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A94068	Hēmera apokalypseōs. The day of revelation of the righteous judgement of God. Delivered in a sermon preached to the Honorable House of Commons, at Margarets Westminster, at their late solemn fast, December 31. 1645. / By William Strong, sometime fellow of Katherine Hall in Cambridge; now minister of More-Crichel in Dorcetshire.	Strong, William, d. 1654.	1646 (1646)	Wing S6003; Thomason E313_33; ESTC R200485	24,229	42

stewardship he that hath received five talents must account for five and he that hath but two shall account for no more Luc. 16.2 to whom much is given of him much shall be required and to whom men have committed much of him they will ask the more Luc. 12.48 3. Of all the souls committed to them in their severall places and relations husbands for the soules of their wives parents for the soules of their children Magistrates for the souls of those under their charge so farre as that relation extends for he is the Minister of God for thy good Rom. 13.4 thy spirituall as well as thy temporall good And Ministers also for the soules of their people We watch for your soules as those that must give an account Heb. 13.17 and the account of soules will be dreadfull It s part of Romes trading indeed but let it not be ours to make merchandise of the souls of men Rev. 18.14 And in all these God will manifest not only their doings 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 op●● ●ud●● 〈◊〉 ●on●●um but also the fruit of their doings for he will reward every man according to the fruit of his doings Jer. 17.10 the word signifies doings studies and endeavours The personall acts both of wicked and godly men are transient and quickly dye but oft times the fruit remaines Ieroboam dyed but his Idolatry dyed not with him the poyson of his example remained that to this day his title is Ierobo●m the son of Nebat who made Israel to sinne so that the sinnes that other men in successive ages are drawne to by an evill example shall be all numbred to him as the fruit of his doings in that day And the good deeds and examples of Gods people which prove a seed to the Church for many generations these shall be brought forth not only according to their acts but also according to their fruits in that day And th us much of the first branch propounded for the explication of the point sc what shall be laid open in that day I come now to the second sc How can such a manifestation be The manner of this manifestation we may gather as I conceive out of Rev. 20.12 And I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the booke was opened which is the booke of life and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the booke according to their workes Pa● Adration●●● resurrection●● u●●●mahoc o●●ia accommade ●●●r Bright If we understand this as some doe properly of the day of judgement then it doth directly and expressely serve to our purpose Or if we understand it as others do to be spoken of the day of judgement but by way of allusion yet it holds forth this to us that the manner of the revelation of all things shall be by opening of those bookes which are now closed or sealed up against that last and great day There is a five fold booke which the Scripture speaks of all which the Lord will open in that day men shall be judged out of the things written in them 1. The booke of the Word of Law and Gospel with all the sinnes and duties contained in them shall bee made manifest before men and Angells in that day Io. 12.48 Hee that rejecteth mee and receiveth not my words hath one that judgeth him the word that I have spoken the same shall judge him in the last day The Law in the full extent of it which is exceeding broad with all the precepts and prohibitions thereof shall then bee discovered Io. 5.45 Doe not thinke that I will accuse you to my Father there is one that accuseth you even Moses in whom yee trust Here men are not able to hide the secrets of their hearts from the word it s a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart Heb. 4.12 even while its preached by men how much more when God himselfe shall open it and set it forth in its glory before men and Angells And the Gospell also with all the glory of it the sinnes and duties also contained therein that in it Gods manifold wisdome may appeare which is now but little understood for hee will judge the secrets of all men in that day according to my Gospell Rom. 2.16 2. The booke of Gods decree commonly called the booke of life which is Gods free and everlasting determination of the eternall estates of men and Angells This is a depth here indeed that men cannot fadome which made the Apostle to cry out Rom. 11 33. Oh the depth both of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God how unsearchable are his judgements and his wayes past finding out But then these deeps shall bee broken up and discovered then shall bee manifested whom he hath chosen as vessels of mercy to the praise of the glory of his grace and whom he hath rejected as vessells of wrath to the glory of his justice Then it shall be said of every man plainly as it is of Iacob and Esau Iacob have I loved and Esau have I hated To some Christ will say Come yee blessed of my Father receive the Kingdome that was prepared for you from the foundation of the world Matth. 25.34 And to others he will professe I never knew you depart from mee yee that worke iniquity Matth. 7.23 3. The booke of Gods omniscience David speaks of this book In thy book were all my members written Psal 139.16 A book of remembrance Mal. 3.16 Thou puttest my teares in thy bottle are they not written in thy book Psal 56.8 Then shall the King say I was hungry and ye gave me no meate Mat 24.41 I was thirsty and ye gave me no drinke naked and yee cloathed me not in as much as you did it not to the least of these my brethren ye did it not to me Then it will be too late to deny and in vaine to excuse for he that knows all things shall be thy Judge and he shall produce and publish his knowledge of thee before men and Angels For Amos 8.7 he hath sworne by his holinesse that he will never forget any of your works 4. The book of conscience which God maintaines as a Register in every mans breast The sinne of Iudah is written with a pen of iron Ier. 17.1 Indelchiliter e●atatum in co●s●ienlia c●rum Alap and the point of a Diamond it is graven upon the table of their heart c. This booke is now sealed up from men and Angels and in a great measure also through ignorance and fearednesse from a man selfe but it shall then be opened and men shall reade in it the hell of their natures with all those hidious abominations of their lives see all former sinnes which they have forgotten to be written in their consciences with indelible characters never to be blotted out And this record conscience will surely bring forth at that day because

