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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

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 Exist ●n an Invisible World is a thing whereof I know some who have such pal●able Evidences that were the Scrip●ures wholly Silent which Blessed by God they are not about it yet they could no more Qustion it than they Question their own Existence in the World But there is a more General Work of this kind shortly to be done ●n a Vast Assembly of all mankind unto ●hat end Summoned by the Mighty God and called from the Rising of the Sun unto the Setting thereof The Souls of men shall reassume a fit Portion of the Dust whereunto they were formerly United by the Almighty God fetch'd out of the Various matter whereinto it has been Dissolved and Dispersed but now become as were the Keel where upon shall be Buil● Incorruptible Bodies and some that shall then be found alive shall by 〈◊〉 Translation have their Bodies made i● a like manner Spiritual In their Bodies thus Raised and Changed they shal● stand before a Tribunal of our Lord Jesus descended from the Heavens into our Atmosphere and after a● Exact Examination of their Behaviours While God was upon Earth Trying o● them they shall have One of these two Sentences pronounced upon them Either Come ye Blessed Inherit the Kingdom Or Depart ye Cursed into Everlasting Fire Which will be accordingly Executed on them Such 〈◊〉 Day of Judgment is there to come upon the World Amen Come Lord Jesus come quickly Indeed about the Circumstances of this most Illustriou● Day t is more easy than lawful for us to Enquire into such things as w● are not yet Able to A●swer nor ha● the Lord Indulged our Curious and Critical Enquiries after Particularities which He ha's not Revealed It seem Revealed That this Last Day will be a Long Day It will be a Day of ●ublick Hearing and all Doings of all ●eople must be called out Cunctaque Cunctorum Cunctis Arcana patebunt So that things will not be Hastily ●uddled and Suddenly Shuffled over ●ea It seems Revealed That the ●orning of This famous Day will ●ake up at least a Thousand Years wherein our Lord will be managing His Davidical Kingdom with a New Hea●en and a New Earth wherein shall ●well Righteousness and Reigning before His Ancient People Gloriously at the Close whereof it seems to some that The Rest of the Dead Live again all t●● Dead Small Great stand before God The Hour when it shall be Commenced and ●he Spot where it shall be Che●fly managed seem not Revealed nor a thousand ●hings more that concern the proceedings of the Day But whatever may be yet Unrevealed it is abundantly Plain and Sure unto us That the Son of man shall come in the Glory of His Father with His Angels and then He shal● Reward every man According to hi● Works This is Revealed and it i● a Damnable Thing to Cherish an● Doubt of This That we must a●l appea● before the Judgment-Seat of the Lord Jesus Christ S. 3. The Judgment of the Great Day Or a Day wherein all men shall b● Raised and Changed into a State o● Immortality and appear before the So● of Man within the Bounds of our Air to be Judged according unto wha● they Did before they Dy●d This is 〈◊〉 thing which the People of God in al●●ges have given their Assent unto Even in Old Times long before th● Flood the Church of God made this a● Article of their Creed We hav● some short Notes of what was delivered by the Venerable Enoch abou● it so long ago in Jude 14. Behold ●he Lord comes to Execute Judgmen● upon all Yea This was a main Controversy between the Antediluvia● Saints and the Impious Impure Ge●●●●tion of Atheists then upon th● Stage The Godly did Assert There ●ali be a Day of Judgment but the pro●ne did with Hard Speeches Deride ●xplode the Belief of that awful Truth We read in Gen. 4.8 Cain spake to Abel his Brother the Hebrew Bibles ●sually leave a Blank at the end of his clause and the ancient Jewish ●argum● presume to put in the Dis●urse which they had they say that ●he Quarrel between Cain and Abel ●as upon this point Abel said There 〈◊〉 to be a Day of Judgment and there is Judge and there shall be another World ●nd the Godly shall be Rewarded and the Wicked Pun●shed But Cain said There 〈◊〉 no such Thing and as the Targum ●f I. Ben. Vzziel adds Et Propter ha●um Rerum Causam Contendebant Super●acies Agri. And methinks the A●ostle in the Beginning of his Eleventh ●hapter to the Hebrews may seem to ●ountenance this Tradition It seems ●s if Abraham also saw this Day a●r off inasmuch as there are those ●ho put his Plea for Sudom into this ●nglish in Gen. 18.25 W●ll not the Judge 〈◊〉 all the Earth Execute Judgment 〈◊〉 q d. Lord Thou dost intend hereafter to appear for a Judgment upon a● the World in such Flames of Devouring Fire as thou art now going to destroy this miserable Place withal b● Entreated therefore to spare these Towns until that Revolution come Indeed all Christians have alwayes Agreed in this Acknowledgment long before as well as ever since the Daye● of Job I know that my Redeemer Lives and that He shall stand at the Eatte● Day upon the Earth and though Worms Destroy this Body yet in my Flest I shall see God And even in that Confession of Faith which the Jews themselves at this Day embrace their Eleventh Fundamental Article is the Eternal Judgment To what the People of God have thus Received as the Faith delivered unto the Saints they have had the Scriptures of God most abundantly given their Infallible Testimony There is hardly any one part of the Old Testament which has not Considerable Glances a● the Day of Iudgment But in the New ●estament it is yet more plentifully insisted on Very many of the Sermons Preached by our Lord Jesus Christ ●nd all the Letters written by His A●●stles do set the Day of Iudgment before our Eyes Yea not only the Approach but also the Process of this wonderful Day is diverse times Expressed in these Lively Oracles The Holy Spirit of God hath Chosen to make one of the East Clauses in the Bible an Admonition unto us here●bout the very last Lines of the last ●dvice we have had from Heaven are ●o this purpose The Lord Jesus Christ will shortly come to Iudge the World And with the Assertions of Scripture ●oncerning this matter the Apostle in 〈◊〉 certain place tells us the Accusing● ●nd the Excusing●s of Conscience do join ●heir Testimony thereunto 〈◊〉 The Ver●ict of Conscience upon the Sinner is ●s Tertallian calls it Futur● Judici● Prejudicium a presage of a future ●udgment It is true the

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