Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	dead_a	judge_v	open_v	6,335	5	8.1852	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07350	The English catechisme explained. Or, A commentarie on the short catechisme set forth in the Booke of common prayer Wherein diuers necessarie questions touching the Christian faith are inserted, moderne controuersies handled, doubts resolued, and many cases of conscience cleared. Profitable for ministers in their churches, for schoole masters in their schooles, and for housholders in their families. By Iohn Mayer, Bachelour of Diuinitie.; English catechisme	Mayer, John, 1583-1664.	1622 (1622)	STC 17733; ESTC S100659	485,672	636

merits as it were with incense out of a censor what neede haue we of Saint or Angell to helpe vs to accesse and acceptance before the Father Yea I neede not say what neede but what Faith can we haue in so doing seeing that both himselfe hath bidden vs aske in his owne name and in the case of sinne-guiltinesse wee are directed onely to him as our onely Mediator and Aduocate Wherefore the profession of the Church of Rome is in this point by all meanes to bee reiected as a profession and practice of infidelity in Christs sitting at the right hand of the Father Their comparison from earthly Princes are chaffie and of no moment if they be brought to the ballance of the Sanctuary and are meerely colours whereby they seeke to dawbe ouer their blinde deuotion and to gull the doting people Quest 31 Which is the third degree of his exaltation and in which words Answ Thirdly he shall come from Heauen at the ende of the World to iudge all that shall then be found liuing and all that haue dyed since the world began in these words From thence hee shall come to iudge both the quicke and the dead Explan For the meaning of this Article it is opposite to that which setteth downe the first degree of his humiliation for as there of God he was made Man yea a poore man vnder the gouernment of Ioseph and Mary so heere hee is of a poore man set ouer all both rich and poore great and small that they might be disposed of according to his pleasure And as there he was vnder earthly Iudges and Rulers who did often decree hard things against him so here hee comes as Iudge and Ruler of all to decree vnalterably extreame things against all the stoutest of his enemies and comfortable things for all his louers and friends He shall come from Heauen that is as man for thus onely hee can remooue from place to place his God-head euer fils all places as man then hee shall come downe visibly and openly with great glory and troopes of Angels about him as Iudges are wont in pompe and with great attendance to ride their circuits and he shall come downe towards this nether part of the world where they haue liued whose causes shall be heard and proceeded in as Iudges are wont to go to sit in Iudgement in such places as wherin they dwel which are to be brought before them To iudge those that shal be then liuing for the World shall be full of people euen to the houre of his comming and then the dead being raised out of their Graues euen all from the first Adam shall be ioyned with the liuing who shall onely instead of dying be changed and thus all people together of all Countries and Nations shall bee presented before his Tribunall to receiue sentence according to the equity yea and iustice of his Gospell whether of Absolution to passe into the Kingdome of the Father or of condemnation into the Kingdome of Hell with the Diuell and his Angels for euer Proofe Secondly for the grounds of holy Scriptures whereupon all this is founded the comming of Christ to iudgement according to all these circumstances is plainely heere set downe in many Places First that he shall come againe the Angels sent of God for the same end told his Disciples thus much immediatly after his ascension saying Acts 1.12 This Iesus shall euen so come downe from heauen as ye haue seene him goe vp to heauen Heb. 9.28 And in another place it is said that Christ vnto them that looke for him shall appeare the second time without sin vnto saluation and of himselfe he saith I goe away but will come againe Secondly that he shall come to iudge Iohn 14. not in pouerty but in Maiestie not basely accompanied but gloriously with Angels not like a Lamb to be slaine againe but like a Lyon to teare in pieces his enemies all this doth he himselfe promise saying Then shall they see the Son of Man come in the clowds of Heauen with power and great glory Mat 24.30.31 and he shal send his Angels with the sound of a Trumpet c. And what is here wanting is further supplied in the next Chapter Chap. 25.31.32 When the Son of man commeth in his glory and all the holy Angels with him then shal he sit vpon the Throne of his glory and before him shall be gathered all nations c. Thirdly that the world shall bee then full of people liuing as at other times and that all shal not die before the Apostle sheweth both where purposely he entreateth at large of the resurrection saying We shall not all sleepe but we shall be changed in a moment 1 Cor. 15.51 in the twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet 1 The. 4 and where he comforts the Church of God in this that their dead friends and they aliue shall meete againe at the last day And the Lord himselfe plainely saith that as it was in the dayes of Noah and in the daies of Lot so shall it be at the comming of the Son of man then the world was full of people which were eating and drinking marrying and giuing in mariage c til the floud came Luc. 17.27 swept them all away till fire came from Heauen and consumed them all so shall it be at Christs cōming to iudgment Fourthly that quick dead shal all come to iudgement before him was long since confirmed vnto Iohn by vision He saw a Throne set and the Son of of Man sitting theron the books opened and al euen the dead as wel as the liuing brought before him to be iudged according to the things written in the bookes Reuel 20.12 then the earth gaue vp the dead buried there the sea gaue vp the dead that were therin Rom. 14.10 And S Paul hence giues warning that wee iudge not one another For wee must al appeare before the Iudgemēt seat of Christ Fiftly that the maner of his comming shall be most terrible to all his enemies but comfortable to his friends and faithfull people for the terrour it is set forth by comparisons taken from the flood Luk. 17.27 fearefully drowning the old world without mercy or compassion from the fire and brimstone descending vpon Sodome Prou. 1. from the sorrowes comming vpon a woman in trauell Math 24. from a seuere master returning from a farre countrey and adiudging his vnprofitable seruants to be cut off and to haue their portion in the place of weeping and gnashing of teeth and from a thiefe breaking into an house to rob and slay in the dead time of the night c. For euen such and more terrible by farre shall Christs comming to iudgement be 2. Pet 3.10 Againe this terrour is set forth by particular accidents that shall accompany this time viz flaming fire in which the Lord shall come to render vengeance to the wicked

