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cause_n	according_a	justice_n	law_n	1,616	5	4.3920	3	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A21040	The iudge wherein is shewed, how Christ our Lord is to iudge the world at the last day to the extreme terrour of the wicked, and to the excessiue comfort of the good. With a preface, which it willbe necessary to read before the booke. Translated into English.; Libro de la imitacion de Christo Nuestro Señor. English. Book 7	Arias, Francisco.; Matthew, Tobie, Sir, 1577-1655.	1621 (1621)	STC 741; ESTC S120328	84,537	253

are excepted ordinary law are faulty and guilty it being necessary according to the diuine Iustice and wisedome that Iudgment be giuen vpon them the cause of all them who haue comitted mortall sinne being so important that either they must be condemned to immense euerlasting torments or be declared not guilty but worthy to enioy the kingdome of heaueÌ„ what greater fauour what clemency could be desired or euen thought of then that God the Father should be pleased to giue vs for our Iudg Christ Iesus who is our brother and of the selfe same nature with vs and who loues vs with an vnspeakeable loue and who doth so much esteeme and desire both our liberty our glory that for the procuring therof he hath offered himself to most bitter paines and scornes and euen to the death of the Crosse O how great a comfort O how incomparable a ioy is this for those sonnes of Adam who feele the greatnes of this benefit O how confident and secure ought they to be that Iudgment shall goe vpon them with greate mercy and that the rigour of Iustice shal be teÌ„pered with much pitty and that the senteÌ„ce shall passe in fauour of them for as much as shal be possible without impeachment of the holy law most sweet ordination of Almighty God CHAP. II. Of the great desire which Christ our Lord hath for as much as concerneth him not to condemne any one in his Iudgment but to saue them all THIS most mercifull Iudg hath giuen vs some most euident testimonies of the most ardent desire which he hath not to condemne vs in his diuine Iudgment but to deliuer vs as free safe that the sentence may wholy passe in fauour of vs. One of these testimonies and that a very admirable one is this That before he would come the second tyme to make an vniuersall Iudgment of sinners to condemne punish such as he should finde to be faulty a Marke this excellent doctrine for it is ful of truth and comfort he came in that first coÌ„ming of his to passe a Iudgment vpon sinns themselues to destroy and to consume and to depriue them of being and life and in like manner also to passe a Iudgement against all the enimies of our soules namely the World the Flesh and the Diuell and to ouercome and dispossesse them of all power and Tytle which they might make to men and to defeate those forces which they mainteyned to the preuidice of mens soules and to giue men strength and meanes wherby they might defend themselues and obteine perfect victory against them all That so when he should come to passe a Iudgment vpon men he might finde them free from sinne and if not all of them yet so many at least as would take profit by the grace he gaue them and consequently that he might haue nothing to punish in them Yea and moreouer that he might finde them conquerours ouer their enemies that so he might giue them that reward of glory for their victory which he had promised to such as should ouercome This is that high Mystery which Christ our Lord discouered to vs in the Ghospell somtyme saying Ioan. 3. That he came not to Iudge the world but to saue the world At other times he saith that he came to make iudgment vpoÌ„ the world as he teacheth vs by the Euangelist saying Ioan. 12. I came into the world to Iudge it And yet in another place Ioan. 8. Now is IudgmeÌ„t to passe vpon the world Our Lord meanes to say heerby as himself declares That at his first coÌ„ming when he came in a mortal and passible body he came not to passe a Iudgement vpon men to chastise condemne the wicked by doing Iustice and pronouncing a sentence of condemnation against them For if he had come to this end and that he would haue passed this Iudgement at his first comming he would in effect haue bin obliged to comdemne all the world for in effect he found them all in sin and euen those few Iust persoÌ„s who were free were so in vertue of his being come to saue them And if that first coming of his had beene to Iudge men euen those few had also bene in state of sinne and had beene condemned He therfore explicates himselfe by saying I came not to iudg the world but to saue it That is I came not as a Iudge but as a Sauiour I came not to condemne sinners by doing Iustice on them by passing a sentence of condemnation against them But b Christ our Lord deliuereth no man from the paynes of hell by his sacred Passion but such as first are deliuered by it from sinne I came to saue them by suffering and dying for them and by communicating my Iustice and merits to them that so I might free them from sinne and Iustify them and giue them the spirituall health of grace and of eternall glory And to this very office of sauing men is ordeyned that Iudgement which he saith he came to make in that first comming and which he was to passe against sinnes against the diuell also in fauour of men So doth he declare himselfe saying Through my Passion and Death Iudgment is now to passe and sentence is to be giuen in fauour of the men of this world against the diuell For till now he held men subiect and captiued vnder his power and tyranny but now by the payment which I am making for theÌ„ they are to remaine safe and free Now the diuell who is the Prince of this world who held men subiect vnder sinne is to be deposed from that dominion which he held in the world for innumerable soules which were captiued in error and sinne are to be conuerted and saued and remedy shal be imparted to them all wherby they may be deliuered from him and may obtaine eternall glory So also in that first coÌ„ming of Christ our Lord to saue mankind he made a kind of distinguishing and deuiding Iudgement betweene the good and the bad the elect and the reprobate For when he was preaching and working miracles and procuring the saluatioÌ„ of the world some did profit by his comming receauing his fayth and obeying his Ghospell participating of his merits And others againe because they would not belieue in him nor serue themselues of his remedyes did still remaine in their sins yea through their ingratitude and the hardnes of their harts they grew therein And thus by the occasion of the comming of Christ our Lord the distinction grew more apparent betweene the faythful the vnfaithfull between Iust persons and sinners betweene the elect and such as were reproued by God For they who receaued the faith of Christ did follow him by the imitation of his life by the taking vp of his Crosse according to their c That is according to the state wherein they were at that tyme. present iustice were iust

