gaue mée drinke Blessed when I was harbourlesse you lodged mée when I was naked you cloathed mée when I was sicke and in pryson ye came vnto mée and visited mée Father And shall they aunswere any thing Sonne Yea father for the Lord saith Esay 14 there shall be all mightie men of the earth areigned and Princes and kinges and small and great shall stand from their seates that they may all aunswere and speake vnto the Lorde They shall aunswere Math. 25 Lorde Iesus when sawe we thée an hungered and féed the thirstie and gaue the drinke harbourles and lodged thée naked and clothed thée sicke and in prison and cam vnto thée he shall aunswere and say in asmuch as ye haue done it to the least of these my bretheren you haue done it vnto mée Father What speach shall his Maiestie vse to the wicked on his left hand Sonne Oh ye cursed of my father Cursed when I was an hungrie you gaue mée no meate when I was a thirst ye gaue me no drinck when I was harbourlesse ye lodged mée not when I was naked yée clothed mée not when I was sicke and in prison ye came not vnto mée to visit mée and they shall aunswere Lorde when saw we thée an hungrie or a thirst or harbourlesse or naked or sicke or in prison came not vnto thée he shall say in asmuch as ye did it not to these my brethren ye did it not to mée Father Iesus God if the Lord coÌ„demne them that helpe not their bretheren what will he do to the vnmercifull that robbe him that taketh meate drinke apparell lodging relefe and all from him euen fleaing the skin from the bone as much as lyeth in them Sonne The Lorde or they passe away will reward them for all as you shall heare afterwardes Father Well sonne who shal be present to heare all causes pleaded and what witnesse shall there be against the wicked for I am sure that the Lorde will haue all men sée that hée dealeth iustly and vprightlie withall Sonne True it is father VVitnesses 2. Cor. 5 there shal be present all Angells Archangels all the hosts of heauen there shal be all Saints and righteous all wicked and vngodlie that euer were vppon the face of the earth young and olde There shal be the great Dragon the diuell Sathanas with all the rable of hell-houndes and damned spirits for Saint Iohn saith Reuel 20. that he sawe the dead both great and small stand before God and the bookes were opened which is the booke of life and an other booke was opened and the dead were iudged of those thinges that were written in the booke according to their déedes Wherby we may learne that the bookes wer their coÌ„ciences layd abroad to al the world ConscieÌ„ces It is a sore thing wheÌ„ a man 's owne coÌ„cience beareth witnesse and recorde of his wickednesse and condemmeth him Wisd 17 He that speaketh vnrighteous thinges cannot be hidde and why Wisd 1. inquisition shall bée made for the thoughts of the vngodly and the reporte of his wordes shal come vnto God so that his wickednesse shal be punished Eod. There is nothing so hid that shall not be reueled Luke 22 There is nothing so couered saith Christ that shall not be vncouered neither hid that shall not be knowen Father I sée then that euerie thing shal be opened for I haue heard that a mans concience is quasi millie testis As a thousand witnesse but what other witnesses will there be Sonne God himselfe a witnesse GOD himselfe who séeth all thinges from the beginning shall be both the iudge and witnesse Malachi 3 I my selfe saith the Lord will be a swift witnesse against al witches against aduoulterers against false swerers against those that wrongfully kéepe backe the hyrelinges dutie which oppresse the stranger and hurt the widowes and Fatherlesse Cor. 10. The Lorde will come and open the thinges that are in darkenesse and declare the counsell of Princes and then shall euery one haue praise of God Father What other witnesses will there bée against the wicked VVorks Sonne Their owne workes in fine hominis denunciatio operum illius at the ende of man there is a declaration of their works Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord Reuel 14 euen so saith the spirit that they rest from their labours but their workes followe them The Appostle Saint Paull teacheth all men that they learne to excell in good works Titus 3 that they be not vnfruiteful in the Lords daie My deare brethren be stedfast and vnmoueable 1. Cor. 15. alwaies rich in the works of the Lorde forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vaine in the Lorde Father What are there any more witnesses Sonne The Diuell that great dragon as saith saint Iohn which deceiued all the world Diuell a witnesse the accuser of our brethren which accuse them before God day and night 1. Peter 1 That aduersary the diuel like a roareing Lyon séeketh whom he may deuoure Father Lorde God what shal the worme-eaten conscience then doe what shall the vnmercifull and couetous man say Sonne Luke 23. Decent montibus cadite super nos they shall say to the mountaines fal vppon vs and to the hills couer vs from the face of the Lorde Oseas 10 Esay 2 Then shall they séeke to crepe into holes and caues and rockes