wherewith the earth with the workes thereof shall be burned vp The Heauens shal passe away as a scrowle the elements shall melt with heat A deuouring fire before him Psal 50.3 Math. 24. and a great tempest round about him The Sunne and the Moone darkned and the Starres losing their light A great trumpet sounded peircing from one ence of the world to another and all this in a moment in the twinckling of an eye Lastly it is set forth in the effects Io●l 2.6 All faces shall gather blackenes They shall see him whom they haue pierced and mourne euery family apart And as the Lord himselfe saith Zach 12. Math. 24.30 Reuel 16.20 All the kindreds of the earth shall mourne They shall runne away and call vpon the mountaines to fall on them and vpon the rockes and hils to couer them But vnto those that wait for the comming of the Lord it shall be comfortable wherefore Christ saith Luk 21.28 When yee see these things lift vp your heads with ioy for your redemption draweth neere And the Apostle vseth this argument to the Thessalonians to disswade them from sorrowing like vnto the Heathen 1. Thess 4.14 for at his comming we shall be taken vp into the clowds to meete the Lord and so remaine euer with the Lord. Sixtly at the time of this iudgement it shall be proceeded according to mens works Ioh. 5.29 They that haue done good shall goe into euerlasting life they that haue done euill into euerlasting condemnation Math. 25. The sheepe of Christ that haue fed the hungry clothed the naked visited the sicke c. Shall be inuited into the Kingdome of the Father 1. Cor 4 5. the rest into euerlasting fire And secretest euils shall not then be hid for thoughts shall bee manifested and most hidden things discouered Reu. 20.12 The booke of euery mans conscience that was shut vp and benummed here shall be opened and according to the things here written he shall be iudged Not onely for sinnes committed but euen for omitting good duties men shall bee sent into Hels torments No outward thing shall then stand any man in stead the foolish Virgins with lampes but wanting oyle Math. 25.1 shall be shut out of the Bridegroomes chamber No crying or crauing shall then preuaile for such as haue liued impenitently in sinne if they shall say Lord Lord open vnto vs he will answer Depart from me ye workers of iniquity I know you not Math 7.21 If with Esau thou then seeke the blessing with teares Heb. 12.6 there is no place for repentance to be found And thus much for the grounds of Christs comming to Iudgement and the further setting forth of the same Now if any man shall aske the time when these things shall be ●t is easily answered Math. 24.36 The day and the houre knowes no man no not the Son of Man himselfe but the Father onely but for the yeere diuers men haue gessed diuersly and because they be but coniectures I will not trouble the Reader herewith A principall vnaccomplished forerunner to bee taken heede vnto the Gospell hauing beene already preached to all nations and Antichrist that man of sinne discouered is his further laying open and confusion when the Kings of the earth that honoured him shall make a mocke of him and a gratious conuersion of the Iewes the stiffest enemies vnto the Lord Christ and then shall the comming of the Lord vnto Iudgement be 1. Duty To keepe a good conscience For the duties of this faith The first is to keepe a good conscience before God and men because at the day of iudgement euery conscience shall be a booke opened and all the world shall read whither it be good or bad This Paul professeth to be his care saying Act. 24.16 Herein I endeauour to haue a cleare conscience alwayes towards God and towards men The reason he alleadgeth before viz. For that he had hope Vers 15. that the resurrection should be both of the iust and vniust that all should be brought forth another day to iudgement And in another place speaking of the Gentiles which had not the written lawe Rom. 2.16 Vers 12. Vers 15. hee saith At the day when God shall iudge the secrets of men by Iesus Christ those that are vnder the Law shall be iudged by the Law and they that are without without the Law for vnto both the conscience is a law bearing witnesse for or against and the thoughts accuse or excuse that is in euery mans nature there remaines some impression of good and bad of right and wrong a light whereby to discerne these and for those that haue done ill heere will be an accusation at that time they that haue done well shall be excused And this we cannot but in some measure conceiue by experience daily for that when wee haue done amisse we feele afterwards an inward trouble in our mindes and though we would gladly put off the thinking hereupon yet we cannot but still perplexing thoughts this way come vnto vs and disquiet vs and chiefely when we are alone The excellency of a good conscience and in greatest darkenesse of the night Now all this is nothing else but our consciences beginning the part euen whilst we are aliue and as it were warning vs to take heede of sinne though neuer so hidden for it will not suffer it to be blotted our through forgetfulnesse but is and will be a continuall register hereof so long as we liue and most of all then present it selfe before the Lord when finall and irreuocable iudgement shall passe vpon all Wherefore as he that is continually watched by one appointed of his master who hath power of life and death ouer him so that in no place he can be hidden from his sight and hee will not by any bribes be hyred to conceale what he seeth will carefully carry himselfe in all things as a good seruant and not by any allurements be drawne to wast his masters goods or to neglect his businesse or to any vnfaithfulnesse towards him Euen so let vs be contained alwaies in the feare of the Lord from all disloyalty towards his Maiesty and from all abuses either against our selues or our neighbours euen when opportunities of secresie are offered hereunto because our owne conscience notes our doings and will not be hired to giue any other but true testimony against vs when wee come to our reckoning at the last day Oh! how comfortable will it bee then to haue a good conscience 2. Duty To abstaine from iudging other man The second duty is both to abstaine from iudging and censuring others and to neglect and not to set by mens iudging of vs if so be our consciences iudge vs not because there is one iudge of all and it is presumption in whomsoeuer to take his office out of his hands in iudging these to be hypocrites these reprobates and