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A93931	A second champion, or, Companion to truth: Wherein is shewed these particulars, or tenets. 1 Of miracles. 2 The reasons wherefore so few imbrace the gospell. 3 Of the first covenant, and the second covenant. 4 Of the father and the son. 5 Of Heaven. 6 Of Hell. 7 Of Glory. 8 Of faith. 9 Of the resurrection, and the eternall judgement. 10 Of visible worship. 11 A postscript. By Richard Stookes preacher of the Gospell	Stooks, Richard, fl. 1651-1652.	1650 (1650)	Wing S5740cA; ESTC R231910	98,234	235

is a condemnation and you shal then find there is a condemnation and I shall shew you the judgements of this condemnation First One judgement of this condemnation is hell which is a hidden place of Gods anger and wrath for as the joyes of heaven are hidden joyes so also the torments of hell are hid for no man is able to apprehend how terrible the torments of hell are which makes the divels to tremble for saith the Lord An anger is kindled in my wrath which shall burn to the lowest hell Deut. 32. 22. And all the wicked and all nations that forget God shall go own to bell Psal 9. 17. and Tophet is prepared of old for the King as well as the begger you may see Esay 30. 33. And when Christ shall say to the wicked Go ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devill and his angels Mat. 25. 41. And the wicked shall go into everlasting punishment ver 46. When Christ shall come in flaming fire with his migty Angels to render vengeance to those that know not God and obey not the Gospel of Christ who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power 2 Thes 1. 7. 8. 9. and this is one judgement of this condemnation The second judgeme●● 〈◊〉 the fire of hell which is the fire of Gods 〈◊〉 and is the wrath and anger of God which shall burn and consume for ever for if our materiall fire which was made to warm to comfort and refresh the creature be so terrible what do you think the fire of hell is that is made for tormen● when God himselfe doth invent torment how terrible will it be for the wrath of the Lord like a river of brimstone doth kindle the fire of hell Esay 30. 33. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodlinesse of men that withhold the truth in unrighteousnesse Rom. 1. 18 And the fire of the wrath is everlasting and never goes out Mat. 25. 41. Thirdly The worme never dies and this worme I conceive to be an accusing conscience judging and accusing a sinfull and wicked creature for all his abominations that he hath committed in rejecting the love of God and the grace and mercy offered in Jesus Christ whereby he might have been freed from that wrath to come had he imbraced the grace and mercy offered but now he is lost for ever through his own default and hath lost the glory that he might have had and must abide the wrath of God for ever and thus the worme never dies Marke 9. 25. Fourthly There shall be weeping gnashing of teeth for now there will be a wonderfull change for those that formerly have lived in all pleasure and delight and have been haters of God and contemners of all good and rejoycing in their pleasures and delights and have glutted themselves with the pleasures of this world with their scorns and jears and rejoycings against the troubles of the people of God and mocking at their troubles and rejoycing at their calamity with their injoying all the pleasures of this life taking their fill in the eyes of this world but now comes their woe their rejoycing will be turned to mourning for woe be to you that laugh now in your wickedness for you shall weep Oh what a change will there be when all their joy will be turned into weeping for there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth they that have glutted themselves with their made joy shal now have enought of weeping they shall now weep houle bewaile their condition with weeping for ever and this is another judgement of this condemnation Mat. 13. 42. 50. chap. 24. 51. chap. 25. 30. 5. They shall be cast into utter darkness for they have done the works of darkness and their reward shall be that they shall be cast into utter darkness it would be a hell for a man to live all his lifetime in some dark place where he should never see the light all his life-time How terrible was the darkness in Egypt that might be felt Exod. 10. 23. that no man rose from his place for three dayes it was so dark and they were so amazed with darkness but what will the darkness of Hell be think you it is utter darkness where they shal be deprived of the light for ever from the light of God of Christ and from the light of grace and glory and never more to see the light Mat. 8. 12. chap. 12. 13. ch 25. 30. 