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A72487	The vvorlds assises. Or A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the tenth day of Iuly 1614. being the Sunday before the end of Trinity terme. By Nathanael Kitchener, student in diuinitie, and preacher of Gods word at Grauenhurst in Bedfordshire	Kitchener, Nathanael, d. 1620.	1616 (1616)	STC 14948; ESTC S123148	36,535	108

betaken it selfe to it wings and is fled from peoples hearts godlines is become as a vagrant gees vp and downe from towne to towne from partie to partie for want of imployment the intertainment thereof is a passeport whipt away from the earth and sent home to heauen the place where it was borne Religion is fixt in the sphere of no mans heart there is none that doth good no not one it is now Plannet-like sometimes nigher sometimes farther off he who giues it o●be-rome This moneth discards it the moneth following we haue so many temporizers that few shall be eternized so many on earth that few in heauen So much dissimulation that Momus his wish to Iupiter as the Poets faint to haue a glaslewindow in mens brests to diseerne betweene their hearts and their words would be a Boone to the world So little fidelitie that an honest plaine dealing man is Animal rarum like a nightrauen seldome seene so that we may instly with Diogines take a candle and a lanthorne at noone day and say Quae ro hommem I seeke a man We liue in an age I cannot say the least God be thanked it is the last but I may too truely say the worst and as the Cynicke said of an Italian Take a light and seeke cuerie hole and not finde a worse so say I of our times Take paines and search all stories and not finde the like Hence I inferre that these bee the last daies and farthest times of our Sauiours comming that the appointed day is at our very heeles because now our good friends doubt may be easily resolued when the Son of man shall come shall he finde faith on the earth Luk. 18.8 Yea. doubtlesse some and but a little and yet some else the world could not stand For I dare say we have some saithfull Eliahs that obtaine raine in time of neede some holy Moses that stand in the gap of Gods wrath to keep his iudg mēts frō vs some blessed Abrahams that pleade with God euen the case of this citie else I beleeue that the wals hereof had beene downe long ere this Preuention is the hart of pollicie and let vs learne Christian policie to preuent the policie shall bee that which Peter teacheth vs To amend our lines Act. 2.38 Euery one to mend one the preuention will-be this we shall b● nesther punished with the wicked nor shall we perish with the wicked Not pnnished My people be not partakers of her sinnes least you beare a part of her plagues Apoc 18.4 Not perish He that turnes to the Lord his souleishall liue Ezech 18. Let vs then who desire to escape both punishing and perishing too looke to all Christ tels vs ignorance shall excuse no man the seruant gaue his maister none answere at his reture the text ait and the reason is giuen by Chri Vt sciamus in die inditij cessare excusationem peccati To giue vs to vnderstand that at the day of iudgement none excuse will sarue the turne only my text tels vs we shall be iudged in righteousnesse and right is no wrong In righteousnesse God created man in righteousnes created man should liue in righteousnesse liuing man should die and in righteousnesse liuing and dead menshal be iudged Gifts blinde the eies of the wise but our Iudge will not be bribed Iudges may be partiall to parties but God is no accepter of persons Iudges may be moued with pittie but our now Iesus will be then Iudex A iudge all for iustice In isto tantum seculo misericors est Hier. in 105 Psalme Onely in this world God is mercifull in the next world mercy hath no seare pittie hath no plea. Let all then take heede how they liue in this interstiticall time before iudgement least being found gu●tie when they shall be conuented before the great Iudge at the great Assise of the world they haue that dismail Mittimns made of Ite to their distressed soules from the hands of him who will iudge in righteousnesse 5. The sift part of my text is the partie who must iudge vs Your honorable worshipfull and religious patience hath afforded me eies and eares in this more then two houtes trauell through the way of my tex● I beseech you let not now my prolixitie make you thinke ouerlong the time to stay vntil the end of my tourney that you may heare the whole discourse for t hast a pace and presse towards the marke It any then aske me who this iudge shall be who the man is that is appointed to iudge the world I answere It is the man Iesus Christ God and man who died for man to iudge man For he that was God was borne vpon the earth as man for vs he that was borne vpon the earth as man for vs wrought vpon the earth as God for vs he who wrought vpon the earth as God for vs died vpon the eresle as man for vs and he who died vpon the crosle as man for vs rose againe the third day as God for vs to make vs the adopted sons of his father Now he that was thus borne did thus worke so die and so rise againe he who was God and man to adopt man shall iudge man The truth of this appeares out of our creede Where we beleeue in Iesus Christ who ascended into heauen shall thence come to iudge both the quicke and the dead tappeares out of Rom 14.10 where the text saith We shal al appeare before the iudgement seate of Christ it is plaine loh. 5.22 The father indgeth no man but hath giuen all iudgement to the sonne which words are spoken by our Sau our himselfe Iesus Christ the Iudge The Sonne then shall be iudge yet we must not think that the Father and the holy Ghost are seduced frō this iudgement but this we must hold that the sonne Iesus Christ our Sauiour shal iudge immediatly really locally personally visibly the other two shall iudge inuisibly onely by giuing their consent Christ shall execute sentence vpon the world personally In forma hominis In the forme of a man in the same forme which he tooke on him when he was on earth Whereupon Bernard saith Vulnera seruanit in diem iudicij vt videant ea Iudaes confund●●tur He hath kept his wounds vnto the day of iudgement that the Iewes may see them and bee confounded The whole Trinitie shall iudge Authoritatiue with equall authoritie but Christ shall iudge executatiue with execution of sentence be cause Iudex debet esse manifestus omnibus iudicandis The Iudge must shew himselfe and be manifest to al that shall be iudged For wee must know that the Father and the holy Ghost shal not be seene according to their diuine nature of all that must be at iudgement for then all should be blessed and all should be blessed for the seeing of God is blessednesse and blessednesse is the seeing of God For as in hell Maxima paena The greatest punishment is the

