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A29934 The certainty of the future judgment asserted and proved in a sermon preached at St Michael's Crooked Lane, London, Octob. xxvi, 1684 / by Matth. Bryan ... Bryan, Matthew, d. 1699. 1685 (1685) Wing B5246; ESTC R19907 26,200 46

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yet if for lack of one thing I should fall short of it What if this covetousness and base spiritedness this worldly-mindedness and uncharitableness this passion and peevishness this stubbornness this stiffness and opposition and disobedience to my Governours this desire of revenge and heart-burning and animosity what if this or any of these should ruine all and shut me out of Heaven Lord therefore prays he let me part with every thing that thou dost hate and embrace that which thou dost love and command that I may appear before thy Tribunal with courage and comfort Thus the thoughts of Judgment strike a holy awe and dread into the hearts of God's Children and do successfully affright 'em from sin It is thus a Terrour even to good men And especially 't is a Terrour to wicked men and impenitent Sinners when under any affliction or the apprehension of approaching Death But after Death especially 't will be so when the Judgment-Day is come 't will be Terrour with a Witness 'T is suppos'd 't will be a kind of Terrour to good men which is gathered from that expression in the Thessalonians 1 Thess 1.10 To be admir'd in all them that believe Even in admiration it self there is a kind of mixture of fear and Terrour through an overplus and overslowing of expectation and ravishing exuberant wonder as some are observ'd to weep for joy But in wicked men all that 's purely dreadful shall meet together But more particularly this dread and Terrour which will fall upon wicked men the Enemies of our Lord ariseth from these four things 1. The sight of the Judge 2. The manner of his coming to Judgment 3. The Accusation of their own Consciences 4. The Nature and Characters of the Judgment Which will be 1. An Universal a General Judgment 2. An exact an accurate and critical Judgment 3. A just and righteous Judgment 4. The final Judgment 5. A Judgment that will sentence to an eternal state either of happiness or misery But perhaps some may be here dissatisfied being ready to demand Whether none shall be sentenc'd to an eternal state till the last and general Judgment What then shall become of departed Souls after Death till the General Judgment Shall they be kept in some Middle Place in some Limbus Patrum or Infantum To this I answer As there is a General Judgment at which the Body and Soul being re-united shall appear and receive Sentence together so there is a particular Judgment of the Soul by it self at its departure from the Body That the Souls of good men immediately after Death are carried to Heaven by the Angels to receive the Sentence of Absolution which shall be pronounced by Christ who will place them in the Mansions of Glory is most certain as may be gathered from the Case of Lazarus Luke 16.22 compared with 2 Cor. 5.1 And I humbly conceive with submission which is not unwarrantable by Scripture as is intimated in the Case of Dives Luke 16.23 that Christ Jesus the Judge of the World by virtue of his Regal Office which he doth now execute as he sends out his Angels which are ministring Spirits to carry holy Souls into Heaven so he commissions his Angels too to take the Souls of wicked men immediately after their separation and deliver 'em to the Devil that cruel Jaylor the Keeper of the Infernal Prison who instantly draggs 'em away to Hell there to be bound as 't is said of the evil Angels in everlasting chains under darkness to the judgment of the great day Jude 6. and in the mean time to be tormented and punished according to their capacity and that in pursuance of the ancient Sentence pronounced long ago He that believeth not is condemn'd already John 3.18 36. and the wrath of God abideth on him Thus having discours'd Doctrinally of that great Fundamental Point of Religion the certainty of Judgment to come a Day of Judgment after this Life together with the dreadfulness of it styled here The Terrour of the Lord It remains now IV. and Lastly that we make some improvement of it by Application And here first of all I hope I need not use Saint Peter's Apology to you how needful soever 't is amongst others in the World for the Lord's slackness and delay in coming to Judgment which he directs to those Scoffers of the last times 2 Pet. 3.3 Knowing this first that there shall come in the last days Scoffers walking after their own lusts and saying Where is the promise of his coming for since the Fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of the Creation I hope there are no such Scoffers here though with sorrow and sadness and lamentation I might speak it and observe it they abound too much in the World yea in Christendom it self and this reformed Part of it men of an Atheistical shall I say or Anti-Christian Spirit who laugh and mock at the Doctrine of a Day of Judgment as a wild Chimaera the idle Dream and fancy of a melancholy Preacher the effect of an inquisitive contemplative Head and the strength of imagination being ready to say in the Words of these Scoffers here mentioned by St Peter Where is the promise of his coming c. i. e. Where is the Promise or Prophecy fulfill'd that Christ shall come to judge the World for since the death of Adam and the Patriarchs and the Prophets and Christ himself who told the World of a Day of Judgment the World continues as it was no alteration appears and 't is like to continue so for ever Now this mocking and scoffing and infidelity owes it self St Peter observes partly to their Lusts partly to their wilful ignorance and inadvertency and inconsideration Which in regard there are so many in the World that are ready to join Issue with these Scoffers here I will take particular notice of both to obviate their Atheistical Objections and Anti-Christian scoffs and to antidote you against the infection of a contagious Air. 1. Then It owes it self partly to their Vices and Lusts Scoffers walking after their own lusts Some men so long abandoning themselves to Vice become Athestical and deny God for 't is their interest there should be none and upon the same Grounds they become Anti-Christian and deny Christ deny his Divinity and Authority and Veracity his Resurrection and Ascension into Heaven and his coming to Judgment For 't is their interest that he should never come whose coming will be so terrible to all his Enemies 't will be to the perdition of ungodly men 2. It owes it self partly to their wilful ignorance and inadvertency and inconsideration and that of three things First God's Power and Providence both in the Creation and destruction of the World Secondly The nature of God and his measure and account of time Thirdly His patience and long-suffering First God's Power and Providence both in the Creation and destruction of the World ver 5 6 7.