perish The reason heereof layeth in the nature of God his will and counsel answering his nature his nature being without variablenesse or shadowe of change as he telleth vs saying Mal. 3.6 I am Iehouah and I change not it is no way subiect to repentance to which Balam perfourmeth testimonie Nu. 23.19 God is not as man that hee should lye neither as the Sonne of man that he should repent hath hee said and shall he not doe it and hath he spoken and shall he not accomplish it It is Augustines apt inference Shall man say That I haue written I haue written which was Pilats speech of the title and inscription that was set vpon Christes Crosse and shall God goe from his hand wrighting or alter Let God be true and euerie man else a lyar that he may be iustified in his sayings cleere when he is iudged It is Christs asseueration 10. Argum. Iohn 10. No man can tyke my sheepe from my hands Heereupon it is concluded that the elect being deliuered by the father into the hands of his Sonne and ioyned vnto him by a liuely faith cannot be snatched from him It is Christ his gracious promise 11. Argu. Iohn 14. I wil aske my father he shal giue thee another comforter he shal abide with you for euer wherefore the holy Ghost dwelleth with them for euer with whome hee hath once bene If any thing could blotte or teare out our names out of the Booke of life 12. Argum. it is sinne For that is onelye to be feared Exo. 32.33 because God hath said whosoeuer hath sinned against me I will put him out of my Booke But this shall not scare vs as being to be vnderstood of preapared and presumptuous sinne which goeth downe to the graue with vs which a final impenitencie doth accōpany For as God could not be stopped by the foreseene sinnes of his Saints from making entrie of their names into the Lambes booke of life so when sin hath done the extent of his spight it shall neuer seperate his loue towards vs wherin it thus pleased him at the first to enrole vs. We are worthie whose names should be raced defaced as hauing shewed our sins as Sodom cast down our selues vpon the bedde of sinne as Iezabel vppon a bedde of fornication drinking iniquitie as an Asse drinketh water as Iob saith and drawing iniquitie with cordes of vanitie and sinne as it were with cart-ropes as Isaiah saith the Lord punisheth our iniquities by the rodde and our sinnes by scourges but his mercie will hee neuer take from vs it being tyed to vs by an euerlasting couenant Yea because wee are written vnto life by God wee shall not sinne contumaciouslie and stubbornely or continue in it as the wicked doe Our Faith may bee much perplexed with doubts ouershaddowed with cloudes shaken with tēpests winnowed by Sathan and the shield and breast plate thereof may be tryed to the vttermoste by all the fierye dartes of the deuill our faith may be challenged the field and endure a fierce fight and bee in an agonye and blodye sweate as Christ was in the garden it may bee as the last sparke of a fire readye to goe out as the last gaspe that a mans dying spirit giueth yet shall it kindle and recouer againe and in all these thinges be conqueror Bee the Sunne neuer so much vnder a cloude it will breake out againe and appeare vnto vs in his perfect beautie Though fire bee couered vnder ashes it will execute his nature Though the Philistimes take the Arke of the Lord they shall restore it to the Isralites againe These are aplycations to faith which howsoeuer assaulted with temptations and borne downe a while shal rise vp againe and haue the vpper hand of them the Lord being faithfull and iust not suffring vs to be tryed aboue that which wee are able to beare There is an Apoplexie of sinne in man which seemeth to stop his life altogether but he shall recouer againe Thus there was in Dauid an Apoplexie of adulterie which he ouercame thus there was an Apoplexie of idolatrie in Salomon which wee doubt not hee subdued thus there was an apoplexie of crueltie in Paule while he was a Saul which the Lord did driue from him thus there was an apoplexie of periurie in Peter which his repentance shooke off It is with a Christian as it was with Eutichus that fell from the third lofte and was taken vp dead of whome Paule said Trouble not your selues for his life is in him Act. 20. Be not ouer troubled deere friendes in the Lord the life of the inward man is in vs all howsoeuer Sathan would stifle and strangle it OUr election is in God 3. Argum. and not in man for election was before euer there was man For wee were elected as Paule saith Ephes 1.4 before the