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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09576	Gods generall summons to his last parliament. By George Phillips	Phillips, George, fl. 1597.	1595 (1595)	STC 19859; ESTC S114702	14,661	50

that were called to the supper of that King which made a marriage for his sonne requited his kindnes with I pray ye hold me excused for I haue bought oxen and I goe to trie them The second with I haue bought a farme and I must go and see it And the third with I haue married a wife and I cannot come If they were so loth to come when hee called them of his mercie how vnwilling will they be thinke you to appeare when hee calleth them of his iustice when they cannot beare him in hande that men are so simple to buy oxen before they trye oxen or to lay out money for the pigge in the poke that the money shall be told before the farme be bought and sold that they will first pay for it then suruey it no but he sayd trueth that confessed and sayd I haue married a wife and I cannot come for they that are married to the world as a man to his wife they send God answer that they cānot leaue the world their wife till their dying day And then neither I pray thee excuse mee may serue the turne nor I cannot come bee taken for an aunswere but corpus cum causa must be returned to the iudgement seate of Christ They do wel then who walk worthie of their calling by walking according to the same like the Apostles who sayd Acts. 6 4. VVee will giue our selues to prayer to the ministratiō of the word continually Godlinesse must be as carefully kept as it is painfully gotten 1. Timo. 6 20. least like ebbing waters at full tide wee hasten to our fall Paul telleth vs of a Iudgement because thereby a difference shall bee made betwixt the better and the worse sorte of people for as there was no time when nor companie whom the diuell chose before the sonnes of God Iob. 1. when they were assembled before the Lorde so it is with the wicked who resemble the brasen faced strumpets who couet the companie of honest women placing their grace in such because themselues are graceles For as God blessed Laban for the loue he had to Iacob Gen. 30 27. so they knowe that the worse fareth well for the betters sake Mark 13.26 Matth. 13.48 This made the tares creepe vp anon after the good corne The frie to slip into the net with the good fish the vngodly to sit in the sunne-shine with godly that they might haue a being for a time for when iudgement cōmeth they shall appeare but as Satan amongst the sonnes of God that is in the company Iob. 2.1 but not of the company of Gods elect and as the theefe at the barre not for his good that he hath done but for the euill hee hath committed Matth. 17.3 but the rest like Moses and Elias familiar with Christ The reason of this is that Christ being the true light might shew himselfe to be so indeed by leauing nothing that is a deed of darknes vndetected to the children of light that he may be iustified in his sayings and cleere whē he is iudged The wicked must bee detected of what they haue been and the vngodly must be noted for what they are and all this must be brought to light by the light for as mens sins haue been smothered in the world so haue they bin buried in the graue You see thē that the iustice of Christ and the vnrighteousnes of man doth bring a iudgement Luk. 23.19 As Barrabas his insurrection and the lawes equitie caused his imprisonment The vse of this is as fit for our age as Iethroes counsell was for his son in lawe Moses in aduising him not only to make Iudges in Israel but also prescribed such principall qualities as should be predomināt in their calling As a good courage Exod. 18 21. the feare of GOD true dealing and cleerenes from the corruption of bribe taking so that if a man in the spirit of Dauid should demand of thē this question Are your mindes set vpon righteousnes O yee congregation Psalm 58 1. and doe yee iudge the thing that is right O yee sonnes of men They durst appeale to God like Dauid that said Psalm 26.1 Be thou my Iudge O Lorde whether I haue walked innocently or not For thus should men learne to iudge as they would be iudged Iustice hath both her handes full continually in signe whereof her right hand gripeth a sword and her left hād lifteth vp a paire of ballance Teaching Magistrates to way euery matter in the ballance of a good conscience that they may know which cause is the lighter So Dauid intreateth God Psalm 5.1 Ponder my cause O Lord. And then deuide to each man his owne as Salomons sword ceased the strife betwixt the womē that stroue for the liuing child 2. King 3.25 But if the sword bee swayed before the waytes haue wayed then may you see Annanias who should iudge according to law commanding to strike Paul against law Ioh. 18.10 Then may you see Peter step in with the sword and strike off Malcus eare Then doe you see the Magistrate deale more hastely thē wisely Thē receiueth the very law it selfe a maime at the hande of the Magistrate Dauid commending the flourishing state of Ierusalem said There is the seate of iudgement euen the seate of the house of Dauid This seate Dauid calleth the seate for iustice to shew the right vse of the iudgement seate the house of Dauid noting what men should sit there euen iust men like the seede of Dauid Luk. 23.22.24 or els as Pilate iudged Christ faultles Acts 24.28 and yet put him to death And as Felix to please the Iewes left Paul in prison so they will set their consciences on the tainter hookes Susan 52. and be as olde in euill as in age like the vniust Iudge reproued by Daniel But the good Magistrate is like the munition that ouerpeereth the cities walles in time of warre threatning the enemies that are without and comforting the inhabitās which are within or such a preseruatiue as the pitch was to Noas Arke sticking fast vnto the sides without and within or like a hedge to the vine to keep it from the destroyer Exod. 6.14 or like the tree that Nabucadnezzar sawe refreshing such as came vnder his shadow or like Moses Exod. 2.13 seeking to set them at one that striue or like Iob helping them that lye at the gate Iob. 31.21 and are not able to helpe themselues or like Dorcas making clothes at his owne cost for the poore Acts 9.39 that such may lament the losse of him when he is gone as reioyced by him when hee was here But if he bee not such a one as hath a godly care of those that are committed to his charge there is such a fault in the chosers as was in the trees of the wood who annoynted a brāble in stead of a better tree