for feare of God but they cannot escape Reue. 6 They shall couet to hiâ—e themselues in dennes and Rockes of the Hills and shall say vnto the rockes fall on vs and hide vs from the presence of him that sitteth on the seate and from the wrath of the Lambe For the great day of his wrath is come and who is able to endure Reuel 9 At that time shall men séeke for death and shall not finde it they shall desire to dye and death shall flée from them Father Can there none hide themselues Sonne I tould you before father Amos. 9 that although they were buryed in hell the hand of the Lorde would fetch them from thence though they clyme vp to heauen yet will hée cast them downe though they hide themselues vppon the tope of Carmell yet will he séeke them out and bring theÌ„ from thence though they could créepe into the déepe of the sea yet hée will commaund the Serpent there to byte them Father Father of heauen be mercifull to vs. Well goe on seeing that euerie one must abyde the sentence of God and his straite iudgement tell mée now what will folow Sonne Then shall the Lorde Iesus Christ call those on his right hand and say come ye blessed of my Father Math. 25 inherite the kingdome of heauen prepared for you from the beginning of the worlde Father I perceiue that the faithfull mercifull and righteous shall then be blessed and without all feare But what shall he
thou shalt teach them ordinaunces lawes Iudges must be true men such as feare God not couâ—tus and shewe them the way wherein they must walke the worke which they must doe Moreouer thou shalt séeke out among all the people men of actiuitie and such as feare God true men hating couetousnesse and make them heades ouer the people Captanines ouer thousands ouer hundreths ouer fifties and ouer ten and let them iudge the people at all seasons Deu. 1. Moyses said to the people I tooke out of your Trybes The prince commandment to Iudges and officers with their duties Captaynes men of wisedome and that were expert and made theÌ„ rulers ouer you and I charged your iudges that same time saying heare the cause of your brethren and iudge righteously betwéene euerie man and his brother and the stranger that is with you sée that you know no face in iudgement but heare the small as well as the great and be afrayde of no man for the iudgement is Gods Thou shalt not fauour the poore Leuitic 19 nor honour the mightie but in righteousnesse shalt thou iudge thy neighbour Thou shalt not raigne ouer thy brother cruelly but shalt feare thy God Leuit. 25 ye shall not raigne ouer an other cruelly Turne not aside from the law of God Deu. 5. neyther to the right hand nor to the last The iudges shal giue sentence between parties and iustisie the righteous Deu. 25. and condemne the vngodly Thou shalt take no giftes Exod. 23 for giftes blinde the sight and peruert the wordes of the righteous Psalm 28. Defende the fatherlesse and poore saith Dauid sée that such as be in néede and necessitie haue right Father Ought these rulers also to be obeyed Sonne Yea Father Deu. â— for when Moyses had ordayned Rulers and Iudges ouer the people they all aunswered and saide that which thou hast spoken is good vnto vs to doe Iosua 1 The people aunswered Iosua all that thou commaundest vs will we doe and whether thou sendest vs will we goe and whosoeuer hée bee that disobayeth thy mouth will not harken vnto the wordes in all the thou coÌ„maundst him let hym dye Exod. 17 When Moyses sat downe to iudge the people all the people stoode before him from morning till euen Exod. 22. Thou shalt not rayle on the Gods neither blaspheme the ruler of the people Ieremi 35 We haue said the people obayed Ionadab our father in all that he commanded vs and the Lord said to those Rachabites God blesseth obedient persons because you haue béene obedient to Iona. Iona. shall not fayle to haue one to stand alwaies before me out of his stocke And concluding with S. Paules words to Titus Titus 3 warne theÌ„ that they bée subiect to rule and power that they obay the officers Father Prechers and Ministers My Sonne I am nowe desirous to knowe the duties of Preachers and ministers of the word of God Sonne Deu. 10. According to my little knowledge as I haue red in Gods booke I will shew you the same The Lord seperated the tribe of Leuy to beare the Arke of the appoyntment of the Lord to stand before the Lord to minister vnto him and to blesse in his name Whosoeuer killeth a beast Leuiti 17 and bringeth it to the Tabernacle of witnesse to offer to the Lord No man may take vppon him the Priests office vncalled blood shall be imputed to that man as though he had shed blood and he shal be rooted out of the people of Israell wherefore when the people bring offerings let them bring them to the Priests to offer them Looke out among you seuen men of honest report Acts. 6. and full of the holy Ghost and wisedome Who ought to be choseÌ„ to whom we may commit this businesse and when they had prayed they layde their hands vpon them I warne thée that thou stirre vp the gift that is in thée Tim. 1. Ordering of Ministers Acts. 