to discharge their consciences who to maintaine their party c. 3. The ends and intents of the heart shall bee made manifest in that day Grace is properly the change of a mans utmost ends and this is to have a single eye Matth. 6.22 sinne advanceth it selfe as the chiefe good and utmost end Hos 10.1 Israel an empty vine he brings forth fruit to himselfe grace exalts God as the chiefe good and utmost end brings forth fruit to God Rom. 7.4 None of us lives to himselfe no man dyes to himselfe God is his utmost end in life and death Rom. 14 7. Now all these ends of the heart ultimate and intermediate shall all be discovered in that day and here it will bee necessary to consider these three things 1. That in obedience it is not enough to doe Gods worke but you must aime at Gods ends The Pharisees in fasting prayers almes did the duty God required but the end being selfe made the worke their owne Hee that will be a servant unto God must be wholly to him As the Philosopher describes a servant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Gods eye in all your works is chiefly upon your ends 2 King 5.26 Is this a time to receive mony to receive garments and olive yards and vineyards and sheep and oxen and men servants and maid servants c. The Lord speaks according to the intent of his Spirit in the action when men make authority and places of justice profession of Religion pretence of tendernesse of conscience c. to become subordinate to selfe ends the Lords eye is upon it and abhors them 3. A man may by his end destroy that which he doth by his action most pretend to build and by his end he may establish that which by his act he seems to endeavour to destroy Iehu in his act seemed a great reformer but though he proved Ahabs executioner yet by reason of his corrupt end in his Idolatry hee proved his successor A man may love the tyranny when he hates the tyrant oppose the oppressor and yet love the oppression A man may endeavour to cast out Episcopacy root and branch and yet love preheminence desire priority and affect to be called Rabbi Looke therefore to your ends for its easier for a man to deny himselfe in acts then in ends self ends are part of the old man which is last put off These shall all bee discovered in that day for the day shall declare them 3. Mens lives also shall be made manifest in that day wherein I shall speake only of these three things 1. All mens duties with their severall failings 2. All their sins with their sins with their severall aggravations 3. All their talents with their improvements 1. All your dute is Ecclus 12.14 Phil. 4 17. for he will bring every work to judgement with every secret thing whether good or evill If a man doe but give an almes in uprightnes of heart it will bee fruit which shall abound to his account Then will be manifested in hearing what you went forth to see a man cloathed in soft rayment Matth. 11.7.8 how many Sermons you have heard for no other end then children turne over bookes to behold the gayes in them when you went to heare men and when to heare him that speakes from heaven Heb. 12.25 when you did in heating stoop to the Majesty of God and when to the authority of a man when you did receive the truth only in the light and when also in the love of it So for fasting God will then say when you fasted did you at all fast to me Zach 7 5. even to mee you rent your garments indeed but not your hearts you have been much in outward humiliation but your soules are lifted up in you or you rest in humiliation without reformation or if reformation yet meerly Ecclefiasticall and not personall Is not this the fast that I have chosen to loose the bands of wickednesse to untye the heavy burthens to let the oppressed goe free and that you breake every yoke Esay 58 6. So in all other religious duties then the Lord will say to men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I have not found your workes full before mee Rev. 3.2 I have indeed seen a great outside but there was an emptinesse within it was not filled up with the exercise of graces and holy affections answerable to the great shew that was made without c. Male in no● mur●●ur ●ominum quam in Deum bonum est ●●hi si Deus dignetur me ●●i pro cl●peo Ber. de consider 2. All Sins with their severall aggravations 1. Of omission or commission 1 Omission Matth. 25.42 I was hungry and yee gave me no meat Such a time you had a price in your hand to get wisdome but you had no heart to it you had an opportunity to appeare for God to justifie wisdome and you did decline it and let the reproaches fall upon God and Religion so you might be free you had power in your hand to have executed justice and to have delivered the oppressed out of the hand of him that spoyled him Hab. 1.13 but you were not valiant for the truth upon earth but suffered men to bee as the fishes of the sea that have no King ●ver them but the great ones prey upon the little ones without controle 2. Of commission and these either grosse or secret 1. Grosse and open finnes lasciviousnesse lusts excesse of wine revell ngs banquetings and abominable Ido●atry of which men shall give an account to him who is ready to judge quicke and dead 1 Pet. 4.4.5 2. Secret sinnes hee will bring every worke to judgement with every secret thing Eccles 10.14 3. Sinnes of youth or age Eccles 11.9 Rejoyce oh young man in thy youth and let thy heart cheer thee and walke in the way of thy heart but remember for all this God will bring thee to judgement 4. Sinnes of words or deeds for of every idle word that men shall speake they shall give an account thereof in the day of judgement Matth. 12.36 5. Of all these with their severall aggravations for Jude 15. the Lord commeth to execute judgement upon all and to convince all not only of their ungodly deeds but of their ungodlinesse in committing of them and of their hard speches and their w●ckednesse in speaking of them against him 3. Talents with their improvements for in that day he comes to reckon with his servants Mat. 25.19 And in particular of these three 1. Of all the meanes of grace that they have enjoyed and the dayes of the son of man that they have seen Woe to thee Capernaum for I say unto you it shal be more tolerable for the land of Sodome in the day of judgement then for thee Mat. 11.24 2. Of all the honour authority estates and friends which in this life God hath entrusted you with for every one shall give an account of his