Iewes our Sauiour Christ Elymas the company of Paul And on the contrary part how one wicked man doth loue the company of another like himselfe Psalm 50. common experience doth proue it And heere wicked men bee noysome and troublesome to the godly as Goats to sheep they tread downe their pasture they trample in their water Ezek. 34. and they push them with their hornes Christs sheep now sustaine sundry wrongs and iniuries and are much annoyed and vexed by those stinking and vnruly Goates But there will come a day of separation Mal. 3.18 to the horror of the wicked and comfort of the godly Further in these words wee may consider the estate of the righteous at the last iudgement that is of the elect of God such as haue truely repented of their sinnes by faith beleeue and embrace Iesus Christ and are iustified through his obedience in the sight of God surely their estate shall bee blessed and happy and so great that the very wicked shall be ashamed and astonied to behold it First they shall be set on Christs right hand which is no small honour and ioy for poore silly soules to bee aduanced to sit on the right hand of Iesus Christ the Son of God and the great Iudge of the world Secondly they shall heare the blessed sentence Come yee blessed c. Mat. 25.34 Thirdly they shall be put in reall possession of eternall saluation of the kingdome of Heauen and liue in the blessed presence of God the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost Reuel 21. 13.14 the elect Angels and blessed Saints where there shall be no sorow paine sicknesse c. Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord for they rest from their labours So then after death they haue a sweet quietus est and a generall discharge and freedome from all enemies of soule and body from all trouble paine and griefe Whereas the wicked and vngodly shall bee in a cleane contrary estate and condition for they shall not come into the company of the righteous nor shall haue no part in that place of their Comfort Honour Ioy and Dignity but shall be set on Christs left hand a place of exceeding sorrow and griefe shame and confusion horrour and trembling This might admonish all wicked Vse 1 and vngodly sinners to repent in time to turne to God by true repentance and amendment of their liues to esteeme better of the company of Gods faithfull seruants and righteous Children in this world and to make much of them But if they will still proceed to hate them to set themselues against the godly to shunne their company and to hate them aboue all the things in the world Well yet remember the time will come that yee shall thinke it the greatest misery in the world that they shall be seuered and sundred from their company and in so being they shall be seuered and sundred from the company and society of Iesus Christ himselfe of God the Father and all the blessed Saints and Angels of God in heauen Wis 5.1.2.3.4 Then in that day shall the righteous stand in great boldnesse before him that persecuted him c. Thus yee see the madnesse and extreme folly of wicked men they hate them whom they ought most to loue and loue them whom they ought most to dislike Vse 2 Let men take heed with whom they ioyne themselues in society Seeing with whom they keepe company in this life in death they shall pertake with them and after at the last iudgement shall be ioyned with them Hee that now is familiar and a companion of vngodly men Athiests Papists Swearers Drunkards Scorners c. certainely in death he shall bee punished with them and after death haue his abode with them for euer Reu. 18.4 So he that is now a companion with all those that feare God surely hee shall haue a part with them in death and at the last iudgement shall bee placed with them in ioy and happinesse for euermore Heb. 11.25.26 It is thought to be a matter of little or no moment what company a man keepes to liue amongst Swaggerers Swearers Drunkards Athiests Papists c. But the truth is it is a fearefull signe of a reprobate and he that is now a companion with them in their sins shall after death take part with them in their plagues The first Psalme VERSE 6. For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous But the way of the vngodly shall perish HItherto the Prophet hath described the wonderfull blessed estate of a godly man The secōd generall part of the Psalme As also the fearefull and cursed estate of the wicked Now in this sixt verse which containes in it the second generall part of the Psalme is laid downe a reason both of the happinesse of the one and also of the misery of the other The godly man is a blessed man why Because the Lord