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A56555	The sinners arraignment; or, The life, death and judgment of stubborn and incorrigible sinners Wherein first is plainly set forth and described the certainty of their death: as also many pithy arguments to perswade men to prepare for it, lest they fall unawares into the great condemnation. Together with a pithy discourse of the last and great judgment, with a discovery of the judge, the judged, and the manner of the pronouncing sentence, the confusion of sinners before the judgement seat, being full of terrour and amazement; as also followed on with many directions to sinners. which, if followed, they may escape the sentence of, Go ye cursed, &c. With some consolations for saints, who have overcome the second death, and may appear with boldnesse at the great day and receive their sentence of, Come ye blessed, &c. By T.P.	Passenger, Thomas.	1668 (1668)	Wing P658E; ESTC R216912	10,389	28

The Sinners ARRAIGNMENT OR The Life Death and Judgment of stubborn and Incorrigible Sinners Wherein first is plainly set forth and descriscribed the Certainty of their Death As also many pithy Arguments to perswade men to prepare for it lest they fall unawares into the Great Condemnation Together with a Pithy Discourse of the last and great Judgment with a discovery of the Judge the judged and the manner of the pronouncing Sentence the Confusion of sinners before the Judgement-Seat being full of Terrour and Amazement as also followed on with many Directions to sinners which if followed they may escape the Sentence of Go ye Cursed c. With some Consolations for Saints who have overcome the second Death and may appear with boldnesse at the great Day and Receive their Sentence of Come ye blessed c. By T. P. Rom. 6.23 For the wages of sin is Death but the gift of God is eternal Life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Psalm 1.5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the Judgment nor sinners in the Congregation of the Righteous London Printed for Thomas Passinger at the three Bibles on London-Bridge 1668. The Sinners Arraignment Heb. 9.27 And it is appointed to men once to dye but after death to Judgment THe greatest concern of men in this Life ought to be to study so to Live as they might not be afraid to dye Now that death is the Lot and portion of all mankind both Scripture and Example do sufficiently evince to us In the handling of these words I shall not only shew that it is the Lords Decrée and appointment for men once to dye but also press on some wholsome Counsels and Exhortations to poor sinful souls to prepare for Death and Iudgment I shall not touch at all upon the fore-going words but come immediatly to the Text and from them draw these two Observations viz. 1 Doct. That though Death to poor unregenerate souls be terrible yet being the Decree and Appointment of God which is immutable it is certain 2 Doct. That after Death comes Judgment To begin with the first which I shall give you two or thrée Scriptures to prove and a few Motives or Arguments to stir you up to prepare for Death then briefly apply it The Text it self is plain enough to prove it to be a truth that it is Gods Decrée and Appointment 1 Sam. 2.6 The Lord killeth and maketh alive he bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up Ezek. 18.4 Behold all souls are mine as the soul of the Father so also the soul of the Son is mine the soul that sinneth it shall dye Psalm 82.7 But ye shall dye like men and fall like one of the Princes Death is the certain Lot and Portion of all both good and bad sinners and Saints wicked and godly but blessed are the dead who dye in the Lord happy is their state and condition they are but gone to their desired home to an eternal Mansion to the everlasting and full fruition of God who is the chiefest Good but the wicked shall goe down to his own place the wicked shall be turned into Hell and all the Nations that forget God But to come to the Motives to move you to prepare for Death and they are such as these 1 Motive To prevail with you to prepare for Death Consider the death of the Righteous and the death of the wicked sée what the Scripture speaks of both though it may be in your Life-time you will not perceive the vast difference betwéen the one and the other yet when Death comes to stare you in the face when the King of terrors comes and hangs your head over the Grave and your mouth over Hell then you will know and perceive that it 's better to dye the Death of the Righteous than the Death of the wicked c. Psalm 11. v. 6. Upon the wicked he shall rain snares fire and brimstone and an horrible tempest this shall be the portion of their Cup. 2. Consider where is the place or what is the condition of the soul after Death If thou dye in thy sins whether doth Death hurry the souls of the ungodly on a sudden in a moment in the twinkling of an Eye even into the presence of God there to receive their definitive Sentence it s presently adjudged