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TWO TREATISES One of the Latter day of Iudgement The other of the Ioyes of Heauen 1. Cor. 15.52 In a moment in the twinckling of an eye shall the Trumpet blow and the dead shal be raised and we shal be chaunged that are found aliue Mat. 24.22 Except those dayes should bee shortened no flesh should be saued but for the elects sake those dayes shal be shortned Imprinted at London by Thomas Creed and are to be solde at his house in the Olde Change at the signe of the Eagle and Childe 1600. The Epistle to the Reader GEntle Reader my desire hath bene of a long time to set downe vnto thee the Excellent the Decaied and the Restored Estate of man if by Gods grace I might or may as yet in good time performe it Wherof I haue finished a great part the which if God giue good successe in due time shall be added to that which is alreadie published wherein I haue set downe the Excellent Estate of man by declaring how God created him after his Image The thing that I haue aimed at both in that and this or any thing else that hereafter I shall do is only to profit and to do good And therefore at this time and according to this time and troublesome dangerous dayes of this world prognosticating the vtter ruine and decay thereof I haue thought good by this Treatise of the Latter Iudgement to put you in remembrance that you may be ready and prepared when the Trumpet shall blowe and when we shall be called to our account That euery one of vs in the meane time may haue this in our minde and in our mouth Good Lord prepare vs to thy kingdom and shorten the daies of sinne Ezekias desired to haue his dayes prolonged And vnto Iosias it was pronounced for a blessing that his time should be shortned Which of these two was the better choyce that I leaue to thy resolutiō perswading thee to that which I take to be best Suprema cogita Cor sit in aethere Foelix qui potuit mundum contemnere Thine to his power S. I. A TREATISE OF the latter day of iudgement Act. 10.36 to 43. Ye know the word which God hath sent to the children of Israel preaching peace by Iesus Christ which is Lord of all Euen the word which came through all Iudea beginning in Galile after the Baptisme which Iohn preached To wit how God annointed Iesus of Nazareth with the holy Ghost and with power who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the diuell for God was with him And wee are witnesses of all things which hee did both in the land of the Iewes and in Ierusalem whom they slew hanging him on a tree Him God raised vp the third day and caused that he was shewed openly not to all the people but vnto the witnesses chosen before of God euen to vs which did eate and drinke with him after he arose from the dead And he commaunded vs to preach vnto the people to testifie that it is hee that is ordained of God a Iudge of quicke and dead EVery one no doubt is desirous to know what shall bee done at the latter day at the day of doome and iudgement A doctrine very necessary to them that haue any care of themselues and of their owne saluation and very profitable also to prouoke vs to the loue knowledge and feare of God And so much the more profitable and necessary it is by how much the nearer that day is at hand and approacheth beeing as our Sauiour Christ saith hard at the doores Concerning these words which I haue read vnto you I shall require you to haue regard vnto these principall matters First what is the cause why this generall iudgement shal be Diuision Secondly the declaration of this iudgement Thirdly who shall be the iudge Lastly how it pertaineth to the wicked to the godly wherunto I haue thought good to ad an exhortatiō the better to be prepared The cause wherfore Christ shal come to iudgement principally is no other but that which procured death vnto vs and the last generall iudgement shall make that matter more certain not only that this bodily death which is a seperation of our soule body for a time shal not serue the turne be inough to satisfie that punishment which we haue deserued but also that some shall be deliuered to eternal death both of body and soule as indeed we should be all in that estate were it not for the benefite of Christ his death The sinne transgression of Adam as also the sins and transgressions of vs al was is the cause why God is displeased with vs and why his wrath is vpon vs and why we are subiect vnto death and why wee shall appeare before the iudgement seate of God Psal 90.9 For when thou art angry saith the Prophet All our dayes are gone we bring our yeares to an end as it were a tale that is told wee consume away in thy displeasure Thou wilt set our misdeeds before thee and our secret sinnes in the sight of thy countenance Our misdeeds haue procured death had not Christ died for vs and rose againe from death to deliuer vs from feare They were the cause why we were shut out from heauen had not Christ ascended vp into heauen to procure vs an entrance they had brought vs to the fearefull iudgement of God and to the heauy and wofull sentence of euerlasting condemnation and endlesse destruction if by the meanes of our Sauiour Christ we might not be deliuered from it For when we were at hell gates and appointed to destruction he came with this ioyfull message Come againe ye children of men As indeed his first comming here on earth was to saue and not to destroy and to call sinners to repentance that they might bee receiued into the fauour of God and haue their sinnes forgiuen them but this his second comming at the latter end of the world shall be to iudge to tender vengeance and to destroy those sinners who in this life were against his glory and their owne saluation to call them now to account whom when time was he called to repentance and who now shall be punished by the extremitie of the wrath of God Who if they had well regarded it in their life time might haue bene receiued into fauour their sinnes being forgiuen so that at the day of iudgement they should not haue beene put to any hazard for them nor ventured the daunger of losse of body and soule for them Here in this life they might haue escaped that which in that day they shall not be able to auoyd We see in all well ordered Realmes that if it were not for offences committed and for the manifold outrages of robbers theeues and murderers the Iudges needed not ride their circuit neither shuld there be any iudgement heard of But as before that man had disobeied God this sentence was
