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Sommons to doomes daie sent vnto his beloved England, as a memoriall of his deepe printed loue and loyaltie. / By Henoch Clapham..
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Clapham, Henoch.
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Iohn 3.3 Every man that hath this Hope purifieth himselfe even as hee is pure Purgation goeth before salvation the putting off of the old Adam with his deceiueable lustes before the newe Adam can be put on with his holines and righteousnes before Christ can exalt thee Moses must humble thee before that Christs works be imputed thine thou must forsake the works that are thine before God adopt thee his Son thou must disclame the devill the father of thy corrupt nature and if thou wilt haue Christ to be thy King thou must covenant holy obedience due to that King The Heavens are pure in comparison of thee yet the Heavenly Spheres and glittering Starres must giue place to the brightnesse of his Throne howe much more must thy damnable corruption be cast awaye except thou togither with thy corruption will be for ever cast away Come wee but before an earthlie King Queene Lord oh howe we will trick vp our attire make bright our countenance and study to place our wordes in order and all this why do we because forsooth wee must come before a noble man a noble woman But howe prepare we for meeting of the Lord of Lords in the clowds who shall come with the * 1. Cor. 15 52. Matth. 24. sound of a Trumpet his Angels marching before to gather togither his Elect from one wind vnto another how are wee fitted with spirituall garments shall wee be clad with the workes of darknes with what face wil we look him in the face harlots faces theeuish faces murdering faces faces puft vppe with pride these will not serue the turne With what words will we greet the judge of all the world He saith we shal giue an accompt of all our * Mat. 12.36 Idle vvords and dare wee meete him with vnsavourie speaches and rotten words Away away with such care to please men and in the meane time carelesse to please God careles how Christ find vs occupied careles how to come before his judgement seate The Heavens shall giue place but man will stand still in the way of sinners the Elements shall melt but mans heart will not melte more than an Adamant the earth shal willinglie permit the fire to consume his corruption but man will not let the fire of God his spirite burne vp and consume his corrupt nature and vnprofitable lustes The Devils at the rememberance of this great day doe tremble but man can heare of the Great day the Fire of that day the iudgment of that day and never be stirred in his soul Oh miserable man and ten times more stupid than any creature striue and contend to feare before the Iudge of al the Earth studying holines and righteousnes without which thou shalt never see God Let now at last thy stony heart gush out teares as the Israelites * Nomb. 20 10.11 Rock gushed out waters bath thy soul in them contrite teares as in another Baptisme and rise vppe from thy earthly waies as * Act. 9. Saul smit downe rose from the Earth and hereafter shaking the scales of naturall blindnes from thy eies go and learne to be holy as our head is holy that so thou * 2. Pet. 3.14 maiest be found of him in Peace without spot and blameles Mount Sinaj vpon the promulgation of the holy law was al on smoke the smoke ascending as the smoke of a fornace and the mountaine trembled exceedingly but in this great daye of the Lord all the mountaines of the world all vallies high thinges lowe things shall not onely smoke but frye in a consuming flame The Israelites trembled at the first and shall not wee tremble at the second The Israelites durst not approch Sinaj before they were * Exo. 19.14 sanctified by Moses and dare we approach the great day of doome what time the breach of the Law shal be punished in the lake of scortching brimstone and vnquenchable fire before we be sanctified by Christ Iesus They durst not come neere the Hill with vnwashen clothes but wee think to stand before Christ his pure throne of Iudgment and that with vnwashen hands vnwashen hearts where as no one shall appeare without confusion of face that first haue not * Rev. 7.14 made their Robes vvhite in the blood of the Lamb. I say not in his owne workes but â— say againe in the blood of the Lambe Blessed therefore is he that watcheth and keepeth his spirituall garments least at his sodaine comming he walk naked and men ey and Angels see his filthines If thou shame not now at vnholy conversation and vngodlines in that great daye an hellish shame shall cover thy face and horrour of