Knoweth that is approueth of the way of a righteous and godly man hee likes it and directs it yea takes care of it and doth blesse the way that is the life and conuersation the actions studies and endeuours of the righteous Secondly the wicked are cursed and miserable why Because the Lord doth not thus Know that is the Lord doth not like nor allow of the wicked man hee doth not loue nor approue of his life nor dealings but rather dislikes him and all hee doth yea hee hates and abhorres his vile and abhominable and wicked life And therefore both hee and his waies that is his studies labours and enterprises shall perish and come to destruction In that the Lord is said to know the way of the righteous that is to like it to loue and to be well pleased with it so as hee will direct and blesse Doctr. 1. A great comfort to the godly that God doth approue of them it Here is matter of exceeding comfort to euery poore childe of God to euery godly and righteous seruant of God that being iustified by faith in Christ Iesus and sanctified by the Holy Ghost liue well and leade a godly and righteous life that howsoeuer the world contemnes them scoffes and scornes them mockes and mowes at them reuile and raile vpon them esteeme them as base and vile yet here we see that the Lord loues them and esteemes highly of them approues them as his delights in them to blesse them and prosper them Touch not mine Annointed 2 Cor. 4.13 Mat. 23.37 Psalm 105 Psalm 17. Ps 142.3.4 Nah. 2.7 1. Tim. 4.8 and do my Prophets no harme yea he that toucheth them toucheth the apple of Gods eye no assaults whatsoeuer shall bee able to hurt them For godlinesse hath the promise of this life and that which is to come And therefore let vs labour to plant godlinesse in our hearts and store them with the true feare of God and in so doing the Lord will both blesse vs and our poore endeuours This may serue to
all godlinesse and euen to bleare out the tongue at Religion and Christian piety so that as they are wicked in heart and lewd in life so be they also hardened and confirmed in both of them for by Seate he noteth the fellowship and society with the vngodly Psal 26.4 Their actions described Secondly concerning the action the first is to walke in the counsell of the wicked To walke is to liue and frame his life to affect and approue of the waies and counsels of wicked men neither will hee once listen or lend his eare to the peruerse and naughty counsell of vngodly men much lesse will hee bee brought to frame his life after their wicked waies The second action or proceeding of a sinner is Standing as the former is in heart to like loue and approue of the waies of the wicked this is to obey them and follow them into the same excesse of riot So that the meaning of the Prophet is that a godly man doth not like loue nor follow that kind of life or conuersation which wicked men do vse and such as be giuen to sinne according to that of the Apostle Rom. 12.2 Fashion not your selues like vnto the world but doth by all meanes possibly shunne and auoide it The third euill which the godly man doth most carefully auoide is in these words and hath not sit in the assembly of the scorners that is will not bee familliar and haue acquaintance with such as bee mockers of God and all good duties hee will not bee their companion nor keepe them company who do openly professe impiety who make a scoffe at all Religion scorne the word of God and contemne the Seruants of God These be the three euils which the godly man doth most carefully shun and auoide In the whole wee may obserue the wonderfull growth that sinne hath in the heart of a sinner it stands not at a stay but is euer growing and neuer suffers any wintertide of blasting but euer prospers It first beginneth in the heart of the sinner with a doubtfull walking wandring as it were vp and downe as being vncertaine what to do the next step that it maketh is from Walking to Standing which signifies a determination after the former vncertainety and where sinne is not stayed neither in the conception nor in the birth Iam. 1.15 When it is finished it brings forth death euer ending in hardnesse of heart obstinacy of minde and obduracy of both Oh that all wicked and vngodly men would lay this to heart that making once shipwrack of faith and a good conscience and wounding their soules by sinne this spirituall disease of sinne growes daily to bee more incurable and the more sin groweth to bee a head the more the Spirit of God is quenched in a man and the worke of grace is diminished It behoues vs all therefore to keepe a dilligent watch ouer our owne waies to cut off the