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A44351 Heavens treasvry opened in a fruitfull exposition of the Lord's Prayer together with the principal grounds of Christian religion briefly unfolded / by Tho. Hooker. Hooker, Thomas, 1586-1647. 1645 (1645) Wing H2650; ESTC R32035 59,299 265

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will judge them according to their workes there 's no tricks to be used then Here they labour to bleare the eyes of men and to carry faire weather before them that none can say black is their eye But God shall unbowell all and say This is the man who had such cunning devises that men might not take notice of him that had secret corners to commit sinne in c. 3. It should teach us to abound in holy duties because we shall be judged by them set somewhat every day upon the score not to labour for profit but to abound in godlinesse It is better to abound in duty then commodity for a man shall be rewarded not for that a man saith but for that which a man hath done in the flesh labour then to abound in piety that so your reward may be great only look you do it uprightly considering God be thy Judge O. But it is said The Father judgeth no man but hath committed all judgement to the Sonne A. God doth put it over to Christ and gives him power to judge the world As the King is said to judge when others receive Authority from him to doe it Q. Why shall Christ judge all men A. That Christs glory might be knowne here he was judged but then hee shall judge which is a ground of much comfort to Gods servants seeing Christ that is their Saviour shall be their Judge Q. How shall Gods proceedings be A. By Books as Iohn saith Rew. 20.12 I saw the Books opened there are two books the book of Conscience and the book of Gods Prescience the Conscience it is a thousand witnesses God is ten thousand so then there are eleven thousand witnesses against a man His conscience will say Are you a professor and will you do thus thus And if our conscience accuse us God is greater then our conscience Hee will set our sins in order before us and say Look here doe you not see your pride and filthines God will write our sins in the palms of our hands that we may take notice of them he will discover all that ever we did to us Now come wee to the sentence it selfe 1. Upon the wicked Depart from me yee cursed into everlasting fire with the Devill and his angels Herein we must consider 2. things 1. The punishment of losse 2. The punishment of sence the punishment of losse depart from me wicked men must bee banished from Gods presence Ob. But David saith Ps 139. If I go into heaven thou art there if I goe downe into the deep thou art there How then are the wicked separated from God Ans They cannot depart from the presence of his anger and power but they neither find nor feele the work of any of Gods comfortable Attributes God is mercifull but this is nothing to them Hee that hath not God cannot have any rest Who is it that gives us rest by our sleep but God in sleep so who is it that strengthens us by meat but God in meat c. But now they wanting God must needs be miserable withall They shall be utterly out of hope to attaine happinesse and life there shall bee salvation but none for them they have nothing to do with it and this is the greatest misery of the damned in hell that they are separated from the presence of God 2. The punishment of soule that is they must be cast into hell fire which is set forth by two things 1. The worm shall never dye 2. The fire never goeth out 1. The worme is the sting of conscience that is compared to a worme for as a worme gnaweth a man continually so conscience is continually gnawing a mans heart 2. They shall be cast into hell fire that is they shall bee filled with the vengeance of God they have here but a drop of it as it were if we consider all the punishments that all the men of the world have had and suffered they are nothing to this but as a flea-biting in comparison of this That which is the worst their wickednesse shall increase daily though they be full of Gods vengeance yet their sin shall increase it still Q. But if the wicked are full of Gods vengeance how can their punishments be increased A. They shall every day be made more capable of bearing punishment As a glasse though it bee full yet if it be made bigger it will hold more So though a man bee full of misery yet by sinne he shall be made capable to suffer more and more It shall be eternall there shall be no end of their misery for their punishment shall encreaase daily so that a man shall be a Devill incarnate as it were FINIS