conscience shall confound thee If the Devill shal not then claime thee for his own do here shake of his livery cote of vnholines and teare of his cognizance of vngodlines but if thou here will carrie his vnholy brand in thy fore-heade hand and hart then togither with thy black Lord exspect to be committed to the * Rev. 21.8 Lake vvhich burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death In that great day wicked Cain and his Citie Nimrod his bloodhounds wicked Saule and his desperate Iaueling Balaam and his bribe the Vsurer and his money-bagges shal be parted Theuish Achan and his wedg of golde shal be sundred the harlot and whore divorced The murderer and his bilbow-blade the Idolater his shryne the dronken Nabal and his tipling cup the Merchant and his false measure the Courtier and his softe raiment Nebuchadnezzer and his pallatial prospects the Glutton and his belching banquet the mad dauncer and his instrument in that great daye they shall shake hands and never meet more Seing all which and more terrible than that must and shall bee effected what manner of persons shoulde Kings and Queenes be what maner of persons had rich men need to be what maner of persons had Prophets neede to be what maner of men and weomen had wee all neede to be in holines of conversation and godlines That when Cain shall roare for his murder C ham for not covering his fathers nakednes Esau for his mispent time scorning sacramentall signes Saul for his persecution the false Prophet for preaching Peace to men when men were not at peace with God Shechem for his defiling Dinah Alexander the Copper-smith for resisting Paul That when Demas shall wring his handes for departing from preaching the Gospell to liue as a Farmer and grazier that when proude Diotrephes shall curse himselfe for pratling and playing the busy-body against the Saintes to the end that then we may boldly hold vp our heads in the testimonie of a good conscience let vs nowe so liue as wee may not feare presently to die Let vs nowe study so to die as wee may not feare presently to make appearance before that glorious Iudge and al the glorious Armie of Heaven So liued not the earthly minded Prophet who in the testimonie of a bad conscience cryed Nomb. 23.10 Oh that I might die the death of the Righteous and that my last end might be like his But so lived the humble poor Apostle who in the testimonie of a good conscience cryed I desire to bee dissolued and to be with Christ So lived good Simeon who could say Lord now thou lettest thy servant depart in peace And so must every professor of Christ liue as when hee heareth Christ say * Reu. 22.20 Surely I come quickly he with longing soule may answere Amen even so Come Lord Iesus Amen Sic vivamus á¼Î½ Ï„á¿· κοσμω Vt ne simus á¼Îº τοῦ κοσμοῦ Amen
vnto me the day after Doomes-day and then I will tell thee In the meane time I am sure that nothing shall be which shall not bring delight and glory vnto the sonnes and daughters of God Let curious questions therfore cease and study rather how in that day thou maiest be found blameles and to Iehovah acceptable Awake oh ye foolish virgins the heauens are ready to run on a heape the elements about thee to melt the earth vnder thee to burne and the Iudge of all flesh is comming in cloudes majestie and power Heark hark the trumpet calling vnto judgment the Angels readie prest to gather the harvest the graue seas and hell giving vp all for all must presently to Iudgment The Iudge is set thousands of Angels about his fiery throne Satan and his black Guarde come plodding towards the Throane as a Beare to the stake The glorious Martyrs and all the faithfull come flying towards the Iudg with the wings of an Eagle crying * Saue I pray thee Hosanna hosanna blessed is he that commeth in the name of IEHOVAH Hosanna in the highest As for the Beaste false Prophet their marked people and all workers lovers of iniquitie me thinks I see them pulling back but the decree of God whipping them all forwarde Seduced People crye to the false Prophet Couer vs oh Father from the wrath of him that sitteth on the Throne but he replieth Aes me Aes me I am vnable to hide my selfe One crieth Oh King oh Queene saue me but they answere Accursed subiects we are not able to saue our selues They replye Oh your fearefull Lawes and tyrannie haue caused vs to vvorship God after a humaine carnall foolish manner Oh oh say Kings and Queenes againe we are therefore accursed and you condemned Me thinks I see the Murtherer with a bloody sword in his hand and the souls of the persecuted and slaughtered crying Oh God our Avenger now iudge thou betweene vs and that Murtherer and the Murtherer me thinks I heare him