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A49962	The great day of judgment handled in a sermon preached at the assizes at New-Bristol, Octob. 7, 1687 / by the reverend and learned Samuel Lee, M.A., sometimes fellow of Wadham Colledge in Oxon ; accompany'd with preparatory meditations upon the Day of Judgment, by Mr. Cotton Mather.	Lee, Samuel, 1625-1691.; Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.	1692 (1692)	Wing L896; ESTC R41402	29,252	97

THE GREAT DAY OF JUDGMENT Handled In a SERMON Preached at the Assizes at New-Bristol Octob. 7. 1687. By the Reverend and Learned SAMVEL LEE M. A. sometimes Fellow of Wadham Colledge in Oxon. Accompany'd With Preparatory Meditations 〈◊〉 THE DAY OF JUDGMENT By Mr. COTTON-MATHER Boston in New-England Printed by Bartholomew Green for Nicholas Buttolph at the Corner of Gutteridg's Coffee-House 1692. Price bound 1 s. THE EPISTLE To the Worthy and Pious Auditory before whom this Subject was treated upon Grace and Peace in Christ Jesus our Lord. VVHereas by the Call and Invitation of some of your very much Honoured and Respected Society ●his Serious Summons to the great day of Judgment was proclaimed in your Ears at Bristol near Mount-Hope in New England at the Ass●ze ●here hold on Friday Octob. 7. ●687 Being also moved to the Publication thereof I do here humbly present it under divine Protection and Blessing to your Candid Acceptation and Defence who sometime Composed the quire of a most attentive benigne and so●emn Audience in the time of its delivery Honourable and Beloved As these Papers tend with your kind leave to●re inkindle the the memorial of that dayes Soul awakening Subject so let me I pray in this proem beg you to ruminate on a saying of an Em●nent Divine at Bury a Town of great note in Suffolk of old England That Sermons are never done Mr. Edmund Calany S●n. till they are Done and let me add If never Done the hearers are undone for ever Especially in such weighty momentous Points as these about the formidable day of Judgment The tears of Auditors said Jerom as J.M. are the Jewels of Preachers and if Sincere Presage a Crown of Eternal joyes to both There are among many others in Divinity three illustrious Doctrines 1. Justification by Faith in Christ alone 2. Sanctification by the Spirit 3. Resurrection to Glory In whose Compass and Bosome was our present Subject about the Vniversal Judgment As to which Give me leave to present three things and Close with the Apostolical Prayer 1. State your own Eternal State while yet in the State of this Life Matter not the day or Censures of mans Judgment They 'l Fluctuate in their love as the wind of their Passions 1 Cor. 4 3 Interests and Envious or false informations tur●s the fane of their Constructions if they are not both wise and godly And sometimes hastily Carp your innocence as if they had forgotten Pl●tarch and Senecas memorials about natures gift of two Ears before they determin matters in question Gal. 6.1 not pondering as they ought in the Spirit of meekness the many Tentations the best of men are incident to Tim. 3.2 their own freq●ent infirmities and others proud and invidious detractions and your own vertuous Slander-Shaming Apologies Taking little heed to the Fifteenth Psalm and how unworthily these blast others usefulness lay up Scourges for their own Consciences in the day when God shall visit them and give their abused Friends Exod. 32.34 the greatest favour at last Prov. 18. ●● 38.23 when his Neighbour Searches him out and then thy Brothers Mote may swell to a Beam in thine eye by the rubbing of others inflamed Censures upon thee when thy turn comes We all need Contrition Confession and Pardon 2. Make Peace with God betimes and Expedite it The ●ands of times hour Glass never stop and are more precious then the golden ones of Tagus Do this work seasonably sincerely speedily to frustrate the trouble of the New Repentance and prevent the divine Judgment Delay not lest Tardy neglect 2 Cor. 11.31 3● quicken Goul-Confounding horrors and Sudden wracks of Conscience will draw out the funeral-Song of Epimetheus O non putaram Prov. 2● 19 or that of the Fool in Solomon Was I not in jest and cry out in earnest concerning laughter Eccl. 2.2 Eccl. 9.6 that 't is mad and of mirth What doth it but as the Crackling of thornes under a Pot whose Prickles fly in his Eyes leave him in utter darkness wringing his hands in the bloud of his heart and streaming out bitter groanes that he did not think the Evening Shadows were so nigh O Sirs this tremendous work cryes aloud for the greatest deliberation the swiftest Execution and perseverance