6. The consideration of the losse of their time what they are and what they might have been had they improved that precious time that was afforded them whereby they might have been precious Saints in Heaven and to have enjoyed the presence of God and of Christ of Saints and Angels to have been in glory with Abraham Isaac and Jacob and with all the Saints in glory had they improved that pretious time which the Lord did afford them who was waiting upon them to do them good by tendering grace to them day by day and they rejecting all the motions of his spirit and despised his grace and mercy offered them and so may blame themselves not him O how wil this strike to their hearts think you when they consider their losse and themselves the cause there of and now are lost Creatures for ever how will this aggravate their woe O consider this all you that forget God before it is too late while you have time and while it is called to day harden not your hearts least you fall into the anger of God ●●id so 〈◊〉 you up in his wrath into that terrible condemnation for our God is a consuming fire Seventhly They shall receive every one according to their deeds and their wickednes then those that have been most vile shall receive according to their vileness the proud shall receive according to their pride for terrible is that God that judgeth them so much covetousnesse so much wrath so much drunkennesse so much of the anger of God shall be powred upon them so much swearing so much payment for oaths so much whoring so much torment so much pleasure in the world so much displeasure and sorrow so much honour in the world so much dishonour with God and look how much they have been persecutors of the Saints and people of God so much they shall be persecuted for thus saith the Lord I will measure unto them according to their works Now will the Lord call all their wickednesse into remembrance which have been forgotten so many hundred of years but now are called to remembrance for though he suffered them long yet now he will pay them home at last and this will be an aggravation of their condemnation Eighthly Their worm ●hall neve● die nor the fire of Gods wrath shall never be put out for he suffered them for a moment to delight themselves in sinne but he will punish them for ever

mouth of God in all their Doctrine speaking of the Resurrection and the day of judgement and preaching the judgements of God against wicked men which was a great part of their Doctrine in all their preaching and whether do not those that deny the Resurrection question all the rest of their Doctrine to be false by this their Tenet of denying the Resurrection for if their Doctrine of the Resurrection be false then why may not you also question all the rest of their Doctrine to be false for deny the Doctrine of the Resurrection and you may as well deny all the rest but how vile and wicked this Tenet is let all wise men try and judge 15. Whether is not this a most Atheisticall Tenet to deny the Resurrection and whether is not this the same that the Atheists hold in 2 Pet. 3. 4. saying Where is the promise of his comming for since the Fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of the Creation and being ignorantly willing of this their wicked Tenet not knowing that One day with the Lord is as a thousand yeares and a thousand yeares as one day for the Lord is not slack of his comming as some count slacknesse but is long suffering to us ward not willing or consulting that any should perish but that all men should come to a change Ver. 8. 9. And thus you see there were such Atheists in the Apostles times who were wilfully ignorant of the Resurrection and the comming of Christ but this shal be the perdition of ungodly men to their utter destruction and now I shall further prove that there is a Resurrection 1. Christ will tell thee that there is a Resurrection when he saith I am the resurrection and the life Joh. 11. 25. that is he is an infallible testimony of the Resurrection in being risen from the dead and hath trampled death under his feet and hath shewed us that as he rose from the dead so also shal we be raised up by the same power and when he was asked a question concerning Marriage he told them they erred not knowing the Scripture and the power of God for in the Resurrection they neither married nor were given in marriage but were like unto the Angels of God in heaven Mat. 22. 29 30. And as touching the Resurrection have you not heard in the Prophets what God spake saying I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob now God is not the God of the dead but of the living and that the Saints shal be recompenced at the resurrection of the just Luke 14. 14. and that they that shall be accounted w●●thy to obtaine that world and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage neither can they doe any more for they are equall with the Angels and are the children of God being the children of the Resurrection Luk. 20. 34 35 36. and Moses shewed you at the Bush of the Resurrection ver 37. And Christ saith further Marvell not at this for the houre is comming when all that are in the Graves shall heare his voyce and shall come forth they that have done good to the resurrection of life and they that have done evill to the resurrection of condemnation Joh. 5. 