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A77556	Gods statute for generall iudgement by the man Christ Iesus. Opened in a sermon at the funerall of the most religious lady, the Lady Lucie Iervoice, sometime wife to the right worshipfull Sir Thomas Iervoice at Herriot. Aug. 26. 1641. By John Brokett Minister of Elsfeild.	Brokett, John.	1642 (1642)	Wing B4845; Thomason E116_1; ESTC R5889	21,463	41

wisdome of God thought it meet that men should be judged by man that whilest wicked men tremble and are full of feare horrour and perplexitie the similitude of nature might make the elect full of joy comfort and confidence Now put all these readings together they amount to this That Christ Jesus as he is the son of man in honour and reward of his great humilitie hath received from the Father this great authority this glorious power in his humane Nature to execute judgement at the last Day And so I come to the last point The warrant to assure us that the World shall be judged by Christ There is nothing more remote from the common sense and apprehension of men then the great works of Christ at the last Day in raising the dead and bringing them with all those that then remaine alive to judgement To Christians this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a mysterie to Heathens it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 incredible And therefore to convince the infidelitie of Heathens and to confirme the faith of Christians Saint Paul sends us in the end of the text to the resurrection of Christ Whereby God hath given to all sufficientissimam fidem saith Cajetan a most sufficient certaine and infallible assurance of these three things 1. That the Dead shall be raised 2. That they shall rise to be judged 3. That they shall be judged by Christ 1. That the Dead shall be raised Christs Resurrection is a pledge of ours For if Christ be risen then is our nature risen and if our nature be risen then our Persons may rise nay shall rise at the last day that is plain 1 Cor. 15.52 The dead shall be raised incorruptible and they shall be raised by the Power of Christ that is proved Ioh. 5.28 29. The houre is coming in the which all that are in the graves shall heare his voyce and shall come forth The same Power by which Christ quickned his own dead body shall quicken our dead bodies at the day of Judgement 2. That they shall rise to be judged Judgement is the end of Resurrection So saith our Saviour Ioh. 5.29 All that are in the graves shall come forth they that have done good unto the resurrection of life and they that have done evill unto the resurrection of damnation And what Christ here saith Saint Iohn saw though a thing to come yet he saw it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by Revelation Apoc. 20.12 I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened and another book was opened which was the book of life the dead were judged out of those things which were written in those books according to their works 3. That they shall be judged by Christ His resurrection warrants that for by this powerfull and glorious act the Son of man did mightily declare himself to be the Son of God And being God and Man the Holy Trinitie ordained and decreed by him to Judge the world in righteousnesse And thus much for the Exposition of my Text and the Proofe of those points which are contained in it I come now to The Application of this Doctrine touching the last judgement in a threefold use 1. Of Terrour to some 2. Of Comfort to others 3. Of Admonition to all 1. This Doctrine of the last Judgement serves for the Terrour of all unbeleevers and ungodly livers To such the Preaching and expectation of Judgement is as the Hand which appeared to Belshazzar writing upon the wall the period of his life and kingdome or as the Hand which was sent to Ezekiel which had a rowle in it written within and without full of lamentations mourning and woe Ezek. 2.9 10. Aristotle calls death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the most fearefull of all things He would not have said so had he known that after death comes judgement Heb. 9.27 This exceeds that farre That 's but timendum fearefull but this is tremendum horrendum terrible dreadfull Dreadfull in many respects 1. T is dreadfull in respect of the Preparation to Judgement for the Trumpet shall sound the Archangell shall cry Surgite mortui venite ad Iudicium arise ye dead and come to judgement Then the graves shall open the earth tremble the Sear oare the Stars fall the powers of Heaven shake the world burne Hell smoake and the Judge himselfe shall come in flames of fire to render vengeance 2. T is dreadfull in respect of the strict and severe account the ungodly shall be called unto For they must give account for their bodies which they have defiled for their souls which they have neglected for the creatures which they have abused for the Sabbaths which they have polluted for the Sacraments which they have profaned for all the means of grace which they have despised for their secret thoughts idle words and all evill deeds which they have ungodly committed For all these they shall give account in so rigorous a manner that no eye shall pittie them no tongue shall plead for them no teares no cryes shall procure them the least mercy from their wrathfull Judge 3. But most dreadfull it shall be in respect of the direfull sentence which shall be denounced against them For Christ the righteous Judge wil say to them Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devill and his angels Matth. 29.41 A sentence full of woe and horrour what more wofull more horrible then to see so many admitted into the kingdome of God and themselves separated from the place and presence of God haled with ugly fiends into Hell where the pains of the damned are unsufferable but unavoydable easelesse but endlesse and remedilesse Dolor si longus levis si gravis brevis Pain is lightly light if long short if great t is so here but this rule doth not hold in Hell There is Darknesse that ends not gnashing of teeth that ceaseth not bonds that breake not wormes that dye not fire that never shal be extinguished Damned souls shall howle but none shall heare roare but none shall help looke round about but see no means of comfort nothing but that which helps to encrease their torments which shall have neither ease nor end Oh the fearefull case of all ungodly persons at the day of judgement what aking of Heart what anguish of Minde what horrour of Conscience what wringing of hands what knocking of breasts what cryes filling Heaven Earth and Hell shall be heard amongst the wicked upon this day of vengeance 2. This Doctrine of the last Judgement ministers matter of much comfort and rejoycing to all such as are true beleevers and do lead a godly life To them the day of Judgement will be a joyfull comfortable and most blessed day in many respects It will be a day 1. Of their restauration and perfect freedome from all infirmities and imperfections 2. Of full redemption from all miseries and calamities 3. Of finall deliverance from all sins corruptions 4. Of