without end O Blessed Lord help us out of the woful Tentations and intricate Labyrinths of delay Aesop lest when Death comes indeed as in the ancient Apologue it prove an other guess work than most are now aware of You 'l stand in need of more then all your Graces Experiences Reliances and Restaurations out of deep and dark desertions Yea and all little Enough and will prove scarce able to list you out of the dungeon of terror unless the gracious Supplies of the Spirit come in upon a Spring tide from Heaven and list up the Ark of Conscience above the floud gates and Rocks of Confusion 3. Labour to provide against the formidable Thunders of Death that the Sun-shines of the Evidences of glory may brighten the dark passages of the Grave The beauty of grace first darted into thy Breast in a beam from the Eye of the Electing Love of God and shall never cease the shining and warming influences till like new Stars that at last Concenter all their motions in the Sun so shall the rayes of thy joyes be inbosomed in the Eternal Love of God When thou hast done this work John 6.19 which the Father hath given thee to do then that TO PHOBEROTATON Aristotles grand King of Ter●ers shall sling down his Crown with amazement at the foot of Christ Heb. 3 14● 1 Cor. 15● 5● 57. and that Dragon who hath the power of death shall himself be slung to Death by the Cross of Christ first upon his illustrious Tomb at Mount Golgotha or like the standard of Constantine carrying TO SEMEION the Labarum or signe of the Son of man Mat. 34 3 set upon the back-bone of the Serpent as you may see it on the Reverse of that Emperors Coin Spelman Aspilogi● P. 20 Ed. Lo●d 1654 cu uptem Yea and a●● holy Christians are like the Roman Draconiseri the Dragoniers of the ancient Empire carrying the Exuviae or case of the old Serpent in triumph and yielding up their Spirits into the hands of a most faithful Creator who once form'd us and will shortly as faithfully Redeem us out of the dust and inform us a new with the same Immortal Souls to inherit the same Body in a State of Immortality to Co-inhabit the Temple of Heaven in an immortal State of Glory ever beginning and never ending When the day of the last Redemption that great day of the feast when the ruddy morning shall Climb the Eastern hills of Mount Olivet with its pleasant Blushes to cure all the dark Solitudes and Sollicitudes of this Vally of Immortal Souls by the Lord Jesus Christ before whom they Appear when ●heir Bodies here are by Death made ●ntenantable and from whom they ●hen Receive Order Either to be Admitted among the Spirits of Just men made perfect or to be Reserved in Darkness unto the Judgment of the Great Day That Separate Souls thus

in this World that our God has the glory of His being A REWARDER so fully and so clearly display'd as it ought to be We dayly see Godliness Oppressed and Wickedness Advanced in this Present evil World and neither the Appeals of Affl●cted Innocence nor the Affronts of Outrageous Vallany have a Sufficiently Sensible Notice taken of them There is therefore an Eternal State of Blessedness and Misery whereinto the Righteous God will bring every one of us according to our Behaviours here Our Short Condition in this World is but a Condition of Probation or of Stewardship and according to our Carriage in this Condition we shall in the Issue as the mouth of our faithful Saviour Himself has long since as●●ned us Go away into Everlasting Punishment Or else Into Life Everlasting But at the Threshold of that Eternal State it is but proper that a Distinct Account should be taken of what every man ha's done in the Body that so the Lustre of that Justice which Dooms them to their Interminable Blessedness or Misery may strike the very Consciences of all Beholders Hence t is that the Oracles of Truth have told us God ha's appointed a Day in which He will Judge the World by that man whom He hath Ordained Whereof He hath given Assurance unto a● men in that He ha's Raised Him from the Dead There is indeed a Particular Disposal of Dragons and our Blessed Redeemer standing upon Mount Zion Zech. 13 4 shall proclaim to all His Saints Lift up your Heads for the day of your final Redemption is come Le ts end with that apprecation of holy Paul Heb. 13.20 21. Now the God of Peace that brought again from the Dead our Lord Jesus that great Shepard of the Sheep through the blood of the everlasting Covenant Make you perfect in every good Work to do his will working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be Glory for ever and ever Amen Yours in Gospel Service SAMVEL LEE A SVMMONS or WARNING to the Great DAY of JVDGMENT Revelation 20.12 On Friday Octob. 