occasisions of sinne and to stay the beginnings of iniquity for a fire new kindled may easily bee quenched when the Ship beginnes to leake it may easily bee stopped and at the first sinne and sathan may easily bee resisted and wee may with the lesse difficulty withstand the force of it whereas the more it is practised the more the heart is hardned and sinne growes stronger and the sinner himselfe weaker according to that of the Prophet Ier. 13.23 Can the Blackmore change his skinne or the Leopard his spots then may yee also do good which are accustomed to do euill And therefore to this end the Lord laboured with Cain to stoppe his sinne in the conception or at least in the birth when that hee saw that his countenance was cast downe and that he had conceiued some euill against his brother the Lord tels Cain If thou dost well shalt thou not bee rewarded if thou dost euill sinne lyeth at thy dore q. d. Cain Cain bee warned betimes ere it be too late there is a reward that will follow thy righteous dealing but if thou go on to kill thy righteous brother thou shalt find that thy condition will bee farre worse then now it is This is the wofull and miserable condition of those that runne from euill to worse as it were adding drunkennesse to thirst and may bee a warning to vs to take heed least at any time wee giue any entertainement to sin And so our last end bee worse then the first Mat. 8. In the second Verse the Prophet describes a godly man affirmatiuely shewing what he doth most carefully embrace and follow The godly mans description affirmatiuely As if hee should say Hee is a blessed man that abstaines from euill if so be withall hee delight to doe good so hee doe willingly yeeld himselfe to performe obedience to the will of God and conforme all his thoughts wordes and deeds to the will of God Now the good things which hee must do are contained in two words First His delight must bee in the Law of the Lord Secondly Hee must meditate therein day and night But his delight that is the godly man who is truely happy and blessed indeed doth wonderfully loue the Law that is the word of God and that heauenly doctrine wherein is reuealed the will of God whereunto all our thoughts words and workes must bee conformed and which maketh knowne vnto vs the way to eternall life and saluation Secondly In this Law hee meditates day and night That is the godly man doth set his heart and mind vpon the word and doctrine of God so as hee doth thinke often and much muse vpon it it is his daily meditation so as hee sets some time apart euery day to study it Both to learne out of it how God must bee purely worshipped his owne life ordered as also to learne thereby how to mainetaine and keepe faith and a good conscience before God and man And thus the godly man is described by both parts of his life his eschewing of euill and his carefull and religious performing of good duties Secondly as wee haue seene a godly man described so now followeth wherein the happinesse of this man consists This happy man is described two waies First by a similitude The happinesse of a godly mā wherin it consists Secondly by the prosperous and good successe of all hee doth The happinesse of the godly man is described by a similitude whereby a godly man is compared to a tree which tree is described First by the place namely that it is a tree planted not of it own growing By the waters side Euen by the fresh and springing riuers which is a resemblance of our ingrafting into Iesus Christ by faith and the Spirit of God so as wee receiue and draw iuice and nourishment from him continually Secondly it is described by an effect namely That it brings forth fruit in due season And this is a resemblance of our regeneration or of our obedience because the godly man being
come wouldest be assured that thou art the childe of God in his fauour reconciled vnto him in Iesus Christ wouldest thou bee assured of the saluation of thy soule Oh labour then to become a godlie and a religious man repent of thy sinnes past amend thy life walke before God in new obedience labour to keepe faith and a good conscience hate euery euill way cleaue vnto the Lord delight in his word let it be the ioy of thine heart then certainely thou shalt bee Blessed and happpy for euermore Vse 5 To conclude if the godly man be blessed then the wicked man must of necessity be cursed if the estate of the righteous and religious man be so comfortable and blessed then the estate of the wicked and vngodly must needes be miserable and cursed according to that of Moses vnto the Israelites Deu. 28.15 If thou wilt not obey the voyce of the Lord