foundations of the world were laide at what time there was nothing but God wherefore our saluation is cock-sure as being wholye in God For what is the reason that the heauens keepe their certaine motions the Sunne Moone Starres their certaine courses the day and night their successiue returnes It is because the rule and gouernment of them is absolutely in God and not in any other creature whether Angel or man All thinges in God are stable and vnchangeable 14. Argum. wherfore his decree of our election is vnmooueable Gods election is eternall 15. Argu. that which is eternall is inuariable as admitting no beginning ending or changeing He that changeth his purpose 16 Argum. doth it in the sight hee hath of a better way or else because hee cannot compasse it Hence it is that being not able to doe as we would we doe as we can But be it farre from vs to thinke any of these in God For as his wisedome is vncreated nothing can be better then that he hath purposed as his power is illimmited and absolutely omnipotent it cannot as the armes of Sampson be manacled The reasons producted against this infallible diuinitie are simple God wot and wil hold no tacke with vs wee will single out the best and scatter them like foame They oppose this Text out of the Reuelation 1. Obiection Reuel 3. 1◠Hold that which thou bast that no man take away thy crowne that is to say they of beauenly glory to which the Apostles sentence hath reference 1. Cor. 10 Let him that thinketh be standeth take heede least be fall Wee answere that the Crowne there spoken of is the Crowne of the ministrie the spirit there directing admonitiō to the Bishop of Philadelphia to perseuerance in his function least being remisle and defectiue therein hee be deposed and another consecrated But let it carrie the construction they giue it they shall gaine nothing by it For the loosing of the Crowne of glorie is of double meaning 1. In respect of our selues 2. In respect of God In the first respect
amanuenses registers Scriueners to make enrolmēt of thē For as he numbreth the stars calleth thē al by their names as he keepeth tale of the haires of our head so as not one of thē fal away frō vs without his foreknowledge as his prouidēce stretcheth it self to the hādful of meale of the womā of zarepthah to the pitcher of oyle of the preachers widow to the fal of a sparrow frō the house top to the cloathing of the lilleis grasse of the field to the prouission of the young Rauens that call vpon him so much more keepeth hee a Kalender of our dooings and setteth our secret sins in the sight of his countenance Thus Metaphoricallie in this sence are Bookes giuen to God the spirit heere alluding to the custome of the wise to Princes Vniuersities Merchants Maisters of families and such like Princes vse to haue a bill of the names of such as appertaine vnto them that they may knowe what number they haue how to prouide for them in time So the Lord hath his court in heauen to which he hath not chosen al but some before the foundations of the worlde were laide Now the number and names of such he keepeth in as sure and sweet remembrance as if hee had put them into writing Tables for the purpose As God said to Moses I know thee by thy name Exo. 35.12 as Christ saith of himself to the Church Iohn 10.3 He calleth his owne sheepe by name else where Luk. 10.20 willing them to reioyce because their names were written in heauē Vniuersities doe the like when they admitte any into their corporation they cataloguize their names Merchants and Houshoulders serue their memories in matters of moment by notes that they keepe of them So this is the reason and cause of the Metaphor and the signification of the Bookes so often remembred in diuine learning Gods minde therfore is his book the Tables of our hearts are the writing Tables aswel as parchmēt skrolles wherein are thinges engrossed The omniscience of God is the writing it selfe Things are said to be written in a booke that is in the sacred secrets of his brest as he knoweth them altogether We finde three bookes giuen to God in the Scriptures 1. One is of his Prouidence foreknowledge of all things before euer they were 2. Another is of the iudgement 3. The other is of life The sweete singer of Israel saith Thine eyes did see my substance yet being imperfect Psal 139.16 and in thy booke were all my members written which day by day were facioned when as yet there was none of them There is the first booke of his prouidence foreknowledge 2. The second which is the book of iudgement hath two Tomes or volumes 