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death_n	dead_a	life_n	see_v	7,282	5	3.5087	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93736	A discourse on the extensiveness and comprehensiveness of future judgment of God In another method than what hath been hitherto extant in any other books or sermons upon this subject. By Richard Stafford.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1697 (1697)	Wing S5115A; ESTC R230355	16,898	16

my self withal Yet for all that I have not stood but faln in the Time of Trial and Temptation for after all those Thoughts and Purposes aforementioned when I have come into Company and amongst a mixt People I have put on again the same vain and worldly Conversation I have talked and had that which savours of Men and the Grace and Spirit of the Lord hath sensibly departed from me for a time and I have been weak and all one as another Man I wish I could here tell it weeping but it is a real grief of Soul when I throughly consider of it I my self have a great deal to answer and account for before God in that I have not at all times and in all places and in all Companies lived according to that Grace and Knowledge which God hath given me that at the very same time when I did know and approve of the things more excellent yet I did not follow them but rather I did the worse How many precious and seasonable Truths have I concealed and kept within when in Duty I ought to have spoken them out I speak all this to my shame and to my fault which should be amended But as I am declaring this unto ye remember that your Hearts be also upon the search and examination whether it hath not been so with ye likewise And I do therefore bring forth these Things unto ye because that it is good to know our Faults in order to amend them As also to put you in mind stir up and exhort ye And let us consider one another to provoke unto Love and good works Heb. 10.24 As it is commonly advised Be sure to keep be best Company which in the meaning of the World is the Richest But this is a false way of speaking for they are not the best as may be understood from the word of Truth and will be seen at the Judgment of the Great Day so I would recommend to ye to set before ye the very best Examples of all the very best Saints and Servants of God that are in the Town or Neighbourhood wherein ye inhabit and there try your best skill and use your utmost endeavour that as the other Disciple did out-run Peter So do thou use diligence and put forth all thy strength if thou canst out-run such an one in the Christian-race for if thou wouldst not upon a false Imagination or vain Hopes which are like the Dream of one that eateth and he awaketh and his Soul is empty but upon rational and assured grounds have God do more for thee in this World and in the World to come as to have a Benjamin's Mess or a double Portion of his Spirit or to be brought out of Trouble for so is the Promise to the Righteous when the Wicked are left therein then thou must exceed them also in Godliness which hath the promise of this Life and of that which is to come and in righteousness and holiness It is very well worth our while to strive to be utmost herein because that the future recompence of God will be proportioned out and it will be infinitely so much beyond all the Pain Uncouthness Labour Backwardness which was ever in any Act or Instance of well-doing Obey them that have the Rule over you and submit your selves for they watch for your Souls as they that must give account Heb. 13.17 These last words As they that must give account do not belong only to Magistrates Ministers and Preachers for it extends to all the People also for it should be a constant Rule which they should always bear in mind and have recourse unto in whatever they take in hand or in whatever their hands finds them to do To do it as ye that must give account And because this Judgment of God will reach to Thoughts and Words also therefore the same Rule should be exprest yet a little more comprehensively on this wise So think speak and do as ye that must give accovnt according to what is written and commanded by the Spirit So speak ye and so do as they that must be judged by the Law of Liebrty Jam. 2.12 As one saith Remember the End that is the last end of Things and thou shalt never do amiss So in thy Walking keep the Judgment of God always in thine eye and thou shalt never go much astray We know and are assured of it beforehand That when the Great Day of his Judgment is come we may have no Excuse or Plea that of this and of every day of our Life after we are come to the years of Discretion and to the Knowledge of Good and Evil we are not only in danger but we shall certainly be called to an account There is hardly any thing which is a greater Awe and Check to sin than a lively Faith of this future Judgment to have it continually before our eyes and to have our Thoughts and Apprehensions always upon it Jerom an antient Servant of the Lord did say of himself Whither I sleep or wake or whatever I do Methinks I hear that voice always sounding in my Ears Arise ye dead and come forth to judgment And truly if we did with the eye of Faith and with the eyes of our understanding being enlighmed Behold till the Thrones were cast down and the antient of days did sit whose Garment was white as Snow and the Hair of his Head like the pure Wooll his Throne was like the fiery stream and his wheels as burning fire A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him Thousand thousands ministred unto him and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him The judgment was set and the Books were opened Dan. 7.9 10. Such a vision the Prophet then had and also John when he 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 are written in the Books according to their works And the Sea gave up the Dead which were in it and Death and Hell delivered up the Dead which were in them and they were judged every Man according to their works Rev. 20.12 13. Did we in the midst of Life see those things which we shall see when we are let forth into the Chambers of Death but yet more especially as we shall see when the Great day of his Judgment is come this would influence our whole Life and Conversation into the greatest Awe and Seriousness fear and trembling and watchfulness that can be If even a Sinner and an ungodly Man were to rise from the Dead and live over his past Life again he would be another kind of Man and even he would be perswaded unto God and good Things Nothing can be a more forcible consideration to make us to please God this little mean while and to endeavour to the utmost to be reconciled unto him then the knowledge how that we must