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A19277	A sermon of sure comfort preached at the funerall of Master Robert Keylwey Esquire, at Exton in Rutland, the 18. of Marche 1580. By Anthonie Anderson preacher, and Parson of Medburne in Leicestershiere.	Anderson, Anthony, d. 1593.	1581 (1581)	STC 569; ESTC S108524	34,987	88

you thinke indéed ther is a God that knoweth this A Scribe that recordeth it A iudge that will reuenge it and a day that shall reueale it by the bookes of your heauie iudgement And dare you continue your delight in lying whoring in filthy iestinges that are not comely in such the workes of darkenesse which rather you ought to reprooue in others then to fauour or practise them your selues But these euils dwel not altogether in beggers but you you euē you I say whō the Lord hath blessed with landes and reuenewes in great aboundance which for your birthes are called gentlemen for your chiualrie knights but for your follie flattered as fooles to winne of you preferment euen of you I said there are that dare dispise the spirit of trueth with the false spirit of lying ribauldry and filthy whoredome Your seruantes perceyuing your foolishnesse are contented to sell themselues to hel to gaine some earthly preferment at your handes For séeing your diuellish disposition they frame their practise to your pleasurs but you shal be iudged of those thinges most seuerely Oh you seruing-men absteyne from pleasing your maisters with this egregious lewdenes of lying Wotte you what you doe and whose ye are Io. 8. you do make your soules the slaues of sathan and you are herein the children of the deuill your father which is a lyer from the beginning Cast of these works of darkenesse haue no fellowship with them but rather reprooue them and those that vse them yea though they be your great masters For you are not called to serue men but God And you shall then be founde best profitable to your maisters when you shall take sinne from their bodies and exhort vertue to their soules And be it knowne to you you knightes héere present and the rest that that noble Naaman had not béene clensed from his leprosie had he not humbled his soule to the admonition of his godly seruing-men 2. Kings 5.13 2. King 5.13 The Lorde GOD worke our conuersion in tyme that wee may dye to sinne and haue parte in the firste resurrection so shall we bee sure not to taste of the seconde death because our names are founde written in the booke of life Whereof nowe wee are to speake And it is notable that it is saide euery man was iudged accordinge to his workes that hée had done in his life time not what others haue done for him after Yea aswell the godly as the reprobate are in thēselues vnder the censure of the seconde booke that is condemnable to the seconde death But now there is an other cause why the godly are saued namely that their names are written in the booke of life Ephe. 1.2 This booke of life is not of this life corporall but spiritual and hath his beginning in these our dayes but is perfited in the last resurrection and is called the most sure and swéete election and predestination of god which doth seale and sanctifie to himselfe those that be his whom he hath chosen to be partakers of the first resurrection before the beginning of dayes Ephe. 1.2 and therefore they cannot perishe in the ende of time Of this booke speaketh Paule The Lord knoweth who bee his And though sparingly I would speak in singular reuerence of this hiddē mystery 2. Tim. 2.19 to many in the world comfortable only to the childrē of life when their eyes be opened to reade this booke yet in humblenesse of heart I say thus much of it This booke of life is the most certaine sure firme and eternall foreknowledge in the most holy minde of God Zanch. To. 2 lib. 3. cap. 3. 712. by the which hee euer hath and doeth in his Christ and for him alone appoint and choose vs to be his children adopted to grace and heires of eternall life approueth them for his and taketh peculiar and perpetuall care on them I knowe my sheepe saith Christ I knowe whome I haue choosen c. And those whome the Lorde writeth in this booke those only shall haue saith and life And whosoeuer is not written in this booke without doubt he shall be cast into the seconde death But howe shal we know that wee are written in this booke Surely euerie man is to séeke the knowledge héereof To some it is giuen at morne to other at noone and to some onely at night euen gasping at breath The ordinarie way to this knowledge is elegātly set downe by Paul to the Romans where the graces of God are so linked in one so easie to be perceiued that euerie man may haue an insight of this golden cheine that feareth God Rom. 8.28 We know that all thinges saith he worke together for the best to to them that loue God euē to them that are called of his purpose For those whō he knew before he also predestinate to be made like to the image of his sonne that he might be the first borne amonge manie brethren Moreouer Whome he predestinate them also hee called and whome hee called them also hee iustified and whome he iustified them also he glorified Héere beloued the booke is gods purpose to choose and our writing in it is that we are elected to liue in Christ before all times a life conformable to the following of Christ to bée holy and blameles sober godly religious iust peaceable and blessed in this present worlde And not to be worldly bent and to blaspheme with rebellious spirites saying what should I feare to to robbe to kil to spoile to whore it and brace it and to followe my lust For if I be elected I shal be saued if I be not elected I shal be dāned But beloued Oh hateful spirit against Gods holy spirit of our electiō Do you draw hence an other nature in the grace of this book namely learne to sée how those that are elected those shal be called to féele their election And they shal be iustified from their former corruptions sanctified from after sinnes and glorified to God But as we haue said those that be not found writtē in this booke those shal be iudged by the other bookes of iudgement and that according to their workes This doctrine is héere deliuered vs to note Iohn speaketh of the generall iudgement executed long after the natural death and he speaketh generally of all when as no doubte great heapes of infinite thousands haue had the works of Popes and Cardinals popish priests and sacrilegious Masses trentals doles and chauntrie fées moonkish builde and frierish helpes for them All whose works of darknesse notwithstanding euery man shall rise vnchaunged from his former state For euen so as he dyed such shall he arise and shall haue iudgement after his owne works and not according to the merite of other mens labours for him after his death Thus saith Gods spirite which cannot lye Away therefore with your prayer for the deade your almes and dole to the poore at the place and day

