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A57327	Confirmation revived, and, Doom's-day books opened in two sermons, the one preach'd at Coventry before the Right Reverend Father in God, John, Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, upon his first performance of confirmation in that city, June 23, 1662 : the other preach'd at Warwick before the Right Honourable the judges of Assize for that circuit upon the 2d of July next following / by John Riland.	Riland, John, 1619?-1673.; Riland, John, 1619?-1673. Doom's-day books opened.	1663 (1663)	Wing R1518; ESTC R26991	41,777	76

about Forty years a Coming i. e. when He Came along with Titus and the Romane Army to the final Ruine of Jerusalem Christ I say was Forty years in so Coming and S. Iohn was as long a waiting and tarrying for that Coming yet at last Christ he is Come and S. Iohn he is Gone and that the same way as Ioshua and all went before him Even Jos 23. 14. the Way of all the Earth Notwithstanding Others could not Destroy him for 't is say'd such was the Icie chastness of the Soul and Body of this Beloved Disciple That he Quench'd the Violence of the Fire Chill'd and Allay'd the Scaldings of the Liquor so that it could not hurt him But albeit as I say'd before they could not Take away his Life yet when Old Age comes he can Lay it down and when Others cannot Kill him at last This Long-liv'd Eagle himself makes a shift to Dye The Vivacity of whose Quills they say had quite Consum'd all the Other Feather-bunch of his Twelve Brethren and not so much as left behind him the Pen of One surviving Apostle to Write his Epitaph But as Love S. Iohn's Dear and Darling Vertue Outlives 1 Cor. 13. ● all her Sister-Graces so the great Preacher of Love the Loving and most Beloved Disciple outlives all his Brother-Apostles Howbeit a long life is but a long Forbearance and the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Arr. Epict. ● Stoick Laughs at those our self-contradicting desires whereby we would have our friends Live long and yet not see death when that 's the surest way to it The Principal is still owing besides the use-money of Sicknesses and Sorrows and though nature delayes the Peremptory demanding thereof and so the Debt is sometimes a long while ere it be Discharged yet at last a full and entire Payment must be made As it was here with this Apostle whom the slow but sure hand of Death did at Length retrieve from the furthest Banishment of his Life 'T is the opinion of an Ancient Father that it pleased ●ctan God to shorten man's life on purpose after the Floud lest by the former allowance of a longer time the sin of man might again rise up and call for a second deluge For no wonder the Waters of God swell above the highest Mountaines when the sin of man stretcheth to the highest Heavens And whereas the Psalmist sayes Thou hast made my dayes as a span long and now such are the sins of ●●a 39. 5. men that the Good Old Span is shrunk and contracted to an Inch long and that Inch too often Snapt asunder in the midst by an untimely death due to sin yet for all that we are grown such huge Husbands with these our Inches that we can drive as great a Trade of Impiety as they could do with thir Larger spans and so sin our selves into a capacity of a second deluge and bid as frankly for it under Fourscore as others could do at two hundred yeares Therefore as our dayes are Evill that 's of mans making so 't is well they are short and contracted that 's of God's good contriving We shall not onely dye hereafter but now we dye presently and within a few years What the Egyptians say'd hastily we may say soberly We be all dead men ●●od 12 33. Old men are called Tripodes and sometimes Quadrupedes because counting their Crutches they have Three or Four Feet to Carry them to their Graves But it is not for Every man to Live so long as to Run with three or four Legs to his Long Home Though in Searching for the Silver Cup Ioseph's Steward began at the Eldest and left off at the youngest Gen. 44. 1● yet when Angels come to Rifle and make Search for a Precious Soul they Observe no such Order but on the Contrary oft-times begin at the Youngest and leave off at the Eldest For as S. Iohn came first to the Sepulchre but Joh. 20. 4. ● S. Peter Went in before him so albeit your Old man comes first to the Grave's Mouth and there stands a long while lingring and wayting by a weary painfull life and with his Crutches is continually Rapping at the Gates of death yet many times the Young man that comes after him makes a shift to goe in before him However first or last In we must all of us as S. Iohn you see there enters the Sepulchre as well though not so soon as S. Peter Death they say keeps no Calendar Many years with him are but as one day and one day as many years If some do not live out Half their time Half Psal 55. 