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A09576 Gods generall summons to his last parliament. By George Phillips Phillips, George, fl. 1597. 1595 (1595) STC 19859; ESTC S114702 14,661 50

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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
haue very manie tokens that we might take heede of the iudgement daye to make vs more carefull how wee shall come before the iudgement seate of our Sauiour Christ seeing his comming is as a theefe in the night That is when as al are secure and asleepe in their sins Apo 16 15 for danger commeth most when it is least looked for Irrecouerable as a stronger net thē that which christ made a hole in when al the birds brake out after him singing Psal 124 6 Luke 21 35 The snare is broken and we are deliuered As a snare shall it come on al them that dwell on the earth As Christ asked the Iewes for which of his good works they sought his death so it would bee knowne which of Gods blessinges haue banished vs from him for as the fuller the buckette is with water the more hardlie it is haled vp out of the well so the more men abound in God his blessinges the farther they are from him Iohn 6 44 Therfore said Christ No man commeth vnto me except my father draweth him And seeing like mice in Gods barne wee are content to feed on his corne and enioy his blessings here but loth to see the Lorde of the haruest Paule telleth vs That we must all appeare Euery mothers child of vs. And they needes must that needes shall The second obseruation is That we shall appeare before a Iudgement seate Whereby is vnderstood that Iudiciall power that is giuen to Iesus Christ in heauen and in earth Matth. 28.18 but most specially that generall Iudgement which was reuealed to S. Iohn whereof he saith Apoc. 20.11 I saw a great white throne one that sate on it 12. And I sawe the dead both great and small standing before God and the bookes were opened c. Luke 17.1 As it cannot be but offences must come so it cannot bee but Iudgement will followe Paule could not acquite the best of vs with death but so soone as hee had sayd It is appointed for al men once to die Heb. 9.27 addeth and then commeth the iudgement Balaam rode on till the Angel met him where he could not turne and so long as men haue to deale but with men they dare say declare and we wil declare They wil pleade their own case but when the matter commeth in question before Christ who will be their dayes man or take vpon him to answere one thing of a thousand We are put in mind of a Iudgment seate that all may iudge themselues that they be not iudged that is to say condemned of the Lord. In this world Iezabel can get two that will say 1. Reg 21.10 that Naboth blasphemed God Ahab The Iewes will bring forth false witnesse that Christ sayd Mat 26.60.61 Destroy this materiall temple of Ierusalem and I will build it vp againe in three daies And because the lawe sayth That in the mouth of two or three witnesses euery cause in controuersie must bee proued therefore iniquitie hath prouided Knights of the post that are readie to sweare almost to any matter for a little money But as whē the Elders left Susannaes Susan 50. cause in wrong sentēce Daniel took in hand to right it so whē the mightie haue wronged the meaner sorte Christ will determine of the matter Therefore Dauid made choice of his iudgement before any other first for that God goeth wisely to work in waying the waight of euery mans matter Ponder my cause O Lord. Psalm 5.1 And then for speedie dispatching without respite of iudgement from terme to terme Psalm 119.52 For I haue remēbred thine euerlasting iudgements O Lord and haue receiued comfort vz. The time will come when Gods iudgements shall stande not onely in stead of all plea but also inreuocable for euer It is a terrible matter to fall into the hands of the Lord because that if he beginneth with a man 1. Sam. 4. he will make an ende with him as he did with Eli 1. Sam. 21.13 Dauid escaped the hands of Achish King of Gath by faining himselfe to be mad but bee ye sure God is not mocked Dan. 5.27 Nabuchadnezzar was wayed found too light in the ballance and his kingdome diuided to the Medes and Persians And how can any man sooth vp himselfe imagining God to bee like to men who receiuing light golde are contented to take that in tale which is wanting in waight Luk. 19.24 He that abused one talent had it taken from him much lesse may we prophane many blessings yet possesse them still If we haue all receiued talents then must we al giue accounts If we all haue treasure we must all haue care that it canker not Matth. 6.19 we did not receiue them to lay them vp idely for it was sayd Occupie till I come Luke 19.13 Neither helpeth it that wee do render as much as we haue receiued Luke 19.23 but God will haue spirituall interest of all his spiritual blessings because he is God Matth. 22.21 as Caesar had tribute because he was King The remembrance of the iudgement seate of Christ should make men as loth to consent to sin as Ioseph was to hearken to Putifers wife for as he sayd How can I doe this great wickednes and sinne against God So should all men scan the matter and say If I sin I sinne against God Gen. 39.9 if I sinne against GOD I must answere it before his iudgement seate another day Ioseph was prouident and yet ouerseene in sinning for though hee would not cōsent to Madam Putifer yet would hee sweare by the life of his Lorde Pharao Gen. 42.16 See how sinne pleadeth custome with Ioseph as Laban did with Iacob when he sayd That it was not the manner to marrie the yonger before the elder Gen. 20.25 Because it was vsuall in Pharaoes Court to sweare by the life of Pharao vpon euery light occasion therefore Ioseph neuer suspecteth it to bee a sinne so that where sinne is not suspected it is quite neglected and where it is not had in lothing there in time it seemeth nothing Gen. 4 7. Eze. 18.2 Adams Apple was like Ezekiels sower grape whereof the fathers tasting the childrens teeth are set on edge for the sonnes are many times tainted with their fathers sinnes as Gehazies posteritie were with his leprosie 2. Reg. 5.27 Therefore as all are guiltie in respect of nature so all are summoned to the seate of iudgement The diuels did acknowledge against themselues a time of torment Matth. 8.29 the guest at the wedding was speechles on a sodaine Matth. 22.12 so shall the wicked either in speech cōdemne themselues like him that was iudged of his own mouth Luk. 19.22 or by mute silēce argue their owne guiltines Iob. 9.2 that GOD may not stand to pleade with them that cannot answere to one matter of a thousand The guests