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A51136 A cure for the cankering error of the new Eutychians who (concerning the truth) have erred, saying, that our blessed mediator did not take his flesh of the Virgin Mary, neither was he made of the seed of David according to the flesh, and thereby have overthrown the faith of some / by Thomas Monck. Monck, Thomas. 1673 (1673) Wing M2410; ESTC R6848 88,751 220

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appearing of the Glory of the Mighty God and of our Saviour Jesus Christ who shall come from the highest Heavens accompanied with an exceeding great Host of mighty Angels and Souls of righteous men Heb. 12.22 1 Cor. 6.1 2. Thirdly Then shall be heard the sound of a Trumpet a wonderful piercing and long continuing sound summoning all Men and Angels unto Judgment Fourthly The good Angels shall gather all Nations and bring all unto the place of Judgement all I say the living and the dead for the very dead shall first be called out of their Graves and they shall come cloathed with their own bodies 1 Thess 4.16 2 Thess 4.16 2 Tim. 4.10 And with them shall appear all that be alive changed in a moment in the twinckling of an eye and corruptible bodies shall become incorruptible natural shall be turned into spiritual living immediately by the vertue and Power of God And the bodies of the Saints shall be like the glorious Body of Christ shining as the Sun Matth. 13.43 And the Wicked shall be full of shame and dishonour Dan. 12.2 The evil Angels also they are reserved for the Judgement of the great day Jude 6. And then Antichrist the Son of Perdition shall appear in his colours who shall be consumed and wasted continually by the Spirit of Christ preaching in the Gospel but his final abolishing and perdition shall be at the glorious Coming of Christ 2 Thess 7.8 Fifthly Then shall Christ sit in his Throne of Judgement Note as the Evangelists speak Then shall he sit upon the Throne of his Glory Matth. 25.31 and this Throne shall be like a flame of fire Dan. 7.9 So that the Wicked shall desire the Mountains to cover them from the sight of it Sixthly This done the Lord wall make separation between the Elect and the Reprobate as he doth here on Earth in the Church make separation between the Precious and the Vile by the fame of his Gospel preached Confer Mat. 3. Jer. 15. So will he by his own immediate Voice and Ministry of his Angels make a final separation in that day between the one and the other The Sheep which heard his Voice and testified their Faith by their innocency like Lambs they shall stand on his right hand They which contrarily testifie their Unbelief by their lasciviousness and lusts like Goates Ezek. 34.18 shall be set on his left hand Seventhly Every man's particular cause shall be tryed before this Judge by the Evidence which his Works shall give with him or against him 2 Cor. 5.10 We must all appear before the Judgment-Seat of Christ that every man may receive the things which are done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or evil Here the better to assure us of the truth and certainty of the Lord 's proceeding and of his particularizing of all things in this action the Holy Ghost tells us that the Lord hath as it were Books of Record to manifest all and every Work of Man and his Books be Three in Number First His Book of Providence which is the knowledge of all particular things past present and to come Psal 136.16 Secondly His Book of Judgement which is divided as it were into two parts First His Prescience or knowing every thing far more evidently than we know any thing recorded ii a Book before our eyes Secondly The second part of the Book of Judgement is the Conscience of every man standing before him which shall then be so qualified by the great Power of God that it shall be able to record and testifie so much of all his particulars as shall serve to testifie his Faith and Justification by Christ or his most just Condemnation without Christ The third Book is The Book of Life which is the Eternal Decree of God concerning the Salvation of all Believers by Christ whose Names be written in this Book that they being as God's precious Pearls of this Book Isa 4.3 Exod. 32.32 and of this distinction of Books Rev. 20.12 And I saw the dead both great and small stand before God and the Books were opened and another Book was opened which is the Book of Life and the dead were judged of those things which were written in the Books according to their Works And after that men's Works are made manifest by these Books then must they be tryed whether they be good or evil the Gentiles and Jews that never heard of Christ by the Law of Nature which shall prove them inexcuseable Rom. 2.12 16. The rest that have heard shall be tryed by the Law and Gospel vers 16. The Word of God shall serve as a Bill of Indictment for the just Condemnation of all such as have contemned the Law and Gospel of Jesus Christ Joh. 12.48 For the Sentence of the Judge in the last day of general Judgment shall be nothing else but a manifestation and declaration of the Sentence pronounced and published before by the Ministry and Preaching of the Gospel touching the Justification and Condemnation of every particular Person Now after the manifestation of all things and that every particular Conscience sees his blessed Justification by Christ or his just Condemnation by Unbelief and for his Works then the Judge shall proceed to his definitive Sentence and this is two-fold The first is pronounced to the Elect in these words Matth. 25.34 Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you before the beginning of the World This Sentence is full of affection and love most sweet and most comfortable recommending the free Grace of God their Election their Adoption and Blessedness in Christ and not their Works for the cause of their Salvation and then he addeth the Evidence of their Faith by the works of Mercy which they have done to his Members here on Earth I was hungery and you gave me to eat c. The Answer of the Saints saying When saw we thee an hungry c. argues that they are far from vain glory in their Works or seeking any Justification by them and Christ's last words to them Inasmuch as you did it to the least of these my Brethren c. gives us an infailable Argument of God's Child which is not to love because we arc loved again but to love for Christ's sake and the living Members of Christ because we see his Picture and Image in them renewed this is a special Grace of God and of this love speaks David Psal 16. All my delight is in his Saints which are in the Earth 1 Joh 3. The second Sentence pronounced against the Reprobates is Go ye Cursed into Hell fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels for I was hungry and you gave me no meat c. In which Sentence are contained a heap of woes present and to come for the present what can be more woful than to see so many admitted into the Kingdom of God and yet themselves shut out and