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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94239	The high court of justice. A sermon preached before the judge of assise at Leicester, Julie 30. 1652. / By Antonie Scattergood rectour of Winwick in North-hampton-shire.	Scattergood, Antony, 1611-1687.	1652 (1652)	Wing S841; Thomason E1418_2; ESTC R210320	21,372	75

THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE A SERMON Preached before the Judge of ASSISE at Leicester Julie 30. 1652. By ANTONIE SCATTERGOOD Rectour of Winwick in North-hampton-shire LONDON Printed by ROGER DANIEL Anno 1652. ORNATISSIMO VIRO D. THOMAE CAVE BARONETTO ET LECTISSIMAE EJUS CONJUGI PENELOPAE HANC OPELLAM D. D. D. ANTONIUS SCATTERGOOD THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE ROM XIV 10. Wee shall all stand before the judgement-seat of Christ I Know it is usuall in such assemblies as this to handle texts of Scripture proper to the present occasion Such as is Jethro's counsel to Moses concerning the choice of Judges Exod. 18.21 Moses's charge to the Judges hee had chosen Deut. 1.16 17. Samuels example that was a Judge itinerant 1. Sam. 7 15-17 in Bethel and Gilgal and Mizpeh and Ramah 1 Sam. 12.3 King Jehoshaphat's commission to the Judges hee set in the cities of Judah 2 Chron. 19.6 Job's profession of his own integrity Job 29 7-17 David's vow Psal 101. those Proverbs of Solomon and passages of the Prophets that either press the duties of Magistrates or prohibit Bribery Cowardise Partiality or some other vice incident to that honourable calling Such places as these are for the most part the subject of Assise-sermons And indeed so worthy they are to bee ever fresh in the memories of all in autority that I wish they were written on the walls of their houses or rather in the tables of their hearts Yet my desire beeing to speak to all here present and not to one onely or a few though those few yea that one bee more considerable at this time then many others I have therefore balked such texts chosen one of general perpetual concernment a text that will not so much minister occasion to the Preacher to satissie the humour of those that exspect a Satyre from the pulpit and love to see the faults of others great ones especially lashed while themselves sit untouched as it will force us all if well and duly weighed to erect a tribunall every man in his own bosome and to become Accusers and Judges of our selves a text that will not so much give occasion the Preacher to tell the people what the Informer and witness and Pleader and Jurer and Judge should do as it will force us all of what calling or rank soever seriously to bethink ourselves and carefully to enquire of others as they in the Acts chapt 2.37 and 9.6 and 16.30 What wee ourselves should do All here at Church have not business at the Court The Sheriff's men will tell you so anon Yea many there are who never had and haply never shall have any quarrel or controversie to bee tried before an earthly Judge But the Judge that cometh in the clouds every eie shall see him Rev. 1.7 every one shall bee summonned to appear before him to receive according to what hee hath done in the body whether good or bad 2 Cor. 5.10 Wee shal all stand before the judgement-seat of Christ The text yee see is profitable at any time for any congregation And meethinketh it is also seasonable enough at this time and sutable enough to the present auditorie Wee have a Judge and an Assises in the Town and wee have a Judge and an Assises in the Text and each ought to reflect upon the other The Trumpet and Guard and Attendance the Robes the Tribunall the Barre the whole pomp and proceeding of Judges here below should mind us of that awfull Judge who will one day descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and with the trump of God 1 Thess 4.16 and coming in the glorie of his Father with his Angels and myriads of Saints Mat. 16.27 Jude 14. shall erect his judgement-seat in the clouds and there sit upon the eternall life and death of all mankind Thus the affair in hand is an embleme of the Text for an Assise is a little Dooms-day And again the Text by Gods blessing may have great influence upon the affair in hand For let all that have to do in matters apperteining to Judgement but believe and remember these few words Wee shall all stand before the judgement-seat of Christ and I am consident there will bee no malicious calumnies or false accusations brought into the Court no rotten cause gilded over by bribed eloquence no verdict given-in against evidence and Oath no perverting no delaying of Justice but all from him that sitteth on the Bench to the meanest Officer will by the terrours of the Lord bee perswaded so to demean themselves as to have alwayes a conscience void of offense toward God toward men Acts. 24.16 The Text then is a word spoken in fit season as appeareth further from our Saviours telling the High Priest and Councel of the Jews when he was apprehended and brought before them that they should see him come in the clouds of heaven Mat. 26.64 and from S. Pauls reasoning before Felix of the judgement to come Acts. 24.25 My porch is big enough It is time to walk into the Court I have hitherto made way for my Text Let us now make entrance into it Therein three things are obvious to our view 1. A Judgement-seat 2. The Person that shall sit upon it 3. The Persons that shall stand before it Whence three points of doctrine 1. There shal bee a Judgement 2. Christ shall bee the Judge 3. The Judgement shall be generall I. That there shal bee a Judgement after death though it bee an article of Christian Faith the property and privilege whereof is to look beyond the veil and to behold things invisible yet was it not wholy hid from the ey of naturall Reason for wee find the wiser sort of the Heathen making some discoveries of it The Sibylls prophesie of it Plato and other Philosophers prove it in their discourses concerning the Immortality of the soul and its condition after death The Poets with their witty fansies paint it out in their fables of Aeacus and his fellow-Judges of the Elysian fields of Tityus's vultur of Tantalus's hunger thirst of the darkness and fire and furies of the infernall regions If these by the glimmering light of Nature could see so much how can wee wonder enough at those Sadducees and Epicures amongst us that deny this truth now the Sun of the Gospel shineth so bright about them what can wee think but that they are mere Atheists and not worthy to bee disputed with since they deny our principles and oppose both Scripture and Nature Time will come when they shall feel what they will not now believe and bewail their errour when it will bee too late As for us let us not bee deceived Let not their evil words corrupt either our minds or our manners Let not us follow swinish Epicures who profess ourselves Christs sheep but let us hear the voice of our Shepherd while they deride the Scriptures let us believe them And they are as clear in this matter as