14 Titus 1. by the putting on of my hands And they ordayned them elders in euerie congregation by election prayed Reforme things that are vnperfect ordaine elders in euery citie as I appointed thée Let them be sober sage discret Titus 2 souÌ„d in the faith in loue in pacieÌ„ce 1. Cor. 6. Let vs giue none occasioÌ„ of euill that in our office be found no fault but in all thinges behaue our selues as the ministers of God in much paynes in afflictions in necessities in anguish in stripes in prisonments in stryfes in labours in watchinges in fasting in purenesse in knowledge in long suffering in kindnesse in the holy Ghost in loue vnfained in the word of truth in the power of God by the armour of righteousnesse on the right hand on the left by honour and dishonour by euill report and good report as deceauers and yet true as vnknowen and yet knowen as dying and beholde we liue as chastened and not killed as sorrowing and yet alway merrie as poore and yet make many rych as hauing nothing yet possessing all thinges Esay 62. I haue set watchmen vpon thy wales Oh Ierusalem which shall cease neyther day nor night to preach the Lord. Ieremy 3. I will giue you heardmen after mine owne minde which shall féede you with learning and wisedome Ezech. 3 Thou sonne of man I haue made thée a watchman vnto the house of Israell and therefore take good héede vnto the words of my mouth and giue them warning at my commaundement if I say vnto thée concerning the vngodly man that without doubt he must dye and thou giuest him no warning nor speakest vnto him that he turne from his euill way and so liue then shall the same vngodly man dye in his vnrighteousnesse but his blood will I require at thine hands but if thou giue him warning yet he forsake not his vngodlynesse then shall he dye in his owne wickednes but thou hast discharged thy selfe If the people take a man of their Countrie and set him to be their watchman Ezech 34 the same man when he séeth the swoord come vppon the Land shall blow the Trumpet and warne the people c. I set thée ouer people and kingdomes Ieremy 1 that thou maiest roote out breake off destroy and make wast and that thou maist build vp and plant I will send out my fishers to take them Ieremi 6. and after that I wil send out my hunters to hunt them out from all mouÌ„taines and hills and out of the Caues of stone In the Priests lippes should be sure knowledge Malachi 2 Gods messenger that men may seeke the Lawe at their mouthes for he is a messenger of the Lorde of hosts Ye are the light of the world Math. 5. let your light so shine before men that they may sée your good workes and glorifie your Father which
be called Gods and Lordes many Sonne There is but one true God One true God although there bée thrée distincte persons of that one true GOD I cannot make further relacion of his Godhead then that he hath spoken and called himselfe thus I am that I am I am Exod. 3 I am sayth he to Moyses haue sent thée This God appered vnto Abraham Exod. 6. Iehoua Gene. 17 Isaac and Iacob as an almightie God and in my name saith hée Iehoua was I not knowen vnto them I am the almightie God behold I am Almighty True God Deut. 7. Eod. Mightie Terrible Deu. 9. A consuming fier Deu. 32 The Lord thy God is a true God God is among you a mightie and terrible GOD. The Lord thy God is a consuming fyer he shall consume and bring the enimies downe before his face I alone am God and there is else none I kill and make a liue He is a God of truth without wickednesse right and Iust is he Without sinne He is an holy an Ielious God Iosua 24 and can not beare with iniquitie and sinne The righteous god trieth the harts reines Psal 7. VVhat is God The Lord is my stony rocke and defence my sauiour my God and my might in whom I will trust my buckler the horne also of my saluation and my refuge Psalm 14 He maketh his Angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire 139. If I clime vp to heauen he is there if I goe downe to hell he is there also Pro. 5. Euery mans waies are open in the sight of his God and he pondreth all mens goinges Pro. 15. Hell with her paine is knowne vnto this God how much more then the hearts of men â—eremi 10 I am euen I am the Lorde of hosts and besides mée ther is no sauiour The Lords â—ame the lord is a true God a liuing God and an euerlasting King Eod. The name of GOD is the Lorde of hosts Dan. 4. There is none that may resist his hand or say why dost thou this Daniel 7 He sat him downe and his clothing was as white as snowe and the haires of his head like the pure wooll his throne like the fyery flame and his wheles as the burning of fyre The second â—erson a thousand serued him and tenne thousand times tenne stoode before him the iudgement was set and the bookes opened and the beast slayne Math. 1. Thou shalt call his name Iesus quia is saluum faciet populum a peccatis suis For he shall saue the people from their sines In the beginning was the worde Io. 1. and the word was with God and God was the worde And the same word became flesh and dwelt among vs. The spirit of God came vpon the