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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93931	A second champion, or, Companion to truth: Wherein is shewed these particulars, or tenets. 1 Of miracles. 2 The reasons wherefore so few imbrace the gospell. 3 Of the first covenant, and the second covenant. 4 Of the father and the son. 5 Of Heaven. 6 Of Hell. 7 Of Glory. 8 Of faith. 9 Of the resurrection, and the eternall judgement. 10 Of visible worship. 11 A postscript. By Richard Stookes preacher of the Gospell	Stooks, Richard, fl. 1651-1652.	1650 (1650)	Wing S5740cA; ESTC R231910	98,234	235

as darknesse in respect of the great Judge for the Judge himselfe shall be their everlasting Light being indeed the great Court of Heaven more cleare then the Sunne for the light thereof doth darken the light of the Sunne and Moone which makes it appeare that this glorious Judge and this glorious Court of Heaven will not be so soone removed 6. The Bookes are to be opened and every man is to be judged according to those things that are written in those Bookes and there must be a time to open the Bookes and a time to judge and examine every matter and every person particularly according to his deeds whereby it doth appeare that the great Court of Heaven will not be so soone removed 7. The pleading of the Prisoners at the Bar doth make it appeare that the Court shall not be removed for the Prisoners at the Bar of Justice will plead and say Lord in thy name we have Prophesied and cast out Devills and done many wonderfull workes And when saw we thee in Prison or in sicknesse or hungry or naked or the like whereby it doth appeare that the pleading of Prisoners and the answerings of the Judge doth hold forth a longer time to us then we suppose to sit in judgement 8. If every Person should not be called to account in particular there might be some excuse in the Creature for then they might say I nor I was not judged but the Iudge will not passe over things so lightly for they are matters upon Life and Death 〈◊〉 upon eternall life and death and therefore ●●oth appeare that the great Iudge will examine every man to the full with every particular thing and with so many Millions of thousands to be judged in particular doth make it appeare that the great Iudge cannot be so soon removed 9. Christ saith that the Apostles shall sit upon twelve Thrones and shall judge the twelve Tribes of Israel even such as are revolted from Iesus Christ and have rejected grace and mercy offered them in the Sonne and have shed the blood of the Prophets and Apostles through their wickednesse and therefore it doth appeare that Christ will make his twelve Apostles to sit downe upon twelve Thrones and they shall be the great Iury-men of Christ to give in their verdict for life or death and what they doe shall be approved of by Christ for the Iewes being a most wise and subtill people shall have the more able Iudges to deale with them and who are more fit for that worke then the Apostles who shall be the grand Iudges or the grand Iury to give in their evidences to the chiefe Judge against them and the Judge also consenting to their judgement For whose sinnes they remit they shall be remitted and whose sinnes they retaine they shall be retained And this being so it doth appear that the Court shal not be so soon removed Mat. 19. 28. Luk. 22. 30. 10. The Apostles shall judge the Angels and give judgement against them and when will that be but at the great day for they are reserved in chaines of darknesse untill the great day and then shall they appear before the Grand Jury who shall give their Judgement against them and deliver them to the chiefe Judge who shall passe sentence upon them for ever to be cast into the anger and wrath of the Almighty for this is the great day of judgement which hath been spoken of so long before which will not be ended in a small time 11. It is said that the Saints shall judge the world and that cannot be in a small time seeing there is so many millions of thousands to be judged with the examination of every particular action and yet they will not be idle all the time nor rejourne the Court like idle Judges for it shall be no night all the time of the judgement neither will they stir untill they have accomplished that great work● for I conceive there will be as much hastening of the worke as may be even round about the Throne and the twelve Patriarchs judging those before the Flood with the twelve Apostles judging those under the Law and the Ministers of the Gospel judging those under the Gospel for it is said The Saints shal judge the world 1 Cor. 6. 2. And al these great things cannot be done in a small time for all the Prisoners pleading at the Bar on the one side the Judges giving sentence on the other side with their examining of all causes doth make it appear that this great Court will not be so soon removed as some think 12. The Scripture doth declare that after the new heavens and earth are made that the Saints shall reign with Christ in abundance of glory which I conceive must be all the time of the judgement for it will not be before the new heavens and earth as the Scripture seems to hold forth but after the new heavens and earth and then will the Lord Jesus come and all the Saints with him and then shall the Saints reigne in glory even all the time of the sitting of the great Judge which I beleeve will be the account of a thousand yeares and about Jerusalem shall be the Throne of their glory and they shall be filled with the fulnesse of delight in all that time and then will the dwelling of God be with men and they shall be the new Jerusalem being cloathed with their house from heaven and God shall wipe away all teares from their eyes For there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying nor any paine for all their former troubles being passed away for Jerusalem will be more glorious then ever it was in the world before with her gates and wals most glorious and such a glorious City it will be as never yet was seen the glory of which place will enlighten both heaven and earth and shall darken all the host of heaven being a place for the Saints of the most High where they shall rest all the time of the sitting of the great Judge for this will be a new Jerusalem indeed a place of glory untill the great Judge hath finished his worke upon the earth and in this new Jerusalem of the Saints there shall be no Temple nor any worship injoyned for this will be all their work to offer up praises unto him that shall sit upon the Throne for the Father and the Son are the Temple of this glorious City and this City wil have no need of Sun or Moon for the Father and the Son will be the light thereof and all the Nations which shall be saved shall walk in the light of this City and there shal their glory be for the Gates of this City shal not be shut at all by day for there shal be no night and this wil be a glorious rest for the Saints all the fitting of the great Judge Re. 22. And then shall the Lord roar out of Zion and utter his voyce from Jerusalem