1. The first is his vnderstanding of all our workes and wordes according to which hee will award Iudgement in the day of iudgement so as this is insteed of a rolle in Gods hand wherein the names of all delinquents are set downe and the qualitie of their dooings 2. The other Tome is the booke of euerie ones conscience which shall performe testimonie to things done and vndone which may also bee entitled the booke of life that is of this life which diuine operation in the conscience accusing or excusing scientia conscientiam the knowledge the conscience hath the name of a booke because in that in a manner is read whatsoeuer by the agent hath bene hid 3. The third book is inscribed the booke of life that is of Gods predestination to eternal life which is begun in this life by our stedfast faith in Christ according to the words of Christ Hee that beleeueth in me hath eternal life that is the inchoation first fruits therof after death it must haue consummation perfectiō So the book of life is a register or role in the Lords right hād of the names of such as are preordinated to euerlasting life whom God will alwaies acknowledge to be his Iohn 13.8 2. Tim. 1.19 as our Sauiour saith I knowe whom I haue chosen as St. Paule saith The Lord knoweth who are his This book is oftē spokē of in the scriptures as by Moses Exo. 32.32 when he saith Rase me out of thy book which thou hast written Psal 69.29 By Dauid Let thē be put out of the book of life not be writtē among the righteous By Isaiah he shal be called holy Isai 4.3 that shal be written among the liuing in Ierusalem Ezech. 13.9 By Ezechiel They shal not be written in the writings of the house of Israel By Daniel Dan. 12.1 Euery one shal be deliuered that shal be found written in the book The new Testament doth often intreate of it Luk. 10.20 Christ toucheth it saying Reioyce because your name is written in heauen that is in the book of life Phil. 4.3 so doth Paule when he saith I beleeue thee faithful yoake-fellow helpe those women which laboured with me in the Gospel with Clemēt also with other my fellow labourers whose names are in the book of life so doth the spirit elsewhere in the Reuelatiō There shal enter in it no vncleane thing Reuela 21.27 neither whatsoeuer worketh abhominatiō 〈…〉 Now these bookes shal be opened that is the Lord whose fiery eyes of his omnisciēce peirceth al things that holdeth the ball of the worlde in his hands and keepeth a perfect reckoning of our doings shal set euery ones seueral sinne in his sight And this diuine power shal smite open the doores of our cōsciences which shal cal to remēbrāce our forepassed misdeeds conuict condemne them For there is a booke that is writtē in our hearts which is of the workes of the law the Lord hauing imprinted in thē the notiōs of thē as naturally enduing the verye heathens with iudgement to deuide good from euill to discerne betweene thinges honest and dishonest that no man might hold vp for his defence the target of ignorāce This we shall soone perceiue by our cursory conference of the ten cōmaundements with their politick sanctions 1. Of the first which teacheth that there is a God whom we al stād bound to worship the Orator Cicero saith Cicero Legibus Nulla gens tam sera nulla tam barbara natio in quibus non misideat deorum opinio There is no natiō so wilde and barbarous that is not perswaded that there is a God The Athenians did set vp an Alter Ignoto Deo the vnknowne God Protagoras Act. 17. Abderites that said VVhether there be Gods or no I haue nothing to say was by the Athenians banished for it 2. To the second which is an inhibition of Idolatry the Persians gaue consent who as Strabo writeth 〈…〉 abhomination burned and destroyed their Temples and their Images Cornelius Tacitus storyeth it of the auncient Germaines that they held it verie vnbeseeming the heauenly Maiestie to mure him vp within
