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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94068	Hēmera apokalypseōs. The day of revelation of the righteous judgement of God. Delivered in a sermon preached to the Honorable House of Commons, at Margarets Westminster, at their late solemn fast, December 31. 1645. / By William Strong, sometime fellow of Katherine Hall in Cambridge; now minister of More-Crichel in Dorcetshire.	Strong, William, d. 1654.	1646 (1646)	Wing S6003; Thomason E313_33; ESTC R200485	24,229	42

to discharge their consciences who to maintaine their party c. 3. The ends and intents of the heart shall bee made manifest in that day Grace is properly the change of a mans utmost ends and this is to have a single eye Matth. 6.22 sinne advanceth it selfe as the chiefe good and utmost end Hos 10.1 Israel an empty vine he brings forth fruit to himselfe grace exalts God as the chiefe good and utmost end brings forth fruit to God Rom. 7.4 None of us lives to himselfe no man dyes to himselfe God is his utmost end in life and death Rom. 14 7. Now all these ends of the heart ultimate and intermediate shall all be discovered in that day and here it will bee necessary to consider these three things 1. That in obedience it is not enough to doe Gods worke but you must aime at Gods ends The Pharisees in fasting prayers almes did the duty God required but the end being selfe made the worke their owne Hee that will be a servant unto God must be wholly to him As the Philosopher describes a servant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Gods eye in all your works is chiefly upon your ends 2 King 5.26 Is this a time to receive mony to receive garments and olive yards and vineyards and sheep and oxen and men servants and maid servants c. The Lord speaks according to the intent of his Spirit in the action when men make authority and places of justice profession of Religion pretence of tendernesse of conscience c. to become subordinate to selfe ends the Lords eye is upon it and abhors them 3. A man may by his end destroy that which he doth by his action most pretend to build and by his end he may establish that which by his act he seems to endeavour to destroy Iehu in his act seemed a great reformer but though he proved Ahabs executioner yet by reason of his corrupt end in his Idolatry hee proved his successor A man may love the tyranny when he hates the tyrant oppose the oppressor and yet love the oppression A man may endeavour to cast out Episcopacy root and branch and yet love preheminence desire priority and affect to be called Rabbi Looke therefore to your ends for its easier for a man to deny himselfe in acts then in ends self ends are part of the old man which is last put off These shall all bee discovered in that day for the day shall declare them 3. Mens lives also shall be made manifest in that day wherein I shall speake only of these three things 1. All mens duties with their severall failings 2. All their sins with their sins with their severall aggravations 3. All their talents with their improvements 1. All your dute is Ecclus 12.14 Phil. 4 17. for he will bring every work to judgement with every secret thing whether good or evill If a man doe but give an almes in uprightnes of heart it will bee fruit which shall abound to his account Then will be manifested in hearing what you went forth to see a man cloathed in soft rayment Matth. 11.7.8 how many Sermons you have heard for no other end then children turne over bookes to behold the gayes in them when you went to heare men and when to heare him that speakes from heaven Heb. 12.25 when you did in heating stoop to the Majesty of God and when to the authority of a man when you did receive the truth only in the light and when also in the love of it So for fasting God will then say when you fasted did you at all fast to me Zach 7 5. even to mee you rent your garments indeed but not your hearts you have been much in outward humiliation but your soules are lifted up in you or you rest in humiliation without reformation or if reformation yet meerly Ecclefiasticall and not personall Is not this the fast that I have chosen to loose the bands of wickednesse to untye the heavy burthens to let the oppressed goe free and that you breake every yoke Esay 58 6. So in all other religious duties then the Lord will say to men 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I have not found your workes full before mee Rev. 3.2 I have indeed seen a great outside but there was an emptinesse within it was not filled up with the exercise of graces and holy affections answerable to the great shew that was made without c. Male in no● mur●●ur ●ominum quam in Deum bonum est ●●hi si Deus dignetur me ●●i pro cl●peo Ber. de consider 2. All Sins with their severall aggravations 1. Of omission or commission 1 Omission Matth. 25.42 I was hungry and yee gave me no meat Such a time you had a price in your hand to get wisdome but you had no heart to it you had an opportunity to appeare for God to justifie wisdome and you did decline it and let the reproaches fall upon God and Religion so you might be free you had power in your hand to have executed justice and to have delivered the oppressed out of the hand of him that spoyled him Hab. 1.13 but you were not valiant for the truth upon earth but suffered men to bee as the fishes of the sea that have no King ●ver them but the great ones prey upon the little ones without controle 2. Of commission and these either grosse or secret 1. Grosse and open finnes lasciviousnesse lusts excesse of wine revell ngs banquetings and abominable Ido●atry of which men shall give an account to him who is ready to judge quicke and dead 1 Pet. 4.4.5 2. Secret sinnes hee will bring every worke to judgement with every secret thing Eccles 10.14 3. Sinnes of youth or age Eccles 11.9 Rejoyce oh young man in thy youth and let thy heart cheer thee and walke in the way of thy heart but remember for all this God will bring thee to judgement 4. Sinnes of words or deeds for of every idle word that men shall speake they shall give an account thereof in the day of judgement Matth. 12.36 5. Of all these with their severall aggravations for Jude 15. the Lord commeth to execute judgement upon all and to convince all not only of their ungodly deeds but of their ungodlinesse in committing of them and of their hard speches and their w●ckednesse in speaking of them against him 3. Talents with their improvements for in that day he comes to reckon with his servants Mat. 25.19 And in particular of these three 1. Of all the meanes of grace that they have enjoyed and the dayes of the son of man that they have seen Woe to thee Capernaum for I say unto you it shal be more tolerable for the land of Sodome in the day of judgement then for thee Mat. 11.24 2. Of all the honour authority estates and friends which in this life God hath entrusted you with for every one shall give an account of his