28 29. and thus you see the words of Christ which are sufficient to satisfie any reasonable man that there is a Resurrection 2. Christs Apostles will tell thee that there is a Resurrection of which they are witnesses Act. 1. 22. Preaching through Jesus the resurrection of the dead Acts 4. 2. and for which Doctrine Paul was called in question for preaching the resurrection Act. 24. 22. For since by man came death by man also came the resurrection of the dead 1 Cor. 15. 22. and therefore the Apostle pressed forward that he might be made partaker of the glory of this resurrection Phil. 3. 10. 11. and this was a principle of the Gospell that they taught as you may see Heb. 6. 2. And in the 11 Heb. the Apostle sheweth you an epitome of the glorious Acts of the Saints of former times what they under-went that they might obtaine the glory of a better Resurrection Heb. 11. 35. And so we are bego●ten to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1. 3. For God hath hath raised up the Lord Christ and will also raise up us by his owne power 1 Cor. 6. 14. And knowing that God the Father which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Iesus and shall present us with you 2 Cor. 4. 14. and thus the Apostles cleare the truth of this Doctrine that there is a resurrection 3. The day of Judgement will tell thee that there is a Resurrection and thus saith the wise Solomon For God shall bring every work into judgement with every secret thing whether it be good or evill Eccles 12. 14. And therefore Christ saith It shall be more tolerable for Sodome and Gomorrah in the day of judgement then for those that reject the Gospel Mat. 10. 15. And I say unto you that for every idle word that men shal speak they shall give account thereof in the day of judgement for by thy words thou shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt be condemned Mat. 12. 36 37. And saith Christ The words that I have spoken shall judge you at the last day Joh. 12. 48. And therefore Christ is ordained of God to be a judge of the quicke and the dead Act. 20. 42. For God hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousnesse by the man Christ whom he hath appointed Act. 17. 31 And the disobedient or wicked treasure up wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgement of God Rom. 2. 5. And when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my Gospel Rom. 2. 16. And we shall all stand before the judgement seat of Christ Rom. 14. 10. For to this end Christ hath dyed and rose againe that he might be the Lord both of the dead and living vers 9. For we must all appeare before the judgement seat of Christ that every man may receive according to that he hath done in the body whether it be good or bad 2 Cor. 5. 10. And it is appointed for all men once to dye and after that commeth judgement Heb. 9. 27. And Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied of this saying Behold the Lord commeth with ten thousand of his Saints to execute judgement upon all Jude 14 15. For the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to reserve the unjust to the day of judgement to be punished 2 Pet. 29. And the Angels are reserved in chaines of darknesse untill the judgement of the great day Jude 6. And thus I have shewed that there is a Judgement For it is appointed for all men once to dye and after

that commeth judgement and therefore it is cleare that there is a Resurrection 4. Thy conscience will tell thee O vain man that there is a Resurrection for doth not thy conscience tell thee that thou must one day give account for all thy vaine thoughts words and actions and that thou must appear before the great Judge examine thy conscience and it will tell thee and bee as a thousand witnesses against thee thou hast the testimony within thee that will testifie against thee that there is a Resurrection and judge thee one day if thou continuest in that wicked opinion thy conscience will tell thee at thy death there is a Resurrection thou canst not one day stop the mouth of conscience when it shall come and witnesse against thee for all thy wicked acts And thus you see it is clear that there is a Resurrection and now I shall speak a word or two when it shall be 1. But now for the set day or houre of this Resurrection or Judgement it is too high for a finite creature to know For it is not for us to know the times or seasons that the Father hath put in his owne power Act. 1. 7. For of that day nor houre knoweth no man no not the Angels nor the Son himselfe till it be revealed to him Mat. 24. 