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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11811	A godlie sermon of repentaunce and amendment of life, togeather with the acompt which we must render at the day of iudgement Preached at the Rolles Church in London the second of Maye, and taken out of the fifth chapter of Saint Paule his Epistle to the Corinthians.	Scott, Thomas, preacher at the Rolls Chapel.	1585 (1585)	STC 22108; ESTC S102984	32,354	84

done and I heid my tongue and thou thoughtst wickedly that I was suen a one as thou thy selfe but I will reproue thee and lay before thee the things that thou hast don Let vs not flatter our selues in our sins therfore thinking bicaus God doth dissemble thē make as thogh he saw them not that therefore be doth forges them or allow of them but assure our selues that one day he will reproue vs and laye our faultes before our eyes We do many thinges in secret and huggermugger which for shame we woulde not if we knew we were seen of anye how much lesse ought we to do thē since we are seene of God We haue many secret thoughts phantasticall imaginaciōs wherin we much please our selues and delight our flesh and would blushe to haue them knowne of others which one daye the Lorde will make knowne to our neighbours when he shall make manifest the thinges of the darcke and open the secreates of all heartes I will search Hierusalem sayth the Lorde in that day with a lanterne Alas who can hide him selfe so secretlye or dissemble so deeply but the Lord wil find him and found euen the vnserchable depth of his heart when he shall search Hierusalem with a lanterne Let vs remember this all the sort of vs least as the Prophet Dauid sayth we forget God and perish from the right waye The witnesses which shall come in againste vs shall be especiallye the testimonye of our owne heartes and consciences The bookes shal be opened and the dead shalbe iudged of these things which are written in the bookes These bookes are the consciences of our good deeds and bad which as the Apostle witnesseth shall then excuse vs or accuse vs iustiste vs or condemne vs make with vs or against vs. And there is no man to whom God hath not giuen one of these bookes to carrye with him alwayes in his bosome neyther is anye man so ignoraunt but the Lorde hath giuen him knowledge to reade them But most men are so carelesse to vnclapse them as they neuer read or marke the contents of them till it is to late for them When God had placed Adam in Paradise forbidding him to eate of the fruit in the middest of the garden hee gaue him a booke and for his memories sake hee wrote in it What day soeuer thou eat thereof thou shalt dye the death But Adam neuer vnclaspt this booke till he had in deede transgressed Goods commandement and then his booke beeing opened he sawe the vglesome deformitie of this sinne whereto he had brought him selfe and his posterity but it was too late Caine carried this booke in his bosome but he neuer opened it til he had murdered his brother and then vnclasping it he found written in it Thou shalt not kill but thou hast killed thy brother ergo sayth he My su●e is greater than that it can be forgiuen That same frantike 〈◊〉 of whom mencion is made in Euripides after he had staine adulterou●● Egisthus aud Clytemnestra his owne mother hauing no man to accuse him but his own conscience he looked in his booke and there he found written Bloud will haue bloud and therevpon though he was acquit by the law he presemlye ran mad and was neuer his own man afterward One demaunding the cause thereof in Euripides Quid muli te perdidit Orestes What ill hath betide or what hath caused thee lose thy wits Orestes He aunswereth him conscientia my conscience for Quid si omnes excusant sola consc●en●ia accusat what if all mē in the world excuse a man if his owne conscience accuse him which is insteed of a thousand witnesses shal more fo●er confound him then they al. And therfore Nullam peccatorū tuorū conscium magis timueris quā teipsum aliū potes effuger● teipsum nun quam feare no mā y ● in priuie to thy sins so much as thy selfe thou maist auoyd an other mā but thou canst not flee frō thy self nor thy own knowledg conscience which according to the Etimologye of the worde is nothing els but a ioynts knowledge which an other hath with thee and thou with him which is God and thy self and is very aptly termed of Chrisostom in psal 50. Coae● in quo conscriban●● quotidiana peccata A booke wherin is recorded our daily sins which howsoeuer they be dissembled of vs now shall then be reuealed brought to light and punished when we must appear c. And therfore is this day and time of our appearaunce termed of the Apostle dies declarationis the daye of declaration not that anye thing shall then be declared to the Lord more then he knoweth already For he that planes the care how can he but heare he that made the eie how can he but see heauen is his seate earth is his footstoole what can be d●n in heauen or earth wherof he hath not knowledg he knoweth our down sitting our vprising he vnderstandeth all our thoughtes long before he spieth out all our waies not a word in our tong but he knoweth it altogether if we climbe vp into heauen he is there if we go down into hell he is there if we remaine in the vttermost partes of the sea he is there also if we think darknes shal hid vs the darknes is no darknes with him but the night is as cleare as the day darknes light are both alike To conclude all thinges are naked and open to his eies and there is no creature that is not manifest in his sight but wherfore is the daye of iudgemente tearmed of the Apostle the day of declaration for that nothing is so secretlye concealed of vs nowe but it shall be manifestly reuealed then The daye of this lyfe is one daie and may be tearmed the day of our dissimulation the day which followeth immediately after this life is the lords and is tearmed the daye of declaration For then the verye heauens saith Iob shall declare the wickednes of the wicked and the earthe whiche nowe doeth beare him shall then take parte againste him Now the ten virgins go together walke together talke together eat and drinke together but at that day it shall appeare who are wise who foolish who haue slept who haue watched whiche of them had oyle in their Lampes and which way which of them shalbe admitted vnto the marriage and whiche excluded and shut oute Now the corne chaffe lie together on a heape in one flowre and are not yet scucrd but at that dtye the Lorde shall come with his ●ari in his hande and purge his flower thorowlye carrye his wheate into his garner but burne his chaffe with vnquenchable fier Now the wheate and tares growe together in one fielde and are not yet weeded out but at the daye the lorde of the haruest will saye to the reapers gather the eares and bind them vp in

