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A17324	Dauids thanksgiuing for the arraignement of the man of earth, set forth in two sermons by W.B. The first sermon sheweth the manner of Dauids thanksgining, and containeth many comfortable points necessarie for afflicted consciences. The second sermon setteth forth the matter it selfe, for Dauid giueth thanks and that is, The arraignement of the man of earth ...	Burton, William, d. 1616.	1598 (1598)	STC 4172; ESTC S109549	26,720	100

Courte of conscience which doth finde him guiltie also of much more as namely of hypocrisie of vaineglorie of contēpt of Gods word of cōtempt of man and of diuers villanous practises done in secret which are knowen onely to God for Saint Iohn saith If our heart condemne vs God is greater then our heart and knoweth all things And thus much for the triall of the man of earth Now let vs heare the sentence of the Iudge Man of earth saith the Iudge thou hast beene endited of diuers and sundrie enditements to the which thou hast pleaded not guiltie and yet notwithwanding being tried by the grand Iurie of the holy Prophets and men of God as also by the verdict of the Court of thy owne conscience hast beene conuicted and found guiltie of them all Therefore nowe what canst thou say for thy selfe why sentence of eternall death should not be pronounced against thee according to the lawe In earthlie iudgementes this question is put to two sortes of persons First such as are quitt by booke Secondly to such as cannot haue that benefit So likewise in this heauenly iudgement This question is propounded both to the elect as also to the reprobate To the elect it is said what canst thou say for thy selfe They staight waie condemne themselues as Dauid did of bloud-guiltinesse Psal. 51. as Iob did his children for blaspheming GOD in their mirth and feastinges as Peter did his fall from Christ euen with bitter teares and as Paule did who saide he was a chiefe sinner crying out O wretched man that I am c. and as the prodigall childe did Father I haue sinned against Heauen and against thee and am no more worthie to be called thy sonne but yet for them thus condemning and humbling themselues there is some comfort VVhat canst thou beleeue in me saith the Iudge and repent from the bottome of thy heart canst thou read thy name in the booke of life To which question euery one doth answere as he is prompted by the spirit of God I beleeue and repent but not of my selfe it is the gift of God I beleeue Lord helpe my vnbeliefe And with Zaccheus they promise restitution of goods ill gotten And with Dauid they pray Oh that my waies were so directed that I might keepe thy statutes alwaies VVell saith the Iudge then heare your sentence The Court doth award you this punishment you shall be crossed and afflicted in this world sometime in your bodies Sometimes in your goods sometimes in your children you shall also be stung with the hote iron of an afflicted and woūded cōsciēce you shal be whip ped scourged with venemous slaunderous tongues of wicked mē a great deale more thē this shall happen vnto you heere that you may not be damned with the wicked world so go your way and sin no more least a worse thing happen vnto you but before you can be quite discharged you must remēber to put in Death as a cōmon baile for your forth cōming whersoeuer you shall be called for and my owne sonne Iesus Christ as a speciall suertie for your debt and good behauiour and so paying your fees of obedience newnes of life carrying about you the remnants of sinne as shackles vpō the feete of your soule to humble you withall so long as you liue in this world performing these dueties you are discharged from the sentence of eternall condemnatiō for the law of the Gospell is that there shall be no condemnation to them that are in Christ which walke not after the flesh but after the spirit To which the godly doe answere as the Apostle did in the verie same case I thanke my God through Iesus Christ my Lord. And thus much for the sentence of the elect now let vs heare the sentence of the reprobate Call forth the reprobate man of earth saith the Lord. Man of earth what canst thou say for thy selfe why sentence of eternall death should not be pronounced against thee What canst thou beleue in Christ repēt for thy sins Yea Lord I beleeue that Christ died for sinners and for my part I am sorie that I must be damned Nay thou reprobate canst thou beleeue effectually that Christ died for thy sinnes and doest thou abhorre thy sinnes which were the cause of Christes death or hast thou any heartie desire so to doe for otherwise thou sayest no more then the Deuils doe who beleeue and tremble No Lord I know not what that meaneth It is true in deed for whē thou wert admonished to repent thou hardenest thine heart abusing my patience and making a custome of sinne which hath bred full hardnes of heart and impenitencie in thee and so hast heaped vp vnto thy selfe wrath against this day of wrath and reuealing of my righteous iudgement thou thoughtest also that thou haddest faith and repentance at commandement perswading thy selfe and others that all men may repent and beleeue if they will whē they will but now thou seest that thou wert deceiued Oh a Psalme of mercy Lord one Psalme of mercy I can read all the Psalmes of Dauid and say all the penitentiall Psalmes by heart I will goe to Church and say ouer the Lords prayer and my Pater noster too Lord I wil goe a pilgrimage and punish my bodie with whipping and fasting I haue heard thee preach in our parish Church and will doe againe when I can intend it Oh Lord I wil do any thing rather then goe to hell Ah thou reprobate saith the Lord who required all this at thy hands doest thou thinke to please me with thy wil-worship and spirituall whoredoms all that wil not serue thy turn thy name is not writtē in the book of life therfore thou canst not repent nor beleeue aright hast thou no more to say Yes Lord Others haue done as much as I And I hope to be saued as well as others And I haue heard some say that thou art full of mercy wouldest that all men should be saued Yea saith the Lord so hast thou and many moe abused my mercy bereaued me of iustice as much as in you lie like ignorant vnstable men peruerting my holy scriptures to your owne destructiō I wil haue mercy on whom I will haue mercy I will execute iudgement merciles vpon thee which shewedst no mercy to the poore fatherles do thee no wrong Therfore now heare thy finall sentence because thou hast abused thy arme that is the power wealth authority that I gaue thee hast not at any time loued me for my mercy nor feared me for my iudgmēt lo therfore thy arme shal be brokē thou shalt be depriued of all meanes wherby thou hast bin encouraged to do mischief and then thou shalt be no more cause of feare my people shall goe and liue without feare of thee Also thou shalt goe from hence to the place from whence

