</HI> 13.</NOTE> and godlily in this pre&s;ent world, at la&s;t &s;hutteth vp all, with the loo|king for of that ble&s;&s;ed hope, and appearing of that glorie, of that mightie God, and Sauiour Ie&s;us Chri&s;t.</P>
<P>And &s;o for v&s;e of this doctrine, and to clo&s;e with your religious eares and hearts, which heare me this day: Surely, &s;urely, I am per|&s;waded, ther was neuer age, le&s;&s;e mindful of the comming of their Chri&s;t to iudgement, or le&s;&s;e de|&s;irous of the day of his appeara~ce in glorie, <HI>Cupio di&s;&s;olui,</HI> is far from this di&s;&s;olute age: and who with
<PB N="123" REF="66">the liuely &amp; louely Hart, breathes after the wells of tho&s;e &s;weet wa|ters? I meane the fre&s;h &s;prings of glory. For who wayteth, who looketh, who ha&s;teth vnto the comming of that day of God?
<NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Gen.</HI> 24.63.</NOTE></P>
<P><HI>I&s;aac</HI> toward the euening went out to pray in the fielde, he lift vp his eyes and looked, and behold, the Cammels came: hee gained <HI>Rebecca,</HI> by praying for the ac|compli&s;hment of that he looked and longed after: the mariage of the Lambe is come, and his wife hath made her &s;elfe readie, readie with Lampe and Oyle,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">1. <HI>The&s;&s;.</HI> 4.17.</NOTE> to meete him in the cloudes, and to be caught vp to meete the Lord in the aire, and &s;o euer be with him. Bretheren, comfort your &s;elues one another, with the&s;e words.</P>
<P>I do further ob&s;erue the bene|fit we receiue by the &s;ole &s;acrifice
<PB N="124" REF="67">of Chri&s;t, which is &s;aluation to &s;uch that looke for him, with no &s;in in him&s;elf: for &s;o &s;aith the text, <HI>he &s;hall come without &s;inne,</HI> without &s;in in him&s;elf, that is, without the iudgement of our &s;innes, which gat hold vpon him, in the daies of his life, &amp; at the hour of his death.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2"> Without &s;inne, in his Saintes, &s;ufficientlie purged with that his bloud, pleading their cau&s;e, and purcha&s;ing their place.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="3"> And yet behold a greater mi|&s;terie, I may lay without &s;inne, in the damned, when all their &s;innes &s;hall be turned to &s;hame, and all their wickednes into iudgement, the act of &s;inning, in &s;ome &s;ort &s;hall cea&s;e, but the act of burning &s;hal neuer cea&s;e: the damned &s;hal die, for all they haue done, and be neuer doing, but euer dying, as <HI>Patients</HI> in the paine they pur|cha&s;ed
<PB N="125" REF="67">by their &s;innes, at &s;o deare a price, paine, and pa&s;&s;ion &s;hall cea&s;e the &s;inne, but increa&s;e the iudgement; lu&s;t and lucre &s;hall then langui&s;h, but the worme &s;hall neuer die.</P>
<P>So now, for v&s;e of all that hath bene &s;aid, it may ea&s;ilie be gathe|red, that Chri&s;t hath a double comming, one in grace, and thats his fir&s;t co~ming; another in glo|rie, &amp; thats his &s;econd comming.</P>
<P>In his fir&s;t comming, he appea|red in all humility: in the &s;econd, hee &s;hall appeare in all Maie&s;tie. In the fir&s;t, he came in the forme of a Seruant to all; in the &s;e|cond, he &s;hall appeare as a com|maunder of all. In the fir&s;t, hee came to be iudged of the world: in the &s;econd, hee &s;hall come to iudge the world. In his fir&s;t comming, his voyce
<PB N="126" REF="68">was not heard, and he fell downe like a &s;howre of Raine, vpon a fleece of Wooll, but his &s;econd comming &s;hall be with a &s;houte, for the dead &s;hall heare his voice, and the graues &s;hall be opened: at his fir&s;t comming, his Diuini|tie was &s;ilent, and his humanitie did &s;peak: but at his &s;econd com|ming, his humanitie &s;hall be &s;i|lent, &amp; his Diuinitie &s;hall &s;peake. When he fir&s;t came, none would belieue his report, but when hee &s;hall come againe, euery eye &s;hall &s;ee him, and euerie tongue &s;hall &s;ay, This is hee, whome I haue pierced. In a word, when he fir&s;t came, hee came to &s;uffer hunger, colde, &s;inne, &s;hame, lawe, diuell, and death, but when hee co~meth againe, hee &s;hall tread vpon all the&s;e, with a glorious tryumph: hee &s;hall leade captiuitie captiue,
