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A49962	The great day of judgment handled in a sermon preached at the assizes at New-Bristol, Octob. 7, 1687 / by the reverend and learned Samuel Lee, M.A., sometimes fellow of Wadham Colledge in Oxon ; accompany'd with preparatory meditations upon the Day of Judgment, by Mr. Cotton Mather.	Lee, Samuel, 1625-1691.; Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.	1692 (1692)	Wing L896; ESTC R41402	29,252	97

in this World that our God has the glory of His being A REWARDER so fully and so clearly display'd as it ought to be We dayly see Godliness Oppressed and Wickedness Advanced in this Present evil World and neither the Appeals of Affl●cted Innocence nor the Affronts of Outrageous Vallany have a Sufficiently Sensible Notice taken of them There is therefore an Eternal State of Blessedness and Misery whereinto the Righteous God will bring every one of us according to our Behaviours here Our Short Condition in this World is but a Condition of Probation or of Stewardship and according to our Carriage in this Condition we shall in the Issue as the mouth of our faithful Saviour Himself has long since as●●ned us Go away into Everlasting Punishment Or else Into Life Everlasting But at the Threshold of that Eternal State it is but proper that a Distinct Account should be taken of what every man ha's done in the Body that so the Lustre of that Justice which Dooms them to their Interminable Blessedness or Misery may strike the very Consciences of all Beholders Hence t is that the Oracles of Truth have told us God ha's appointed a Day in which He will Judge the World by that man whom He hath Ordained Whereof He hath given Assurance unto a● men in that He ha's Raised Him from the Dead There is indeed a Particular Disposal of Dragons and our Blessed Redeemer standing upon Mount Zion Zech. 13 4 shall proclaim to all His Saints Lift up your Heads for the day of your final Redemption is come Le ts end with that apprecation of holy Paul Heb. 13.20 21. Now the God of Peace that brought again from the Dead our Lord Jesus that great Shepard of the Sheep through the blood of the everlasting Covenant Make you perfect in every good Work to do his will working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be Glory for ever and ever Amen Yours in Gospel Service SAMVEL LEE A SVMMONS or WARNING to the Great DAY of JVDGMENT Revelation 20.12 On Friday Octob. 7. 1687. At Brist●● by Mount Hope in New England And I saw the Dead Small and Great stand before God and the Books were opened and another Book was opened which is the Book of Life and the Dead were Judged out of those things which were Written in the Books according to their Works THE Preceding Verse presents this Evangelical Prophet with a Visionary scene Preparatory to the Day of Judgment and here in the Text we have a further Procedure in the amazing Concernments of that tr●mendous Session where in may be observed 1. The Apostles place or station in the I le of Patmos now Patina neer the Shore of the Aegaean Sea Rev. 13.1 looking Eastward toward Ephesus and Jerusalem Zech. 14 4. as you may suppose Act. 1.11 because our Lord is represented standing upon Mount Olivet in that day Where in Speculo Visionis in a Visionary Glass he beholds with great attention what the Angel presented to him 2. The Several Persons and things Exhibited to his strict Observation which I may properly Conjoyn together under several Heads and therein I. We have first the Character or Denomination of the Persons attending set forth under the style of the Dead that is not such as were now really Dead in this grea● Morning of the Resurrection but which very lately had been involved in the state of the dead Vers 13 but now raised out of their dolesome Graves and had newly Shaken off the Chains of Rottenness and some come Dropping out of the stormy Seas and hastning with more shaking horror to a yet more direfull Shipwrack Death Hell must give up all their dead at the formidable Summons of that Arch-Angels Trumpet 1 Cor. 1● 52. By Hell or Hades we understand under a metonymy the Souls of men delivered out of their invisible State under the manutenency of divine power to be reinvested with their Bodies and to appear a● this astonishing Bar. For so the Greek Fathers understood by HADES q. AIDES the Souls of men in Statu Separato according to that of