thou camest and that is to the earth For out of the Dust wert thou taken and to the dust shalt thou returne againe And from thence to the place of execution in hell and there shalt thou hang in torments intollerable and perpetuall prepared for the Deuill and his Angels where shall be weeping and wailing aud gnashing of teeth for euer Thou shalt haue blacke fame for thy herault and euerlasting shame for thy hearse feare and terrour shall be dealt for thy doale and the curses of the poore shall follow thee to thy graue And this is briefely the substance of the sentence of the reprobate man of earth which is yet but a shadow of that which it is indeed for indeed it will be more grieuous and terrible when it commeth then is possible for all the tongues of men and Angels to expresse Now a little of the execution of this sentence In earthly iudgements execution doth not alwaies presently follow the sentence of the iudge for some are repriued vpon further consideration some are after a while committed to the gallies and perpetuall slauerie some are sodenly hanged vp not knowing of the time when nor the place where vntill the very instant And some haue knowledge both of the time and place before hand that they may be prepared for death So is it also in this heauenly iudgement Some are repriued and liue long yet still in the prison of sinne and slauerie of the Deuill which is to encrease their torment some are sodenly taken and speedily destroyed without recouerie being brought by the righteous hand of God into euil in the middest of the Cōgregation as apeareth in Pro. 6. 15. Some are longer in languishing paines torments then some euen in this world for one and the same fault There be three causes for which the Lord doth defer the ful executiō of iudgement vpon the wicked the first is to keepe thē in continuall miserie for all good things turne to their euill the second is to plague them with their owne sinne for there cannot be a greater mischiefe then to be a wicked man and to liue long in wickednes for when he hath serued the deuill the deuill shall pay him his wages and that sinne wherunto he hath beene most enclined and whereof he looked for the greatest pleasure and profite shall worke him the greatest plague and woe The third cause is that they may liue and punish vs which are the children of GOD who haue beene alreadie crossed and whipped by them and are neuer the better but when he hath worne them as rods to the stumpes vpon the backes of his stubburne children and well humbled vs by them he will then cast his rods into the fire God punisheth not as earthlie iudges doe to content them that haue receiued the wrong or to satisfie the worlde but because he hateth sinne and loueth righteousnesse and drawe thereout greate glorie to himselfe and singular good to his children The vse of this Doctrine may serue to terrifie the wicked who vse to make but a iest of the iudgements of God saying what so long yet till doomes day c. but it is not so lōg as they dreame for the sentēce of God is begunne many times to be executed vpon the wicked euen when they least feele it for it is a iudgement of it selfe to be past feeling of Gods iudgement when they sinne It serueth also to comfort the godly who thinke the time long till the Lord take the wicked in hand which do oppresse and vexe them Lastly let it serue to admonish all of vs to looke vnto our waies and to liue so as that when God shall get vp vnto his iudgement seat we may be found in Christ our great suertie vnblameable and so escape the fearefull and irrecouerable sentence of the wicked and reprobate and on the other side may receiue our quietus est and discharge with Gods elect in Christ Iesus To whom with the Father and the holy Spirit be all honour power and dominion for euermore Now let vs praise God Amen Errata In pag. 16. line 13. that for read for that pa 20. li. 17. for thine read mine in line 20. for thy r. the. pa. 37. li. 16. for they in r. they are in lin 18. afficted re afflicted pa. 41. lin 24. want re wait pa. 51. li. 8. be re for pa 52 lin 3. case r. cause pa. 63. li. 1. then the read then to the. Text. Rom. 1. 24 2. Tim. 3. 13. Luk. 22. 31. 32. 1. Sam. 17. 37. Ioh. 13. 1. Rom. 11. 29. Mat. 6. 20. 2. Tim. 2. 23. Can. 5. 1. Psa. 43. 5. Pro. 7. 14. Doctr. 3. Eisai 65. 24 Rom. 8. 20 Doctr 4. Pro. 15. 15 2. Tim. 3. 12. 1. Cor. 1. Psa. 41. 8. Doctr. 5. Phil. 2. 13. Luke 18. 7 Pro. 1.24 Act. 17. 28 Dan. 2. 32 a. Tim. 3. 17 Psa. 67. 4. Gen. 16. 5. Psal. 82. I. Amos. 5. 7● Esai 59. 13. 14 15 16 16 17 18 19 Psal. 67. 4 The. 4. 6. 7. The. 4. 18. Psal. 126. 5. Reu. 20. 11. 12 Plaintiues Defendāts Cōmissioners Act. 17. 13. Reuel 4. 4. Mat. 24. 31. Psa. 68. 17. Mat. 3. 3. Esai 40. Apo. 20. 12 Pro. 5. 22 2. Enditement 3. Enditement Vers. 2. Vers. 3 Vers. 5. 7 8 9 10 Vers. 14. Court of consciēce described Gen. 4. 10 Haba 2. 11 Num. 22. 28. Mat. 27. 3. The verdict of consciēce Iob. 21. Psal. 73. 1. Ioh. 3. 20 Luke 19. 8 Psa. 119. The sentence of the godly 1. Cor. 11. 32. Iohn 8 11 Rom. 8. 1. Rom. 7. 25 The sentence of the reprobate Rom. 2. 5. 2. Pet. 3. 16 Iam. 2. 13. Gen. 3. 19. 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