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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

of hope but let him instantly be conuerted to God confessing his sinnes and doing pennance for the same because we haue an Aduocate and Mediatour before the eternall Father which is Iesus Christ the Iust and the very fountaine of Iustice who made satisfaction for al our sinnes CHAP. III. Of the benefit which Christ our Lord imparteth to vs in giuing vs to vnderstand and feele the grieuousnes of sinne by the meanes manner of his Iudgement to the end that we may in tyme do pennance for it ANOTHER most singular benefit which Christ our Lord imparteth to vs vnder the quality of his being our Iudge is to make vs know and feele the grieuousnes of of sinne that so we may be drawne to abhorre it greatly to conceaue a true feare of falling into any offence of God This knowledg and this holy Feare do we fetch from the consideration of that diuine Iudgment since notwithstanding that Christ our Sauiour is of his owne Nature most pitteous and most benigne being the very fountaine of pitty and mercy and being most profoundly meeke and sweet and the very fountaine of sweetnes and being so great a louer of men that he dyes for them and so much desiring and esteeming the saluation of their soules that he giues his life for the same we a The terrour wherwith Christ our Lord will appeare at the later day yet see that in his Iudgment he will come extremely full of cause to make vs horribly feare and most terrible wil he be in the highest degree and full of wrath and fury for zeale of iustice against sinners He will come sitting downe vpon those horses of the heauen which are the cloudes Matt. 25. he will come in a warlike manner accompanyed by all the squadrons and armies of heauen Sap. 5. he will draw with him the whole world of creatures being all ranged placed in forme of battaile against sinners Sopho. c. 1. Yea and euen the very Saintes and Blessed soules themselues who are so full of pitty and haue beene the Aduocates of sinners will come armed shall be made both Iudges and the Ministers of diuine Iustice against them He shall haue for the Messenger which speakes of his comming Psal 96. a most furious fire which shall burne and purge all corporeall creatures a most hideous frightfull sound of mysterious trumpets which shal spēd themselues ouer the whole world shall make all creatures tremble and shal passe and pierce euen to the lowest bottome of hell and shall make those soules spring out of those infernall habitations of theirs full of horrible confusion to resume their bodyes and appeare in Iudgment In this manner doth the Scripture describe the comming of Christ our Lord to Iudgement Let vs now consider who it is that causeth this mutation of Christ our Lord. Who changeth him in so strang a fashion Who maketh him of most pittifull so extremly fierce Who of most profoundly meeke so full of wrath Of must delightfully sweet so full of fury and terrour Of peaceable so giuen to warre Of a refuge and shelter for sinners to be growne such a seuere punisher of the faulty Sinnes b See heere if sinne be not a dangerous companion to liue withall they are which cause this great mutation and which do so farre estrange him from that most benigne and sweet condition of his The hatred and profound detestation which he hath of sinne the liuely feeling he hath to see himselfe so foulely offended the greiuous weight which our faultes do carry in his diuine presence wherby his will is transgrest and his law despised do make him grow so frightfull and so very fierce towards the doing of iustice and taking vengance vpon sinners So saith the Apostle of Christ Iudas Thadaeus Iud. 1. speaking of this Iudgment Marke well for our Lord doth come accompanied with the innumerable troupes of holy Angells to passe a Iudgment vpon all wicked men to conuince them of all the euill workes which they haue comitted and of all the euill words which they haue spoken contrary to the law of God and to pronounce a sentence of condēnation against them Since then the hatred which God doth carry against sinne is so very great since the punishment which he will execute vpon sinners in that Iudgment of his is so immense O it is full of reason that from the faith and infallible notice which we haue of this truth all we who are beleeuers should fetch a knowledge of the grieuousnes of sinne and a perfect detestation of the same and a profound griefe and sorrow for such sinne as we haue already cōmitted much feare in respect of them which we may commit heerafter That so we may fly them and be freed from the fury of that diuine Iudgment and from that sentence of eternal damnation which is to be thundered out against sinners For c The true vse which we are to make of considering the terrour of the day of Iudgement this is the true reason why this Iudgment is discouered and notified to vs as S. Paul affirmed whilst he was preaching to the Athenians to this effect God doth now anounce the truth of his Ghospell to men to the end that all men and in all places may do penance of their sins since he hath with firme deliberation ordeyned a day at which tyme he will iudg the whol world with great vprightnes of iustice giuing to euery one that reward and punishment which his workes deserue And this Iudgment he will passe vpon the world by the meanes of Christ our Lord who as man hath authority from the eternall Father to giue visible Iudgment vpon all men Act. 17. CHAP. IIII. How we are to haue great feeling of the grieuousnes of sinne by reason of the demonstrations which shall be made by all the creatures of God before the Iudgement TO the end that from the declaration of the office which Christ our Lord hath of being the Iudge of the Iudgement which is to passe vpon the whole world we may draw the great fruite of knowing and feeling the greiuousnes of sinne and of abhorring it and doing penance for it and that we may also draw from thence a feare of sinne and of the punishment therof we will go dedeclaring those points and misteries of this diuine Iudgment which may best discouer to vs the immensnes of the hate which God doth carry towards sinne and of the punishment which he inflicteth vpon sinners The first point which doth discouer to vs the hate which God doth carry toward sinne is that in this his terrible Iudgment he will not onely punish the sinners who did offend him by their sins Matt. 24. but a How insensible creatures shall after a sort be punished for hauing been made the instrumēt of mans sinne he will after a sort punish all the Creatures of the whole world wherby sinners were assisted