H●mir POLLAS D' IPTHIMOUS PSUCHAS AIDI PROIAPSEN He dismist many Valiant Souls i.e. Persons into Hades II. Their various quality Both small and great The Shortest Dwarfs can't Creep into so deep holds or corners not the Blustring Nimrods can't Ruffle it away in their Pride and Jollity but every Soul must drag his Prison-Chain into this most Solemn and Splendid presence Nay the Small are named to come first to set forth the impossibility of their Exemption and these meaner persons must stand out before the great on●● that all may be seen in their Proportion thi● I speak only by allusion But to be sure none shall Shuffle behind Noon and abscond from that Meridian Glory or he Vailed from this all Searching Eye And the all revenging hand of God The Summoners Apparitors of all these inferior Courts must there appear and quiver and tremble for Summoning of Gods Saints here upon Earth Heb. 9.27 I●ts appointed for all to dy and then to Judgment We must all stand at the dreadful Tribunal Seat of Jesus Christ Where Judges themselves devested of all their formalities like so many unhappy Felixes will Clatter their knees together at the MENE TEKEL Dan. 5.25 graven upon the Chrystal Walls of the Caelestial Firmament and glad men could they but undergoe such an Earthly Sentence they pass't upon others III. Observe their posture they must stand Pro Tribunali before that adamantine Bar let down before them They I have little Stomach to come too near Rom. 14.10 no rude audacious Crowding into the presence of that most awful Judge There will be but little pressing to see His Soveraign August Countenance that shines brighter then the Sun in his greatest glory but as forced by the Angelical Messengers while they continue Crying to the Deaf Mountains and the Inflexible Rocks to hide them from Him that Sitteth on the Throne and from the Wrath of the Lamb. Rev. 6.16 IV. The Ireful face of that most dreadful Judge before whom the Heavens all on a light flame shall Crackle like a Parchment Scrol and fly away 2 Pet. 3.11 12 when Christ the Son of God and God man that Impartial Judge of quick and dead from whom there is no appeal shall put on an other guess purple Robe to judge Pontius Pilate and Herod ●ark 15.17 and his men of War Luk. 23.11 that mock't Him in the day of His Humiliation This will be a day of horror to all those Wretches also that mockt and fleer'd at Gods Messengers when they denounced against them the Judgments of the great day Then comes out a Quo Warranto with a witness to inquire what woful work they made at Jerusalem and who impowered them to Judge the Son of God Jude 15. and to utter hard

unto an Account about our whole Behaviours in the Day It becomes us with Self-judging Hearts every Night before we Sleep to make a Process like what would be in the Day of Iudgment and this as not knowing but that before we Wake out of that Sleep a Come away to Judgment may Surprize us Nightly Recollections have been Commended by Sober Pagans and should not be Omitted by Pious Christians but when we have Considered What ha's been Gods Providence towards my self in the foregoing Day We may do well also to Consider What ha's been my Behaviour towards God in the Day We may now particularly take an Account Q. 1. Have I Lived this Day under a Deep sense of Mortality and Eternity Q. 2. Have I Devoutly Read the Word of God this Day and Seriously sought the Face of God both in my Retirement and with my Family Q. 3. Have I had many Ejaculations this Day both in a way of Petition and in a way of Thanksgiving unto God Q. 4 Have I had most affectionate Meditations upon Heavenly Things this Day have I made Earthly Things to occasion some of my Profitable Reflections Q. 5. Have I been careful of my Discourse this Day Spoken with a Tongue B●idled by the Fear of the Lord Q. 6. Have I been Diligent in my Calling this Day and avoided all Needless Expence of my Precious and Golden Minutes in Diversions Q 7. Have I this Day Endeavoured all Usefulness unto those to whom I am Related or with whom I have been Concerned Q. 8. Have I this Day Control●'d and Conquer'd my Master Sin and ha's my Watchfulness issued in my Victory over my own Iniquity Q. 9 Am I in a fit State and Frame to appear before the Judgment-Seat of God if I should before To Morrow Mornning be Summoned thereunto And therefore Do I still choose the Great God as my best Good and my