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A53325 The last judgment, or, A discourse shewing the reasonableness of the belief of such a thing deliver'd in a sermon, at the assizes held for the county of Denbigh, on the 18th of April, anno 1682 / by John Oliver ... Oliver, John, d. 1730. 1682 (1682) Wing O275; ESTC R10726 13,587 32

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V. 31. with the great noise of a Trumpet to summon all men to their last Reckoning Would you know the Person of the Judge 'T is that Son of man to whom the Father has committed all Judgment A Person of that Wisdom Act. 17.31 that he sees into the Merits of every Cause of that Justice that he cann't determine wrongfully and of that Authority that from his Sentence there lyes no appeal Would you know the Persons that are to appear before him They are the Quick and Dead all that shall be found alive upon Earth at his coming and all that shall be cloyster'd up in the dark Regions of the Grave At the great Goal-delivery Rev. 20.13 the Sea shall render up the dead that are in it and Death and Hell shall bring their Prisoners to the Bar that they may all receive according to their doings Would you know the Proceedings of that Court They 'l be according to Law the natural Law written in our Hearts and those Positive Laws the Scripture has superadded to them Would you know the Evidence to be produc'd upon every man Rev. 20.12 'T is the Testimony of Conscience which keeps a perfect Diurnal of our several Actions from the beginning to the end of our dayes An Evidence we have no reason to except against because part of our selves and so will never give in a wrong or partial Information An Evidence the Judge will never question because 't is his Minister in every one of us one part of whose Office it is to keep a true Record of all our doings Would you know the Conclusion of all The Righteous shall go into Life Eternal Mat. 25 46. where they cann't fail of the most ravishing Delights being possess'd of him in whose presence are Joyes and at whose right hand are Pleasures and that for evermore The wicked shall go into a place of Torment provided for the Devil and his Angels where the Atheist will meet with late and sad assurances of a Divine Power and Justice the Blasphemer will find what it is to affront the Author of his Being the Prophane and Dissolute will see what an unhappy choice they made when they left the rugged wayes of Vertue and pitch'd upon the broad Paths of Sin pleasant indeed to the Eye and easie to the Traveller but ending at last in a Precipice of unavoidable ruine Knowing therefore the Terrors of the Lord let me perswade all that hear me this day so to live that they may be thought worthy to escape them Whether Persons in Authority that they remembring whose Ministers they are and to whom they are accountable for that Power entrusted to them may be careful to employ it to the Punishment of Wickedness and Vice and to the maintenance of true Religion and Vertue Or other subordinate Persons that they having alwayes before their Eyes the great Account may endeavour to live in a due Reverence to the Majesty on High and a quiet subjection to his Vicegerent on Earth and in common honesty among themselves In a word that we may all of us both in Church and State act suitable to the Rules of our holy Profession to the many weighty Obligations our Religion has laid upon us and especially to the Belief of this great Article of a Judgment to come that so we may finish our Course with joy and then receive the Fruit of our doings even a Crown of Glory God of his infinite mercy grant for his Sons sake Jesus Christ our Lord to whom with the Father and the blessed Spirit be all Honour and Glory World without end FINIS