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A47577	The great assizes or Generall day of judgement being the laying forth the state of man in righteousnesse, and the cursed condition of the wicked. And the accounts that every man must give at the generall resurrection. By William Knowles the unworthiest of God's people, yet servant to Christ, and B. of P.	Knowles, William.	1662 (1662)	Wing K732; ESTC R221971	11,062	31

of everlasting damnation Lay up no treasures on earth take care neither for any thing for to morrow thou mayst go to thy grave Then happy is he that hath laid up treasures in Heaven to all eternity where moth nor rust cannot corrupt nor Thieves break thorow nor steal For Heaven and Earth must passe away and fly from the presence of God and not one tittle of the Gospel of Christ shall passe away O England beware of Gods heavy wrath and severe judgements against thée for thy rebellious sinning against him the Lords wrath will consume thée except spéedy repentance he hath stretched out his hand of affliction on the Land as a toll to the day of Doom And it shall come passe saith the Lord at that day I will search with Candles and punish the men that are settled in their lees that saith in their heart the Lord will not do good neither will he do evil therefore their goods shall become a booty and their houses a desolation they shall also build houses but not inhabit them they shall plant Vineyards but not drink the Wine thereof the great day of the Lord is near and hasteth greatly even the voice of the day of the Lord the mighty men shall cry then bitterly that day is a day of wrath a day of trouble and distresse a day of wastnesse and desolation a day of darknesse and gloominesse a day of CLOVDS and thick darknesse a day of tumpeting and alarum against the fenced Cities and against the high Towers and distresse I will bring upon wicked men that they shall walk like blind men because they have sinned against the Lord and their blood shall be poured out as dust and their flesh as the dung neither their Silver nor their Gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lords wrath give good regard to this you rich men who like the great fishes of the sea eateth up the poor small fishes but those the Lord speaks in Micah 6.12 15. the rich men are full of violence shall I account them pure that uses false ballance with baggs of deceitfull weights no I rather account him a deceiver of the poor and at this generall day he cannot be able to stand before the Iudgement seat of Christ but will be by his own Conscience prest from the presence of God wishing the Hills to cover him and hide him from the presence of the Almighty but when that the word of sentence is past he must depart to that lake of Fire that burneth for ever where there is wéeping and gnashing of téeth from which place O mighty God deliver us but if a man will be willing to loose his life to save it he shall arive to his desired Haven which is a Heavenly Ierusalem and glorious throne of Christ as mystically it was put for those prophesies to John in the Rev. 21.9 10 27. and there came unto me one of the seven Angels and talked with me saying come hither and he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high Mountaine and shewed me that great City descending out of Heaven from God having the Glory of God and his light was like unto stone most precious even like a Jasper stone clear as Christall and had a Wall great and high and had twelve Gates and at the Gates twelve Angels which are the manner of the twelve Tribes of the Children of Israell there was three Gates on the North three on the South three on the West three on the East and the Walls of the City hath twelve foundations and in them the names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb and the City lyeth four square the length and the bredth and the height of it are equal the building of the walls of it was of Jasper and the City was pure Gold like unto clear Glass the Foundation thereof was grounded with precious stones and the twelve Gates were twelve Pearls and the Gates of this City were pure Gold as it were transparent Glass and no temple is therein for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the Temple of it This City of Heaven hath no néed of the light of the Sun or of the Moon for the glory of God and the Lamb is the light thereof and also there proceedeth out of the Throne of God and the Lamb a pure river of water of Life as clear as Chrystal and in the midst of the street was the Tree of life which bears twelve manner of fruits and yieldeth her fruit every month and the leaves of the tree was for the healing of Nations there is no night there and they need no Candle neither light of the Sun for the Lord God giveth them light and they shall raign for ever and ever these sayings my Friends are faithfull and true for the Lord God hath shewed unto his Servants the thing which must shortly be done Oh beloved consider the Glory of this Heavenly Jerusalem no man is able to imagine or conceive the wisdome of God and the Honour and Glory of the Lamb and his amarous Throne which is the Portion of the Righteous and their greatest reward For behold saith God I come quickly and my reward is with me to give to every man according to his works what are our works by which we must be Iudged Oh Base and Filthy more worse then the Beast of the Field we work nothing that 's good we act mischiefe continually to the Face of God