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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62379	The grand assises: or, The doctrine of the last generall judgment with the circumstances thereof: comprised and laid forth in a sermon preached at the assises holden for the county of Southampton at Winchester, on Wednesday, July 28, 1652. By William Sclater Doctor in Divinity, preacher of the word of God in Broadstreet, London.	Sclater, William, 1609-1661.	1653 (1653)	Wing S918A; ESTC R218648	45,998	59

all other doom on earth is frivolous and ineffectuall O the agonies of a guilty bosome unacquitted within it self like Pashur it 's a (i) Jer. 20.4 Psal 73.19 terror to it self yea very Ethniques many experimenting sometimes the stroke but of Naturall Conscience were wont to set it forth by their Erinnes or Hellish Furies pursuing the flagitious with flaming firebrands tormenting with all extremity the noyse of a leaf (k) Lev. 26.36 shaken startles them being afraid alas where no feare is For Wickednesse saith Wisdome ch 17.11 condemned by her own witnesse is very timorous and being pressed with Conscience alwaies forecasteth grievous things that fear being nothing else but a betraying of the succours which Reason offereth Guiltinesse can never think it self secure if there were no Fiends to torment it like a Bosome-devil it would like trembling (l) Dan. 5.6 Belshazzar and as Cain the (m) Gen. 4.15 marked vagabond ever torture it self There is no peace saith my God to the wicked Isa 57.21 Aut si pax bello pax ea deterior yea the wicked are like the troubled Sea when it cannot rest whose waters cast up mire and dirt all the winds in the world from without cannot make a mountain shake but the imprisoned vapors that are within Truly spake one once All the world for a clear Conscience wonder we at the wish A wounded Spirit saith Solomon who can bear Prov. 18.14 On the other side again I say on the other side For we (n) Mar. 1.17 Fishers of men must have our Cork as well as our Lead our Cork to boye up penitent soules from finking in the mighty waters of Despair as well as our Lead to sink them into hell who persevere incorrigible O the tranquillity of a spotlesse breast when these Books are opened and the characters of guilt are found to bee expunged no sin at all (o) Psal 32.1 imputed to so blessed a soul Beloved Christians there is but one remedy of the forementioned malady but one principall Receipt to eat out or to fret away that canker which sin hath brought into the spirit or rather to wash away the spots which (p) Tit. 1.15 defile the Conscience and that is in Heb. 9.14 the blood of sprinkling even the precious blood of the Lamb (q) 1 Pet. 1.19 without spot even the blood of Jesus Christ which cleanseth from all sin 1 Joh. 1.7 even that blood which (r) Heb. 12.24 speaketh better things then the blood of Abel the one cryed to Heaven for Judgment but the Lord Christ's for Mercy one line or as it were but one red strake of his bloud drawn through that Book cleareth and acquitteth all Let such an one be arraigned let him be indicted yea perhaps by the grand Accuser of the Brethren Rev. 12.10 accused before God day and night yet bring him to the Test and the proofe will bee all According to the Evidence And so I proceed in order to the next particular which after the Indictment I styled the Evidence the things written in the Books The Dead were judged out of those things which were written in the Books In all regular or legall Judicatures before the Sentence there goes Conviction and that grounded upon some clear Evidence according to some rule of Law which directs and orders Justice in that respect Now that which directs the businesse in the Text is no other then the Word of God the observation or the violation of the commands whereof clears or charges the Conscience to receive the Sentence of Absolution or of Condemnation according to the Evidence Doe not thinke saith our Saviour the Judge in my Text that I will accuse you to the Father there is one that accuseth you even Moses in whom yee trust Joh 5.45 by Moes hee meanes the Writings of Moses ver 47. Again Joh. 12.48 Hee that rejecteth me and receiveth not my words hath one what judgeth him the Word that I have spoken the sam shall judge him at the last day Compare Jam. 2.12 and it is therefore said to be Organically or Instrumentally A discerner ef the thoughts and of the intents of the heart Heb. 4.12 Rom. 2.16 God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my Gospell that is in a generall acception of the Word according to the whole systeme of Doctrine preached by Christ his Prophets and Apostles epitomized into the Gospel The righteous shall be judged specially saith (s) Gerard. sect 70. ubi supra one according to the termes of the Gospel and bee absolved the wicked out of the Law collustrated by the light of the Gospel thereby being convinced of sin and infidelity and be condemned and indeed Divines are of opinion that there shall not bee in the last day any other norma or rule to order or to direct the Judgement then what is already passed before in the Ministry of the Word The Conscience is (t) Joh. 10.23 Matth. 18.18 bound or loosed Before as the Keyes are rightly applyed The Sentence of the Judge at the last day is not a new making of Salvation or Damnation but onely a solemne and publick testification propalation or definitive ratihabition of what was before passed in the particular Judgment by the Word or instantly after Death Heb. 9.27 Wherefore the last day is styled the Revelation namely publick of the righteous judgement of God that is of that particular righteous Judgement passed upon discussion between God and the Conscience before Rom. 2.5 thus we read the sentence of the word to be this Tribulation and anguish upon every soule of man that doth evill but glory honor and peace to every one that worketh good Rom. 2.9 10. 2 Thess 1.6 7. all which in the aequivalent is declared and more openly ratified in the Come yee Blessed and in the Goe yee Cursed at the last day each of these according to the Evidence out of what is written in the Bookes Upon this occasion I have read of one much retired and given to devotion who being asked what book he was most of all seen in and accustomed to read made answer That he read especially one and that was a book of three leaves a red lease a black lease and a white leafe in the red lease he read the Passion of Christ in the black lease the Punishment of the Damned and in the white lease the joyes of the Blessed by perusall and meditation of which three leaves he more profited then if he had evolved all the Philosophers in the world And thus at length we are come to the Judgment or Sentence-giving it self in the next words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Dead were judged This Doctrine of the Judgment to come was never more needfull to be preached then now among us upon whom the (v) 1 Cor. 10.11 ends of the world are come all the lees and dregs of former times seeming to be about to settle in this last and