last End and the Lord Jesus Christ as my Prophet my Priest my King And is it my Desire to be Employ'd as a Witness for His Truths and Wayes for ever Did we not let any Day pass us without such Representations of the Last Day unto our minds we should be Alwayes Ready Reader let us Aspire after such a Continual Readiness S. 7. But none of the least Exercises in our Preparation for the Day of Judgment would be our Meditation of it Or Our Looking for the Glorious Appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ He was an Holy man among the Ancients who could say Wherever I am and Whatever I do Methinks I have the Sound of the Last Trumpet in my Ears ARISE YE DEAD AND COME TO JUDGMENT We should Labour to get a Proper a Lively Character of the Day when God shall Judge the Secrets of men and often Raise it in our minds It was said Wo to them that put far away the Evil Day Truly The Day of Judgment will be an Evil day indeed unto them that put it far away Thoughts upon the Day of Judgment should continually Lodge in our Hearts and however we are imploy'd we should think What shall I do when God rises up and when He Visits what shall I answer Him Now for the Assistence and Nourishment of our Private Meditations upon The Day of God we are happily Supply'd with the Published Meditations of many Worthy Pious Learned Writers upon that Important Subject and I pray that we may not be Unthankful or Unfruitful under such Advantages The Carnal Jewes when they Read the Book of Ecclesiastes have the last Verse but one which has in it Fear God and keep His Commandments Printed over again at the Close of all because they would not have the Remembrance impression of the Last Verse which has in it God shall bring every Work into Judgment to be too strong upon them whereas if men would Think more of the Latter they would probably Do more of the Former God forbid that we should any of us have any Indisposition to such Meditations on the Day of Judgment as are Laid before us in the Books of some that are Longing for the Day Dear New-England Thy Little Presses too do now afford more than two or three Savoury Treatises upon the Day which will not bundle such Books for the Fire that shall then Burn up the Hay Stubble of Innumerable Volumns No Such are some of the Books that shall be Opened for a Witness against Impenitents In thee is Reprinted the Zealous Thomas Vincents Discourse On our Lords certain sudden Appearance to Judgment In thee is Printed a Sermon on The Day of Judgment whose Author is the Father of him that now addresses thee In thee is now Printed the Reverend Samuel Lee's Assize-Sermon of Warning to the Great Day of Judgment Left among us as his Mantle by that Elias when he went away for Europe These besides other Books has New-England had for the Loudening of that Midnight Cry among us Behold the Bridegroom comes And indeed if upon the passing away of the second Wo the Third comes quickly which brings on The Time of the Dead that they should be Judged we that now see the Second Wo coming a pace unto its Period should count no Awakenings too many to rowse us out of that profound Sleep wherein the World shall be fast When the Son of man comes I am verily perswaded The Judge is at the Door I do without any hesitation venture to say The Great Day of the Lord is Near it is Near and it hastens Greatly O That our Minds may be as deeply Engaged in Thinking on the Second coming of our Lord as the Saints of old were in Thinking on His First and that the Books by which we may Vnderstand much of what concerns that matter may have a due Entertainment and Efficacy with us A Person of some Quality having Wasted much Time at Unlawful Games could not Sleep the Night following mentioned unto an Inquisitive Friend the Ground of it Yesterday casting my Eye into a Book that I saw open I read the Word ETERN●TY and this Word has broke my very Heart within me Truly we that have so many Books about ETERNAL JUDGMENT have our Hearts harder than the Nether Milstone if at the sight of that Word ETERNAL JUDGNENT they do not break But it is unto the God of Grace that we are now to bow our Knees with Petitions for Mercy in the Day of the Lord. A SUMMONS Or WARNING to the Great Day of JUDGMENT In a SERMON Preach'd at the Assizes at Bristol in New-England Octob. 7. 1687. now some-what Amplified and Fitted to the Service of others Luke 21.36 Watch and Pray alwa●es that ye may be accounted worthy to Escape all those things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of man A-kempts de Imit Christi l. 1. c. 24. Vere non pot●s duo gaudia habere bic dil●cta●● in mando postea reg●are cum Christo Verily thou canst not expect two joyes To