23. a day to others may be their whole time Every Soul must not think to dwell in such a Ripe slip-shel'd Body as this old Apostle had Nor are Gray hayres those Church-yard-Flowers designed to grow upon the turf of every Green head The holy Templar call's them the harbingers of death That King of Terrors sent aforehand as it were Mr. Herbert to Mark and Score his lodgings yet how often have we seen King Death with all his black retinue March in afore any of those his Messengers Our Clay-houses alwayes stand open to death who too frequently like that Evil Spirit comes in with confidence without any Knocking or notice giving As Elisha heares the ● King 6. 32. Sound of the Masters feet before the Messenger came nigh to give him warning Some few Souls indeed like full-fledg'd Birds when they take Wing and be gone leave an old Body like a tottered rumpled Nest behind them whereas Christ arose Early in the Morning and left his Sepulchre whole and unbroken So the best if not the most like good Travellers are going betimes they take the Wings of the Morning fly away and be at rest Surguntque cadavere Toto they spring out of an entire and Un-battered body while the Breasts are full of Milk and the Bones of Marrow Go but into the Church-yard measure and see how many shorter graves there be of those who never lived to attain our age nor Stature And now we are speaking of Church-yards what need we trouble Scripture or other Arguments to make further proof of our Mortality For the fuller evidencing if need be and determining whereof instead of Fathers and Councils we may repaire to Church-yards and Charnel-houses which are therefore called the common dormitories of the dead the general seed-plots of mankind because though we lye and sleep there awhile yet the time will come when we shall all be awakened and being sowne there rather then buried at the last day we shall be sure to Spring up and rise again Which brings me to the Second Proposition containing the Universal Resurrection implied here in the word stand I saw the dead c. Stand before God That a Resurrection if it be must be in order to Prop. 2. the fuil attainment of man's Final happiness is generally agreed upon by all

outward Wearing but according to their outward and Inward Working as here it followes in the Text The dead were Judged according to their works Indeed during the Night of this Life one may chance to stumble and Dash against the Tomb-stone of a great Man and those Graves that are worth a Coffin we see for a time how they swell above their Fellows while the Poor bare Winding-sheet is quickly made Level with the Earth and sooner sinks into a Total dis-appearance But in the Day-light of the next Life it shall be far otherwise whatever difference there may seem in Graves those Prison-houses here there shall be no such distinction betwixt the Prisoners hereafter The Pharisee may Paint his Sepulchre to please Men but without the sad colours of a true repentant Sorrow he can never paint his Soul so as to please God Yea however in the respect aforesaid there may be some Inequality amongst Tombes yet none at all amongst the Bones therein contained and therefore death is called A land of Darkness and without any Job 10. 2● order Could we go down into those Chambers of death look amongst that Rubbish of mortality and there behold those Pitifull Remaines of mans ruine Alas the Head of an Emperour retaines not the Print of the Imperial Diadem upon it we can see no Character at all no not of one of the three Crownes upon a dead Popes skull no signe of these formidable and Majestique Robes upon the bone of a Judges shoulder The renowned Ribband leaves no mark upon the back or Breast of Knights or Nobles Nor does the Honourable Garter make any Lasting Impression upon that shin-bone which used to wear it and be adorned with it Which Impartial and undistinguishing Indifferency in the next World is further imply'd in that as we are Sentenc'd by The Book so shall we be Summon'd by The Trumpet Both which contain in them some Secret significations of this Impartiality The former I have already touch'd upon For the Trumpet Aquinas observes a Three-fold use thereof amongst the Jewes Congregabantur ad Concilium ●p 3 aep q. 76. ●2 commovebantur ad Praelium vocabantur ad Festum They were Summon'd therewith in Council Incited in Set Battels Invited to Solemn Festivals To which we may adde a Three-fold use of it among Christians viz. At Ordinary Meales as in some Colledges and at your Sheriffs Tables At Church Assemblies as in some Countries at your General Assizes as in this and most other places all is done by the sound of the Trumpet We have all these met together in the Text before us Here is the Grand Council of the Kingdom to be kept * Christs last Battel to be Fought the Festivall of ●ene dicitur ●a Dei quia ●pugnam cùm ●m●cis decre●am venit ●●s Lud. de ●a Christi ●b 12. 