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A62112	The Lord Jesus his commission (under the broad seal of His Highnes the Royal & Real Lord Protector of heaven and earth) as man, to be the alone judge of life and death in the great and general assize of the world proved and improved before the reverend judges at the assize holden at Maidstone, March 17, 1655 for the county of Kent / by Henry Symons.	Symons, Henry, fl. 1657-1658.	1657 (1657)	Wing S6360A; ESTC R26957	35,152	56

5. Thou art a cruell and bloody hypocrite Prov. 11. 9. A hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour it shews thy nature to be brutish and bloody to judge mens soules to eternall ruine and destruction and to have no thoughts of pitty towards them Didst thou ever see a Judge passe sentence upon a poore malefactor for the death of his body without teares or sorrow how canst thou so readily and rejoycingly passe sentence on their soules But to drive home this naile to the head and heart the persons thou judgest either are Elect or Reprobate 1. Elect wilt thou condemne them whom God hath not will not condemne Rom. 8. 1. There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus v. 34 Who is he that condemneth The glove is cast downe by way of a challenge and thou darest to take it up Our Saviour when he saw no man condemned the woman in adultery would John 8. 11. not condemne her But now God hath not condemned his Elect yet thou O vaine man wilt condemne them Who art thou that judgest another James 4. 12. 2. Reprobate persons thou condemnest them before their time 1 Cor. 4. 5. Let us judge nothing before the time There is a time for every purpose under heaven Eccles 3. 1. Now to meddle with any thing before that time as it is unseasonable so it is unsafe Our Saviour would not torment the Devils before their time and wilt thou condemne thine own flesh before its time Oh grutch them not an inch of time they are shortly to be tormented eternally in hell Be not so cruell a hangman as to hasten a malefactor that is to suffer within an houre 6. Thou shalt have the hypocrites portion Hell is the hypocrites Fee simple Matth. 24. 51. And appoint him his portion with hypocrites Hypocrites are Free-holders of hell others are but terants Judas that grand hypocrite Acts 1. 25. He went to his owne place Christ will be as forward to send them to hell as they have been forward to send others Matth. 7. 2. With what judgement you judge you shall be judged and with what measure you mete it shall be measured to you againe My brethren be not many Masters knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation James 3. 1. All that a man gets by such judgement is greater judgement thou provokest Christ as Lot did the Sodomites to deale worse with thee then with them Thus the Pharisees those eminent hypocrites are threatned with greater condemnation Math. 23. 14. God heats the Furnace of hell as Nebuchadnezzar did his Furnace for the Dan. 3. 19. three Children seven times hotter for hypocrites than for other sinners Inform. 8. See what little cause Saints have too much and too immoderately to lament the death and departure of their deare and neare relations either by the flesh or spirit they are not lost but laid downe in a full and firme assurance of coming againe this Judge will send his Writ of Habeas Corpus to remove them from the prison of the grave See how forcibly the Apostle presses this argument on the Thessalonians 1 Ep. 4. 13. That they mourn not as those that have no hope He renders the reason v. 14. Those that sleepe in Jesus will God bring with him Every one that sleeps shall be awakened the Curtaines of the grave shall be drawn and every Lazarus shall come forth then shall that Scripture be litterally true Eph. 5. 14. Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee ligbt Lumen gloriae 2 Vse Is of examination To try our selves by this Touchstone whether we are in the number of those that do believe this truth That Christ shall shortly come to be a Judge I shall propose four Questions to be resolved by your own hearts 1. What interest have you in him 2. What influence have you from him 3. What affections beare you to him 4. What preparations make you for him 1. What interest have you in him Hath a true and lively saith entituled you to invested you with all his glorious benefits Hath a surpassing love matcht and married you to his person Doth faith make him your head Doth love make him your husband Can you not only say with Ignatius our Love is crucified but also our Love is Judge Hear the not triumphant but triumphing Spouse Cant. 6. 