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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01078	The great day of chancery A sermon preached at White-Hall, the last day of October. 1619. By Iames Forsith, one of his Maiesties chaplaines in ordinarie.	Forsyth, James, fl. 1615-1619.	1619 (1619)	STC 11192; ESTC S105640	20,697	60

yee know doth shine into euery cranie and hole neither can there any thing be hid from the heat thereof when the Sunne of righteousnes doth appeare can there any thing bee hid from the heat of his furie or the bright beames of his piercing sight Then Apices Iuris your quirkes and nice distinctions of the law will not helpe neither Iudges nor witnesses can be deluded corruption smooth perswasion and fauour shall be altogether banished thy whole life and all the actions of thy life shall be there read and manifested vnto the whole world there shall not be a confused capitulation of thy crimes bound vp in a grosse summe and deliuered in the totall which if it might be granted to the wicked they would not much regard their standing in iudgement but that the Iudge of all the world may make appeare vnto the whole world his Iustice and righteous iudgement the sinnes of the wicked shal particularly be manifested in that day as St. Basil well noteth Lib. de vera virgin As the liniaments of a picture are euery one by themselues knowen so shall euery mans actions there bee manifested This our blessed Sauiour doth intimate vnto vs when he sayth there is nothing hid which shall not be manifested what is spoken in the eare shall be preached on the house toppe The Lord doth likewise affirme this speaking in these words of the Psalme When thou sawest a thiefe Psal 50.18 21. thourunnest after him thou art partaker with the adulterers these things hast thou done and I held my tongue and thou thoughtest wickedly that I was like vnto thy selfe but I will reproone thee and set them in order before thee The blessed Apostle St. Iohn speaking in the Apocalyps Reutl 20.12 concerning our appearing in that day saith That the bookes were opened Liber vitae liber conscientiae and the dead were iudged of those things which were written in the bookes according to their workes There shall bee two bookes opened in that day the booke of life and the booke of euery mans conscience the booke of the conscience is a true copy of the booke of life here a man may finde how it is written there The record of a mans conscience if it be truely obserued is a certaine and infallible euidence of the record in heauen If thou bee written in the booke of life thou shalt haue some assurance hereof in thine owne conscience Thus Saint Paul found it written in the booke of his owne conscience that because he had fought a good fight and kept the faith 2. Tim. 4.8 he doubted not but that a crown of righteousnesse was laide vp for him in heauen which the Lord the righteous Iudge would giue him in that day It is betweene God and man as betweene Creditor and Debitor both keepes bookes and when they are about to reckon they both bring forth their bookes and examine the one by th' other When the Pharisees brought the woman taken in adultery before our Sauiour Christ hee said nothing but stouped downe and with his finger Ioh. 8.6 wrote on the ground While wee liue in sensualitie and take our pleasure our al-seeing God obserueth it he holdeth his peace and seemeth to vs not to heare or see which causeth vs to bee secure in our actions but in the meane time hee writeth vp all our faults and sealeth them vp in a bagge Iob. 14.17 as Iob speaketh and one day will lay them open before vs. Whatsoeuer is written with the iuyce of a Limmon at the first appeareth not but hold it a little to the fire and then yee may read it plainely The Lord doth now write all our sins as if it were with Limons iuyce that almost they appeare not vnto vs to bee sinnes Who is priuie to his secret faults or who knoweth how often he doth offend But in that great day of Christs appearance when all our workes shall be tryed with fire then shall they appeare what they are there need no witnesses to accuse any man in that day omnia palam fient all shall bee laid open the booke of euery mans conscience will manifest his faults conscientia mille testes a mans own conscience wil be vnto him as a thousand witnesses quid prodest non habere conscium habenti conscientiam thou needest no witnesse to come against thee thine owne conscience wil condemne thee and if our owne hearts condemne vs God is greater then our hearts and knoweth all things Bern. Med. c. 13 Peccata mea celare non possum quoniam quocunque vado conscientia mea mecum saith holy Bernard I cannot hide my sinnes for whithersoeuer I goe my conscience is with mee it carieth with it whatsoeuer I haue laid vp in it be it good or euill it keepeth for mee while I liue and will restore vnto me when I am dead if I do amisse it is present Accusat constientia testis memoria c. and priuy to it Thus haue I in mine owne bosome my Iudges my witnesses my accusers and my tormentors The conscience is the accuser the memory witnesse reason the Iudge delight torment and feare the prison thus our consciences shall make manifest our deedes when our booke is examined with the booke of life so that to conclude in the presence of the Iudge in open view of all the world we shall bee manifested For we must appeare But here wee must obserue that Obseruation Manifestatio Hypocritatum in that day men and women shall be manifested two maner of waies 1. Some shall be reuealed to be that which they did not seeme to bee in the world A prophanis scriptoribus sic vocati vt refert Caluinus in sua Harmonia 2. Others shall appeare to bee that which they were in the world And for the further manifestation of these two consider all men and women as they are Actors vpon the Theator of this world and you know that Actors vpon a Stage are of two sorts either they be Hypocrites so they were named in former times because they did represent the persons of those that they were not one playeth the part of a King and is no King another acteth the Merchant and is no Merchant c. Others againe act the persons of such as they are one playeth the drunkard another the whoremaster a third the foole the fourth the Deuill and the fifth the part of a rogue nihil valent omnes and so they are In like maner In that day many that haue seemed vnto men to be honest ciuill charitable and religious when the vizards shall be pulled from their faces Tit. 1.16 shall appeare to haue beene plaine hypocrits they haue had a shew of godlinesse but in their actions they haue denyed the power of it as the cruell King the wicked Iudge the vniust steward the oppressing officer the griping landlord the complementall courtier the racking rake-shame of the Common-wealth that ploddeth among