we may draw the detestation of sinne the care of leading a good life Chap. X. chapter 11 How a Christian is to draw out of the consideration of the diuine Iudgement a great feare of offending God that so he may fly far from it Chap. XI chapter 12 How it is very necessary ful of profit that a Christian do exercise himselfe in this holy feare accompany it with the exercise of diuine loue Chap. XII chapter 13 Of how great value and merit this holy Feare is Chap. XIII chapter 14 Of the fauours which Christ our Lord will do to the good at the day of Iudgement and of the Ioy which they shall conceaue by seeing the signes which precede that Iudgment and by beholding the glory of the Crosse which shall go before Christ our Lord. Chap. XIV chapter 15 Of the fauour which Christ our Lord will do his seruants at the day of Iudgment by separating them from the wicked Chap. XV. chapter 16 Of the fauour which Christ our Lord imparteth to his seruants at the day of Iudgment by giuing them his benediction and communicating his kingdome to them Chap. XVI chapter 17 Of the felicity which Christ our Lord will communicate to his seruants in the kingdome of heauen Chap. XVII chapter 18 Of other benefits which Christ our Lord coÌ„municateth to his seruants in his heauenly kingdome and of the fruit of gratitude which we must gather from the Consideration of this reward Chap. XVIII chapter 19 How all the things of this life which are good and which giue delight do induce vs to a desire of the kingdome of heauen Chap. XIX chapter 20 How from this knowledge concerning the kingdome of Heauen which Christ our Lord will giue his seruants we are to gather a resolute purpose to fly from sinne and to fullfill the Commandments of God and to despise the commodityes of this life Chap. XX. chapter 21 How we are much to animate our selues towardes the exercise of good works considering the great estimation which Christ our Lord doth make of them at the day of Iudgement the reward which he also imparteth to them Chap. XXI THE IVDGE CHAP. I. How the office of being our Iudge doth belong to Christ our Lord as he is man and of the great benefit which God imparteth to vs in giuing him to vs to be our Iudge ALTHOVGH the indignation wrath of Christ our Lord against the wicked and the punishment which he inflicteth vpon their sins do belong to the office which he hath of being a Iudge yet so also doth it belong to him vnder the same Title to doe fauour to such as are Good to defend them to imparte benefites to them and both to expresse mercy towardes them in the Iudgment which he exerciseth vpon their faults to giue theÌ„ reward for their good deeds and for this reason it is that I wil declare the benefits and fauours which we obtaine by Christ our Lord in respect that he is our Iudge It a Why it was wholy fit for the second Person of the most holy Trinity to be our Iudg at the last day belongeth to Christ our Lord that he be our Iudge in regard that he is a man and because he tooke the nature of man vpon him as being a most conuenient thing that the Iudge be seene by all such as are to be iudged by him and that the guilty may wel vnderstand and heare the sentence that shal be giueÌ„ against them that for as much as men are composed of a body a soule they may perceaue it with their soule and heare it with the senses of their body Now if Christ our Lord as he is only God were to be the Iudge he could not then be seene by the wicked and the sentence which immediatly he should pronounce would not interiourly be perceaued by them and therefore it was fit that he should be our Iudge as man and should passe his Iudgment vpon men that so he might be seene and heard by all This Mystery was discouered to vs by Christ our Lord and Sauiour himselfe whilest he was saying Ioan. 5. The Father iudgeth no man but he hath giuen all iudgement to the Sonne and he gaue him au hority to exercise Iudgement as the sonne of man That is to say Although the eternal Father haue the supreme authority and power of Iudging that to him it doth principally belong to approue reward that which is good as also to reproue and punish that which is euill the same also hath the Sonne and the holy Ghost the same as being one the same God with the Father yet the office of Iudging exteriourly and after a visible manner to be seene in the Tribunall and with the authority Maiesty of a Iudge to giue exteriourly a sentence which may sensibly be perceaued by such as are Iudged this doth only belong to the person of the Sonne of God Who by meanes of the most sacred humanity which he hath immediatly vnited to himselfe by the power which froÌ„ all eternity he hath as God and by that which in Tyme was communicated to him as man he is to make this visible and exteriour Iudgment this being an execution of the interiour inuisible IudgmeÌ„t which is made of all the most Blessed Trinity And although this exteriour Iudgment be also ascribed to the Father and to all the Blessed Trinity as to the prime cause of all things yet he who is the immediate executour of this Iudgement is Iesus Christ the Sonne of the liuing God because the sacred Humanity is only vnited immediatly to the person of the Sonne that Humanity doth make this Iudgment as the instrument of Diuinity Now b An vnspeakable benefit of God who gaue vs Christ our Lord for our Iudge an immense benefit and an imcomprehensible mercy it was for God the Father to giue vs Christ Iesus for the Iu ge of our cause as he is man as he is our brother and our Sauiour If a delinquent were in prison for greiuous Crymes deseruing death and that he had a brother who most tenderly loued him and esteemed him and did so much desire his liberty and his good that to deliuer him out of prison and from death he had spent his fortune and had exposed himselfe to many troubles and euen to the hazard of death and if the king should assigne that brother of the party for the Iudge of his cause with Soueraigne power to Iudge him without appeale what kind of fauour what clemency would it be which heerin should be vsed towards that man How full of ioy and comfort would he be vpoÌ„ the naming of such a Iudge How confident and secure would he make himself that the sentence would be full of pitty and as fauourable to him as possible his cause might beare Well therfore since all men according to the c From which Christ our Lord his B. 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