of this as it is of two sortes 1. The first is a wrighting in opinion and not indeede the iudgement of the faithfull which is led by charitie being led blind-folde by the Hypocrisie of many who make shewes of Godlynes vse strange fallacies betweene the Temple and the Alter to the enchauntment of their soules as staring vp with their eyes eleuating their hands smiting of their brests hanging downe their heads wagging their lippes sighing weeping and looking demurely with many such mockeries which easily coozen credulous charitable Christians But howsoeuer these haue a name that they liue the courtesie of Christians making the best construction of their painted profession and wrighting them in the Church booke they are not indeede in the wrightings of the house of Israel or in the legend of the liuing For the Lord will strippe them of these vaine shewes and bewray their hollowe hearts and discouer all their knauerie 2. The second sort is vncreated prescience and eternall foreknowledge by which he acknowledgeth and hath acknowledged those whom he hath preordinated to be his Of this saith Augustine Liber iste apertus non admonet deum qui sunt sernandi sed predestinationem eorum significat quibus aeterna dabitur vita Neque enim nescit eos Deus aut in hoc libro legit vt sciat sed potius ipsa eius praescientia de illis quae falli non potest liber est vite in quo sit scripti id est praecognitj This booke that is opened doth not learne God who are to bee saued but it signifieth the predestination of such to whome eternal life shall be giuen Neyther are they vnknowne to God neyther readeth hee in this booke to knowe them but rather his very foreknowledge it selfe of theÌ„ which caÌ„not be deceiued is the booke of life in which they are written that is to say foreknowne Now heere we are to open the vaine of the liuelyest and sweetest question in the Bible VVhether hee whose name is once entred into the booke of life may euer be blotted out that is whether an elect childe of God caÌ„ euer be a reprobate Our answere is negatiue that he caÌ„not the affirmatiue part is most detestable diuelish True faith doth not know what this meaneth to houer between hope feare as the Rauen ouer the Arke between heauen earth Our faith layeth holde vpon the omnipotencie of God as being in security of his wil it being ours by promises before the best witnesses in heaueÌ„ earth vnder the wrighting of his haÌ„d the seale of the blood of the Lambe whatsoeuer hee would haue vs beleeue hee hath liberallie promised of his owne accord which hee would neuer haue done had hee not minded to stand to his bargaine and to be as good as his word But let vs carrie away the cause from euerie gaine-sayer by the power and strong hand of argument Of the iust saith the Psalmist 1. ArgumeÌ„t salme 1. His leafe shall not fade as a tree planted by the right hand of God and ingrafted into the stocke Christ Iesus he so ordering their goings as they shall not turne aside to vngodly counsailes to the waies of the wicked or take vp the seate chaire of the scorneful The Prophet Isaiah speaking of the kingdome of Christ which is the church saith 2. ArgumeÌ„t Isai 9.7 He shal sit vpon his kingdome to order it and to stablish it with iudgemeÌ„t and Iustice from hence foorth euen for euer But this justice is established by faith in the regenerate by which we stand 1. Cor. 1. yea by which we liue Aba 2 If this be out of crie true of the whole church it cannot but be verified of euery singular member therof Ieremie pleasureth vs with as plaine a place as can be saying I wil put my feare in their hearts 3. Argumâ—â— Ier. 32.40 that they Shal not depart from me This so satisfied Augustine as he often to this purpose produceth it Hosea singeth the selfe same song taking his text from the Lordes owne mouth 4. Argumâ—â— Hose 2.19 I wil marry thee vnto me for euer in righteousnes I wil marry thee vnto mee in faithfulnes This Sermon is made to all the elect And the reason staÌ„deth thus Christ knitteth the indissoluble marriage knot with the Church faith being the marriage ring that ioyneth theÌ„ Therfore those whome hee hath thus conioyned to himselfe who shall put a sunder The Lord by the mouth of the Prophet Amos saith 5. Argumâ—â— Amos. 9 1â— I will plant thee vpon their land and they shall bee no more pulled vp againe out of their land The plaÌ„ts are the elect the plot wherein they are planted is the church as ingrafted into Christ they are planted therein by a true and liuely faith Now to these is this promise made they shall be no more pulled vp The Church is founded vpon a Rocke 6. ArgumeÌ„t Math. 7. which all the driuings of tempests cannot stirre that is the machinations of the deuil and all his darlings Hell gates shall not preuaile against this Rocke 7. Argume Math. 16. 