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A19277	A sermon of sure comfort preached at the funerall of Master Robert Keylwey Esquire, at Exton in Rutland, the 18. of Marche 1580. By Anthonie Anderson preacher, and Parson of Medburne in Leicestershiere.	Anderson, Anthony, d. 1593.	1581 (1581)	STC 569; ESTC S108524	34,987	88

lay abroad the order and maner of iudgemēt at the last day And first the maiestie of the iudge in his comming is described Secondly the maner of the iudgement who they be and wherof the Apparants be iudged The Lords comming is with great glory he sitteth on a mightie seat farre passing the iudicial thrones of the greatest princes And of necessitie that must bée a greate Seate Titus 2.13 Luk. 1.32 which must beare the God of might It is a bright shining seate all glorious not with corruptible golde or precious stone but with the heauēly gleames more bright then the Sunne beames euen lightned with the brightnesse of his diuine glorie as Christ hath saide Matt. 25.31 The sonne of Man shal come in his glorie and he shall sit vppon the seate of his glorie and all the holy Angels shall come with him Whose glorious throne doth euen teach vs that the Lords iudgements are pure and without spotte No pleading at the barre no bribing of the iudge no frending by aquest no fauour found for siluer nor loue or hate shall beare a sway but equitie alone in him shall then bee séene Also his brightnesse in comming shal perce into the hearts and actes of al men to manifest and lay open the hidden secrets of the conscience according to the sentence of Paul 1. Cor. 4.5 Iudge nothing before the time vntill the Lord come who wil lighten things that are hide in darkenes make the councels of the hearts manifest and then shal euery man haue praise of God viz. as his labour asketh Likewise the shinning sunne and moone the glittering starres yea heauen earth shall be darkened faile of their brightnes before him For like as the glorious sunne shinning causeth the blasing torch to loose his brightnes in respect of him So shall that most beawtifull planet be as darkened with the great glorie of this shining throne in the comming of the Amightie Christ But my beloued if these glorious creatures shal flée from the presence of this mighty CHRIST comming to iudgement which euer haue béene obedient to his holy will yea that but when he is comming how shal it fare with vs when he is set vpon that terrible throne whose sinnes haue béene so many and the accusers so ready as the Lord his witnes sathās accusation Zopho and thine owne conscience which is to thée 1000. witnesses when the sunne is blacke the Moone as blood the stars fall Malach. like the gréene figges from their trées in a mightie wind the heauens depart away like a scroll Reue. 6.12 and all ysles and montaines are moued out of their places And the kinges the of earth the great men and the rich men the chiefe captaines and the mightie men and euery bondman and euery frée man hide them selues in dennes Esa 2.19 Hos 10.8 Luk 23.30 and amongst the rocks of the mountaines and shall say to the mountaines and rockes fall on vs and hide vs from the presence of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the lambe In cause hereof let me say vnto vs with that holy Dauid Oh Psal 50.22 cōsider this you that forget God least the Lorde teare you in péeces and there bée none to deliuer you Séeing therefore that all these thinges must be dissolued and come to passe what manner of persons ought we to bée 2. Pet. 3.11 in holy conuersation godlinesse But when this iudge our Lorde Christ is thus gloriouslyset then these foresaid persons of ech degrée shall stand before him euen great smal for neither heauen nor earth can hid them or their crownes their dignities Lordships or warrelike courage wealth wil or wit shall be able to kéepe them from his presence or escape the iust iudgemēt which the balance of his equitie shal cast vnto thē Looke to this now ye knights and gentils here present and you rich in possessions be not careles of your life for godly preuention nowe shal embolden your persons then to lift vp your heades because your redemption is thē at hand Luk. 21.28 This order then shall be obserued The bookes shal be laid open before the Lorde and euery man high and low rich and poore shall be iudged with the scepter of trueth euen according as his déedes are written in those bookes Note héere beloued by an elegant Metaphor howe the spirite of GOD doth display the iudgementes of the Lorde He alludeth vnto the iudiciall courtes of kinges and Potentates where the bookes of recorde beare memorie of the faultes of men conuicted by good proofe Not that the Lord hath néede of bookes for he knoweth the thoughts words and workes of all men of euery idle word Math. 12.36 shall man be iudged but that héereby he would sende vs to our owne senses to knowe and féele that all our actions and heartes are in his sight and cannot be wiped out of his remembrance by other pensill then onely by true faith repentance And as we are fallen into this Metaphor of the Lords bookes So let vs know that the holy scriptures Ezech. 18. Heb. 6. attribute thrée bookes vnto God viz. liber prouidentiae Iudicii vitae The booke of his prouidence The booke of his iudgement and the blessed booke of life Of his prouidence Dauid saith thus Psal 139 16. Thine eyes did see mee when I was without fourme for in thy booke were all things writtē which in continuaunce were fashioned when there was none of them before O Lorde sayth hée when as yet I was not formed in my mothers wombe thine eyes did see me in the book of thy foreknowledge prouidence of thy diuine mind were all men written from the foūdation of the earth when as yet there was not one begotten The booke of his iudgementes this former text doth enforce the consideration of which bookes were opened and signifieth the certaine knowledge of al the words and workes of euery man from Adam tyll that instant according to the which they shall be all then iudged For those things which the Lord now knoweth as if he had them written in bookes those thinges that either our heartes wordes or workes haue imagined spoken or done the same then shall he then lay before vs as if he redde them out of them Apoc. 20. and shall thereby builde a reason vnto vs all why some shall by iudgement goe to hell some other vnto life Be not deceiued therefore good people God is not mocked or beguiled Gal. 6.7 for we shall be adiudged of euery idle worde that shall be spoken howe much more of wicked déeds as of idolatrie whordome blasphemie and such like Nowe go too you that put farre away the euill day Amos. 6.3 and approch the seat of iniquitie which take singular pleasure in ribauldry and filthy iesting which can laughe the lowdest when your lewde seruants are most disposed to lie Doe