36. And therefore I shall not dare as some have foolishly done to prescribe or set forth the day of this Resurrection or Judgement 2. The Fathers and learned Doctors of the times in former ages have conceived this day of the Resurrection or Judgement to be at the end of six thousand yeares but this is but their judgement and I shal also under the favour of the Learned give my judgement as desiring to see further because God hath promised to manifest more light in the latter dayes and also because I stand upon the shoulders of my fore-fathers and therefore may see further Now I conceive that as God was six dayes finishing the workes of Creation and the seventh day was a Sabbath of rest that there is a glorious spirituall meaning in all this or else God could as well have finished his workes in one day as in six and therefore there must be some other meaning in all this which I conceive to be this That as God the Father was six dayes labouring in the workes of Creation and finished his workes in six dayes and rested the seventh day it holds forth thus much That the sonnes and daughters of men with the creatures also should bee in commotion and hard labour for six thousand yeares and that in these six thousand yeares he will end all war and strife and that within these yeares he will shake all Nations Hag. 2. 7 8. and will overthrow the pride and vain-glory and false confidence of all Nations and will shake them off their fleshly glorying and beat downe all their strong holds and every fenced wal Esa 2. and all Nations shall lye open and naked and shall have their fill of fighting and shal see their vanity and shall desire to be at rest and shall beat all their weapons of war in peeces and there shall be a spirit of love and union established in all Nations neither shall they learn warre any more but every man shall sit under his own vine and under his own fig-tree and none shall make them afraid for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Esa 2. Mic. 4. and then shall the fulnesse of the Gentiles come in and the Jews shall be called and the glory of the people of Israel shall be set up and they shall injoy their former inheritances to wit the Land of Canaan and all the glory thereof and the Lord will end the hard labour and travell of all Nations and all Nations shall sit downe at rest And this I beleeve the Lord will doe in the six thousand yeares for he hath seen the sore labour and travell of all Nations and of every creature and he doth intend to give them a Jubile or Sabbath of rest and the seventh day or seventh thousand yeares will bee a rest to all Nations and to every creature from that sore labour and travell and all pride and covetousnesse shall be done away in those daies and the desire of all Nations shall come to seek the Lord and to seek the wayes of Sion and the Lord will extend peace to all Nations like a mighty River Esa last Revel 21. v. 22. And the Lord shall speake to the heaven above and to the earth below and all fruits of the earth shall come in abundance and there shall be a fulnesse of all the fruits of the earth for the Winter shall be like the Summer and fulnesse shall be upon all the earth for it is the Lords Jubile or Sabbath of rest to all Nations 3. This Resurrection shall bee at the last day in the last age or generation when the number of Gods account is up and the last generation shall be brought up for that is the number of Gods account when the last generation is on foot For the Gospell must bee preached to all the world for a witnesse to all Nations and then shall the end come Mat. 24. 14. For it doth not appeare that Christ shall not come untill the restauration of all things that are written in the Law and the Prophets and that there shall be a new heaven and a new earth and a refining of all things before his glorious appearing with that glorious company and heavenly host whom the heavens must containe untill that time till all things be refined as you may see Act. 3. 20 21. For it doth appeare that the Resurrection shall not be untill the new heavens and new earth and that they shall be refined and come forth of the new earth and that we shall not rise before doth appeare by Scripture which saith That man lyeth downe and riseth not till the heavens be no more or dissolved they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep Job 14. 22. And of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of thy hands and they shall perish but thou shalt stand and they shall all of them wax old as a garment and as a vesture shalt thou change them and they shall be changed as you may see Psal 102. 25 26. For the stars of heaven and constellations thereof shall not give their light the Sun shall be darkned in his going forth and the Moon shall not cause her light to shine Esa 13. 10. For the windows from on high are open and the foundations of the earth do shake the earth is utterly broken downe the earth is cleane dissolved the earth is moved exceedingly the earth shall reel too and fro like a drunken man and shall be removed like a cottage and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it and it shall fall and not rise againe Esa 24. 18 19 20. And all the