8. Argum. Iohn 6.37 It is Christs saying All that the Father giueth mee shall come to me and him that commeth to me I cast not away For this is the will of my Father that sent mee that of all which he hath giuen mee I should lacke nothing but should raise it vp againe at the last day Here is the whole forme structure of our saluation and the compasse and dimensions of it For whereas the father hath giuen vs all to Christ 1. Heere is our election So that we holde of Christ as in Capite our mediator in whome wee were chosen before the ground-worke of the world was laide And whereas those that are thus giuen cannot bee kept from him but must come vnto him 2. There is our effectuall and liuely vocation our comming to Christ being by the feete of our faith nowe in that it is added that such as come vnto him he wil not cast away 3. There is our justification and the gift of perseuerance in Christ The conclusion I will raise him vp againe at the last day 4. Is the hand that pointeth at our glorification Vpon the former wordes of Christ 9. ArgumeÌ„s Rom. 8.29 the Apostle Paul paraphraceth in this wise Those whome he knew before he also predestinate and whome he predestinate them also he called and whome he called them also he justified and whom he justified them also he glorified which are the foure ringes and linckes of one chaine that are impartible let down from heauen to draw vs vp thither 1. The first is our predestination to life in Christ 2. The second is our effectual calling to Christ 3. The third is our Iustification by Christ 4. The fourth is our glorification with Christ The last cannot be brokeÌ„ from the first nor the first from the last wherefore it is impossible the predestinate should
which is of our selues there is nothing more certaine then that wee may loose it being so sinfull as wee are and death and not glorye being the stipend of iniquitye But second in respect of God that hath chosen vs of Christ in whom we are chosen this crown can neuer be taken from our heades being set on by him that can neuer repent himselfe of any thing that he dooth Whereas they obiect to vs the churches of the Ephesians Thessalonians 2. Obiect Ephes 1.4 1. Thes 14 1. Pet 1.1 and scattered Iewes who were called Elect by the Apostles and yet manie of them afterward were relapsed wee answere that there are two sortes of judgements 1. There is a judgement of certainty 2. There is a judgement of charitie 1. That which is of certaintye is in God onely it is in men but in part so farre foorth as they haue certificat from God of any mans estate 2. But that which is of charitye is belonging to vs all it being our parte to leaue the Lordes sacred secrets to himselfe and to iudge the best of euerie one that giueth his name to Christ maketh a good profession and sheweth the fruites thereof in outward conuersation God hauing reuealed to vs nothing to the cōtrary 2. Also the elect are so called of the chiefe part as an heape of corne is called corne though it standeth moste vppon chaffe But they thinke they hold vp Alax his shield vnto vs when they tell vs of that which Moses saith 3. Obiection Exod. 32. Blot me out of the Booke of life 1. I wil not answere them that that is ment of the Booke of the Lawe which hee had penned as some men doe because it is a base exposition and vnworthye a man of such a spirit as if hee had throwne out these wordes in his hastinesse and heate of his blood 2. Neyther will I vnderstand them of the Booke of this present life as if hee chose rather to bee strangled then to liue in his bones albeit manye Captaines are content to dye for the common good and therefore some would charge vs with this sence But because it seemeth as golde that is too light we wil not receiue it 3 Neyther shall I giue them reference to the book of the couenant to the Catalogue of communion of Saints of the church as if Moses would be out of the Rubrick in the Kalender of the church because we take it that Moses had a further prospect and a higher reach then this 4. Wherefore wee will willingly receiue the meaning they doe like of that is of depriuation of eternall life as if hee should haue said put mee out of thy predestination booke implying this condition if it be possible But he knewe it to be impossible If anie shall thinke it an absurditye in him to come in with an impossible conditiō I choake them with the like of our Sauiour Christ who not being ignorant that he could not possible auoide the deadly cuppe of the red wine of Gods wrath that was giuen him to drinke yet put vp this forme of petition to his father Father if it bee possible let this Cup passe from me The like prayer hath Dauid against his enemies 4. Obiect Psal 69.29 Let them be blotted out of the book of life wee reply thus to that that their names were neuer in the booke of life but in the charitable opinion of men whom their hypocrisie beguiled This Doctrine is much vseful but the chiefest grace it hath is the