speeches and commit ungodly deeds for a trace of some thousands of years without Controul or Impeachment V. The Allegations proofs and evidences produced out of the black Books and bloody Registers of all Ages which before were shut up and Sealed in Gods Archiva or treasure Chambers above are now all opened and if they cannot Read their Psalms of Mercy Rev. 6.20 there is no hope of Exile to a Patmus or any forreign Islands at that day for they shall flee away VI. The final process and they were judged out of the things written in the Books whence there is no appeal no recalling or reversion There will be that Positive and final Conclusion OBSERVATION Obser Most formidable and dreadful will be that great and general Day of Judgment It 's a Coming and hastning towards us Nay t is near at hand Jam. 5.9 The Judge is even at the Door If you ask how long I Answer He that was at the Door in the Apostle James his time may be now stept over the Threshold in our dayes and well forward in His Journey towards Mount Oliver and ready to ascend into the Seat of Judgment Nay Besides it is so near to every Particular Person when he strides over the black Threshold of Death that we cannot certainly tell How little a moment it will seem from the time of his Death to his Solemn appearance before Jesus Christ and then 't will indeed determine the truth of that Scripture Heb. 10 31. that 't is a fearful thing to fall into the Hands of the Living God and most dreadful to all out of Christ at that day If without Christ having been without God in this World they shall like Dogs be cast out of the Holy City in the World to come into a lake Burning with Fire and Brimstone Rev. 22.15 Judicial dayes here under the Sun are but like Pictures and Stories in hangings and all Executions but like Painted Fire to this great and terrible day of the Lord which will make all the Ruffians quake like an Aspen leafe Eccl. 3.16 17. Those fools which now make a mock of Sin Those Careless Gallios grave Eelixes P●ov 14.9 Act. 24 26 that put off the hearing of this day till another time That allarm Trumpet will make your Ears to tingle above all other and will ye nill ye up you must hasten to Judgment There are three things which Command into the inmost Chambers of your hearts most dreadful most amazing thoughts and high reverence with deepest astonishment If so be ye fall into the Snare of Death in a State unreconciled to God and not purged from your Scarlet Sins by the precious blood of Christ 1. The infinitely glorious Majesty of the Judge 2. The Exact rule of Procedure according to things found written in the Books before the Judge 3. The stupendious quality or property of this Judgment Of which in order 1. Let us call to mind with all Reverence and trembling the infinite Majesty of the Judge who will then sit down upon the throne of Judgment No less Person than the Maker of Heaven and Earth before whom all the Divels tremble Vers 11 and the Pillars of Heaven are astonisht and confounded the foundations of the Earth flee away and Vanish into Smoak and nothing at the fiery Breath of His Nostrils whose single Word Shrinks the Universe into less than the Shadow of an Atom at His pleasure But let us here Remember Isai 40.17 we are not to Consider of this Almighty and Eternal Judge as God Essential onely but more Personally the Son of God who cometh with Ten Thousand of His Saints that is His Holy Angels Jude 14 15. to Execute judgment in that day for all the Violent actions against His Church and People or any of His Redeemed ones 2. The several strict rules of Procedure according to the Various Books all lying patent before the Judge upon the Table which are these following I. The Books of Creation and Providence like two Volumns joyned and bound up together wherein the distinct Successions of all Generations are delineated God knows all the Stars of Heaven and all the Lamps of the Intellectual beings by name The genealogical stemmes of all persons are fairely written in that Register and he will call their bodies up out of their Graves at that day from the