<PB N="127" REF="68">giue giftes vnto men, &s;aluation to his Elect, Iudgement to the re|probate, and glory to his Father.</P>
<P>All this, mu&s;t his Elect &s;ee, as <HI>Peter</HI> &s;awe it, when hee &s;aide, Of the which &s;aluation the Prophets haue enquired and &s;earched, which Prophecied of the grace that &s;hould come to vs: &s;earching when, or at what time the &s;pirit, which te&s;tified before of Chri&s;t, which was in them, &s;huld declare the &s;ufferings that &s;hould come vnto Chri&s;t, and the glorie that &s;hould followe, &s;ee then, and be|hold your King, not crowned with thorns and reproach, ready to be iudged for all: but looke vpon him with his crowne of ex|ceeding glorie at hand, to iudge all.</P>
<P>Againe, I doe ob&s;erue out of the text, that as Chri&s;t had a dou|ble
<PB N="128" REF="69">co~ming, one in grace, &amp; an o|ther in glorie: &s;o hath he perfor|med a double &s;acrifice, &amp; &s;atisfac|tio~ to <HI>God,</HI> for the &s;ins of our &s;ouls</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="1"> Vpon his fir&s;t comming, which was the day of grace to vs, but of mi&s;erie to him, he pleaded <HI>Obedi|enter,</HI> in &s;uch obedience as apper|tained, perfecting in our fle&s;h, the full accompli&s;hment of the lawe of God, as well by internall, as externall obedience.</P>
<P>Againe, hee pleaded for vs, <HI>pas&s;ibiliter,</HI> pa&s;&s;iuely; while&s;t hee &s;uffered and endured for vs, both the torture of cro&s;&s;e &amp; con&s;cie~ce, bearing vpon his ble&s;&s;ed bodie, and &s;auing &s;oule, all the puni&s;h|ments of all our &s;innes, his obedi|ent &amp; pa&s;&s;iue interce&s;&s;ion, made for vs by him, who made all, in re|&s;pect of the oblation, enlarged it &s;elf to all, in that it was offered for
<PB N="129" REF="69">all, as al&s;o, in re&s;pect of &s;ufficie~cy, it might &s;erue for all, being &s;uffi|cie~t for all the world, <HI>Si modo cre|deret,</HI> if it could belieue; How be|it, <HI>Virtualiter, &s;iue energeticos:</HI> that is, in vertue, power, &amp; efficacie, it reacheth onely the faithful belie|uers. For &s;o long as wee liue in the kingdome of grace, &amp; &s;o long as the nu~ber of the &s;aued is vnac|compli&s;hed, &s;o long the vertue of Chri&s;t his death worketh, &amp; is ef|fectuall, applied by faith, to bring men to <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> fro~ grace, to glorie.</P>
<P><MILESTONE N="2"> But vpon his &s;econd comming, Chri&s;t &s;hall be glorious, not bea|ring his Cro&s;&s;e, &s;hame, and &s;mart of &s;in, but he &s;hall come raigning, ruling, triumphing, and exalted aboue the height of all &s;ublimi|tie. Then will he pleade for vs, <HI>Collocatiue, &amp; fruitiue,</HI> hee will gather vs from all Nations vnder
<PB N="130" REF="70">heauen, hee will place vs in the reall po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of his cele&s;tiall in|heritance, and hee will giue vs to enioy full fruition of perfect ble&s;|&s;ednes.</P>
<P>And as if hee &s;hould &s;ay: Fa|ther, here am I, with the children whom thou ha&s;t giuen me, I gaue my &s;oule a &s;acrifice for their &s;ins, let it be thy plea&s;ure to giue them a kingdome; For what is it, that I haue gathered them out of a bad world, if I may not place them in a better? What is it to place the~ in a better, if they may not enioy all the delights thero&s;? O Father, I tooke their &s;inne for a time, let mee now betake them to thee for euer.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, it may be here doubted and demaunded, what the &s;pirit meaneth by this, that Chri&s;t &s;hall come the &s;econd time, without &s;inne<GAP DESC="missing" EXTENT="1+ pages"></P>
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