thy God as indeede Obedience is farre from a wicked man howsoeuer he may come with Saules painted Sacrifice Ps 119.21 what followes Thou shalt bee cursed in bodie and cursed in soule c. Againe Thou hast destroyed the proud and cursed are they that erre from thy Commaundements And this miserie of a wicked man doth consist in these things especially First Wherein the wicked are cursed that hee can haue no assurance that hee is the childe of God that he is reconciled to God in Iesus Christ or in his fauour nay he may assure himselfe that hee is out of his fauour and that God hates him as his enemy and that he will manifest his wrath and displeasure vpon him by plaguing him here in this life and by damning him for euer in the life to come Yea the Lord beginnes that condemnatory sentence in the heart of a wicked man in this life For euerie sinne which a wicked man doth commit there ariseth many times within their Consciences accusing thoughts and there is also a Sentence within him giuen out against him presently after he hath committed sinne there is a sentence within him gone out against him by themselues iudgement is gone out against themselues which sentence albeit the wicked man doe not marke yet the voyce of his owne disordered affections crying out so loud that hee cannot heare ths voyce of his owne conscience accusing and condemning him yet many times in this life affection is silent as to Balthazar and Iudas Dan. 5. Mat. 27. then conscience doth pronounce sentence against him with a shrill voyce 1. Ioh. 3.20 Now if a mans conscience doe condemne him God is greater then his conscience and will much more condemne him But assuredly in the day of iudgement it will crye aloud in the eares of the Lord against the sinner for iudgement and vengeance And this is not the least misery vnder which the wicked man remaines being out of Christ Secondly hee can haue no assurance that his sinnes bee pardoned but rather may be assured that his sinnes stand vp in account against him Reu. 20 13 and that hee shall bee condemned for them For it is that prerogatiue which belongs onely to the godly man to haue his sinnes couered Euen the Blessed Man Ps 32.1.2 but as for the wicked and vngodly the Lord is farre from iustifying them but their sinnes remaine yet in Gods booke of account and shall assuredly one day bee layd to their charge when the booke shall be opened and their horrible sinnes made manifest to the whole world euen to Men and Angels euen these their most secret sinnes which now they haue committed neuer so closely in the darke shall then come to light and they shall not haue so much as one figge-leafe to couer their nakednesse or one friend to speake so much as one word to the LORD Chiefe Iustice of Heauen and Earth but their own consciences beeing as a thousand witnesses against them they shall then bee held euen speechlesse and the Lord will manifest vpon them the fiercenesse of his wrath in that day Thirdly hee can haue no peace of conscience Esay 57. For there is no peace to the wicked but alwayes carries about him an euill conscience that will neuer giue him rest but is as the flashings of hell-fire vnto him or else hee hath in him a dead and sleepy conscience scared as it were with an hot Iron that hee feeles not the weight and burthen of his sins Which iudgement is no way inferiour to the former Mal. 3.5 Ioh. 5.45 Iosu 24.27 Iam. 5.3 Oh miserable then is the state and condition of the wicked that haue no true peace in life nor death nor after death for the LORD himselfe at the last shall bee a iudge and a witnesse against them Moses the righteous seruants of God shall be a witnes against them yea the dust of their feet that brought the glad tidings of peace shall witnesse against them the stones of the field the posts of their houses their mote-eaten garment all shall come in against them to hinder their peace with God and their owne consciences will they nill they shall cry aloud and say Righteous art thou oh Lord and true are thy iudgements Fourthly hee can haue no hope nor any assurance that he shall bee saued but is either carried away with a carnall perswasion or presumption which will deceiue him in the end their consciences being seared or else most iustly feare that they shall bee damned their consciences being awake Now then if this bee the fearefull and most woefull estate of all wicked men that liue in sinne without repentance Who then would liue in such an estate of life to gaine a Kingdome in so great danger of eternall death and damnation euery day they arise why doe not such repent and turne vnto GOD that so they may be saued