either to everlasting Ioy or to everlasting Torment Oh unpardoned sinners and unrenewed souls Death will be your passage to everlastins misery Oh could but Guilty ungodly hearts be sure that there is no more Iustice to take hold on them after Death no more pain nor sorrow to be felt after Death but that man dye as a beast that he hath no more to féel or Lose Death then might be a tollerable evil but it s a Living Death and a dying Life and endless Woe and unspeakable Torment to which Death leads the guilty soul The utter darknesse the unquenchable fire the Worm that dyeth not the everlasting flames of the wrath of God These are the chief horrors and stings of Death 3. Consider Death as our enemy the which if it do not excite us to prepare for it certainly then the fore-knowledge of it must néeds encrease our misery it s an enemy to Nature It cuts men off before they have lived half their dayes A beast that knows not he must dye is not tormented with the fear of Death but man knows he must dye We may sée Graves and wéeping Friends every day and we cannot but know assuredly wée must encounter with this Enemy and that we shall be foiled by him Now to come to Application the Vses are two onely 1. For Exhortation 2. For Consolation 1. I exhort Sinners this Day in the Name and fear of the great and Eternal God to provide themselves of a Sanctuary and a sure Refuge for their souls against the day and hour of Death All men with Balaam desire to dye the death of the Righteous oh but how few endeavour to live the Life of the Righteous and that you may truly prepare for Death be first exhorted to avoid the occasion to wit Sin Sin brought Death into the World with it Oh foolish man wilt thou still love such a mortal enemy If a man should Rob thée of a groat or defame thée how hardly wouldst thou be reconciled to him but oh soul sin deprives thée of thy Life and separates thy soul and body in sunder and forfeiteth thy everlast-happinesse and canst thou love that which will undo thée take héed of jetting at the Door of Hell drive not away thy own Salvation harden not thy heart against the fear of God had it not béen for Sin wée had néeded no Coffin or Winding-shéet nor have béen beholding to a Grave to hide our Carcasses from the sight and smel of the Living but as Enoch and Elias were Translated when they walked with God even so should we Oh then sinners use sin as that will use you spare it not for it will not

spare you it is your murderer and its the murderer of the World use it therefore as a Murderer should be used kill it before it kill you and then though it kill your bodies it shall not be able to kill your souls If the thoughts of Death and the Grave and Rottennesse be not pleasant to you Oh let not the Thoughts of sin be pleasant to you let this be your Motto Memento mori you love not Death love not the cause of Death Is it nothing to be dead in Trespasses and sins Oh what a Poison is this that kils so many millions that can never be cured but by the blood of Christ Oh unbelieving stupid souls that smart and sin groan and sin and wéep and lament over bodily Diseases and sufferings of which sin is the Cause and yet sin still What fear a Grave and fear not sin which will not onely send the body to the Grave but the soul to Hell What pains and pleasure dost thou take Oh silly soul in working the work of wickedness Dost thou not believe the Scripture the Word of the everlasting God that tels you the wages of sin is Death viz. temporal and eternal Canst thou stare and gaze that King of terrors in the face with Confidence without a firm and well grounded Faith of thy interest in the Lord Iesus Consider thy danger oh Sinner whilst without God in the World and an Alian to the Common-wealth of Israel at the moment of thy Death Beware of the great damnation Can you hang your mouth over Hell by the single thread of a frail Life which you know not how soon you may lose and Death may in a moment snap asunder and then you are lost irrecoverably whilst under the power and Dominion of sin you are in danger of damnation every day Oh dreadful what at the brink of hell and not sée it at the very borders of the Lake of brimstone and not tremble almost within the hearing of bitter shrieking and roaring of damned souls and yet secure In the fear of God let this exhort you whilst it is called to Day to hear the Lords voyce and not harden your hearts What security can you have when you know not but you may dye to morrow I charge you in the name of the Living God that you rest no longer in a careless carnal security séeing the Door is yet open and Death has not yet closed your eyes Return to your God for in your Fathers House are many Mansions 2 Use For Consolation to the Saints to them who are born from above and have gotten the victory over the second death here is a word of comfort from the God of comfort to such souls Oh blessed are the dead that die in the Lord for they rest from their labors their works follow them Rev. 14.13 You who are