7. 1687. At Brist●● by Mount Hope in New England And I saw the Dead Small and Great stand before God and the Books were opened and another Book was opened which is the Book of Life and the Dead were Judged out of those things which were Written in the Books according to their Works THE Preceding Verse presents this Evangelical Prophet with a Visionary scene Preparatory to the Day of Judgment and here in the Text we have a further Procedure in the amazing Concernments of that tr●mendous Session where in may be observed 1. The Apostles place or station in the I le of Patmos now Patina neer the Shore of the Aegaean Sea Rev. 13.1 looking Eastward toward Ephesus and Jerusalem Zech. 14 4. as you may suppose Act. 1.11 because our Lord is represented standing upon Mount Olivet in that day Where in Speculo Visionis in a Visionary Glass he beholds with great attention what the Angel presented to him 2. The Several Persons and things Exhibited to his strict Observation which I may properly Conjoyn together under several Heads and therein I. We have first the Character or Denomination of the Persons attending set forth under the style of the Dead that is not such as were now really Dead in this grea● Morning of the Resurrection but which very lately had been involved in the state of the dead Vers 13 but now raised out of their dolesome Graves and had newly Shaken off the Chains of Rottenness and some come Dropping out of the stormy Seas and hastning with more shaking horror to a yet more direfull Shipwrack Death Hell must give up all their dead at the formidable Summons of that Arch-Angels Trumpet 1 Cor. 1● 52. By Hell or Hades we understand under a metonymy the Souls of men delivered out of their invisible State under the manutenency of divine power to be reinvested with their Bodies and to appear a● this astonishing Bar. For so the Greek Fathers understood by HADES q. AIDES the Souls of men in Statu Separato according to that of H●mir POLLAS D' IPTHIMOUS PSUCHAS AIDI PROIAPSEN He dismist many Valiant Souls i.e. Persons into Hades II. Their various quality Both small and great The Shortest Dwarfs can't Creep into so deep holds or corners not the Blustring Nimrods can't Ruffle it away in their Pride and Jollity but every Soul must drag his Prison-Chain into this most Solemn and Splendid presence Nay the Small are named to come first to set forth the impossibility of their Exemption and these meaner persons must stand out before the great on●● that all may be seen in their Proportion thi● I speak only by allusion But to be sure none shall Shuffle behind Noon and abscond from that Meridian Glory or he Vailed from this all Searching Eye And the all revenging hand of God The Summoners Apparitors of all these inferior Courts must there appear and quiver and tremble for Summoning of Gods Saints here upon Earth Heb. 9.27 I●ts appointed for all to dy and then to Judgment We must all stand at the dreadful Tribunal Seat of Jesus Christ Where Judges themselves devested of all their formalities like so many unhappy Felixes will Clatter their knees together at the MENE TEKEL Dan. 5.25 graven upon the Chrystal Walls of the Caelestial Firmament and glad men could they but undergoe such an Earthly Sentence they pass't upon others III. Observe their posture they must stand Pro Tribunali before that adamantine Bar let down before them They I have little Stomach to come too near Rom. 14.10 no rude audacious Crowding into the presence of that most awful Judge There will be but little pressing to see His Soveraign August Countenance that shines brighter then the Sun in his greatest glory but as forced by the Angelical Messengers while they continue Crying to the Deaf Mountains and the Inflexible Rocks to hide them from Him that Sitteth on the Throne and from the Wrath of the Lamb. Rev. 6.16 IV. The Ireful face of that most dreadful Judge before whom the Heavens all on a light flame shall Crackle like a Parchment Scrol and fly away 2 Pet. 3.11 12 when Christ the Son of God and God man that Impartial Judge of quick and dead from whom there is no appeal shall put on an other guess purple Robe to judge Pontius Pilate and Herod ●ark 15.17 and his men of War Luk. 23.11 that mock't Him in the day of His Humiliation This will be a day of horror to all those Wretches also that mockt and fleer'd at Gods Messengers when they denounced against them the Judgments of the great day Then comes out a Quo Warranto with a witness to inquire what woful work they made at Jerusalem and who impowered them to Judge the Son of God Jude 15. and to utter hard