Fifthly and lastly if a man bee out of Christ vnregenerate let him abound neuer so much in wealth liue in honour bath himselfe in pleasures yet remaining still in his sinnes he can take no sound comfort in any of these Tit. 1.13 For to them that are defiled and vnbeleeuing is nothing pure but euen their mindes and consciences are defiled Their sweete sauours and pleasant smels are stinch their meats and drinkes are gall and wormewood their delicate fare is poyson their costly apparell as menstruous cloth and their life a death and they shall one day answere for euery bit of bread they haue eaten as theeues and vsurpers of those things that are none of theirs for of proper right they belong vnto the godly man thus haue we briefly seene wherein the wicked man is cursed and miserable That doth not walke in the counsell of the c. THe godly mans vertues bee heere first set downe by a Negatiue contestation in these words Hee walketh not in the counsell of the wicked Out of which wee may obserue that there is a counsell of the wicked And this is either priuate amongst themselues
borne anew Iohn 3.6 Rom. 1.16 1. Cor. 1.21 none but such as do repent and beleeue in Christ Iesus and bee the true and liuely members of his Mysticall Body And to the end that wee bee not deceiued in so weighty a matter but that wee may assuredly know whether Christ dwell in our hearts by his Spirit and we dwell in him by faith so as we be true and liuely members of his mysticall Body let vs try it by these two waies First by the power of Christs death Secondly by his resurrection If thou bee a member of Christ thou shalt finde the power of Christs death daily crucifying the old man and eating out the corruption of thy nature for as wee see in a mans body when there is much dead flesh in a wound they lay corzie medicines to it to eate it out so the death of Iesus Christ applyed to our hearts by faith doth fret and eate out as a corzie the corruption of Nature Rom. 6.1.23 Rom. 6. 7.8 our dead flesh So as Christ by his death maketh all his members die vnto sinne so as they can not liue in the bondage and slauery of sinne Now then proue your selues you hope to bee saued by Christ Iesus But bee not deceiued Christ died for none but such as bee vnited to him his true and liuely members And none are his members but such as find and feele the power of his death to mortifie kill and weaken the power of sinne and naturall corruption Doe you then find sinne to die in you Doe you finde the strength of your corruption to bee abated the heate of it to bee alayed Doe you feele Christes death fretting it out so as you can say I hate sinne I abhorre sinne It is as bitter as Wormewood vnto mee Doe you finde this change in your liues that you leaue your old sinnes labouring to get out of ignorance to leaue swearing lying stealing drinking whooring c. then your case is good it is an euident token that you are ingrafted into Iesus Christ But if on the contrary part you finde that sinne is as strong now as euer it was and that you are the same now that you were seuen yeares agoe now dying to sinne and rising to newnesse of life Oh deceiue not youe owne soules any longer your case as yet is fearefull you bee not the liuely members of Iesus Christ but wilde Oliues dead branches good for nothing but fewell for the fire The secoÌ„d property of this tree Which bringeth forth her fruit in due season This Tree whereunto the godly man is compared is most like to bee the palme tree Maler in Psalm 1. THis is the second property of that Tree whereunto a godly man is compared namely as it is wel planted and seated by the Riuers side where it hath continuall iuice and nourishment and is well watered Euen so likewise it is fruitfull and yeeldeth sweete and pleasant fruit to him that planted it And that In due season Euen so the godly man being ingrafted into Iesus Christ Palma gaudâ—â— rignis totoque animo bibere gaudet Pli. lib. 13.4 Psal 92.12 as by a riuers side and being a liuely member of his Mysticall Body hee bringeth forth much good and pleasant fruite and that in Due season When as it may best stand for the glory of God and the good of man Heere wee see then who are the true and liuely members or Iesus Doctr. 