dead to sin are alive to God 2 Pet. 2.24 Rejoyce oh soul thy name is written in the Book of Life God hath chosen you and set you upon his heart and the sinner shall not intermedle with your Ioy. Let Reprobates and fooles passed by stand trembling and be filled with horror at the approaches of Death but rather let it be your joy for then your joy shall be full Death will be to the Saints but as a Transportation not into bondage but into fréedome for here can those fetch their comfort in that they have peace with God and union with Christ and the assurance of the pardon of their sins and the imputation of Christs Righteousnesse to them they can comfortably conclude that the sting of Death is taken from them When a Believer looks upon himself as a dying man will not this delight his soul that Death comes peaceably to him If God be a Believers Friend Death is so also Out of the Eater comes forth meat yea there is a food in Death for every believing soul Death is the Chariot to carry the soul into everlasting Glory As for the wicked it stings them to death for ever but it doth but lay you asleep it is an in-let to their real misery but it s but an out-let from your present trouble and an in-let to your future happinesse for God hears an especial love to you oh Saints and Servants of the most high God for he hath loved you from Eternity with a Love on purpose to do you good O then delight your souls here and comfort your selves with these words that though you must go down to the Grave yet you shall not goe down to Hell The second Death shall have no power over you though you must be reckoned among the Dead yet you shall not be reckoned among the damned when you are going to your Grave you are not going to eternal darknesse but to God who is Light for your Surety having paid the debt for you and satisfied Gods Iustice at death you shall be received into your Masters Ioy. Now I come to the second Doctrine 2 Doct. After Death comes Judgement The words of the Text are sufficient to prove this Truth but I shall give a Scripture or two more Romans 14. v. 10 We shall all stand before the Judgment-seat of Christ 1 Pet. 4. v. 5. Who shall give an Account to him that is ready to Judge the Quick and Dead nothing more plain than this Truth Therefore we will enquire a little 1. Who shall be the Iudge and 2dly Who shall be judged and then briefly apply the whole 1. VVho shall be the Judge I Answer God himself by Iesus Christ 1. Principally God as Creator 2. As also God as Redéemer the humane nature of Iesus Christ having a derived and subordinate Power God lost not his right to his Creature either by mans fall or the Redemption by Christ but by the latter hath a new further Right but it is in and by Christ that God Iudgeth for as méer Creator of Innocent man God judgeth none but hath committed all Iudgment to the Son who hath procured this Right by the redéeming of fallen Man as it is in John 5 v. 22. But yet as the Son judgeth in the néerest sense so the Father doth it principally in that the power of the Son is derived from the Father and so standeth in subordination to him as Fountain or Efficient Well then sinners though you may hide your Cause from men yet you cannot hide your Cause from God though Devils may be ignorant of your case yet God knows your thoughts afar off but Secondly VVho are those that must be judged For answer All every man or woman that hath béen born upon the earth but the first in order to be judged shall be the Saints and then with Christ they shall judge the rest of the VVorld the Princes of the World shall stand before Christ even as the Peasants the honourable as the base and poor shall all méet together and the Lord shall Iudge them all But to apply the whole the Vses shall be thrée 1. For

Examination 2. For Terror and Astonishment 3. For Exhortation Because I Chiefly here intend to speak to Sinners and if the Lord please to set home his Word with power to some hearts it may tend to a waken secure sinners 1. For Examination and Tryal Oh sinner Ask thy soul these questions 1. Dost thou soundly believe the Doctrine which has béen proved by Scripture viz. That after Death comes Judgment What say you Sirs Do you verily believe that you and I must stand at Gods Bar and be judged to everlasting Ioy or Torment when I sée more Infidelity than Faith among us it makes me jealous whether you do firmly believe it or no What are the effects of your Faith do you prepare to look God in the face and that with comfort It is the express word of the God of Truth revealed in his Word Matth. 13.38 39 40 41 c. and Matth. 