2. I am my beloveds and my beloved is mine Hast thou resigned up thy selfe to be his and accepted him to be thine and that by a matrimoniall Covenant Doest thou love him as a husband and not feare him as a Judge then thou expectedst him to come as a Judge 2. What influence have you from him Are you ingrafted branches in that Vine which suck all their sap John 15. 4 5. strength sweetness from it whereby you bring forth all those delightfull fruits of prayer fasting hearing meditation conference doe you doe all in the name of Christ Col. 3. 19. Are you perswaded you can do all things through Christ Phil. 4. 13. 3. What affections do you beare to him 1. To his person 2. To his people 3. To his appearing 1. To his person Is his person the feate and centre of thy affection the height and heaven of thy love Canst thou really and experimentally use the Spouses sweet Periphrasis as being ravished with his person Cant. 3. 1 2 3 4. Four times in four verses Thou whom my soule loveth Is Christ all the love of thy soule hath he the love of all thy soul do all the parts and powers of thy soul meet as the beames of the Sun in a burning Glasse in the person of Christ Then is thy love pure and pretious love such as is in those believers who shall admire the glorious coming of Christ as a Judge 2 Thess 1. 10. 2. To his people have the Saints the chiefe roome in thy heart and house as they had with Ingo King of the Draves who placed his Peeres in his hall but believers in his parlour because they were to be Peeres with him in a better Kingdome 1 John 4. 17. Herein is love made perfect with us that we may have boldnes in the day of judgement Those that truly love their brethren shall not only dwell in God here but also dwell with God hereafter Cotton in loc for the words are nothing else but an argument deduced from v. 12. on which these words have their dependance 3. To his appearing 1. Doest thou love it are the thoughts thereof delightfull would the sight thereof be joyfull 2 Tim. 4. 8. Vnto them that love his appearing the day of judgement will be a day of coronation to all them that love his appearing 2. Doest thou look for it expecting and waiting for it as the Indians do for the Sunnes rising in the morning Tit. 2. 13. Looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ 3. Doest thou labour

harshness and rashness but Zwinglius answered In alijs Epist ad Servet mansuetus ero in blasphemijs in Christum non ita a Injuriam contra me patienter ●ult contra Christum ferre non potui I can beare any wrong done to my selfe but against Christ I am not able saith Jerome b Inv●niar sane superbus modo impij sidentij no● arguar dum dominus patitur Luth. Epist ad Staup. Let me be accounted proud and passionate so I be not found guilty of sinfull silonce when the cause of Christ suffers Luther Sometimes to be dumb in Christs cause is as bad as at sometimes to deny Christs cause yea indeed dumbness is deniall and they know what sad consequences will follow thereupon Matth. 10. 33. Inform. 4. It renders the reason why the godly so little weigh and value the judgements of men because tbey eye the judgement of Christ What cares Joseph though he be accounted incontinent Naboth a blasphemer Job an hypocrite Michaiah the troubler of Israel Paul a pestilent fellow Luther the Trumpeter of rebellion they and all other believers doe say in Pauls words With us it is a very Jusii non humana judicia sed aeterm judicis examen aspiciunt et ideo cum Paulo derogantium verba despiciunt Ans Acts Mon. small thing that we should be judged of mans judgement he that judgeth us is the Lord 1 Cor. 4. 3 4. They well know how erroneous the men of the world are in their judgement they call white blacke and account cyphers figures and figures cyphers Thou art an hereticke said Woodrosse the Sheriffe to Mr Rogers the Protomartyr in Q. Maries dayes That shall be knowne said he at the day of Judgement Rom. 2. 2. We know Gods judgement is according to truth Inform. 5. What good ground all persons have to get into favour with Jesus Christ who is to sit Judge upon the life and death of their bodies and soules for all eternity Pro. 29. 26. Many seeke the Rulers favour how do men desire to ingratiate themselves into the favour of the Judge though but of Nisi prius if they have but an action of the case to try what suings sollicitations presents how much more to this Judge who when he hath killed the body is able to cast soule and body into hell-fire Matth. 