by our most Debauched Swearing and Cursing Whordome and Drunkennesse Pride and Covetousnesse Extortionall Idolatry and Deceitfull Living and Murmuring at the handy works of God but lo the portion of those wicked men is to be burned in a lake of Fire which burneth for ever and ever they will be Tormented with the memory of things past present and to come the Rich man will think of his Fidelity that is past his punishment at present and his intolerable Torments to come You Rich Men be convinced and make not a god of your Riches but make such uses of your Tallents that GOD hath lent you be'st thou a King Rule in Peace Execute Iudgement upon Mercies spread forth the Gospell of Christ throughout the whole Dominions and you Iudges and Magistrates in chiefest Iudge equity and right give Iustice to the Poor as well as to the Rich let not the Ballance of Wickednesse out-weigh the Book of Life nor hide nothing from God for his all-séeing eye doth bring secret things to a clear light for what is done in your secret Courts will be proclaimed on the house Top to you Lawyers recall your selves to remembrance what Law is let not handfuls of Gold and Silver carry you from a rightfull Case be you a pleader for the poor and redéem them from an earthly bondage and your Saviour will plead for you and Iudge you according at the great Assizes and redéem you Next you Ministers of God measure out the Fruits of Righteousnesse to the People sound forth the Gospell with boldnesse rehearse nothing but sound Doctrine which prodéeds from the spirit of truth and he as a shining light by your zeal and conversation and lay aside all Superstition Popery Schisme or Heresie which hath bred Destruction in the Land And lastly to you People in General of what degrée soever or opinion Take these few Rules and Administrations before I end or quite conclude my Book to you Learned search you the Scriptures and you 'l find me not to diminish the word of God the Law of the Lord then practise and follow what you find Writ in the Old and New Testament and to the Ignorant People I advise you to hearken to the Learned and to those that Preaches the Gospell and what they commend unto you and lay it to heart and search out your Salvation with Fear and Trembling First séek to find God in your hearts then learn to know him he acquainted with him for if you never séek to know him how should you ever think to live with him you think in your hearts how should we know him that we nere beheld with our mortall Eyes no my Friends you must sée him spiritually and not mortally for no mortall eyes is able to behold his exceeding magnificent Glory he sent Christ in the Flesh because we should believe but for all this yea for all the means he can use we will not believe him yet you say you believe there is a God but wherein doe you believe for if you believe aright how dare you to offend so great a God no my Friends if you believe aright you 'l séek to please him and not offend him but fear his Iudgements and trust in his Mercy for he is slow to anger and of great kindnesse Therefore beloved Conclude with me with these sayings fear God and keep his Commandements and then you may hope to believe aright prepare your selves against this great day of the Lord for unto you that fear my name it will be a day of joy and rejoycing a day of fidelity mirth and gladnesse with eternal Bliss when the Wicked man shall lie and be Cursed with Curses the Plagues of Hell Tormanting him the Memory of things past oppressing him the howle of fearfull Divels affrighting him the heavy wrath and curse of God hang over him and worst of all the Everlasting Torments to come which doth strike him in everlasting despair our wordly pains are wonderfull to be endured were we but to sit still a month and ne're to move to ly in Prison seven years to hold our hands in Fire for an hour to be stormed to Death is nothing to this unknownable Torment of our earthly torment the Tormented or the Tormentor dieth and hath an end but the Pains of Hell hath never end For the Grace of our magnificent God the Father and the Glory of his Sonne our Saviour accompanied with the holy Ghost defend us from Hell and bring us to Heaven to raign with him from everlasting to everlasting Amen All Christian men where ere you dwell Prepare both great and small Seek to avoid the pains of Hell And find this heavenly Hall FINIS

of the Acts if the dayes be not shortned there shall be no flesh saved this beloved is to put you off from knowing the day of the Lords coming be carefull good people to prepare your selves do not think with the scoffers of the world that God will not come or like to Seduces and false Prophets bringing in damnable doctrine of Heresie but behold many shall follow their pernicious ways by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evill spoken of Pet. 2.2 if God therefore spared not the Angels that sinned but cast them down to Hell and delivered them into chains of darkness to be reserved unto judgement much more wil he reserve the fire of hell for the extortionall sinners of this world he spared not the whole world but drowned it saving eight persons bringing the floods upon the world of the ungodly so also shall fire and brimstone burn up the wicked and leave them neither root nor branch the Lord also turned the city of Sodom and Gomorrah unto ashes condemned them with an overthrow making an example to all those that ever after should live ungodly and delivered just Lot who was vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked so will GOD doe at the Iudgement day he will sever the wicked from the righteous and shower upon them everlasting Torments we in England do as justly deserve sudden destruction as did these Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah for there was not any one sin raigned there but it is as frequently here the sin of pride never raigned more then it doth at this hour both in City and Country and that 's cloaked over with a badg of Galantry to what profit is it to be as Dives was in the Gospell to dwell in a sumptuous Building to wear rare apparel to fair delicately every day to have all the delights that the world could afford him to be in damnable torments for ever be content and strive not dear Friends to gain this to loose heaven for the glory of the world is as nothing to the glory of God besides sin so aboundeth in number it is more then the sands of Sea Sodom had not the sins as we have why therefore O God are we not destroyed O thou God art infinite in mercy and truth sparing thy people willing them to amendment of life but I wil present to your view what sins are now in groth at this present time first raigns pride covetousness malice envy hatred in all abundance besides the most damnable sins of cursing and swearing lying drunkenness whoredom and divers other sins which are weights to weigh a sinner down to Hell Oh dear Friends put from you sin which is the main thing that kéeps you from Heaven yea you take delight in sinning to fulfill the lusts thereof you think when you roar it in Taverns you do a good work when you hurt both soul and body you vapour and exalt your selves when you should be méek and lowly you drink Béer and Wine to excesse when you should be sober besides running to carnal lusts when you should be chast using most damnable Oaths and prophane actions letting your mouths speak guile acting all evil abominably to the face of God and thus in the practice of sin you run continually never thinking of the terrible day of Iudgement yea mighty terrible will it be to the wicked and who will be able to stand before the righteous Judge who judges in truth and righteousnesse according to the work of every mans doings In what a sad condition my friends are you in to he judged according to your doings doth it not behoove you all to have a care of your actions if your works be bad you must receive its just reward of punishment if your works be just your case will be happy at this general seat of Iudgement after life there is no pleading your case for your case is before known you are either recorded in the Book of Life or Death there is no Lawyers to plead for fées there is none of your earthly friends can pay the ransome of your souls in what a vaile of misery are you plunged in at this hour the Divel is on one side of you against the word of Sentence is past to bring you to eternal damnation your own conscience on the other side witnessing against you of all the hidden secret sins which you in your life time have committed the wrath of Gods fury hangs over you his scourging Rod which will torment you Hell lies under you ready to swallow ye up where the most damnable torments of Hell fire is prepared for the wicked then all calamities sorrows and hellish torments presses you at once and compasses you about on every side the losse of Heaven and the presence of God is a hellish torment without any other torment with the losse of the profitable love of God and the glory thereof besides to be punished in the flames of Hell for evermore where there is wéeping and gnashing of téeth Matth. 24.30 When the Son of Man shall come in his Glory and all the holy Angels with him and before shall be gathered all Nations together and he shall separate them one from another as a shepherd divideth his Sheep from his Goats and he shall set the Sheep on the right hand and the Goats on the left and to the righteous shall say Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdome of God prepared for you from the beginning but to the wicked he saith Go you cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Divel and his Angels Matth. 24.31 32 34 41. Lo. these shall go away into everlasting punishment and the Righteous into life Eternal Dear Brethren the way to escape these punishments dependeth only on things that is to fear God and kéep the Commands of GOD these are also lost in your self redéemed by Christ What Christians in the world would endanger themselves of death for the gaining of a trifled matter run into Hell and forsake Heaven falling into eternal misery and might obtain eternal Glory A word to you worldly men that makes a God of your Riches pinching and grinding the poor for gain It will be easier for a Camel to go thorow the eye of a needle then for such a rich man to enter into life eternal But trust not unto uncertain riches now lay upno earthly riches in store for the morrow but lay up riches in Heaven where moth nor rust cannot corrupt And a place where is all fidelity blisse and joy and eternal happinesse relieve the poor and néedy and turn not from them for know you what is given to the poor with charitable friends is lent to the Lord and your reward will be great in the Kingdome of Heaven But such covetous worldly men that will not relieve the oppressed but lay up their gold in store for many years are counted like the fool in the Gospel that was suddenly tain from his riches and indanger'd himself