messengers of Saull and they prophecied Third person The Lord GOD and his spirit Esay 48. hath sent me I will power downe of my spirit vpon all flesh Ioel. 2 Procedit Apatrie Rom. 8 Procedit a filio Io. 16. and your sonnes and your daughters shall prophecie He that hath not the spirit of Christ he is none of his When the spirit of truth commeth whom I will send from my father he will lead you into all truth This spirit certyfieth our spirit Rom. 8. that we be the sonnes of God Trinitie Math. 3. When Iesus was baptised hée came straight out of the water and heauen was open vnto him and the spirit of God came downe like a Doue light vpon him and ther came a voyce from heauen which said this is my beloued Sonne In whom I am well pleased Gen. 19. The Lorde appeared vnto Abraham and he lift vp his eyes and looked and loe thrée men stode by him â—3 seme one worshipped and he ranne to méete them at the Tennte Doore and fel to the ground and saide Lorde I besech thée goe not from thy seruant Esay 6. The Cherubin songe holy holy holy Lord God of hosts Io. 5.3 persons one God Ther be thrée that beare record in heauen the father the sonne and the holy ghost and these thrée are one Spirit water blod There be thrée that beare witnesse vppon earth the spirite and water and blood and these thrée are one Reuel 22 And concluding that these thrée persons the father sonne and holy ghost are consubstantiall and coequall Alpha and Omega without beginning or ende Father Prayer I besech this holy and blessed Trinitie one true and euerlasting GOD to continue his mercie and goodnesse towards vs his people for his owne name sake Amen Sonne And I doe most earnestly entreate his maiestie to giue vs grace to put off the olde man which is corrupt and to put on the newe man taking holde of his mercie by faith and so continue neuer looking backe but still procéeding from vertue to vertue till we enioye that kingdome prepared for the elect and chosen by this blessed Trinitie Amen Father Goe forwarde sonne tell me how man at the beginning knew the will and good pleasure of his God before the Lawe was written that he might doe thereafter and liue Sonne When the Lorde made man at the béeginning Gen. 1 he made him after his owne Image that was iust so that he knewe how to eschue euill do good for it was grafted in him when he was called of God Free will For the Lorde sent fyre and water lyfe and death before man Eccle. 15. that he might reach his hand to which he would Father And what did man being Iust and in that frée choise Sonne Gene. 3 He chose death and left life He became obedient to the subtyll serpent the Diuell and disobedient vnto his God As appeareth when God had made man and woman he placed them in Paradise where they should haue liued and all their posterytie in Ioye and filicitie for euer they had frée wil and libertie ouer all the trées and hearbes in that garden Tree of knowledge Gen. 3. and all other things whatsoeuer except the trée of knowledge of good and bad which the Lord commaunded that they should not vpon paine of death touch Father Could they not be content with all the fruites of the garden and abstayne from that one trée and so be blessed for euer Sonne No Father they forsooke their blessednesse and chose to be cursed to leue life and take death they forsooke their inherytance in heauen and chose to be fier brands in hell they cast off the Image of GOD and toke vppon them the Image of the Diuell The diuells â—mage Father Tell me by what meanes this came to passe Sonne When the Lord had thus blessed them with all blessings Gen. 3 the Diuell and Sathanas hating their happie state from which hée was fallen A lyer Serpent subtiller then any beast Came as a Serpent to Eua and demaunded why they eate not
the dewe of Pearles and the Earth shall cast them out that bée vnder her the earth shall disclose her owne bloude and shall no more hide them that are slayne in her Beholde saith the Lorde I will open your Graues Ezech. 37 and take you out of your Sepulchers and bring you out of the lande of Israell againe my spirit shall I put in you and ye shall liue Many of them that sléepe in the dust of the earth shall awake Dan. 12 some to euerlasting life some to perpetuall shame and reproofe There shall bée a resurrection both of iust and vniust Good and bad Acts. 24 For by Christ shall all menne liue 1. Cor. 13 and GOD shall giue to euerye one his owne bodye at his pleasure For when the Trumpe shall blowe the deade shall ryse incorruptable and bée chaunged Father 〈◊〉 terrible lay Iesus be mercifull vnto vs. Procéede tell me now of this terrible day of iudgement Sonne â—say 13. The day of the Lord shall come terrible full of indignation furie and wrath to make the lande wast and to roote out the sinnes thereof for the Starres and Planets of heauen shall not giue their light the Sunne shall be darkened in the morning and the Moone shall not shine with his light I shall shake the heauen and the earth shall remoue out of her place saith the Lord of hostes â—say 14 Hell be-neath trembleth to méete the Lord