Christ shall proceed only concerning the things done in the body whether good or bad Lastly the inference of the Apostle upon the consideration of his appearing in the first particle of the text which is set downe v. 9. We labour whether present or absent to bee accepted of him The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies to labour not only with the lifting up of the hand but the heart also so to make a thing matter of duty as also to esteem it matter of glory so a mans labour that it shall bee alwaies a mans honour we ambitiously labour whether in this life present in the body or after this life when wee shall lay downe our bodies to be accepted before him Habet sapientia sui generis superbiam I shall only pitch upon the third sc the manifestation in that day which I shall present to you in this short Observation Doct. There shall be at the day of judgement a cleere and full manifestation of every man what manner of man hee is The Apostle calls it for this cause a day of revelation Rom. 25. ● Cor. 4.5 And that when the Lord comes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he will inlighten the hidden things of darknesse c. Now there is many a grave that appeares n●t many a wolfe in sheeps cloathing and men have their cloaks of covetousnesse and dishonesty But then the graves shall bee opened the wolfe uncased the cloaks plucked off before men and Angells Now things hid as colours in the darke but when the light comes they will appeare and this seems to be the great worke of this great and terrible day of the Lord. In the opening of this truth it will be necessary to enquire into these three things 1. What shall be manifested 2. How can such a manifestation be 3. Why will the Lord have every man laid open in that day 1. What shall be manifested in that day The Text saith wee all and that not in a crowd and in the generall judgement to receive a generall sentence Rom. 14.12 but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 every particular person shall give a particular account of himselfe and receive a particular sentence concerning himselfe at that day But more particularly in every man there are three things to bee distinctly considered 1. His state 2. His heart 3. His life and in the discovery of the man all these shall bee made manifest in that day 1. Mens states shall then bee made manifest in two things 1. What they are 2. Upon what grounds they are built 1. What mens estates are There are two Covenants that God hath made with man under two common heads publique persons the first with the first Adam and all in him the second with the second Adam and all in him therefore the Lord looks upon the world as if there were but two men in it the first man was of the earth earthy 1 Cor. 15 47. the second man the Lord from heaven heavenly These two Covenants are the two mothers Gal. 4.24 and the condition and state of the Son is according to the condition of the Mother partus sequitar ventrem therefore in conversion there is required a double change moral which is the change of a mans Covenant 2. Physicall the change of a mans image So that as a mans Covenant is such is his state if under the first Covenant hee is in a state of nature a state of sin of bondage and of death if under the second Covenant a state of grace of liberty and of life because no longer a son of the bond woman but of the free Now as it is an act of soveraignty in God to appoint every creature to their ends and eternal estates whether vessells to honour or dishonour So it is also in Christ an act of Sovereignty to judge of their estates and to discover them what they are men in their judgements can looke no further then the action and as it discovers the heart but to judge of mens eternall estates is a secret which the Lord hath reserved as a royalty to himselfe And at the laft day this seems to be the great businesse that shall be done the discovery of mens estates what they are Here wise and foolish virgins live together Matth. 25. and together goe forth to meet the bridegroome with oile in their lamps and seeme all to be wise alike but there will bee made manifest who is wise and who is foolish Here the tares and wheat grow together in the same field sheep and goats feed together in the same pasture but then comes the harvest and the time of separation at that day when the goats shall be set by themselves and the ●ares bound up in bundles by themselves to burne Ps 125.5 At that day he will sort the world and lead every man forth with those of his owne kind though in this world they be all mixed one with another 2. Upon what grounds men doe build their estates Christ Matth. 7. tells us that every man is a builder and his hope and confidence of the goodnesse of his condition is his house Job 8.15 the hope of hypocrites shall be as the spiders web be shall leane upon his house but it shall not stand be shall hold it f●st but it shall not endure One builds his hope onely upon the self flattery of his owne heart and saith I shall have peace Deut. 29.19 Another upon outward blessings and Gods prospering him in things of this life therefore while be lives he blesseth his soule Psal 49 1● Another upon an outward profession of Religion a forme of duties oyle in his vessels to make a blaze before men and to these men cleave this house they hold fast and that with all their * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fi●miter apprehe●dere mordi●us tenere might for if men will hold fast a corrupt opinion and a sinfull practise as they doe how much more will they a corrupt estate this is the generall delusion of the world Videas ●os tenentes tenere ●es ulla ratione discrere quod primum occurr●●t manibus licet tale sit ●●iquod quod own no prodesse non possit Bern. De adventu Domini Serm. 1. Sic pereunt miseri dum peritura sectantes mittunt solida But in that day these grounds shall be discovered there shall be manifested who doe build upon the Rock and who upon the sand who upon Christ alone received aright in a worke of faith and who upon outward blessings a forme of godlinesse some common worke of the Spirit a vaine hope of mercy a generall notion of the death of Christ for sinners and hope of a late repentance c. 2. Mens hearts shall be made manifest 1 Cor. 4.5 He will make manifest the counsels of the heart and herein these three things 1. Principles 2. Projects 3. Ends. 1. All the principles which are the grounds of mens actions and by which they are