cōfort it giueth vs in the greatest tēptatiōs that besiedge vs while we haue in liuely louelye remembrance the loue of God towards vs wherby wee are grauen with an iron penne in leade or stone for euer in the Booke of Gods minde and so can neuer bee expugned or forsaken VVhy then should wee bee afraide in the daies of euill when the iniquities compasse vs to the beeles It is Dauids sweete aphorisme with the double spirit of Elias to haue a plause and aclamation giuen vnto it I know nothing more detestable to God and dangerous to our selues then to dispaire of Gods mercie which is to turne his truth into a lye and set Sathans suggestions before his gracious promises Wherfore we are of Hieroms minde that Iudas his treason was not so great as Iudas his desperation The reason whereof is giuen by Isidore because his transgression was but the death of the soule but his desperation the introduction into the verie hell of damnation Wherfore put but off the helmet of this hope which couereth the braine panne and the Target of faith which hideth the heart and we perish vnquestionably Wherfore be we not worser then Lyons to rise vp against our selues but behold the Lambe of God whose blood let it bee sprinckled on the dore postes of your hearts One deep swalloweth vp another the depth of his mercies the depth of our sinnes Desperation is a disease incurable For the Phiscitian would put to his helping hand and recouer vs and wee with our nailes vndoe all againe Nil miserius misero non miserante seip sum Nothing is more miserable then a miserable man that commiserateth not himselfe Though it was the saying of an heathen a Christian well may vse it Qui nihil potest sperare desperit nihil He that can hope for nothing let him dispaire of nothing Christ hath sowed in teares that wee might reape in ioy He hath troden the wine-presse of Gods wrath that wee might drink the wine of his loue be drunken with it He hath borne the heate and burden of the day that the wages might be ours He hath giuen vs a cup of saluation that we drincking it down might driue away all dread and desperation wherefore we hold vp our heads stand fast against all the assaults of our enemies in this life after which we shal enioy the place to which we haue of old by the Father been written and prepared and which by Christ of late hath bene purchased to which by the spirit vnto the day of redemption we are sealed Now to these three persons one eternall and euerliuing God bee all honor praise power thankes-giuing ascribed in the congreation of Christ Iesu now and for euer Amen FINIS
of Socrates because all the cares of their life are but to liue Non viuit cui nihil est in mente nisi vt viuat He liueth not that mindeth nothing but to liue or as the Romaine Emperor said cui nihill in vita dulcius est vita to whome nothing in this life is sweeter theÌ„ life whose estate therein is no better then a stone viuit et lapis saith St. Augustin a stone it selfe liueth But they are dead dead againe as St. Iude saith to be plucked vp by the rootes Mar. 11.13 as the Fig-tree blasted by Christ his lippes dead by natural vegetation dead by spiritual execration From the subiect of the resurrection we are led by the hand of the Text to the tractat of the iudgement And first to the circumstance of the persons in the iudgement to bee tryed Al great and small without any difference of sex or sorte So saith Esay in the person of God Isai 45.23 Euerie knee shall bowe vnto 〈◊〉 c St. Paule confirmeth it saying VVe shal all appeare before the iudgement seate of Christ Ro. 14.10 not one shall escape so he concludeth it in the same place fiue or one of vs 〈◊〉 giue accounts of himself to God Ro. 14.12 Iohn 5. This proposition is alwaies indefinitely deliuered All that are in the graues shal heare the voice of Christ and come foorth to iudgement All nations shal bee gathered before him Mat. 13.15 Hee shall giue to euerie one according to his works Wherefore the Lordes judgement is compared to a Barbers Raser which shall haue the haire of the head and the feete euen the hyest and the lowest the Pesant and the Prince Isai 7.20 Isai 8.8 It is compared to a violent rage of waters which shall not onely fil the channells and the vallies below but shall couer the toppes of the prowdest mountaines Men lay their nettes for the smaller fish but the Lord traÌ„meleth for the great Leuiathan Iob. 40.20 and casteth a line vnto his tongue and peirceth his nostrilles with a hooke Isai 27.1 he hath Tewe for the great Dragon the crocodile in the waters as