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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06068	Two godly and fruitfull treatises the one, vpon the Lords prayer. The other, vpon the sixe principles. Both penned by that learned man, Paul Baine, sometimes preacher of Gods word at S. Andrewes in Cambridge.	Baynes, Paul, d. 1617.	1619 (1619)	STC 1649; ESTC S115503	46,776	286

thy selfe alreadie the first resurrection of thy soule from death in sinne which is greater wilt thou not then beleeue that he whom thou hast found able to raise thy soule frō death in sinne is able to raise vp thy body likewise And it is terrible to the wicked it were well with them if death coming there were an end Nay the body must rise that as it was partaker with the soule in sinning so it may be partaker with it in iudgement The second thing is the end to which all are raised to iudgment Obserue then that euery one shall come before Iesus Christ the great God to iudgmēt Earthly Princes haue their Iusticers riding their circuits and in fit times iudging all causes and persons subiect to iudgment So God hath his Christ to whom he hath committed all iudgement who shall come gloriously from heauen in his time and iudge all flesh righteously And needs it must be for here in this life is not seene the punishment of wickednesse nor the reward of vertue Now if a King in his common wealth cannot iustly suffer sin vnpunished nor vertue without encouragemēt how much lesse shall the iust God let the wicked carry it away for euer the godly vnrewarded shall not the iust Iudge of all the world set all at right in his time But the Scripture saith that he that beleeueth shall not come into iudgement Ioh. 5. and that he who beleeueth not is already condemned Ans The righteous shall not come into iudgment of condemnation but he shall appeare to be formally and publikely absolued The wicked is already iudged and condemned by the word in his cōscience Sententia Iudicis interloquutoria not definitiua The word iudgeth him his conscience condemneth him but the definitiue sentence is not solemnly pronounced This then is to be thought on that God will haue all brought to iudgement yea he shall reckon with malefactors to the least idle word As malefactors are brought out of darksome prisons so shall the bodies soules of wicked ones be drawne forth of the prisons of hell the graue to receiue their doome This not thought vpon men are bold to commit wickednesse as we say the theefe wots not the hemp groweth when he stealeth Many thinke let them haue but this day they will make shift good enough but the more thou presumest the more shalt thou be confounded the lighter thou settest by it thou shalt feele it the more vnsupportable We are afraid to fall into the lapse to do any thing amisse which we are sure to answer before our betters if we do it how is it then that we are not afraid to do any thing though we must answer it before God This is cōfortable to the godly that they haue yet an appeale lying to a higher iudgemēt then vpon the earth The last thing followeth the glory of the beleeuing the eternal damnation of the vnbeleeuers When sentence is once passed in earthly affaires forthwith there are inferiour officers which see execution accordingly so when this great God hath passed his sentence he hath good and euill Angels which shall be executioners vnto him First the godly shall enter their eternall lise and be made partakers with Christ in his glory for this is part of their dignity that they should as benchers sitting with Christ applaude his most righteous iudgement on wicked ones who haue not beleeued nor obeyed the Gospell and so after a sort iudge the world with Christ Know ye not that the Saints shall iudge the world Now their eternall life is a thing we beleeue I beleeue life euerlasting for if a man do out of his bounty giue often to some seruitor that hath done him the better seruice a free hold to him and his heires after him for euer and so if the world could be supposed to continue and his name not to grow extinct an euerlasting reward how much more doth it agree with Gods bountie to recompence the momentany seruices of his children with giuing thē this euerlasting inheritance which out of his fatherly loue he before worlds prepared for them Here then is matter of ioy the best dish is to come our life is yet hid we liue now as a tree in winter whose life is hid at the roote of it so is ours with God in Christ the roote of vs but when the Spring of our resurrectiō cometh it shall be manifested Finally marke what is the end of wicked ones eternall damnation with the diuell and his Angels I shewed in the end of the second question how it is meete that momentany wicked ones should haue euerlasting punishment for it is against an infinite and eternall maiestie kings may iustly punish with perpetuall imprisonmēt which a man should euer endure could he be supposed to liue alwaies What paine shall here be when the paine of one tooth may be so great as seemeth vnsupportable what shall it be when euery part shal be filled with such horrible griefe as neuer entred into the heart of man To see one diuell often is so fearefull that it exanimateth those that behold it what shal be this horror when the soule and body shall liue in one mansion with the diuell and all his Angels and be tormented by them for euer for euer euer while God is God no hope of redemption To be put by little things and misse our marke in this or that earthly hope how doth it grieue vs but to be put by the ioyes of heauen the blessed fellowship of God his Angels the righteous how shall this sting vs When after-thought of hauing ouershot our selues in little matters doth go so neare vs that we are in a hell for the time what shall it be when this thought shall vexe vs to thinke of our follies in reiecting and not regarding eternall blessednesse when it was offered vs The Lord therefore keepe vs from sin it is sweet but the sawce is sowre this last dish will marre the feast a wofull shot will come in for vs who learne not to know God our miserable estates and with sorrowfull hearts to flie to his mercies in Iesus Christ FINIS