25. throughout John 5.28 29. The hour is coming in which all that are in their Graves shall hear his Voyce and shall come forth they that have done good to the Resurrection of Life and they that have done evil to the Resurrection of damnation Rom. 14.9.12 So every one of us shall give account of himself to God It is as sure as the Word of the Living God can make it and dare you doubt of the truth of it Oh then confirm your souls in the beliefe of this as if you had heard Christ or an Angel from Heaven say to you Oh man thou art hasting to Iudgment 2. Examine your souls and ask this Question whether you do soberly consider of this great Day and are seriously affected with the consideration of it Oh souls do you when you are alone use to think how certain and how dreadful it will be and how fast its coming on and what answer you shall make at that Day Alass Sirs is this a matter to be forgotten nay are you not worse than mad when you are going to Gods Iudgment and never think of i Let these words be often in your thoughts Arise ye dead and come to Judgement you have warning of it from God and man for the Lords sake dont forget it Some men may have heard of this Day by the Ministry of the Word 20. 30. 40 years together and the Preacher hath told them it was at hand now to talk of a day of Iudgment and they all this while sée it not nor féel any hurt by it they think it is but talk and so make nothing of it and this is all the thanks they give to God for his patience long suffering because entence is not spéedily executed therefore their hearts are set in them to do evil 3. You who are not ready or in a condition whereby you may be safe at that day I would ask this Question How you are resolved to prepare for Iudgment for the time to come will you do no more than you have done hitherto or will you set your selves with all your might to make preparation for so great a Day Oh that I could hear you say Lord direct us what to do Oh that there were such hearts in you that you were truly willing to serve the Lord. If ever you would look the Lord Iesus Christ in the face with comfort at the hour of death or day of Iudgment make ready and make it the businesse of your lives to provide for everlasting 4 Question Did you ever set upon your hearts the dreadful evil and mighty weight of sin and the misery which it will bring souls to and didst ever sée the néed of a Deliverer if not dreadful will be the day of Iudgment to your souls better for you you had never béen born for a soul to appear in the presence of God cloathed with the ugly garments of sin and sorrow and there to sée him to sit as Iudge to condemn him for ever to eternal darknesse who would have béen thy Lord and Saviour thy Deliverer and Redéemer who would have Redéemed thée from eternal Death and saved thée to a better Life Oh this will mightily astonish thée 2 Vse Is for terrour and astonishment The execution of this Iudgment is so Certain that nothing is more Certain no sooner is the dreadful Sentence past upon sinners but away they must be gone There is no delay much lesse any Reprieve to be expected nor no hope of escape if the Iudge once say take him Iaylor so if Christ once say Take him Devil You that ruled and deceived him now torment him Oh soul after this all the World cannot rescue you it will be in vain to look about for help Alas there is none but Christ can help and he will not because you refused his help It will be in vain now to cry to the Hills to fall on you and the Mountains to cover you from the presence of him that sits on the Throne It will be in vain now to Repent and wish you had not slighted your salvation nor solo it for a little pleasure to your flesh It will be in vain to cry Lord Lord open to us Oh spare us Oh pity us Oh do not cast us into these hideous flames do not turn us among Devils do not torment us in these hideous flames Consider how fearful the case of that man will be that is newly doomed to the everlasting fire that is haled to the Execution without Remedy Oh then what mad men are they who doe nothing to prevent such a misery The Time was when Repentance would have done thée good but then all thy Repentings will be in vain while the day of thy Visitation lasteth hadst thou but a heart to pray and Cry for mercy in Faith and fervency through Christ thou mightst be saved but then Prayers and Crying will do no good shouldst thou roar out in the extremity of thy horror and amazement and beséech but the Lord Iesus to forgive thée but one sin or to send thée on earth once more to try how thou wouldst Live all would be in vain do not Wonder or Think such that Christ will not then be entreated by thée you shall then have a Remember from Christ or a Conscience he will soon stop thy mouth and leave thée spéechlesse and say Remember I did one day send thée a Message of Peace and thou wouldst not hear it I did once stoop to beséech thée to ●●rn and thou wouldst not stoop I besought thée by the tender mercies of God and all would not do yea by my holy Life and my cursed Death by the Riches of my Grace by the Offers of my Glory yet I could not get thée to forsake the World the Flesh or one beloved sin I bid thée return and live but now 't is too late my sentence is past and cannot be recalled Away from me thou worker of Iniquity Oh how can wée without trembling of heart once think of the condition that such forlorn Wretches will be in when they