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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39838	Mercy in the midst of judgment with a glimpse of, or a glance on, London's glorious resurrection like a Phoenix out of it's ashes delivered in a sermon preach'd at St. Dunstans in the West, Sept. 2, 1669 being the day of publick fasting and humilation in consideration of the late dreadful fire, by Chr. Flower.	Flower, Christopher, 1621 or 2-1699.	1669 (1669)	Wing F1383; ESTC R28644	18,802	34

the Earth opened and did cleave asunder the most rocky part of it Nay these very scars that your eyes see in my body testifie no less After this being risen from the dead I ascended up into Heaven from this very Mount of Olives in the publick view of my Apostles and many other Disciples to shew that I came down from Heaven for your Salvation and my Embassy being done was to return to my Father The Angels at my Ascension were heard to say that I should so come in like manner as you saw me go into Heaven and I my self spake of it to Caiphas the chief Priests and the Jews using this very Language Ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of Power and coming in the Clouds of Heaven why then did ye not credit so great and so good Testimony Behold now my condition is chang'd with yours ye sate once as Judges and I was the Prisoner at the Bar now ye are the Malefactors and I am the Judge see my hands and my feet that it is I my self see the very holes that ye dig'd with your instruments of cruelty in this Body of mine These like so many mouths cry out against you these accuse and condemn you go ye unworthy Wretches ye Christ-Killers get ye packing into unquenchable fire and ye ô Infidels Turks and profligate Christians who know these things or might have known them but ye have neglected but ye have despised and contemned whatsoever I did and suffer'd ye accounted the Blood of the Covenant an unholy thing ye chose rather to follow the dictates of your own Lusts then of my Law ye preferr'd Riches and sensual Pleasures and momentary Preferments before Eternal Salvation promis'd by me ye made a mock of me when I threatned Eternal Torments now ye see him whom ye have despised now ye find my words to be more then wind my Threatnings not to be vain but true my Promises not to be Chimera's but realities now ye experience your Delights and Dignities and sinful Pleasures ye so much magnified to be vain and fallacious now ye see how foolish and sottish and senseless ye have been in your love ye now lament and bewail with a passionate wringing of your hands and beating of your breasts but too late and therefore all in vain Go therefore ye Wicked go ye Ingrateful go ye Infidels go ye Cursed into everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels but for you my Apostles who saw me in this place Condemn'd Scourg'd Crucifi'd Murther'd and yet believ'd in me followed me throw the same Red Sea of Blood and you Apostolical and Religious Persons who did contemn the world and were not asham'd of my Cross espous'd my Poverty and Humility propagating my Doctrine and Faith throughout the whole world and as for you O ye Faithful ones who did believe in me your Redeemer hope in me love worship and obey me leading a life worthy of me a sober righteous and a godly life who did look for that blessed hope and this my second coming to judgment Come ye come ye my Elect come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the Foundation of the world That then must needs be a Great Day that determines business of such great Concernment 5. It may be stil'd the Great Day because that day will put an end to the world will put a period to time to troubles and all kind of impieties and to all the labours and endeavours of men Thus those days among the Romans were call'd Great Days which did put an end to great and grievous Troubles Alexander got the Appellation of Great in that he won strong holds and slew the Kings of the Earth so that the whole world stood in awe of him it was hush and silent but that silence continued not long but till his death which soon came to pass But Christ the King of Kings in that Great Day when he hath destroy'd all the wicked he shall impose a perpetual and universal silence on the whole world Then the Heavens shall be silent because their motion shall cease and so consequently the vicissitude of day and night winter and summer must cease too The motion of the Elements shall cease and so consequently Clouds Winds Rain Hail Tempests and Earthquakes will be no more All Creatures will be silent because there will be none to make any disturbance All the Studies Arts Disciplines Desires Quarrels and Contentions of Men will be silent because all things that were in motion will obtain their period methinks our Saviour pointed at this as it were with his finger for when he read that place in the Prophet Isaiah which runs thus The Spirit of the Lord is upon me c. to Preach the acceptable year of the Lord Et Diem retributionis and the Day of Retribution 't is said he clos'd the Book Luke 4. 18. hinting thus much to us that in that Great Day of Restitution or Retribution all things shall have an end and the Heavens be roll'd up like a Book or Scroll once more This Day of the Lord it may be stil'd the Great Day because the beginning of that Great Day call'd Eternity A Type of which Day we may read of in the Book of Josuah Chap. 10. when Josuah that he might pursue his Enemies to purpose caus'd the Sun to stand still The Sun and Moon stood still the space of one whole day so that one day was as long as two saith the Son of Syrach there was no day like that before it or after it saith the Holy Ghost Josuah 10. 14. Thus when Christ shall encounter his Enemies he will make the Sun and Moon to stand still till he hath reveng'd himself upon them But because that vengeance is to be Eternal the Day must be Eternal too I may adde as in the Day of Josuah's victory one part of the Heaven was always bright and the other dark thus in that Day it will be eternally light to the Elect but as long darkness with the Damned What shall we think those People thought in the time of Josuah who in the opposite part of the Heavens had so long night with what a deal of perplexity did they expect day and if so what will an Eternal night be but if to an Eternal Night be added an Eternal Prison everlasting Hunger and Thirst a never-dying Worm an Eternal Stink an Eternal Horrour Eternal Weeping and Wailing an Eternal Fire and whatever misery the mind of man is able to think of Qualis illa nox erit Tell me if you are able what a Night that will be Good reason then there is that this Day of the Lord spoken of here in my Text should be styl'd Dies Magnus the Great Day That which remains for me to shew you is in what respect it will be Terrible or Dreadful Behold I will send you Elijah the Prophet before the Coming of the Great and Dreadful Day