also and euery man shall die in his own sinne or liue in his owne righteousnesse Noe Daniell and Iob shall in their owne righteousnesse deliuer but their owne soules not the soules of their sonnes daughters seruauntes or wyues but euery man receiue his wages sayth the Apostle according to his own labour Let no man therefore truste to other mens works prayers after he is deade thinking to be releaued by them as he that was sent for to the great supper though he might bee excused by the messenger though he came not himself manye in these dayes hauing liued very wickedly thē selues think to compound with God almighty for their sins life mislead by almes deedes and prayers not dooinge them selues in their own liues but making other men their factors posting them ouer to their executors to be done for thē after their deathes But thou foolish man then that good which after thy death is done by others is theirs and not thine and they shall receaue for it and not thou While thou hast time therfore make sure thy saluation thy selfe and as much as in thee lyeth Doe good to all men especially to the houshold of faith Remember thy maker in thy youth before the dayes of aduersitye come put thy righteousnesse before iudgement so shalt thou finde grace in the sight of the Lord. For the graue which thou goest vnto there is neither worke counsell nor wisedome but what a man soweth now he shall reape then He that soweth sparingly shall reape sparingly he that soweth liberally shall reape also liberally For God is not vnrighteous to forget our workes and labours of loue But what soeuer good thing any man doth he shal receaue of the Lorde at the resurrection of the righteous where his reward shall be great in the kingdome of heauen and euerye man receaue accordinge to that which he hath don And thus we see the end vse of this doctrine concerning the generall resurrection iudgement the sum wherof is no more but this All that are in their graues shal heare the voice of God and shal come forth they that haue done good vnto the resurrection of lyfe and they that haue done ill vnto the resurrection of damnation They that by continuance in well doing seeke for glorie honor immortality shall haue eternall lyfe but vnto them that are contentious do not obey the truth but obey vnrightousnes shall come indignation and wrath tribulation and iniquitie A sweete and comfortable doctrine to the children of God who then shal haue an end of all those miseries whereto in this lyfe they were subiect resting at last in ioye peace and tranquility with the angels and saintes in heauen The sun shall be no more the daye light the light of the Moone shal not shine to thē but the Lord himselfe shalbe their euerlasting light and God their glorie Hee shall take the care from thine eyes neyther shall they taste of death heauinesse sorrow or paine but freed from all suche calamities haue the full fruitiō of al those ioyes which the lorde hath prepared for them that feare him and looke for his comming They shall receaue a glorious kingdome and a beawtifull crowne at the lords hand for with his right hand shall he carrie them and with his arme shall he defend them But on the contrarye moste terrible and fearefull to the wicked For the ielosie of the lord of hostes shall take on harnesse and he shall arme the creature to be auenged of his enemyes He shall put on righteousnesse for a brest-plate an stake vnfayned iudgement in stead of a helmet His ferce wrath shal bee sharpen for a swoorde and the whole compasse of the worlde shall fight with him against the vnwise Then shall the thunder boultes go right out of the lightninges and come as oute of the well bente bowe of the cloudes to the place appointed And as from an angrie caster of stones their shal fal thick haile and the water of the sea shall bee wroth against them and the winde shall stande vp againste them to scatter them abrode Then shall the righteous stande in great boldnes before the face of such as haue dealt extreamly with them and taken away then labours When the vngodlye shall see it they shall bee vexed with horrible feare and shall onder at their health so farre beyond all that they looked for And chaunging their opinions with groaning for redresse of minde they shall say this is he whom sometime we had in derision and iested vpon We fooles thought his life very madnes and his end to be without honour But loe how he is counted among the children of God and his portion is amonge the saints Therefore haue we erred from the way of truth the light of righteousnesse hath not shined vnto vs the sun of vnderstanding hath not rose vpon vs. We haue wearied ourselues in the waye of wickednes and destruction but as for the way of the Lord we haue not known it What good hath pride done vnto vs Or what profit hath the pompe of riches brought vnto vs. All these things are passed like a shadow and as a Post that hasteth by c. As sone as we were borne we began immediatlye to drawe to oure ende and haue shewed no token of vertue but are consumed in our owne wickednes If they shoulde haue no other iudge to condemne them if there were no diuel to watch for them no hel to receiue them no fire in hell to torment them what greater torment maye be imagined then this wofull complaint mutuall accusing of the worme of their owne consciences and the sensible feeling of their sinnes past acknowledging with their own mouthes themselues deserue●ly depriued of all those heauenlye ioyes whereof they shal see the children of God to be made partakers But not onely to be depriued of those heauenlye ioyes but to be partakers of euerlasting tormentes to bee tyed with perpetuall chaines to be caste into palpable darkenes of the Diuels dungeon where the worme dyeth not where the fire goeth not out but continual weping and gnashing of teeth howling yelling and criyng without ease of payne or comfort of minde this is such endlesse miserye as the griefe thereof can neyther be conceaued of vs that speaketh of it nor expressed of them that feele it The greatest crosse that can be sayd vppon man in this life is to bee caste into perpetuall prison leese our landes and goodes and want the companye of our wyues our children other our friends that loue vs. But yet in this case we alwaies liue in hope of liberty and release of our punishment Or if our hope be vaine yet will God stirre vp the heartes of straungers to visite vs to pittie vs to comfort and relieue vs some with meat some with mony some with cloth some with counsell euery man as he is able