5. Members of Christ are euer fruitfull Christ who is a true godly man and who is planted as this good Tree in Iesus Christ the true Vine Namely such as bee carefull and endeuour themselues continually to bring forth the blessed fruite of a godly and Christian life Euery Tree is knowne by his fruite A Tree is not knowne by his rhinde nor barke nor branches nor yet by his leaues But euery Tree is knowne by his fruite Matthew the twelfth chapter and the foure and thirty verse a good Tree cannot but bring forth good fruite and a bad tree cannot but bring forth bad fruit So euery man is knowne by his fruite Hee that is a godly man and a true and liuely member of Iesus Christ can not but bring forth good fruite euen the fruit of good workes and a godly life so a wicked man cannot but bring forth bad fruit the workes of darkenesse of a wicked and vngodly life We see if a grift or sciene bee set into a good Stock and take aright it will appeare by the yeelding of fruit But if it doe not prosper then it withers and dies and is good for nothing but the fire So if any man seeme to bee a Christian and to be a member of Christ Iesus and yet bring not forth good fruite Surely his estate is fearefull while he is vnfruitfull he must be pulled away as a withered branch and to the fire he must go Mat. 21.19 A true Christian must not be like the tree which Christ Iesus cursed which had leaues and no fruit but he must be like to the Tree planted by the riuers side that will bring forth fruit in due season Yea that which is more They bring forth fruit in their age Psal 92.14 whereas euill men as the Apostle S. Paul saith 2. Tim. 3.13 wax worse and worse and fall away from God daily more and more this was the summe of the Doctrine of Iohn Baptist to his hearers that they would Bring forth fruit worthy amendment of life Mat. 3.8 And the like is vsed by the Apostle Let your conuersation be such as becommeth the Gospell thing else but that grace of God in a mans heart whereby he beleeues the promise of saluation and the promises of the Gospell and applies them to his owne soule and therfore Saint Iames saith Iames 2. Shew mee thy faith by thy workes Dost thou delight in the Law of God and loue his Word Dost thou delight in his worship and calling on his Name Dost thou find thy faith to Purifie thy heart Acts 15.9 This is some part of that fruite which God requireth of thee This fruite Peter brought forth Thou art Christ the Son of the liuing God Math. 16.16 This was the fruit that the Disciple Iohn brought forth Ioh. 6.69 Ioh. 11.27 Wee beleeue and know that thou art Christ the Sonne of the liuing God And indeed this is the first stone that is to bee laid in the building vp of a Christian and therefore very fitly called a Foundation and the Collossians are said to bee Rooted and Built and Stablished in the Faith Col. 2.27 And indeed this is that sure foundation that shall beare vp the whole frame of our soules against all windes and weathers It is the first worke of change in the heart and the first difference betwixt man and man when God by faith purifieth the heart Act. 15.9 It will suffer no vncleane thoughts vnlawfull lusts Note or wandring motions to
of the wicked but they shall after death never die Yea euery word of the sentence seemes to be most fearfull terrible First what they shall do Depart Secondly how they shall depart Cursed Thirdly from whom From me Fourthly whither Into fire Fifthly into what fire Euerlasting fire Sixtly by what right Prepared Seuenthly with what company The Diuell and his Angels Hitherto and thus farre the wicked must arise and stand in Iudgement but after this sentence is once giuen they shall neuer rise vp to appeare in Iudgement any more But where it is said They shall not stand in Iudgement This is meant onely in respect of Gods fauour For this is proper onely to the godly thus to stand in iudgement who are bold in respect of Iesus Christ their elder Brother in whose righteousnesse they appeare Oh that all men would consider Vse 1 this high low rich poore noble and simple That no wicked man shall stand in iudgement but shall heare the fearefull sentence of eternall vengeance Depart from mee yee cursed O how ready are men to put from them this day of reckoning They seeme to haue made a league with Death Esay 28.15 and to bee at an agreement with the Graue But the Lord will disanull this their agreement and the time will come when these wicked wretches will bee glad to put their heads in an awger hole when they shall cry vnto the rockes and hils to fall vpon them to hide them and to couer them from the wrath of God the angry Iudge whom they are not able to endure Who would buy gold at such a rate or pleasures so deere to loose his soule in hell fire for euer for the pleasures of sinne for a season heere Secondly we are taught here that Vse 2 as all wicked and vngodly men bee wretched and miserable in their life So at the day of Iudgement their estate is much more fearefull for it is said here They shall not stand in