cry Nowe I see these I persecuted had in honour but I the persecutor vnable to beholde them in the face against vvhome I heretofore did harden my heart flint my face oh that I might be killed to die but I must liue ever to die While thus their consciences debate their false worshippe adulteries murders thefts blasphemies pride c. the Lord commandeth all to appeare Coram As by the Lords word Genes 1. Let it be every creature at first was formed so at one word all appeare before the glorious Iudge and innumerable sight of Angels If the Israelites trembled at the giuing of the Lawe howe shall Law-les people now tremble at the execution of the Law Now * Revel 1.7 every eie shall see him even they which haue pearced the Christ thorough and all kinreds of the Earth shall lament before him Al the earth encompassing the face of the Tribun all seate the bookes even every conscience shall be laide open Every soule shall be naked to his eies that seeth the secrets of the heart and as it were in the tables of the soule shall every vnrepentant sinne be written Oh the secret murders thefts vncleannesses wicked counsells against Christs Church that then shall be open to all the world in somuch as one running by may reade them In the face of Iudas his soule shal be written I haue betrayed innocent blood In the face of Pilate shall bee written I condemned the innocent for pleasing the people In the faces of Esau and Nimrod We haue loued hunting but neglected holinesse In the portall of Chams conscience shal be printed I reioyced to see the corrector of sinne overtaken with sin and therefore published it to my brethren that they togither with me might for ever after make his nakednes a reason of our not hearing nor bearing his corrections as vn fit to rule vs that first could not rule himselfe therefore iust that now my nakednes be laid open before God Angels and men In the Conscience of Herod shall bee drawne as it were in great text letters I vsed not my guifts to the praise of God the giuer but laboured thereby to catch praise vnto my selfe In Balaam and every covetous teacher his face shall be written I preached for pelfe but then Oh woe vnto the dumbe Minister for his Conscience shall thus indite him Balaam was better than I for though hee did all for gold yet he preached as for me I occupied a feeders roome and had a feeders fee but I fed not the people by dividing the vvord and causing them to vnderstand the holy mysterie Then shall the wicked Kinges Queenes Magistrates haue graven deeply in the face of their accusing conscience We haue kept out the kingdome of Christ for planting a Religion drawn out of our politicks an Ethelo threskia or Wil-worship * Coloss 2.22.23 vvhich had indeede a shewe of wisedome but was not according vnto the wisedome of God In a word then shall every man his conscience carrie his owne inditement his sin hanging before the door of his Conscience as doeth the Iuie-bush before the wine-seller and hee that knowes not this knows lesse than did the Heathen Philosopher Plato As for the consciences of the Elect they shall all in this great day be clear from clamour and accusation every one having written in his conscience as had Paule 1. Cor. 4.4 I knowe nothing by my selfe and this puritie of their conscience falleth out by reason that they here in this life disclaimed their sinns for bastardly fruites and by the teares of vnfained sorrowe did wash their consciences the Lord therewithall putting all their sinnes out of his remembrance and so are they by the * Col. 1.28 Lords Prophets and preachers presented perfect in Christ lesus The consciences of all this multitude * Rom. 2.15.16 either accusing or excusing one another in this great daye wherein God shal judge the secrets of men by Iesus Christ and that according to the Gospell immediately therevpon shall the conscience excusing be placed on the right hand but the consciences accusing vpon the left hand of the Iudge Then vnto his recovered sheep shall Christ say Mat. 25.34 c. I vvas an hungred and yee gaue me meat I thirsted and ye gaue me drink I was a stranger and ye lodged me being naked ye clothed me I vvas sicke and ye visited me I vvas in prison and ye came vnto me But they vnwilling to assume any thing to themselues shall replie When did vve so vnto thee to whome he shall answer hauing done it vnto one of the least of my bretheren yee haue done it vnto me Therefore or in asmuch as all may see your faith was no dead faith Come ye blessed of my Father even blessed * Ephes 1.4 before the foundation of the world inherit ye the kingdome prepared for you before the Worlds foundation even before ye could doe good or evill Wherevpon