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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45484	A map of judgement, or, A pattern for judges delivered in a sermon at the Assizes holden at Guildford-in-Surrey, July 23d, 1666 before Sr. Orlando Bridgeman, Kt., Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Sr. Samuel Brown, Kt. / by W. Hampton ...	Hampton, William, 1599 or 1600-1677.	1667 (1667)	Wing H635; ESTC R21596	21,322	25

us to speak properly propter opera for our works yet secundum opera according to our works as a Father saith though not for the meer merit of them yet according to the meet measure of them our good works shall be the rule by which he will proportion out the heavenly reward the more good works of grace we have the more abundant will be our reward of glory Every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour 1 Cor. 3.8 He that useth five Talents well shall be Ruler over five Cities he that useth ten Talents well shall be Ruler over ten Cities Luk. 19.17.19 They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament but they that turn many unto righteousness shall shine as the stars for ever and ever Dan. 12.3 And as our Lord saith tune fulgebunt Justi tanquam Sol Then shall the Just shine as the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father Mat. 13.43 In Heaven among the Saints there shall be degrees of glory as there is difference now among the stars of Heaven in beauty One star differeth from another star in glory saith the Apostle There is one glory the Sun another of the Moon another of the Stars so shall it be with the Saints in the Kingdom of Heaven every Saint shall have glory enough yet some more some less according to the proportion of their faith and good works As all behold the Sun yet not according to the same perfect brightness but some more some less according to the diversity of their sight so the Saints in Heaven shall all have the beatifical Vision of God yet some in more perfect manner than other according to the measure of their graces here Or as if a man cast divers Bottles into the Sea of several capacities some greater some less every one will be filled yet the greatest will receive most So though all the Saints shall be filled with glory and every one have as much as he can contain yet those who do most abound in faith and good works shall have most glory 1. This may admonish us how careful we ought to be of our works to be practical and working Christians to add to our faith good works as Saint Peter exhorteth Believers 2 Pet. 1.5 Giving all diligence add to your faith vertue c. godliness brotherly kindness charity Though we allow not the merit of works yet we teach the necessity of good works as consequences fruits and evidences of true faith and because the reward of glory shall be proportioned out according to our works look what our works be such shall be the verdict that shall pass upon us at the great day Therefore saith James cap. 2. Shew me thy faith by thy works Thou sayest thou hast faith and talkest much of it but let it appear by the fruits evidence a right faith by a righteous life It is said Luk. 5.20 That Christ saw their faith and healed the man of the Palsie he saw not only with the eye of his Divinity but by their works by the effects and fruits of it he saw their faith for they laid the sick man on a bed brought him after Christ and when they could not come near him for the multitude they opened the roof and let him down in his Couch before him when Christ saw their faith by these not able works he healed the sick man If thou wilt have Christ to heal thee to save thee thou must let him see thy faith by thy works We read Gen. 27.21.22 That old Isaac would not bless Jacob by his speech or voice only but feels and handles him first Come near I pray thee that I may feel thee my Son whether thou be my very Son Esau or not and when he found they were Esau's hands he blessed him So Christ will not pronounce his blessing upon us by out voice or words only Not every one that saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but he that doth the will of my Father which is in Heaven He will handle and seel us and if he finde working hands that we have been open-handed to his poor Saints he will bless us and give us the inheritance of his heavenly Kingdom How should the remembrance of this stir us up to the practice of good deeds to be alwaies abounding in the work of the Lord for it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to our practice that Christ will reward us at the last day So it is in the Evangelist Mat. 16. 27. The word is for the most part taken in a good sense and noteth an acting after the precepts of good manners as a learned Critick noteth Keck in Ethic. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to our works So it is in Paul Rom. 2.6 Therefore I will conclude with the same Apostle 1 Tim. 6. 18 19. Do good and be rich in good works ready to distribute willing to communicate laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come and that ye may lay hold on eternal life 2. Let the consideration of this also turn our worldly ambition into an holy ambition our earthly covetousness into heavenly covetousness we do contend and cover who shall be chief here on earth who shall sit highest at our Feasts and have the chief place in the Synagogue who shall out-strip others in gay Apparel and who shall have most wealth and riches and who shall have the stateliest houses Oh then let us be as covetous contentious and ambitious for heavenly glory who shall have the highest seat the chiefest place there the fairest Mansion there for there be many Mansions In my Fathers house are many Mansions there be upper rooms and there be lower rooms there be higher seats and there be lower seats there is greater glory and there is lesser glory Let us therefore strive who shall be most zealous of Gods glory here so shall we be sure to have the more glorious reward here after For God is a most just Judge he will give to every man his right he will render to every man according to his works Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right Let me crave your honourable patience to add a few words for application and I have done you have heard how we must all appear before this Almighty Judge where wrong shall be righted and right rewarded Let this move us all in our several Callings and stations to keep a good Conscience and take heed to the thing that is right which will bring peace at last for if any man do wrong he shall receive for the wrong he hath done and there is no respect of persons with God In the first place reverend and honourable Sages ye who now sit on the Throne of Judgement to judge others remember the day will quickly come when ye must appear before a Judgement seat to be judged your selves have that great Judge still before your eyes his fear