gloriously the Lord wil come to prepare a place for Judgement and how mighty and spacious it wil be even a mighty Valley which is not able to be expressed so spacious and so large that it might be fit to entertaine such a number that no man knowes but himselfe and thither shal all Nations be gathered to be judged as the Scripture seemes to hold forth saying Proclaime ye among the Gentiles prepare watre wake up the mighty men and let all the men of war come neare let them come up and here the Prophet shewes you what the Lord Christ wil say at that day saying Beate your Flow-shares into Swords and your Pruning-bookes into Speares let the weake say I am strong wherein Christ shews all Nations their weaknesses when they shal come before him to Judgement assemble your selves and come all ye Heathen and gather your selves together round about thither wilt thou cause thy mighty ones to come downe O Lord and thus the Prophet in this Verse holds forth the glorious appearing of Christ with all his Host and then shal all the Heathen be wakened and come to the valley of Iehoshaphat or the valley of threshing for there wil the Lord sit to judge all the Heathen round about for all their wickednesse is at the full Ioel 3. 9 10 11 12 13. for there wil the Lord ●●ster ●p hi● great Army for his campe is very great and multitudes multitudes shal be in the valley of threshing for then the day of the Lord is neare in the valley of division or threshing and then shall the Sun and the Moone be darkned and the Starres shall with-draw their shining for the glory of Christ and his Angels shall darken the Host of Heaven and then shall the Lord the great Judge of Heaven and Earth roare out of Zion and shall utter his voyce from Jerusalem and the Heavens and the Earth shall shake for the Lord will number all his forces and then there will be the noyse of a multitude in the Mountaines a tumultuous noyse of the Nations gathered together and the Lord of Hosts himselfe mustereth the Host to see if there be any wanting for he will not misse a man being able to call them all by their names and then shall the Lord at that day sit downe in Judgement and all the Prisoners be shut up together as in a Prison and a wall of fire being round about them with that mighty guard of Angels to attend the Prisoners and after many dayes they shall be visited or found wanting being judged in order after their Ages and Generations and then shall the Moone be confounded and the Sun ashamed at the glory of the Lord his glory darkning all the Host of Heaven when the Lord of Hosts shall reigne in mount Zion and before his ancients gloriously 12. And lastly the question wil be how long this Judgement shal last and how long this great Judge wil be in judging all the world Now some conceive that it shal be in the twinckling of an eye but that is very unlikely to be for then how can Christ be said to sit upon the Throne and to sit in Judgement there can be but a little sitting in the twinckling of an eye Secondly some thinke it to be a naturall day that Christ shal sit in Judgement but that is but a small sitting to sit a naturall day for such a great worke as to judge all the world wil his glory no longer appeare in Judgement then for a day Shall not the great Judge of heaven and earth surmount all the Judges in the world in the time of his Judgement who can counter-pane him in Judgement for the time of his sitting he is no hired Judge he sits at his owne cost and charges and all his mighty company he cannot want any thing in the time of his sitting for all is his and therefore I conceive hee wil sit a longer time for one day with the Lord is as a thousand yeares and a thousand yeares as one day and therefore I conceive the Judgement shal be longer then some suppose even for a thousand yeares and for the proofe of the same I shal give you my Reasons 1. Because one day with the Lord is as a thousand yeares and a thousand yeares as one day 2 Pet. 3. and therefore the Judgement may be for a thousand yeares 2 Because it is called a great and notable day more gloriously noted then other dayes as wel in respect of time as in the great works of it and therefore by this day must be meant a longer time then a naturall day being called the judgement of the great day and the great day of his wrath for if the day was lengthened in the time of Joshua much more shal it be lengthened in the day of Christ Act. 2. 20. Iud. 6. Revel 6. 7. 3. Because the glorious comming of Christ shal darken the Sun and Moone and all the Host of Heaven for what is the light of the Sunne to the light of Christ from whence all light doth proceed and by this it doth appeare that Christ shal sit a longer time then some suppose and shal enlighten the earth with his glory and that all his enemies may see the glory and excellency of his person to the admiration of all the earth 4. Because he is said to sit in the Judgement and on the throne of his Majesty for the ancient of dayes shal sit and execute judgement as doth appeare for saith Daniel I beheld till the thrones were cast downe even all the glory of the wicked when the ancient of dayes did sit whose garment was white as snow and the baire of his head like pure wooll his throne was like the fiery flame and his wheels were like the burning flame a fiery streame issued and came forth before him thousand thousands ministred unto him and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him and the Bookes were opened and I saw in the night Visions and behold one like the Son of Man came with the clouds of heaven and came to the ancient of dayes and they brought him neare before him and there was given him dominion and glory and a Kingdom that all Nations and Languages should serve him an everlasting dominion which shall not passe away Dan. 7. 13 14. for thus saith the Lord Let the Heathen be awakened and come to the valley of Jehoshaphat for there wil I sit to judge all the heathen round about Joel 3. 12. and many Scriptures more I might bring to shew you that the great Judge must sit in Judgement to shew unto us that it is a larger time then some conceive by his sitting 5. The comming of Christ being so glorious that it shal darken all the Host of Heaven for the Sun and the Moone shal not give forth light being so glorious a light in place but shal be at a stand as amazed and confounded in themselves and all their light being but