at his comming â—say 24. The earth shall réele too and fro like a drunken man and shall be remoued out of her place like a tent in one night and the iniquitie thereof shall be heauie vpon it it shall fall and not rise agayne in that day shall the Lorde visite the hoste that is on high aboue and the kinges that are vpon the earth and they shall bée gathered together and they that be in pryson the Moone shall be abashed and the Sunne ashamed when the Lord of hostes shall reigne in Syon and in Ierusalem with worshippe and in the sight of such as shall be of his counsell Beholde Esay 28. there commeth a vehement and sore day from the Lord like an vnmeasurable hyll and perillous tempest euen like the force of mightie and horrible waters that violentlie beareth downe all thinges The earth shall bée visited of the Lorde of hostes with Thunder Esay 29. Earthquake and a great noyse with storme and tempest and with the flame of a consuming fier The heauens shall vanish away like smoake Esay 5â— and the earth waxeth olde like a cloth and they that dwell therein shall perish in like manner The verie fishes of the Sea Ezech. 3â— the foules of the ayre the beastes of the fielde and all people that are vpon the earth shall tremble for feare of mée sayth the Lord the Hilles shall be turned vpside downe the stares of stone shall fall and all the walles shall sincke to the grounde â—oel 2. The day of the Lord commeth and is harde at hande a darke day a glouming day a cloudie day yea a stormie daye before the Lord shall be a consuming fier and behinde him a burning flame Micheas 1 The mountaynes shall consume vnder him the valleys shall cleaue a sunder like as waxe consumeth and like as water runneth a pace â— Pet. 3. The world shall perish â—y fier The heauen and earth that are nowe to be kept by his worde in stoore and reserued vnto fier agaynst the daye of iudgement and perdition of vngodlye men â—opho 1 The great day of the Lord is at hand it is harde by and commeth on a pace horrible is the tidings of the Lords daye then shall the Gyants crye out for the day is a day of wrath and of trouble and heauinesse a day of vtter destruction and miserie a darke and glouming daye a cloudie and stormie daye a daye of noyse of Trumpets and Shalmes Trumpets shalms agaynst the strong Citties and high Towers â—euel 6 I sawe the Sunne as blacke as sackcloth and the Moone as bloud the Starres fell from Heauen the Heauen vanished away euen as a scrolle that rooled together and all mountaynes and Iles were remooued out of their places the great day of his wrath is come and who is able to endure Christ himselfe saith Math. 24 the Sunne shall bée darkened and the Moone shall not giue her light the Starres shall fall from heauen and the powers of Heauen shall be mooued and then shall appeare the token of the Sonne of manne in Heauen then shall all kinredes of the earth mourne when they shall sée the Sonne of manne come in the cloudes of Heauen with power and great glorie Father Mercifull God deliuer vs on that terrible and dreadefull daye of vengeance and wrath shielde vs vnder thy winges and couer vs with thy fethers But tell mée of that Iudge before whome we must make our appearances Sonne The Lorde Iesus shall shewe hymselfe 2. Theâ—â— from Heauen with his Angells of his power and with a flaming fier Math. 25 The sonne of man shall come in his glorie and all the holie Angells with him and then shall he sitte vpon the seate of his glorie and before him shall be gathered all nations Daniel 7. The olde aged satte him downe and his cloathing was as white as snowe and the haires of his heade like pure wooll his Throne like the fierie flame and his wheeles as the burning fier a thousande serued him and tenne thousande times tenne stoode before him the iudgement was set and the bookes opened Reuela 1 Beholde saith Saint Iohn hée commeth with cloudes and all eies shall sée and they also that pearsed him and all kinreds of the earth shall waile ouer him Father Oh great and mightie GOD merciful father The iudgement not â—scaped be mindefull of thy people whome thou hast bought with thy precious bloud Goe on tell mée Sonne if none can escape this iudgement neither by witte pollicie strength ritches by hiding or couering themselues nor by anie other shift Sonne No Father Reuel 20 none shall escape that euer were are or shall be to that day For S. Iohn saith I sawe the deade both small and great stand before God and the bookes were opened and the Sea gaue vppe her deade which were in her and death and Hell deliuered vp the deade that were in them There shall be Kinges of the earth Reuel 6 great men and ritch men and chiefe Captaines and mightie men We must all appeare before the iudgement seate of Christ 2. Cor. 5. that euerie man may giue accompt of his workes All mightie men and Princes of the earth Esay 14 and all Kinges of the earth shall stande vp from their seates that they may aunswere and speake vnto the Lord. The glorie of the Lorde shall appeare Esay 40 and all flesh shall at once sée it All flesh shall come to worship