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A07289	Saint Peters watch word the end of all things is at hand / digested into eight chapters, and published by R.M. minister ; perused and allowed.	Mavericke, Radford, b. 1561?	1603 (1603)	STC 17683A; ESTC S450	71,286	178

King of glory Secondly he saith that he shall sit vpon the throne or seate of his glory alluding vnto the magnificence of Kings and Iudges who haue their feates and thrones of iudgement erected and set vpon high that they may be seene and heard of many people Therefore Christ Iesus who is Rex Regum Iudicum Iudex King of Kings and Iudge of Iudges his throne shall be aboue in the cloudes where euery eye shal see him both in heauen earth and hell So saith Saint Iohn Reu. 1 7. Behold he commeth with clouds and euery eye shall see him So our Sauiour himselfe teacheth vs in the 21. of Luke saying When the powers of heauen shall be shaken then shal ye see the sonne of man come in the cloudes with power and great glory The like answere our Sauiour maketh vnto the high Priest who asked him whether he were Christ the sonne of God thou sayest it saith our Sauiour vnto him and hereafter shall finde it to be true Math. 26.64 when ye shall see the Sonne of man sitting at the right hand of the power of God and come in the cloudes of the heauen This glorious comming of Christ vnto Iudgement was not obscurely reuealed vnto the Prophet Daniel as hee himselfe testifieth in the seuenth of his Prophesie saying Dan. 7.10 I beheld till the Thrones were set vp and the auncient of dayes did sit whose garment was white as Snow and the haire of his head like pure Wooll his Throne was like the firie flame and his wheeles as burning fire A firie streame issued and came foorth before him thousand thousandes meaning of Angels ministred vnto him and ten thousand a Definit for an Infinit number thousands stood before him the Iudgement was set and the Bookes opened The third circumstance that our Sauiour noteth is That all Nations shall be gathered before him This circumstance serueth also very greatly to set forth the might maiestie and glory of the Iudge in that he will haue the people of all Nations to come before him Kings and Keyfers high and lowe rich and poore men women and children none shall be priuileged all must appeare So saith the Apostle We must all appeare before the tribunall seate of Christ All people that then are liuing vpon the earth as also all those which haue dyed since the beginning of the world howsoeuer they haue died or wheresoeuer they haue been buried as well they that haue beene eaten vp of beasts and burned vnto Ashes as they that haue been drowned in the Sea and eaten vp with fishes all without exception shall heare this voyce Surgite mortui arise ye dead and come to iudgement This thing is reuealed vnto Saint Iohn as he testifieth in the Reuelation 〈◊〉 12. saying I saw the dead both great and small stand before God and the bookes were opened and another booke wasopened which is the booke of life and the dead were Iudged of those things which were written in the bookes according to their workes And the Sea gaue vp the dead which were in her and death and hell deliuered vp the dead which were in them and they were Iudged euery man according to their workes O God of glory what a great and glorious Sessions must this be where all people shall be summoned and constrayned to appeare yea the Diuels themselues saith Iude Are kept in chaines vnder darkenesse vnto this day O how great must the glory be of such a Iudge that shall so come vnto Iudgement attended on with so glorious a troupe of Angels who connot be rauished with the consideration of so glorious aspect and most admirable sight namely to see the Sonne of man to appeare in the cloudes in the glory of God his father all the holy Angels seruing and attending on him and all nations and people of the world brought before him Truely if it be a goodly sight to see the sunne rise in the morning in his brightnesse Prepared as a Giant to runne his course If it be not a little glorious to behold the Moone and glistring Starres in the euening which sight no doubt doth cause the godly oftentimes to giue glory vnto God according as Dauid saith Psal 19 The heauens declare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth his handy worke How farre more glorious must it be to see the Sonne of God to appeare in the brightnesse of his glory with the brightnesse thereof the sunne in the firmament must needes be darkned To see so many or more glorious Angels then there be Starres in the heauens euerie Angell shining brighter then the Sunne in his strength together with as many Saints as haue beene faithfull soules in in this life with glorified bodies shining as the starres according to that saying of Daniell They that be wise that is all the faithfull who are compared vnto the wise Virgins shall then shine as the brightnesse of the firmament 〈◊〉 12.3 and they that turne many to righteousnesse shall shine as the starres for euer and euer And so much touching the glorious comming of Christ vnto Iudgement noted by Christ himselfe in these wordes When the Sonne of man shall come in his glory and all the holy Angels with him then shall he sit vpon the Throne of his glory and all Nations shall be gathered before him there to receaue Iudgement accordingly Of the order and maner of which Iudgement we are now to intreat in the Chapter following The seuenth Chapter THis point touching the whole order of Christ his comming vnto Iudgement is very copiously layed open vnto vs in the scripture specially our Sauiour himselfe doth reueale the same at sundry times in the Gospell we will begin with that description that Christ maketh in the fiue and twenteth of Mathew Math. 25.32 who presently after he hath shewed the glory of his comming proceedeth without any stop to the order and maner of his Iudgement for hauing sayed That all Nations shall be gathered before him He sheweth what course or order he will obserue in their iudgement Namely how he will first of all begin with diuision God doth all things in measure waight and number God is a God of order and not of confusion when all are gathered before him he will separate one from the other This is the last worke that God will doe in this world And it is worth the noting how God maketh his works to agree together The beginning and the ending first in the beginning God made all things by his sonne in the ending he will iudge all things by his son for who can better iudge of all then he that made all In the beginning hee made light to shine out of darknes as the Apostle witnesseth in the end he will turne light into darknesse The Sunne shall be darke and the Moone shall not giue her light In the beginning he seperated light from darkenesse In the ende he will also seperate the children of light from the