in your hearts as I doubt not but ye alwaies have and let all your Actions be such that ye may stand before him without fear with joy and comfort at that day Let not friends nor favour passion nor affection cause you to decline to the right hand or to the left remember the judgement is the Lords in whose place ye sit whose vice-gerents ye are on earth let his example be the square of all your proceedings your judgement like his secundum norman Justitiae according to the rule of Justice equity and right your charge is great being well discharged your reward 's the greater As St. Paul said the Elders that Rule well so the Judges that judge well are worthy of double honour they deserve it in this world they shall be sure to have it in the future world this impartial Judge will do right and recompence them according to their works In the next place worshipful and worthy Commissioners ye which now sit Assistants on the Bench let your actions be such that ye may also sit assistants with this Heavenly Judge at the last day and be in the number of the Saints which the Lord in mercy grant St. Austin laid it to the charge of the old Romans that they were more tender of their own honour than of the honour of their Gods if any one had wrong'd a Senator but in a word he was sure to smoak for it but they suffered their Poets to quip and whip their Gods and never questioned them for it I hope you are free from any such imputation of being more forward in revenging your own wrongs than Gods wrongs Yet give me leave humbly to put a case to you If Drunkards Blasphemers Swearers Adulterers Riotous Debauched Atheistical prophane persons who forget the God that made them and deny the Lord that bought them who kick at his Word and worship who scorne at holiness and scoffe away Religion and jest away holy Scripture or directly cry it down daring to Blaspheme and say it is the voice of man and not of God as in truth it is I Thes 2.13 whose madness is manifest enough to all and deserves a severe check who swear away our mercies and curse away our blessings and drink away their healths by drinking healths and do what in them lies to damne their precious souls having God damne me more often than Lord have mercy in their mouthes who shew their sins like Sodom and commit them with an Harlots face without shame or blushing by whom God is more dishonoured than by any other shall swarme in your several Divisions perhaps in some of your Families and yet be seldome or never questioned censured or punished at least by some of you Are ye not too slack in vindicating Gods honour I appeal to your own hearts Surely a heavy clog will at last lye upon their Souls and Consciences by whose connivence sin is nurtured and increased when it is in their hand to restrain it If ye will not do justice on them the time is coming when the great Lord-Chief-Justice of the world will do justice both on you and them on them for sinning and on you for suffering them For Shall not the Judge of all the World do right A sad thing it is and sorry I am I must speak this to our shame That a greater restraint should be put upon sin and foul enormities under the usurped powers than under the true just and lawful powers Will ye so requite the Lord O foolish people and unwise Is not he thy Father that hath bought or redeemed and established thee said Moses to Israel Deut. 22.6 And shall we thus requite the Lord for the signal mercies the great things the wonders he hath done for us in the blessed restauration of our King our Religion Laws and liberties God forbid For this the mouth of the Adversary is open against us though they see not their own sins of stubbornness disobedience murmuring Schism Heresie as vile in Gods sight though not so visible to the world Yea I fear the Lord hath a Controversie with our Land for this for this his fierce anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still For this gird thee with sackcloath O England weep and howl and let thine eyes run down with tears night and day and let them not cease This is a lamentation and shall be for a lamentation till it be reformed But do ye desire to redress these abuses as I hope you do then let me humbly commend to you two or three directions 1. Put in Execution the good laws more duely 2. give good example your selves more sincerely sincerely 3. Lessen the occasions thereof more effectually by taking away clandestine blinde and superfluous Ale-houses the Pest-houses of the Nation Let them not be like the head of Hydra when one is cut off two to start up in the place thereof I have read of a certain street in Rome called Vicus Sobrius the sober street perhaps because there was never a tippling-house in it which is hard to be said of any street in England but surely both our Towns Streets and Villages would be more sober if the number of these needless houses were diminished The King of Meth sometime in Ireland asked one how certain noisome birds that came flying into his Realm and bred there might be destroyed who answered nidos eorum ubique destruendos that the only way to rid them out of the Land was to destroy and pull down their nests Do you desire to lessen the number of those noisome birds and unclean beasts that defile our Land your best way is to pull down the nests where they are brooded the dens where they are harboured blind and base Ale-houses which are the nests and Nurseries of all vices There quarrels are bred murthers occasioned oaths coyned robberies plotted thieves harboured whoredomes committed and to conclude they are the very dens and cages of all uncleanness Let me add one Word to Gamaliel the learned of the Law and all who relate to it remember the hour is coming wherein they who plead for others shall not plead for themselves where unless they now work the Judge to be their friend by keeping faith and a good conscience they shall have none to plead for them I say not to you as our Saviour to those in his time Woe be to you Lawyers I hope better things of you and such as accompany salvation Only give me leave to make a supposition if there bee any which blow up the coals of dissention among neighbours to warm their own fingers at the fire who tell their Client his Cause is good when in their conscience they know it to be stark naught who say good is evil and evil good who put light for darkness and darkness for light sweet for bitter and bitter for sweet who make truth falshood and falshood truth whose tongues cannot move nimbly and so by silence smother the poor mans right because