diuine Iudgement when c Make this case thyne owne betymes for one day it wil be thy case whether thou wilt or no he shall see a Theater made round about him of all the creatures both of heauen and earth and that himselfe is placed in the middest of them that both all the Angells and men and Diuels are looking on him And when he shall obserue that his sinnes are published and proclaymed before them all and not only his wicked words and workes but euen all his bad desires and thoughts when he shall perceaue that all that lewdnes which he committed in the most retyred corners yea and those impurityes which did not so much as issue out of his hart shall then be cleare and patent to all the world To see that all those Diuels shal stand accusing him that his own very conscience is stil vpbraiding cōdemning him And to see the Iudge himselfe offended enraged against him and that he behoulds him with a countenance full of terrour and of reuenge for iniuryes receaued and to see that hideous pitt of hell all open in expectation to swallow him vp and to see himselfe so euidently conuinced that he hath no word to plead for himself And d A sad consideration but most certainely true that finding himselfe hemmed in by such an excesse of afflictions such incomparable miseryes he cannot fly away nor hath he any one hole wherein to hide his head nor any one thing to alleadge nor any one person to whome he may appeale or by whom he may be succoured For to defend himselfe against the Iudge is impossible since he is of infinite power To deceaue him with false informations cannot be since he is of infinite Wisedome To work vpon him by way of presents or petitions is not to be thought of since he is infinitely iust To goe in search after Patrons and Aduocats is losse of labour For in that day neither the Angels nor the Apostles can intercede for any one no nor euen the Queene e A heauy and most desperate case of heauen and the mother of mercy can plead the cause of sinners in that day The gate of pardon and sauing mercy is then closed vp against all the wicked all the iust and blessed soules shall approue of the diuine Iustice in that day and shall reioyce in that it is to be executed because so it is fit for the glory of God our Redeemer And then shal that be perfectly fullfilled which the Psalmist sayth Psalm 57. The Iust man seeing the punishment and vengeance which is to be taken vpon the wicked shall reioyce not for the payne which those sinners shall be subiect to nor out of any desire of reuenge but only for the zeale they haue to the glory of God for the loue they beare to his diuine Iustice CHAP. VII How Christ our Lord discouereth the grieuousnes of sinne and the hatred which he carryeth against it by the last sentence wherby he is to condemne the wicked and the punishment which he inflicteth vpon them ANOTHER Article of the diuine Iudgement which doth admirably discouer the excessiue hatred which Christ our Lord doth carry against sin is the last sentence which he will thunder out against the wicked As soone as he shall haue published their sinnes conuinced them thereof he wil deuide them from the company of the Iust and then turning his terrible and fierce countenance towardes them he will pronounce this most hideous sentence against them Depart a Our Lord deliuer vs from so great a misery from me you accursed into that eternall fire which is prepared for the Diuell and the wicked Angells Depart from me who am an infinite good and the fountaine of all benediction of grace of comfort of ioy of life of saluation of glory If then they be deuided from that only fountaine of al Good what kind of miserable thinges will they find themselues to be It is plaine that they must find themselues without comfort without grace without ioy without repose or ease and ful on the contrary side of all misery of all mischiefe of all paine Depart all you accursed because cursed are they who breake the Commandments of the true God for the greatest ill of all ill is sin and to this ill do they submit themselues who do any thing against that which our Lord cōmāds So sayth Dauid so doth the church sing euery day when she speakes to God Cursed are they O Lord who depart from keeping of thy Cōmandments Psal 118. In particuler manner are they accursed in the Law who doe not offer the first fruits and tithes of those things which God had giuen to them Matt. 3.1 and cursed also are those others who hauing promised some beast in sacrifice to Almighty God do offer him such a one as is leane and lame and worth nothing Into all these curses haue you fallen because you haue broken the Commandmēts of God and gaue him not the honour and glory of all the good deeds which once you wrought nor of all the benefits which you receaued And hauing consecrated and dedicated your soules to our true God by Fayth and Baptisme and being obliged to giue him the best and chiefe part thereof which is your loue and obedience fidelity and a watchfull care to doe him seruice you did not giue this to God but to the world and to your owne will and for these reasons you are indeed accursed and your selues are the authors of your malediction Let b Be attentiue to see whither the wicked are to be sent whē they are once driuen from God vs now consider whither it is that he sends them when once he driues them from himselfe Go saith he you accursed into euerlasting fier because in this life you sought for contentments for delights and gusts according to your owne will against the will of God you shal now be burnt body and soule with a most furious and impetuous fier against your will And because by sinning you haue offended and despised God who is infinite Good and an infinite Maiesty that fier shall be infinite in the continuance therof And who now shal be the ministers of Iustice to torment these accursed creatures And with what companions shall they be sorted in that torment of eternall fire Go saith our Lord into eternal fire which is prepared for the diuell and his wicked Angells For the principall authors of any wickednes the punishement is principally to be prouided and because the deuill was the first author of sinne therfore was the torment of eternall fier prouided first for him And because wicked men did follow the deuill in the fault they shall follow him also in the paine And because they chose to obey the perswasion will of the deuill rather then the commaundement and will of God they shall therfore haue him for their tormentor and