imperfections Gal. 5.17 6. They are no way profitable and beneficiall to God Psal 16.2 Rom. 11.35.7 They are no way comparable to that glory which hereafter shall be revealed Rom. 8.18 2 Cor. 4.17 Now these things considered how shall we say that good works are or can be meritorious that is such as by any value or worth in them should bind God to give a reward to them especially such a transcendent excellencie and waight of Glory as is that of the kingdome of heaven And who but onely they to whom the Lord hath sent strong delusions that they should beleeve a lye doth not discover the absurditie of that collection which the Papists doe inferre from our Apostles words who saith not that God will reward very man for his works but according to his works which phrase doth not intimate the cause why eternall life is given but the qualification of the persons to whom eternall life is given that they are such as by faith are united to Christ and bring forth good works the fruits and evidences of that faith whereunto in the Covenant of Grace God hath made the promise of Salvation Wheresoever therefore in Scripture a reward is said to be rendred to good works of justice as 2 Thes 1.7 2 Tim. 4.8 the Scripture hath relation to the merit of Christ not to any desert of our own Also wheresoever mention is made of our worthinesse as 2 Thes 1.5 Luc. 20.35 Apoc. 3.4 the Scripture means not that any are or can be worthy by the merit and dignitie of their own works but that they are worthy in Gods gracious acceptation through the worthinesse of Jesus Christ imputed to them and made theirs by a true and lively faith And so much for the first question Quest 2. If God reward every man according to his works How can God be just in punishing for ever those that sinned for a short time To this I answer 1. In the words of a learned and judicious writer of our own Iustum est ut reprobi nunquam careant supplicio quia nunquam voluerunt carere peccato Reprobates must justly suffer for ever because they would never have ceased to sin if they had lived for ever 2. The greatnesse of a sin must not be measured by the Time in which it was acted but by the Person against whom it was committed Now men sin against God who is infinite and therefore justice requiring a portion between the offence and the punishment though sin be temporary yet it is most just with God to punish it with eternal torments And so much for the fourth point I proceed to the fift By whom God will Iudge By that Man whom hee hath ordained saith the Text. And this man can be no other but the Man Christ Iesus 1 Tim. 2.5 So Saint Peter preached and Christ commanded him and the rest of his Apostles to preach so Act. 10.42 And he commanded us to preach unto the people and to testifie that it is He which was ordained of God to be the Iudge of quick and dead If respect be had to the power and authoritie of Judging then to judge us doth belong to the whole Trinitie and that equally as I said before But if respect be had to the Administration of Judgement and the visible act of Judging then to judge us doth belong to Christ onely For he onely shall be seene to descend with a guard of Angels to open the books of accounts to examine the severall causes to pronounce the finall sentence and to execute the same by the happy admission of the Elect into the kingdome of Heaven prepared by the Father and purchased by Christ to be the glorious and eternall inheritance of the Saints and by the heavy and uncomfortable dismission of reprobates into that Lake which burnes with fire and brimstone before the Throne of God for ever and ever Thus you see Christ shall be the immediate manager and administrator of judgement The Scripture is plentifull in the proofe of it Wherein he is called the Wise Husbandman that severeth the corne from the chaffe the Wheat from the Tares the good Shepherd that divideth the Sheepe from the Goats the heavenly Bridegroome that separateth the Wise from the foolish virgins the great Lord that committed sundry talents to his servants at their going and called them to account how they had employed and improved them at his returne More plainly Act. 10.42 where he is called the Iudge of quick and dead and 1 Cor. 5.5 where the day of Judgement is called the day of the Lord Iesus and 2 Cor. 5.10 where the seat of judgement is called the judgement seat of Christ and Matth. 16.27 where Christ himself saith The Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his Angels and then he shall reward every man according to his works Now if you aske a reason why the administration and Execution of Judgement is committed to Christ I referre you to Ioh. 5.27 He hath given authoritie to him that is the Father hath given authoritie to Christ to execute judgement because he is the Son of Man Here you see Christs commission to execute judgment and the reason of it because he is the Son of man About these last words I find some difference amongst expositors Some will have these words read with the words following after this manner Because he is the Son of man marvell not at this for the time shall come when the dead shall heare the voyce of the Son of God and shall come forth c. That is if it seeme wonderfull or incredible to any that the Son of man shall have such power to judge you must consider that he is the Son of God also and at the day of judgement he shall mightily declare his Godhead by the resurrection of the dead Others read the words thus in quantum or secundum quod filius hominis est that is in respect of his Humanitie or as he is the son of man And so make it a reason not of Christs giving judgement but of his receiving power to judge For as Christ was the Son of God power could not be given to him for it was naturally and essentially in himself and as he was the Sonne of man he could not have power to execute judgement untill it was given him of the Father Others understand this reason to be of the same force with that Phil. 2.8 9. He humbled himself and became obedient to the death even the death of the crosse Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name So here because the Son of God humbled himself so low to become the son of man therefore God hath recompensed his infinite humilitie with this infinite glory to be the Judge of all the world Others interpret the words thus That God hath given to Christ power to execute judgement 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by and according to his humanitie For the