Rising to Setting Sun Psal 50.3 to meet their Souls and to accept a new Animation from them When the El-Elohim-Jehovah as some gloss those Titles in the Fifteth Psalm Isai 27.13 that Powerful just merciful God will cause the great Trumpet to sound and awaken all out of the dost of Dan. 12.2 Death and then God will call thee to account for the abuse of every Limb Psal 135 16. and member written in that Venerable book II. The particular books of Record or Remembrance which whether written by an Empyraean Pen drawn from a Seraphims Wing I mean whether the Holy Angels are the Scribes and Recorders is not revealed to us It s true the Lord Himself or they in His Name injoyn holy John to write Rev. 1.11 19 22 6 16. 19 9 10 Psal 104 4. what they are Commanded to dictate to him Besides we find them registred as Presidents of Nations and to have the Guardianship of Saints Heb. 1.14 and to be Ministers of the Divine Pleasure and of mighty influence in Slaying God's and His Churches Enemies and to manage the great turns and overturnings of Kingdoms That 's certain as in the case of Egypt Psal 78.49 when God sent evil Angels among them that is the Executioners of woful evil Judgments among them like as the Angelus Percussor the smiting Angel may be said to make a way for His wrath Ezek. 9.3 Such instruments were used in Executing divine wrath upon Sennacheribs army Psal 78.50 and upon poor Jerusalem in her sad day 2 King 29.35 and afterward in the destruction of Babylon Ezek. 9 3 when the Captain of the Lords army Marched before the Red and Speckled Horses in Zachary's Visions Zech. 1.11 In like matters both as to Nations Citys and Persons we may conceive of things as in the Glass of a continued Allegory that there is a particular book for every Person in several cases 1. There may be I mean Allegorically a dreadful black Book for every mans Sins And truly this is a matter of heavy concernment that though it should not be so Specifically yet t is Equivalently and Eventually that there is a particular Book in the Court of Records in Heaven with thy name on the out side where every Sin of thine is written down with the bloud of Dragons mixt with the galls or Cruel Venome of Asps Deut. 32.33 durably as if with the point of of a Diamond upon a Rock Jere. 17.1 Truly it s all one nay worse then if so really for t is

writ in the memorials of that tremendous Judge For every Secret Sin is set down in the Light of His Countenance Psal 90.3 beyond all the Noctiluca's in the World Every Secret is determin'd to come to Judgment Eccl. 12.14 Ten times have the Children of Israel Murmured against Me Num. 14.22 sayes the Lord and so again the Sacred Pages number up Six Captivities under the Judges Judges Ch. 10 1● answering to Six several prevarications in the Worship of God Petav. ra●ionarie P. 84. Isai 65.6 ●●s written before me sayes the Lord by Isaiah and I will recompence into their Bosome And so t is now Ten times Drunk such a man Ten times Forsworn such another Ten times such a Proud Jezabel with her Painted Eyes Strutting in the Streets of Jerusalem write him down set her down sayes God Paint her to the Life that all the World may then behold her with Peacoc●s Feathers and mincing ● King 9.30 Isa 3.16 tink●ing motions with her feet How should it strike as with a Poysoned arrow to the heart to think of these dreadful tradegies of that terrible day 2. Mens Repentant sorrowful Sighs and Actions are also set down in Gods day book and this I speak for the comfort of all humble Mourners in Zion The Confession of that Renitent Thief at Golgotha's Mount Lord Luke 24.42 Remember me in they Kingdom We never drop a sincere tear but it drops up-ward Contrary to all other tears it ascends up into Heaven and Runs into the Chryst all Bottle upon the Shelfe with thy name ingraven upon it in Letters of Gold and 't is often taken up and Lookt upon to see how it fills Are they not in thy Bottle Psal 56.8 sayes David and in thy Book But wo to them that have none Every hearty Sigh that Reeks e sulco pecto●is from the inmost Closets of thy Soul are Pencilled with Vermillion under the bloody lines streaming from the Cross of Life 3. Mens gracious discourses and good works are all written in that Book When serious Persons doe but meet and think upon the Name of the Lord in evil times and talk often ingether Mal. 3● 16. Every time you meet every Heavenly