iudgement but shall quake and tremble as not being able to endure the angry countenance of the Iudge Reu. 20.14 For now they shal see the books brought forth and their sinnes laid open O good Lord what shall vngodly men do then which way shall they turne them when they shall see the Iudge stand aboue them with a naked sword to cut them off and the deuils ready to execute Gods eternall iudgements on them poore soules what shall become of them How can they stand how can they endure it And yet they must vndergo it and endure it But more then this they must receiue that fearefull sentence of eternall vengeance Depart yee cursed c. So as now they must remaine in perpetuall prison in the darke dungeon of hell for euer where the paines are endlesse easlesse and remedilesse They shall haue no ease no not one drop of water to coole their tongue And this word euerlasting Torment doth euen kill the heart of the damned for if a man in hell torments might lie in torments so many thousand yeares as bee Starres in the firmament or sand on the Sea shoare Esa 30.30 it were some comfort to a damned soule that once there might bee an end thereof But alas when he hath suffered torments so many yeares the number to suffer still will euer remaine infinite God giue vs grace that we may become righteous that so wee may stand in iudgement The second part of the misery of a wicked man in the life to come is Hee shall not stand in the assembly of the Iust IN these words is noted out vnto vs a second branch of the iudgement of the wicked in the life to come That they shall be seuered and secluded from the company of the Iust Heauen is called the New Ierusalem wherein enters no vncleane thing onely this is the place where the iust do abide Heere are all the holy Patriarkes Abraham Isaac and Iacob heere are the Apostles heere are the holy Martyrs and constant witnesses of CHRISTS truth here are all the Saints that sleepe in Christ heere they rest and sing continually Praise honour and glory vnto him that sitteth vpon the Throne heere they enioy the presence of God and see his face continually Now to bee depriued of this place and to be seuered from this company it is a misery with a witnesse And this is that misery heere pointed out in this second place They shall not stand in the Assembly of the Iust The Church is to bee vnderstood two wayes Militant and Triumphant and from both of these the wicked are excluded for howsoeuer the wicked liue amongst the godly as Tares amongst the good Wheate as Cain and Esau and Iudas did amongst the godly yet they were not of the godly They went out from vs because they were not of vs But this is not directly intended in this place But of the Church Triumphant in the kingdome of heauen where the godly enioy Iesus Christ Psal 16.12 In whose presence is the fulnesse of ioy and at whose right hand is pleasure for euermore heere the wicked shall not stand in this Assembly Exod. 3. For if Moses might not stand vpon the holy ground before he had put off his shooes Oh how much lesse shall sinfull wretches stand in the presence of the euerliuing God hauing on the shooes of their sinfull affection Yea it is now most iust with God that such should be shut from Heauen the Church Triumphant seeing they neuer warred in the Church Militant Neither the sinners in the assembly of the iust Doctr. 2. All Mankinde diuided into two ranks HEere then we learne that there are two sorts of men in the world Good and Bad Sheep Goates Elect and Reprobate and heere in this world they liue together but after death in the last iudgement there shall bee two places appointed for them Mat. 25.34 one on the right hand another on the left one in honour the other in shame one in ioy and comfort the other in feare and horror And as wicked men in this life could neuer abide the company and society of the godly but did mock and scoffe at them and shun their company as much as they could so in the great day of account in that great and generall separation The sinners shall not appeare in the assembly of the righteous but shall bee seuered and sundred by the great Shepheard of the sheepe the Iudge of the whole world Now that wicked men shun and auoid the company of the godly and do desire and seeke the company of the wicked it is plaine by experience and therefore it is iust with God that at the last day they should bee seuered and secluded their company and as they loued and delighted in the company of wicked men and such as haue no feare of God before their eyes so now they shall haue their belly full of their company How did Cain hate Abel Pharaoh Moses and Aaron Saul Dauid the