Tortuosae viae Crooked craneld waies and Malimores Bad and worse conditions are neerely allyed yet how the kindred comes in I desire not to search the Records least happily without desire I might loose my selfe While I was musing vnder the burthen of my thoughts what text to take that behooued many this my text met me offering it selfe to me and you and it concernes all It was at my choise to choose and speake what all know but in my choise I choose to speake what the most know not I might speake to you reuerend Iudges to take heed of peruerting iudgement least you euert your selues when your selues shall come to iudgement but I would faine suppose that they who know equitie will doe right I might speake to this Honourable worthy Lord Maior that he would be a father to the fatherlesse and defend the cause of the widow that he would eleuate virtue and debelitate vice but I heare so much of you that this hortatory speech I heare will be needlesse notwitstanding I heare that sin so abounds here that vnlesse the whippe scourg it the scourge is like to whip al. I might speake to the noble learned Clergie my brethren that they like Iohn Baptist would be burning lights and not like Demas burnt-out lights but this they know as well as I and I must striue as well as they I might speake to the speakers at the Law that they with care would maintaine their Clients as their Clients at cost retaine them but they are wise and know much and in their wisdome cannot but know this I might speake to the fashion-mongers men and women of our age that they would imbrace Pauls counsel Rom 12.2 Not to fashion themselues like vnto this world but this hauing beene a fashion among many my predecessours heretofore my selfe am willing to leaue this fashion now I might speake to all with my Sauiour Ioh. 5.14 and so I will and doe Sinne no more because each one must die and come to iudgement All must giue account of all to the Iudge of al. The Philosopher saith Primus motor mouet primum mobile Primum mobile caetera omnia the chiefe mouer moues the first mouable it all the rest Be God almighty the first mouer suppose me for this time place the chief mouable your selues my iudicious Auditors the bodies to be moued Meane while God grant my spirit of mediocritie the voice of the Bird of Paradise of whom I reade that she moues all to repentance to whom she sings which if I asking shal receiue I will think this a blessed time bestowed in defire wherof I craue your attētiue hearts to that portion of scripture which I finde thus written Act. 17.31 He hath appointed a day in the which he wil iudge the world in righteousnes by that man whom he hath appointed BLessed Paul who of a Peelar became a Pillar of an earnest persecuter Act. 8. became a zealous Preacher Act. 13. being guided by the spirit from citie to citie to preach in the end he came to Athens as appeares in this 17 chapter vers 15. Where being he was brought into the Streete of Mars ver 19. there passing along he stood and told them what he had obserued An altar wherein was written vnto the vnknowne God vers 23. Whereupon Paul took occasion to preach vnto thē The liuing God declaring vnto them t●at he was the framer of this worlds Architecture that he dwelt not in hādmade temples that he is not worshipped with bandie workes ver 25. that he giues breath to all and appointed to euery thing his season that in him we liue and mooue and haue our being vers 28. and therefore that we who liue and mooue and be should Repent vers 30. Because as my text hath it in this verse 31. He hath appointed a day in the which he will iudge the world in righteousnesse by that man whom he hath appointed In which words I note fiue things 1. Parts 5. The certainety of the day set downe by a double Affidauit first the Author He that is God 2. The resclution Hath appointed 2. The vncertaintie of the day in that it is not limited coacted or restrained to a day definitiue This or that day but to a day indefinite A day The end of the appointment to Iudge the world 4. The manner how In righteousnesse 5. The Partie who By that man whom he hath appointed In speaking of which words I craue this sole fauour that all things may be taken and not mistaken as they are spoken 1. For the certaintie The Power of God hath an appointed day for the creatiō of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The great world the mercy of God had it appointed day in the redemptiō of man the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The little world now the iustice of God must haue the appointed day for the iust punishment of the vniust little world that soiourns in the great world for Fundamenta The foundations of the Continent shall be shaken and then Blandamenta The follies of the contained shall be ouerthrowne The Apostle speaking of the certainety of this day saith The day of the Lord will come as a thiefe in the night in the which the heauens shall passe away with a noise the elements shall melt with heate and the earth with the workes that are therein shall be burnt vp and we must looke for new heauens and new earth 2. Pet. 3.10 For I doe beleeue that at the end of the world there shall goe a great and terrible fire either hard before or with the comming of the Iudge But now whether this fire shall be Elementum ignis the element of fire in it owne proper sphere or whether all the fires on the earth or in the earth among the stones and minerals or whether such a fire Qualem excitabit tum deus as the almighty shall then raise whether I say it shall be all of these Coniunctim in one or any of these Deuisim seuered that I know not And that fire shall consume this world it shall Corpora incinerare terrae nascentia absumere in nihilum redigere burne bodies not all into ashes consume all the vegetatiue things on the earth and bring them to nothing Also I looke for new heauens and new earth but how new Quoad formam non quoad substantiam New in regard of the forme and fashion not new in respect of the matter and substance In this I hold with Aug. Ciuit. lib. 20. cap. 16. Elementa id est Caelum terram non esse abolenda sed in melius commutanda figurem id est imaginem mundi non substantiam berituram That is The Elements heauen and earth shall not be taken quite away but changed into better the fashion that is the likenesse of the world shall perish but not the substance therrof Iumping with this opinion of Augustin is that of Saint Greg. Mor. lib. 17. cap. 5. Caelum terra