the prophet Esay saith There is no running behinde a tree with Adam behinde a Tent with Sara or couering our selues with a vaile with Thamar There is no running into the hoales of Rockes or into the Caues of the earth from the glorie of his Maiestie The Mountaines cannot couer vs the hilles caÌ„not hide vs from the anger of him that sitteth vpon the Throne and of the Lambe Isai 22. Psalme 62. Ioel. 2.9 Though we make our nest in a Rock yet shall we bee as a tottering wall and as a broken hedge Gods iudgement shall runne vpon the wall climbe vp vpo the houses enter in at the windows like a Theefe No secret or sacred place shall then shrowde vs â—ephan 1 but Ierusalem shall bee searched with lanterns whereby make coniecture what shall bee become of Babilon When the judgement of waters came vpon the first world there was an Arke and a Barke to rescue Noah and his famely When the iudgement of fire licked vp Sodom and Comorra like drie stubble yet Lot was exempted and the little Citie Zoar appointed him to runne vnto But the vniuersal iudgement spareth none there is no couenant to be made with it Isa 30.33 Wisd 6. Tophet is prepared for the King and the mightie shall be mightely tormented The Lord puts this text into his seruant Ieremies mouth Say vnto the King the Queene Humble your selues Iere. 13.18 sit downe for the Crowne of your glorie shall come downe The greate mountaine before Zorobabell shall be made plaine it is the prophecie and aphorisme of the Prophet Corrupt Iudges shal then stand at the Barre before their judge and be condemned as Shebna was Isai 22.8 The jdle jdoll Bishopes and Ministers shall then be cut of in that day as he once cut of three of theÌ„ in a moneth Zach. 11.8 Blasphemers who now throwe out oathes as mad men throwe stones shall be sentenced to death Leui. 24.10 as that Sonne of the Egiptian was that was ouerwhelmed with stones and died False witnesses Zach. 11.5 vnder the burden of whom the earth now groaneth shall then be serued with a witnes shall reape the fruite their wickednes haue plowed as the accusers of Daniel were handled Dan. 6.24 All theeues and especially the Clerophagi of our time that ingrosse the patrimonie of the Church and say among themselues Come let vs take to our selues the house of God in possession who haue alreadie broken downe the carued workes therof with axes hammers shall be condemned in the iudgement with Achan who stole a wedge of golde and a Babilonish garment Josue 7. and bee led to execution All Polititians counterfeit Christians that look vnder the brow and runne with the streame and tide of the times to engrosse the prosperitie and plenteousnes thereof shall in the iudgement be stroken out of life Actes 5. as Ananias and Saphira were Our Popish heretiques and all maintainers of Hereticall Prauitie and Purloyners and Barterers of Gods holy misteries rather then they shall want executioners their own parents shal be glad of the office Zach. 13.3 shal thrust theÌ„ through Finally let all the sort of Schismatiques that fight vnder the standard of their grand Captaines Korah and his complices Numb 16. and would vnioynt gouernment tremble at their judgement the earth opening and swallowing vp Dathan and couering the congregation of Abiram Of which saith saint Augustin Quis dubitauerit hoc esse sceleratius coÌ„missum quod est grauius vindicatum Who dooth doubt that this is heynously committed which is of the Lord so highlye punished When a Noble man in case of treason is brought to Westminster Hal to be arraigned the people in admiration thereof runne in flocks and heapes thither But what a sight will there bee that judgement Hall where the Lord wil hold his Assises so many Princes PoteÌ„tates shal staÌ„d without gard or retenue naked trembling yearning eating their tongues through griefe shal receiue sentence not onely capital but eternall If al the bodies that euer were borne might bee now seene in one heape what a fearefull spectackle would it make but there shall bee this obiect in the generall iudgement to strike vs all with amazement 2. The next circumstaÌ„ce is the maner of the trial iudicial proceeding with the persons coÌ„uented in the iudgment that is by the bookes euidences that are put in against theÌ„ wherin what is ment by these bookes how many bookes there are it is to be coÌ„sidered By the bookes I vnderstaÌ„d the certaine infallible knowledge of God his remeÌ„brance care of al things especially of such as coÌ„cerne his choseÌ„ ones so as their nuÌ„ber names are before his eyes as if he had