lay abroad the order and maner of iudgemēt at the last day And first the maiestie of the iudge in his comming is described Secondly the maner of the iudgement who they be and wherof the Apparants be iudged The Lords comming is with great glory he sitteth on a mightie seat farre passing the iudicial thrones of the greatest princes And of necessitie that must bée a greate Seate Titus 2.13 Luk. 1.32 which must beare the God of might It is a bright shining seate all glorious not with corruptible golde or precious stone but with the heauēly gleames more bright then the Sunne beames euen lightned with the brightnesse of his diuine glorie as Christ hath saide Matt. 25.31 The sonne of Man shal come in his glorie and he shall sit vppon the seate of his glorie and all the holy Angels shall come with him Whose glorious throne doth euen teach vs that the Lords iudgements are pure and without spotte No pleading at the barre no bribing of the iudge no frending by aquest no fauour found for siluer nor loue or hate shall beare a sway but equitie alone in him shall then bee séene Also his brightnesse in comming shal perce into the hearts and actes of al men to manifest and lay open the hidden secrets of the conscience according to the sentence of Paul 1. Cor. 4.5 Iudge nothing before the time vntill the Lord come who wil lighten things that are hide in darkenes make the councels of the hearts manifest and then shal euery man haue praise of God viz. as his labour asketh Likewise the shinning sunne and moone the glittering starres yea heauen earth shall be darkened faile of their brightnes before him For like as the glorious sunne shinning causeth the blasing torch to loose his brightnes in respect of him So shall that most beawtifull planet be as darkened with the great glorie of this shining throne in the comming of the Amightie Christ But my beloued if these glorious creatures shal flée from the presence of this mighty CHRIST comming to iudgement which euer haue béene obedient to his holy will yea that but when he is comming how shal it fare with vs when he is set vpon that terrible throne whose sinnes haue béene so many and the accusers so ready as the Lord his witnes sathās accusation Zopho and thine owne conscience which is to thée 1000. witnesses when the sunne is blacke the Moone as blood the stars fall Malach. like the gréene figges from their trées in a mightie wind the heauens depart away like a scroll Reue. 6.12 and all ysles and montaines are moued out of their places And the kinges the of earth the great men and the rich men the chiefe captaines and the mightie men and euery bondman and euery frée man hide them selues in dennes Esa 2.19 Hos 10.8 Luk 23.30 and amongst the rocks of the mountaines and shall say to the mountaines and rockes fall on vs and hide vs from the presence of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the lambe In cause hereof let me say vnto vs with that holy Dauid Oh Psal 50.22 cōsider this you that forget God least the Lorde teare you in péeces and there bée none to deliuer you Séeing therefore that all these thinges must be dissolued and come to passe what manner of persons ought we to bée 2. Pet. 3.11 in holy conuersation godlinesse But when this iudge our Lorde Christ is thus gloriouslyset then these foresaid persons of ech degrée shall stand before him euen great smal for neither heauen nor earth can hid them or their crownes their dignities Lordships or warrelike courage wealth wil or wit shall be able to kéepe them from his presence or escape the iust iudgemēt which the balance of his equitie shal cast vnto thē Looke to this now ye knights and gentils here present and you rich in possessions be not careles of your life for godly preuention nowe shal embolden your persons then to lift vp your heades because your redemption is thē at hand Luk. 21.28 This order then shall be obserued The bookes shal be laid open before the Lorde and euery man high and low rich and poore shall be iudged with the scepter of trueth euen according as his déedes are written in those bookes Note héere beloued by an elegant Metaphor howe the spirite of GOD doth display the iudgementes of the Lorde He alludeth vnto the iudiciall courtes of kinges and Potentates where the bookes of recorde beare memorie of the faultes of men conuicted by good proofe Not that the Lord hath néede of bookes for he knoweth the thoughts words and workes of all men of euery idle word Math. 12.36 shall man be iudged but that héereby he would sende vs to our owne senses to knowe and féele that all our actions and heartes are in his sight and cannot be wiped out of his remembrance by other pensill then onely by true faith repentance And as we are fallen into this Metaphor of the Lords bookes So let vs know that the holy scriptures Ezech. 18. Heb. 6. attribute thrée bookes vnto God viz. liber prouidentiae Iudicii vitae The booke of his prouidence The booke of his iudgement and the blessed booke of life Of his prouidence Dauid saith thus Psal 139 16. Thine eyes did see mee when I was without fourme for in thy booke were all things writtē which in continuaunce were fashioned when there was none of them before O Lorde sayth hée when as yet I was not formed in my mothers wombe thine eyes did see me in the book of thy foreknowledge prouidence of thy diuine mind were all men written from the foūdation of the earth when as yet there was not one begotten The booke of his iudgementes this former text doth enforce the consideration of which bookes were opened and signifieth the certaine knowledge of al the words and workes of euery man from Adam tyll that instant according to the which they shall be all then iudged For those things which the Lord now knoweth as if he had them written in bookes those thinges that either our heartes wordes or workes haue imagined spoken or done the same then shall he then lay before vs as if he redde them out of them Apoc. 20. and shall thereby builde a reason vnto vs all why some shall by iudgement goe to hell some other vnto life Be not deceiued therefore good people God is not mocked or beguiled Gal. 6.7 for we shall be adiudged of euery idle worde that shall be spoken howe much more of wicked déeds as of idolatrie whordome blasphemie and such like Nowe go too you that put farre away the euill day Amos. 6.3 and approch the seat of iniquitie which take singular pleasure in ribauldry and filthy iesting which can laughe the lowdest when your lewde seruants are most disposed to lie Doe