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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77556	Gods statute for generall iudgement by the man Christ Iesus. Opened in a sermon at the funerall of the most religious lady, the Lady Lucie Iervoice, sometime wife to the right worshipfull Sir Thomas Iervoice at Herriot. Aug. 26. 1641. By John Brokett Minister of Elsfeild.	Brokett, John.	1642 (1642)	Wing B4845; Thomason E116_1; ESTC R5889	21,463	41

my spirit that Christ Jesus is mine and that through him heaven shall be mine hereafter And hereupon like the blessed virgin Her soul did magnifie the Lord and her spirit rejoyced in God her Saviour One thing more I desire to acquaint you with which in my judgement was most remarkable an argument that her soul was Angelized in her body and emparifed there before it could get out to heaven It was this Upon the Sunday before her departure towards the Evening of the day her spirit fainted and she fell into a swound or it may be some heavenly rapture in which for some space she continued but breath being perceived to be in her they who were about her did strive to revive her and by Gods blessing upon the means used by her learned Physician she not onely came to her selfe but some reasonable strength and vigour was added to her And having first praised God as her accustomed manner was upon every receipt of comfort from him she desired that all her children might be brought to her which done like a most gracious Mother she blessed them all saying The God of Abraham the God of Isaac the God of Iacob blesse you and bestow upon you not greatnesse but goodnesse not riches but righteousnesse and the Graces of his holy Spirit that every one of you may live in the feare of God in the faith of Christ in all dutie and obedience to your father and true love to one another all the dayes of your life These and many other gracious Exhortations she uttered to her children And having given a holy and heavenly farewell to them she commanded that all her servants might come before her And to every one of them she uttered gracious words Exhorting them to live godly righteously and soberly and warning them particularly to beware of those sins which she had observed them to be most addicted to And having made an end of blessing her children and servants and taught them how to live she then in a most gracious manner prepared her selfe to die Spending the time that remained behind in fervent prayer to God to enable her to resist the assaults of the Divell and to endure the pangs of death and that would send her a blessed departure and a mercifull admission of her soul into his heavenly Kingdome At length feeling her self at the very gates of death she desired a reverend Minister then with her once againe to pray for her His prayer being ended and her life almost ended too she thus commended her selfe to God The Grace of our Lord Iesus Christ the love of God and the Communion of the Holy Ghost be with me to the end and in the end Amen And this prayer she repeated againe and againe till her breath grew so short that she was not able to repeat it any longer and then she sealed up her prayer and her life too with Amen Ingeminating of it till her soul departed A heavenly Conclusion of a holy life Sic mihi contingat vivere sicque mori God grant my life and my and my latter end may be like to hers And he perswade all your hearts to a gracious Imitation of her And so leaving her in happinesse in Heaven I desire you with feare reverence and attention to hearken to those instructions which by Gods assistance I shall deliver to you from the words of Saint Paul written as you have heard Act 17.31 ACTS 17.31 Because he hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousnesse by the Man whom he hath ordained whereof he hath given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised him from the dead IT is most pious and profitable counsell which the sonne of Sirach gives Ecclesiasticus 7.36 Remember the last things and thou shalt never doe amisse These last thus commended to our remembrance and meditation are foure Death which is most certaine Iudgement which is most strict Hell which is most fearefull Heaven which is most delightfull The daily meditation of these foure last things the Wise man presumes will breed in every one of us a due care so to live that we may be blessed in Death and after death may escape the severitie of Judgement the torments of Hell and obtaine the unspeakable joyes and happinesse of Heaven Now this portion of Scripture which I have read unto you containes in it the second of these four last things namely the day of Judgement The serious meditation whereof is a powerfull means to provoke us to timely and true repentance Sure I am Saint Paul thought it so and therefore he useth no other argument to turne the superstitious Athenians from their Idolatry and to perswade them and all men every where to repent but onely this Because he hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousnesse by the Man whom he hath ordained whereof he hath given assurance to all men in that he hath raised him from the dead Which words being taken in the whole lump together may very fitly be called Gods Statute for generall judgement by Christ the righteous Iudge More particularly they offer to our consideration these sixe points 1. The certaintie of the day of Judgement Because God hath appointed it and what God hath decreed shall certainly be accomplished 2. Who shall judge he will Iudge which hath reference to God mentioned in the verse immediately fore-going 3. Who shall be judged the world which comprehends Angels in Heaven Divels in Hell Men and unreasonable and Inanimate Creatures on earth 4. How God will judge in righteousnesse rewarding every man according to his works 5. By whom God will judge by the man whom he hath ordained that is by Jesus Christ He is the Man ordained to be Judge of quick and dead Acts 10.42 6. The warrant to assure us that Christ shall judge the world whereof he hath given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised him from the dead Thus within the narrow Compasse of this text we have a day for Judgement a God to judge a World to be judged a righteous Sentence to be pronounced Christ Jesus in Commission and his Resurrection for our assurance Of all which particulars in that order as I have ranked them and as the Text offers them to our consideration 1. The Certaintie of the Day of Judgement That there shall be a Day of Judgement is a truth of infallible certaintie 1. Scripture teacheth it 2. Conscience testifyeth it 3. Reason concludeth it 4. Particular judge ments premonstrate it 1. Scripture plainly and plentifully teaches it in which we often meet with these and the like sayings God will bring every worke to Iudgement with every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evill Eccles 12.14 We must all appeare before the judgement seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in the body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad 2 Cor. 5.10 Adde to