23. all Saints and Angels to be Solemniz'd The great Supper of the Lamb to be celebrated the general assembly and Church of the First-born to be congregated and the worlds great Assizes to be held by Christ the Judge of those Assizes And 't is not without cause that all is transacted by the Trumpet For as God is gone up with the sound of the Trumpet we doubt not but ●●l 47. 5. he will come down again in the same manner Now we know the Jewes had not one kind of Note for the poor Pesant and another peculiar strain for the Princes of Israel but all were summoned by the same note of the Trumpet Nor with us Christians is there one kind of call for the Governour Another for the Servitour no but Tutor and Schollar to their Colledge-meales Master and Servant to Church-meetings the Commander and common Souldier to Field-Services the great Counsellour and the poorest Client to the general Assizes all must listen to the same sound and Summons of the Trumpet How much more at the blowing up of the last Trump by an impartial Severeness and all Personal Irrespectiveness will God be sure to maintain the Uniform and undistinguishing usage thereof when by the same blast of an Archangel Judges and Justices Counsellors and Clients Jurors and Prisoners Priest and People all shall be summoned to the same Triall all brought to the same Bar all Commanded to the same Posture Which invites me to the third Circumstance considerable in this Judgement viz. The Over-ruling Authority thereof here signified in that they all stood before God And so on to the fourth considerable viz. The deliberate and convincing Legality of this Judgment The Bookes were opened and thence to the certainty and Importance of all these passages I saw c. Indeed when I first began to consider of this Subject my main designes were set upon these last Observations and had thought to have practically reduced all to the present occasion Especially my Eye was much upon the opening of these Books in one whereof was wrote Quaecunque fecimus What we have done In the other Quaecunque fecisse debemus What we should have done And in them I saw was contained matter of most Pertinency to the business now before us First I should have enquired what 's meant by these Books and for that I had willingly sate down at the Feet of S. Austin Thomas Aquinas and our Pious and most learned Champion of the Church of England Dr. Hammond All which do unanimously agree that by these Books here are signified the Court-rolls of Conscience those bosom-records of all our thoughts words and actions there carefully reserved and then fully and faithfully to be Produced in that day Secondly I had observ'd that all things whatever are exactly Book'd down we neither think speak nor act any thing without Book If we can make a shift for Matter to fill those Books God will be sure to be Furnish'd with Books to hold that Matter whatever it be Which One thing if but duely consider'd as Judah said concerning Benjamin How shall I goe up to my Father and the Lad be not with me We may say ●en 44. 34. concerning CHRIST How shall we dare to Goe up and stand before Our Father if The Holy Childe JESUS be not with us Lastly That although these Books in many secure Souls are kept close shut untill that Day Their opening now implies they were shut till now yet then they shall be suddainly perfectly and entirely opened Mira mentis celeritate c. saith S. Augustine All shall be clearly seen by one quick Glance of an Enlightned Soul Conscience being that Divining-Cup ●id 2. which God as it were has cramm'd within us at our First making and will one day as certainly discover our Thieveries as our own proper goods and Treasures whatever has been Bagg'd up in these our Mortall bodies this Treacherous Cup Betrayes all And yet as Benjamin's Sack cannot throughly be search'd till the Beast be unladed no more can these full Ibid. 11. discoveries be made within us till by death we have all laid down this Load