fed them with bread and water For whosoeuer doth hear God doth good for Gods people like Obadiah and God dooth good to him Exod 9 10 for so many of Pharaos seruantes as feared God were preserued from the daungerous haile Our sauior Christ sheweth the cause why the godly are so desirous to appeare and why the vngodly are so lothe to come before Christ Of the first sort he saith Iohn 3 21 He that doth truth commeth to the light that his deeds might be made manifest that they are wrought acording to God Hee is like the poore true meaning man molested wrongfully that neuer ceaseth soliciting the iudge that he may haue a daye of hearing like the widdow that cryed Luke 18 3 Auenge me 〈…〉 20 c. of the other he saith Euerie one that doth euil hateth the light and commeth not to the light least his deedes should be reproued Hee is like the guiltie defendant calling for respite of iudgement like the diuels that cried let vs not bee tormented before the time Matth 8 29 But Paule speaketh not of the certeinty of any definite time but rather of the general appearance and so of the impossibility of any mans exemtion from being accomptable in his Stewardship Luke 16 13 The scripture mentioneth one account of a bad Steward but least any man should thinke that that parable should only warrant the account of bad men Paule putteth the question out of controuersie that our account shal be generall for he saith flatly we shal al appear Actes 25 9 Acts 25 10 Wilt thou go vp to Ierusalem and there be iudged of these matters before me sayde Festus to Paule Paule might appeare to Ceasars iudgement seate because hee was a Romaine borne Therefore Festus saide Wilt thou Acts 22 28 c. but wil we or nil we euerie mothers childe of vs shal appeare where Christ hath summoned vs. Then let not the badde stand stil at the weake state they are in Gene 41.20 like Pharaos leane kine nor the good cease to goe on in their pilgrimage like strangers on the earth but like Iosua going towarde Canaan say I and my housholde will serue the Lord. Iosua 14 15 When Salomon had seene all the inconueniences of the sluggardes Vineyarde Prou. 24 32 he tooke it for a warning And wee are verie happy menne if wee haue the grace to take heede of that which is foretolde vs. When Felix heard Paule dispute of his appearance to come Actes 24 26 he trembled and so do the diuels with all the wicked but few examine themselues with Ieremie who saide What haue I done Ierem. 8 6 Gene 42 21 Except it be when it is too late like Iosephes brethren in the famine which said one to another we haue vtterly sinned against our brother in that we sawe the anguish of his soule when he be sought vs and wee woulde not heare him Gen 42 21 Gene 3 1 therefore is this trouble come vpon vs. The serpent was iustlie called the subtellest beast in the fielde and sinne the sonne is like the diuell his father loth is it to come in his owne likenesse but as the diuell came to Saule in the shape of Samuel Sam. 1 28 Eccle 10 11 so commeth sinn not like a serpent but like the subtil serpent that stingeth without hissing Serpents come closely that men may not perceiue them so shal they first feele their sin and then see that they haue sinned when they cannot amend the matter But se how Pauls epistle coms running like the messenger to Iob Iob 1 14 saith he is dead I am escaped to tel thee See here a message is come from the dead Paule to admonish vs to bee carefull to liue wel while we are heere that wee may meet with him in his ioye elsewhere Eccles 10.7 The hart of a wise man is at his right hand saith Salomon vz he is ready to follow al good admonitions When men are vppon the Sea in danger they wil cast al away to keep their life Acts 27 38 Apoc 13 1 Iames 1 8 Luke 11 8 we should leaue al things willingly for the life to come What is the world but as an incōstant sea what are the troubles heere but as tempests there what is the Church afflicted but as a ship tossed what are christian men but carefull marriners striuing against storm stream to ariue safe in the hauen of Heauen Actes 27 9 Acts 14 22 Sailing was very dangerous in Pauls long voyage by Sea but yet he wafted on And we must trauel through many troubles to the kingdome of Christ Actes 14 21 As Paules fellowe sailers wished for the day so al christians desire the true light Psal 42 2 Therefore saieth Dauid When shal I come and appeare beefore God as though he thought euery minute to bee a moneth vntill the iudgement day were come This maketh the spouse so inquisitiue after him Cant 3 3 that she is questioning with as many as meet her Saw ye him whom my soule loueth The church woulde not see Christ Luke 19 3 Heb 12 1 as Philip Andrewe saw him nor as Zacheus saw him nor as the cloud of witnesses saw him but so in his kingdome Math 17 2 as Moses and Elias sawe him in his glorie vppon Mount Thabor Take heed watch pray for ye know not when the time shall be Math 13 33 saith our Sauiour Christ to the dysciples because we know not the daie of appearance therefore wee are often warned to watch that we may be ready like the mariner that waiteth on the winde and tide like the smith that smiteth whiles the yron is hot and as birdes breed while summer lasteth The speech of Abraham to the rich man in hel concerneth vs now while we are out of hel Sonne remember that thou in thy life time haddest pleasure Luke 16 25 Psal 95 8 The Psalmist saith we must heare God while it is to day vz while we may and in another Psalme I will pay my vowes now saith the prophet teaching men to take their present opportunitie Psal 116 12 to giue God his dutie other waies they may soothe vppe themselues Psal 116.14 with Beholde O Lorde how that I am thy seruaunt but cannot saye and the sonne of thy handmaide while they are not at hande to doe his beheastes Christ saide watch Math 25 13 for ye know not when the houre wil come because we know not at what houre Christ will come therfore it is reason to be ready euery houre and the last houre is vnknowne to vs that wee might account euery houre to be the last hower yet as before the Wall falleth downe some stones drop out of it and cliftes appeare as before the flame mounteth some smoake is seene And as before the mightye thunderbolt a flashe of lightning flieth out so wee