thought and every holy word you speak is written down Nay all your Prayers and Almes deeds like those of Correlius goe up in Remembrance before God Act. 10.1 Every Penny you pu● into Gods Treasury Nay every Mite you give to Temple uses as in the case of the poor Widows Mark 12 ●● is put down in Gods Debt Book and will be Converted into so many Pearls to adorn your Crown in Glory III. The Books of mens Consciences shall then all be laid open Here mens thoughts Excuse or Accuse one another till that day Rom. 2.15.16 ● Cor. 3. ●1 when God shall Judge the Secrets of all men by Jesus Christ according ●o the Gospel Preached by Paul and let me tell you that every faithful Sermon which you hear Consonant to the Word of God will come up in Judgment as a Testimony against you if disobeyed so that if our hearts Condemn us not that is our Conscience 1 john 4.17 as to Irreverence Negligence or Disobedience to we may have Confidence in the Day of Judgment before God 1 john 3.20 21. who is greater then our hearts and knoweth all things and this will give us a holy freedom of Spirit in that Solemn time There will be no Shuffling Tricks no False Treacherous accounts no T●ffany Cheats no Fine-Spun-flams but all fly away like Spiders Webbs before a Beesome The flaming Eyes in the Scepter of that day sees through all in a moment IV. The Book of the Scriptures shall then be taken down and the Parchment Rolls all unfolded The Act Forensia the Publick Commentaries the Regu a Juries the Institures of the Law Rom 2.16 and the Cannons of the Gospel shall be all produced for Conviction of S●nners All their in quities written in that Book mentioned by Je●emy with the point of a Diamond jere 17.1 or graven with an iron Pen in focules or leases of Lead mentioned by Job job 19.24 25. or in a Rock for the ever of this World Dan. 12.1 till our Redeemer standeth upon the Earth at mount Olivet at the latter day to Judge the World Z●ch 14 4. V. The particular and singular Book of Election when all that are written in that ivory Volumns shall come forth and Shine as Stars for ever and ever Dan. 12.1 3. The Sheep of Christ's little Flock Rev. 3.5 13 8.17 8. that are written in the Lambs Book of Life shall then pass under the rodaccount for the Sanctuary of Glory Exod. 32 32. Nay God Himself is said to write down the names of those Chosen Vessels that are prepared and fitted for Salvation Luke 10 20. The names of the Holy Apostles and Saints are deciphered and set down in Heaven Psal 68 28. Phil. 4. ● when others are written in the Dust and shall be legible by the flames of Hell And so much for the Second particular the rules of Procedure and its branche In the Third Place we are to Consider the quality or property of this astonishing Judgment in Five Particulars 1. It 's most accurate and Critical Exactness as to Equity and Commensuration to Every ones actions be they good or bad The Judge sits down in His Sella Curulis or seat of Judgment Dr Stoughtons felicitas ultimi Seculi ● all of ivory or unspotted Alablaster like the Sun when He Shines in Libra among the Caelestial Ballances near the Milky way The Eyes of Justice are Covered with a Purple Mantle no accepting the Person of any as to Earthly dignities and distinations but its Eares are with all diligence and Curiosity attentive to the impending causes 2. Impartiality in determining Cuts off all demurrers and delayes and gives speedy dispatches to persons of all Degrees There will be no favouring of Rich and Great men to sit down neer the bench as here among fellow Worms nor no pittying of a poor man in his cause from a seeming Comiseration to the mean and Afflicted Lev. 19. ●5 The dispensation of justice will be Equal to a tittle no pleading Sub forma pauperis at that day 3. Vniversality as to Comprehensivenes of both persons and times All Ages both Sexes all Qualities and degrees of men must make personal appearance without any Proxy in this Dooms-day Parliament no Slye Excuses or writs of Error to impeach or turn by the gravity of that most awful judicature no querks nor tricks nor jugling account shall Velum Pretendere cast a mist before the Sagacious inspection of that quick and all searching Judgment 4. The Irresistible doom There is no Subtle arguing no wresting of the Text of the Law or the intentions of the Sacred Law Maker No pleading of old Customes or the Opinions of Reverend