iudgement as though the iudgement seate were appointed for the defence and maintenance of them not that are oppressed but that do oppresse not for the reliefe and succour of them that are wronged but to countenance and bolster them out who as the Propher saith deuise mischiefe vpon their beds and practise it when they come abroad Therefore Salomon Eccle. 5.7 giueth instruction to the godly that they be not mooued and that they may be confirmed in patience looking for a day of hea●ing If in a countrey saith he thou seest the oppression of the poore the defrauding of iudgement and iustice bee not astonied at the matter and maruell not for hee that is higher then the highest regardeth and there bee higher then they Whereby they are put in mind both of a more vpright Iudge then is no earth to be seene and of a more righteous iudgement by the vertue and force whereof they shal be both righted and relieued Concerning which matter Esdras hath spoken very well 2. Esd 7.32 The earth shall restore those that haue slept in her and the most high shall appeare vpon the seate of iudgement and miseries shall vanish away and long suffering shall haue an end iustice onely shal cōtinue the truth shall remain and vnrighteousnesse shall beare no more rule For the wicked thinketh not on the iudgement to come nay the are inwardly blinded and that by Gods secret appointment being so farre giuen vp to their owne lusts that they care not what villanie or violence they put in practice But the godly are willed to haue regard to this rightfull day when true iudgement shal onely haue the vpper hand againe they must take heed that when they suffer they suffer not as euill doers and malefactors for then they cannot looke for redresse an other day and then this earthly iudgement dooth lawfully take place against them But in all well dooing let euery one commend this soule to God and commit his cause to that righteous Iudge This last iudgement therefore is for the benefite of the godly that it may go well with them whose cause in this life could not be heard nor any iustice done them Againe that not onely they may be righted in their cause but also that they may bee deliuered from that infamy and from those spitefull and approbrious speeches which the world hath giuen out against them dooing them more hurt and wrong and inward griefe thereby then by false iudgement which hath passed against them and whereby they haue had their willes of them and haue preuailed And as the restoring of theyr righteous cause and of their credit and good name which the world hath laboured to depriue them of shall be an occasion of Christ his cōming to iudgement so also is the condemnatiō of the wicked For in this life their cōdemnation is begun their conscience witnessing against them which then and at the iudgement day shall fully and perfectly be declared which is not spoken that the godly are cleare from iudgement by their desert for they are sinners and offenders as others though not perhaps in the same degree Who through repentance and a liuely faith taking hold of the mercies of God haue no need to feare this iudgement because God doth not impute their sinnes vnto them and also their consciences do in this sort declare them free although in respect of themselues they are greatly guilty So that Christ shal stand on their side and their conscience shall witnesse vnto them the exceeding loue of God and his gracious meercies which shal be the breath of life vnto thē an assurāce of heauēly ioyes But the wicked because they haue their cōsciences accusing and condēning thē the fierce coūtenance of the Iudge to daunt them and fearfully to dismay them the diuel pleading against them and calling for iudgement to be done vpon thē therefore are they to look for nothing else but euen the seuerity of iudgemēt the fearful sentēce of cōdemnation which shal make them as it were to fall in peeces through quaking trembling and to be resolued to nothing but that by Gods appointment they are reserued to euerlasting punishment together with the diuell his angels Who also I mean the diuell and his angels shal be cōdemned by the sentence of Gods seuere iudgement not only because they haue highly offēded god but also because they haue bene the authors of the ruine downfall of all mankind in prouoking and tempting them to all disobedience sin mischiefe When as the righteous shall liue for euer shall receiue a glorious kingdome a bewtifull crowne at the Lords hand Christ shall come again the second time as it is Iohn 14.3 and shal receiue vs vnto himself that where he is there may we be also And as it is said of our Sauiour Christ to the manifestation of his great glory that they shall then see him whom they haue pierced through whose presence shall be to the greater confusion of the wicked his enemies who shal be constrained to behold him to be their iudge and to abide his iudgement whom they haue in this life so greatly despised so cruelly handled so also shal Christ make his mēbers the godly repentant faithfull partakers of this his glory as he himself hath promised Mat. 19.28 That they shal sit vpon twelue thrones and iudge the twelue Tribes of Israel not that they shal be Iudges but that they shal approue his iudgement A shadow wherof we haue in these our earthly iudgements whereas you see the iustices men of account sit with the Iudge not that they haue to do with pronouncing sentence or with the iudgement but that amongst the rest it is a token vnto them of honour and dignitie in the sight of the people According to the which meaning wee read Luk. 13.28 That there shal be weeping and gnashing of teeth when the vngodly shall see Abraham Isaac and Iacob meaning thereby they godly and faithfull and all the prophets in the kingdome of God and themselues thrust out at doores and heauen gates shut against them being in that taking as the rich man was spoken of in the Gospell who being in hell beheld Lazarus in Abrahams bosome himselfe crying out but for one drop of cold water to allay that burning and vnquenchable heate which he found himselfe to be in and could not haue it Then shall they begin to say with themselues when they shall see the righteous stand in great boldnesse so that they shall be vexed with horrible feare and wonderfully amazed then shall they chaunge their mindes and sigh with inward gitefe and say within themselues Wisd 5. These are they whom sometime we had in derision as indeede who are more derided and contemned in the world then they that be well disposed and to their power liue after the feare of God These are they whom wee had in derision in a parable of reproach We fooles thought their