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The vvorlds assises. Or A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the tenth day of Iuly 1614. being the Sunday before the end of Trinity terme. By Nathanael Kitchener, student in diuinitie, and preacher of Gods word at Grauenhurst in Bedfordshire
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Kitchener, Nathanael, d. 1620.
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but labour and sorrow cut off and we soone gone Psal 90 10. And Hier. saith Sin amplius vixerimus If wee liue aboue 80. yeeres it is no life to be called but a death rather Now when we die the world is at an end with vs we goe to the house of our age and come forth no more to tell any tales Wherfore Iesus make vs ready against death comes and then Mercy will make vs happy when iudgemēt coms The very period of the Iudgement time some say shall be at midnight Quia illahora Angelus Egyptum deuastauit eademque hora electos suos de mundo liberabt Because in that houre say they the Angel did slay the First-borne in Egypt and that in that houre will hee deliuer his elect from Egypt of this world Some say Econtra The iudgement time shall be in the day either because the Prophets doe call it The day of the Lord Or else because that night if the time of night shall be as bright as the day Others say whose opinion Isodore citeth that The generall Resurrection shall be in the same night wherein our Sauiour made his Resurrection that is On Easer euen a the feast of the Pasouer and for that cause saith hee many in the Primitiue Church of the faithfull did watch that whole night as expecting the Iudges comming if we may beleene this Author But these men I answere first with that worthy father Haec est fidei regnla dixit Christus dixit Apostulus This is the rule of Faith to say Thus said Christ thus the Apostle Now this is more then Christ or his Apostles saide and so more then you or I must beleeue Next for that they speake of the Night time I answere either with Aug. It shal be Nocte rerum In the niht of the knowledge of actiōs Non temporum Not in the night seasn of time Or els I say with he meaning of the Text He shall come in the night that is Suddenly vnexpected when no man so much as dreameth on his then comming and as in the night things are done that men know nor so that time shall be when men thinke not This is sure whensoeuer it shall be A Trumpe shall blowe Inerrorem To terrifie As Theophilact in Mat. 24 ait And a shrill cry shall bee so lowde that All Soules in Heauen and Hell and bodies in the graue shal heare and at the hearing thereof appear before the Iudge Who as Beda in cap. 21. Lucae saith Ea forma electis apparebit qua in monte apparuit reprobis vero in ca forma qua in Cruce pependit Sall appeere to his chosen in that forme wherein hee appeared to Peter lames and Iohn on the mountaine that is gloriousl his face and clothes glistering Mat. 17.2 But to the reprobate hee shall appeare in that forme and shape which he had when hee hanged on the Crosse Let vs then who desire and hope for saluation worke it by faith and serue God here that that blessed day may be welcome to vs hereafter and how God will be serued Old Hier. tels you It will bee better by Aduerbs then by Verbs Videat quisque vt bonum opus bene bona intentione faciat quia non bonum facere sed bene facere laudabile est non enim in eo quod facimus sed quod bene facimus Let euery one saith he do good workes well and with a good minde for the praise is not in the doing good but in the doing well Example be the Pharisie he did good I fast twisea week I giue tythes of all I possesse I am no Extortioner vniust adulterer Lu. 18.2 But he did not well for he wanted a good intention which hee had not and waned not a proud heart which he had Wherefore he said Not like this Publican Ver. 2. And Christ saide Not iustified Vers 14. Thus all vnregenerate persons may doe Bonum Good but not Bne Well they cannot doe good well because they haue not in the sight of God a good will the person before God is not plausible because bee wants Faith nor the worke to GOD acceptable sith it wants not sinne What is not of Fath is sinne Romanes 14.23 3. The end to iudge the world is the third part of my text and this third part is taken in fiue sneses First for all creatures in the world Secondly for all mankinde Thirdly for the elect Fourthly for the reprobates Fifthly for the desires of the world as lusts of the yes desire of the heart pride of life and in the second senese for all mankinde is worlde in my text properly taken for God shall iudge all mankinde good and badde and bring them all to iudgement In the twentieth Chapter of the Reuelation and twelfth verse Saint Iohn saw the dead both great small stand before God for their iudgeent and the bookes were opened and euory one was iudged acording to the things written in those bookes and the Sea gaue vp her dead and death hell gaue vp his dead A question is heere mooued how the damned soules in hell and the Diuels the fallen Angels shall be iudged at the last day that are iudged already at this day Solu I answere that in respect of condemnation they shal not at the last day be iudged seeing they before hand are condemned by Gods eternall decree by his word by their owne consciences but in regard of aggrauation they shal be iudged because their pains shall be increased themselues strictly lookt vnto for hurting the godly any more In this world Peter was sitted Iob was wounded in the next world they are and shall be blessed the blessed shal be crowned crowned with a crowne of immortality white array Apoc. 3.5 And thus much by the way let me tell you as I passe along this third part of my text that White shall be the last apparell that we shall lastly weare it shall be the last weare which we shall weare and it wil weare lastingly euen so long as this mortall shall weare immortality after this mortall hath put on immortality White is a colour betokening purite and so the fitter colour for Heauen where al 's is Puritie It is the colour which wee shall haue in Heaen where no impure nor vncleane thing is Ephe. 5.5 This white was the colour wherewith Christ was mocked and this where shall bee the colour wherewith wee shall be crowned White was a color wherewith Christ was clad when hee was in miserie Luk. 23.15 And white shall bee that colour wherewith wee shall be clothed when we are in maiestie In the 1. of Iohn chap. 3. ver 2. It is said Wee shall bee like vnto him that is as Caluin saith Corpus nosrum humile reddet conforme corpori suo glorioso Hee shall make our clay bodies like his gloriou body And in the 17. of Mat ver 2. the Text saith When he ea transfigured his face didshine like the Sonne and his