thy sinnes are discouered and thine imperfections more notorious But by two especiall notes a sicke man is knowne to be neare his death First his pulses labour weakely his speech draweth farrely and his strength is fled away Secondly when he is sodeinely bereft of his vitall spirits perfect senses so as he is not féeling the parts of his dying bodie he is déemed neare vnto his death Alas looke into the bodie of England for the soundenes of her life Christ in her beholde her pulses beate faintly her speach fetcheth farly her strength is meruellously decayed Is her zeale to religion as it was in the beginning of her maiesties raigne Is it continually vigent in all the parts of the bodie doth euery knée bowe to Christ the Lorde in her doth euery tongue confesse Iesus to be the Lorde to the glorie of God the father Nay alas this little life left is drawne néere to the heart and the heart is verie sicke A fewe names a fewe in respecte of so great a number What meaneth it that so many magistrates are molested with carcke against conspiracies and domesticall furies That such and so great vices are dayly spread and breake out So sundrie persons forced with papists filthy familyes and popish seminaries Such friendshippe to Gods enimies of some that rather should help to spewe them out of the bodie Such prouision for warre such feare of forraine foes and so small trust in manie home dwellers vndoubtedly this is the very cause that Englande is very sicke fainting falling as by degrées from her former strength in Christ Religion is thought to bee strong ynough of it selfe for aide it can obtaine little except about the heart Godly conuersation is fledde out of the countrie God graunt him godly constant entertainment in her graces Court Charity is become key cold for no man hath leasure to loue beyonde himselfe Hate of iniquitie is banished the lande and the true loue of God is hardly to be founde in the bodie of England Euen now is performed againe the prophet Hosias speach There is no truth nor mercy Hose 4 2.2.3 nor knowledge of God in the land by swearing lying and killing and stealing and whoring they breake out and bloode toucheth blood therefore shall the lande mourne c. And are we not senselesse of our weake estate Do not our spirituall preachers crie vnto vs Esa 1.53.6 Rom. 2.2 There is no health frō top to the toe All haue gone astray euery mā after his picked chosē way the long suffering of God hath béene to drawe you to repentance but you haue abused his great pacience are like to the raging seas for in the glory of your presumptiōs you haue cast vp to the eyes of the Lord the filthie fome of your bloodgiltinesse But nowe repent in time ere the day of his decrée come foorth Zoph 2.1 ● Gather your selues together O nation not worthy to bée beloued least you be blowen away like chaffe in that day Séeke the Lorde ye méeke of the earth you that haue wrought his iudgementes Séeke righteousnesse séeke lowlines if so be the ye may bée hidden in the day of the lords wrath But beloued in GOD Esa 26.20 howe féele we our selues now are we sicke or whole To this me thinke some do say No sir loquere no bis placentia speake more pleasant things to vs. Crie peace peace Iere. 20.1 euē til the day of war Cast Ieremie into prisō saith Pashur his partakers for hee speaketh against this citie But those names onely that are about the hart and haue not so steined their cloths they say he is not worthie to die for he hath spokē to vs in the name of the lord our god Ier. 26.16 But of the residue what shal we say truly we may rightly say as God him selfe spake to his prophet Ezechiel in the time saying Also thou son of man the childrē of thy people the talke of thee by the wals as they sit at their banquets Ezec. 33.30 thou art their sauce to their delicates in the dores of their houses whē they sit in the streets to recreate thēselues speake one to an other saying in derisiō of my law come I pray you heare what is the word that cōmeth from the Lorde for they come vnto thee as the people vseth to come and my people sit before thee and heare thy words but they wil not do thē for with their mouths they make mowes iestes their hart goeth after their couetousnes And lo Thou art to them as a iesting song of one that hath a pleasant voice can sing well for they heare thy words but they do thē not And when this cōmeth to pas for lo it wil come namely the ripenes of this sin the performance of my prophets threts frō me Then shal they knowe Verse 28. that not a iesting singer but a prophet hath ben amongst them When Lord euen whē I wil lay the land desolate saith the Lord wast and the pompe of her strength shal cease c. O lord in thy great mercy looke down vpon our English Israel What is he the séeth this huge heape of people here this day being a straunger to the state of this country but presently might cōceiue much life of god to be in thē Surely it is a great people yea a very great auditorie I haue not seene the like in the countrie the Lord blesse you al with the first resurrectiō according to his blessed will But you of the greater sort take you care that ye come not to heare what the lord saith only for ciuility or neiborly courtesie in respect of these funerals or in nisenes to heare a voice that might delight you but what cause soeuer brought you now that you are come be attentiue to the lord that you may be taught of god As for the gretest number it is too apparant wil be proued anonne that as our prophet saith they folow their couetousnes They are come in hope to haue a dole to day Against whose gréedie desire eftsones I pray you to whom it belongeth that regarde may be had hereof least this dayes exercise may be abused by the wicked to father their popish prayer for the deade vppon your charitable deuotion to the poore But beloued let the bell call you to another Church or at an other time be the preacher liked neuer so well we shall not haue the thirde part of this audience Nay if we might haue but the fourth part and that on the Sabboth onely it were in these partes a vertuous people And after our hearing howe do we digest the worde For the moste part this is al At dinner and after we talke of the man but féede not of the matter We either yéelde him his due commendation or our dislike But euen as minstrels song once hearde is streight forgotten So very fewe with Marie laieth