be done in faith and in the feare of God to feede the hungry to clothe the naked not that all the workes of mercy charitie are here numbred or any certaine number obserued but onely these few are named for examples sake to shewe vs that mercy must be vsed where mans misery doth neede it and withall we must make a difference betwixt those dueties which we doe as we are men and those that we do as we are Christian men therefore what soeuer good we doe vnto gods Saints we must do it in for Christs sake though it be but a gift of a cup of cold water in his name we shall not loose our reward though not rewarded of merite desar● but of mercy grace God of his mercy make vs mindful of those dueties to performe them as he shall enable vs otherwise we must looke for no mercy at his hāds but shal be sure to heare that which shall be pronounced to them on the left hand I was an hungred ye gaue me no meat I thirsted and ye gaue me no drinke And then though we wil excuse the matter neuer so cunningly alleadge that we neuer saw Christ hungry or a thirst because wee would not see Christ in his poore members being in that case because we wold shut vp our compassion frō the poore turne our eyes from our owne flesh because our religion was onely but in outward profession no liuely fruits of faith budding foorth because we would not visite the widdow the fatherles in their aduersity and keep our selues vn●potted of the world nay because while we liued in this world we did wrong the widow the fatherlesse and grind the faces of the poore therefore as we haue done so shal it be done vnto vs the same measure that we shall measure vnto others the same shal be measured vnto vs againe There shal be Iudgement mercilesse ●am 2.13 to him that sheweth no mercy but mercy contrariwise shall reioyce against Iudgement Finally our Sauiour repeteth the summe of both sentences again lest happily we haue for gotten them as too of en we do Math 25. vlt. And these saith Christ shal go into euerlasting paine the righteous into life eternall That is those gracelesse Goats those mercilesse misers those miserable miscreāts that haue had no feare of God before their eyes no cōpassion on their brethren that haue hated to be reproued that haue had their whole swing in sin wearied themselues in vanitie they 〈◊〉 all be sent packing into euerlasting paine But the righteous that is those that haue apprehended the righteous● esse of Christ Iesus by a true liuely faith haue repēted indeuoured to leaue sin before sin leaue them those that haue brought forth the timely fruits of repētance with an ardent zeale vnto Gods glory and a burning charitie vnto their poore brethren these shall goe presently into life eternall by which two words life eternall and paine euerlasting is certainely noted the perpetuall and endlesse continuance of the ioyes of the godly and torments of the damned in the world to come neuer to haue end But it may be some will say that we post on with these two sentences to fast Christ will vse a greater moderation before he proceede to sentence there is mention made in the scripture of bookes that must be opened It is true indeede Daniell saith The Iudgement was set Dan. 7.10 and before sentence is giuen the bookes are opened Saint Iohn likewise in the Reuelation when he sawe the dead both great and small stand before God saith that the bookes were opened and an other booke was opened Reu. 20.12 which he calleth the booke of life The Booke of life I take to be the hidden and vnreueiled knowledge of God concerning those whom he hath appointed to life and saluation And this Booke is not for me or any mortall man to looke into by the other bookes I suppose are meant the consciences of all men in generall and of euery one in particular which shall either excuse or accuse vs at that day These bookes also are very secret bookes layed vp in the Closet of euery mans hart And I haue no skill to read in any of them but in mine own Indeede they are bookes of accompt which euery one must be careful to keep vntill this great day of reckoning come They are also Bookes of record wherein are written all the things that we haue done in this life whether they be good or euill and at that day shall be layed open in Facie curiae in the viewe and open fight of men and Angels Then shall be verified that saying of our Sauiour in the Gospell Nothing is so secret that shall not be euident neither any thing hid that shall not be knowen and come to light Wherefore it behoueth euery one to haue a special regard of these bookes and to couet euermore with the Apostle to haue a cleare conscience which is as the wise Man saith a continuall feast for if our consciences condemne vs not then haue we boldnesse towards God saith Saint Iohn contrariwise saith that Apostle If thy hart and conscience accuse thee God is greater then thy hart and knoweth all things If thy conscience be against thee it will be Mille testes more then a thousand witnesses These consciences of ours beloued which now we thinke we can stretch and streine as we please are the bookes of record which then must be opened either to excuse or condemne vs and therupon sentence shal be giuen accordingly My admonition therefore is that all businesse laied aside the next priuate leasure that euer we haue let vs ouerwiew againe and againe these bookes of reckoning see that the accompts be perfect where there is any desect let it be amended without delay for God knoweth how soone these bookes may be called for to be opened and then it will be too late to amend the least blot or fault that is in them Let vs follow the counsell of the Apostle to accuse and condemne our selues in this world that so we may be acquited and not condemned in that fearefull iudgement And this I hope may suffice to be spoken of this matter concerning the glory of Christ his comming and the maner of the Iudgement The eight Chapter wherein is intreated of Sobriety Watchfulnesse and Prayer IT might seeme that saint Peter had very well discharged his dutie in fore warning the world of the danger to come towards the end thereof in saying the ende of all things is at hand But that holy Apostle like a carefull Phisition not contented to warne vs that we fall not into a dangerous disease of security doth with all readinesse diligence prescribe vnto vs a maruellous good medicine for thē that are alreadie sicke in that disease the same may also serue as a pure preseruatiue to keepe those that are more sound from the infection thereof