10. 28. Inform. 6. How to demeane our selves under all wrongs either nationall from publique Magistrates or particular from private persons patiently waite upon this righteous Judge Eccles 5. 8. If thou seest the oppression of the poore and violent perverting of judgement in a Province marvell not murmure not at the matter For he that is higher than the highest regardeth yea so regardeth that he will right and revenge all thy unjust and injurious sentences James 5. 6 7. You have condemned and killed the just and he doth not resist you be patient therefore brethren untill the coming of the Lord. Oh remember John Husse Jerome of Prague with many other sufferers and sustainers of injuries and indignities who did not appellare Caesarem but Christum Inform. 7. It shewes us how greatly and greivously they offend who ascend Christs judgement-seate arraigne men at their barre passe sentence of death on all those that are not of their way opinion party side judgement many judge themselves the greatest Christians because they are the greatest Criticks to judge others I shall endeavour to cleere this that he or she that is the greatest censurer is ever the greatest sinner the more criticall ever the more hypocriticall 1. The rash judging of thy mouth is a trumpet to proclaime the reall jugling of thy minde Marke 14. 70 Thou art a Galilaan thy speech agreeth thereto Stinking breaths argue rotten lungs and rash judging rotten hearts Matth. 12. 34. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh Such water as is in the pipe such is in the spring the mettall of the bell is knowne by the clapper Aera puto nosci tinnitu pectora verbis Sic est namque id sunt utraque quale sonant 2. Christ calls thee and the Scripture accounts thee an hypocrite 1. Christ calls thee so Thou hypocrite plucke first the Matth. 7 5. beame out of thine owne eye he that sees strawes in other mens eyes and hath beames in his owne is an hypocrite he that sayes and sees all things are yellow in others it is sure his owne eyes are troubled with the jaundise 2. The Scripture accounts thee so James 1. 26. If any man among you seeme to be religious and bridleth not his tongue but deceiveth his own heart this mans religion is vaine that religion which layes and leaves the reines loose to the tongue to slander men for their present state and to censure them for their finall it is but a videtur quod sic a dissembling counterfeite religion for so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 properly signifies Prov. 26. 23. Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsheard covered with silver drosse Os maledictum cor malum Luth. A censorious mouth and a corrupt minde are like a potsheard covered with silver drosse which shew and shine faire to the eye yet the one is but earth and the other is but drosse Burning lips of mens persons in hell shew their tongue is set on fire from the hell of their owne hearts James 3. 6. 3. Thou art an impudent and audacious hypocrite thou pretendest faire to Christ and yet thou puttest him by his chaire robbest him of his royalty to be Judge of mens finall estate is Christs prerogative The Pope is a notorious hypocrite he pretends himselfe to be Christs Vicar yet he thrusts Christ by all his royalties he pardons sins enjoynes penances pilgrimages dispences with Christs Injunctions disposes of Kings and Kingdoms and blasphemously affirms Per me reges regnant Qui judicat fratrem tantum crimen clationis incurrit ut cui tribunal assumit ejus judicium praevenit Ans What art thou but another usurping Pope jostling Christ from his royall tribunall and sets downe thy selfe acting his part and exercising his power summoning and sentencing by thy Bulls people to eternall death and destruction Would it not be an impudent part for any private man to summon in the Country to sit in the Judges place to act his part to passe sentence of death much more is this 4. Thou art an obstinate and obdurate hypocrite thou perseverest in this sin against the cleere light of Scripture charging and commanding to forbeare all such rash and irreligious judging Matth. 7. 1. Judge not i. e. rashly or rigidly actions or persons for their finall state Bern. Noli esse alienae vitae temerarius judex Rom. 14. 10. But why doest thou judge and why doest thou set at naught thy brother A chiding and checking Apostrophe in an Interrogation 1 Cor. 4. 5. Let us judge nothing before the time it is very dangerous to antidate and anticipate judgement