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A54008 The books opened Being several discourses on Rev. 20. 14. By Henry Pendlebury, A.M. late minister of the Gospel at Rochdale in Lancashire; author of the Plain representation of transubstantiation. Pendlebury, Henry, 1626-1695. 1696 (1696) Wing P1139; ESTC R217501 54,571 119

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every Day of Grace and how thou hast spent it every Opportunity of doing and getting Good and how thou hast improv'd it shall come in as new as that which thou didst the last Day or Hour Yea the things that are now gone from thee as Nebuchadnezzar's Dream from him and that thou hast forgotten what they were at such a time in such a Place among such Company forty or fifty Years ago these shall come in and be as livelily presented to thy view as when newly acted O think on this It is a common Saying that Conscience is a thousand Witnesses You carry this Witness in your own Bosoms Nocte diéque suum gestant in pectore testem which when the opening Day comes will proclaim all as on the House-top 3. The Book of Satan's Accusation He is called the Accuser Rev. 12.10 This is one Part of his Business now but he will especially appear to be so when he at the Great Day shall come with his Register wherein he now inserts our Actions There is a Relation of a Demon that appeared at Mascon in France in the House of a godly Minister who there spoke and acted many things among which there are these two remarkable Stories One time the Demon speaking profanely a grave Divine then present religiously rebuked him to whom he answer'd Minister you are very holy and serious in this Company you were not so when singing such a baudy Song in such a Tavern which the Demon rehears'd before the Company This the Divine confess'd he did in his Youth yet when he had forgot it and perhaps that ever he sung it the Devil readily remembers it as if but done that Day The other is of a Lawyer who came out of Curiosity and would urge several Questions which when the Demon had answered he further adds Now Sir I have told you what you demanded I must next tell you what you demand not and then discovered many of his unequal Dealings which made him appear to be a dishonest Man The Devil is a busy Body present at our Tables at our Recreations with us in the Shop in the Market and Field with us in solemn Assemblies with us when engaged in private and secret Duties ever spying and listning to see and hear what we do or say no Place is so secret we cannot act so privately but his piercing Eye will find us out and he hath a sure Memory which will not permit any thing we do to pass in Oblivion he will certainly when this opening Day comes produce such a Catalogue of the Sinners Works as they little think of he will bring his Bill of their Ways as the Patriarchs brought Joseph's Coat to Jacob saying Is not this the Coat of thy Son so is not this Sinners the Coat of your Christian Profession which you have here spotted with Oaths there with Drunkenness in another Place with Uncleanness and all over with variety of Transgressions 4. The Book of Human Testification or Sinners mutual Accusations Now many Husbands and Wives Parents and Children Masters and Servants are leading one another into Temptations Then they shall accuse and witness against each other as our Saviour says in another Case Luke 12.52 53. The Father shall be divided against the Son and the Son against the Father the Mother against the Daughter and the Daughter against the Mother So at this great Day A Man's Foes shall be those of his own Houshold Matth. 10.36 Parents shall rise against their own Children Children shall rise against their Parents then Masters shall witness against their Servants and Servants against their Masters O the Cries the Complaints that will be of Husbands Wives Children Servants of the same House against each other A young Man going to execution desired to speak with his Mother in the Ear but instead of whispering bit off her Ear complaining of her as the promoter of his Death because she did not in his Youth chastise him for his Faults but by her fond Indulgence imboldened him in his Wickedness Thus at the opening Day Children will appear against their Parents Lord these Parents were instrumental to bring me into the World but they were also my Souls Murderers training me up in Ignorance teaching me by their Example to lie swear and steal and suffering me to be vile and profane Parents will at the great Assizes appear against Children Lord this Child was Stubborn Rebellious Untractable Servants shall give Testimony against Masters Lord we were so long in such a Family but never saw any thing of Religion in it we sate down and rose up from our Tables like Brutes we never knew what it was to have the Doors shut in the Evening nor opened in the Morning with the Key of Prayer and reading of the Scriptures Sic sic in Domo propria habeo Accusatores Testes Judices Tortores Bern. Thus thus says one I have in my own House Accusers Witnesses Judges and Tormentors When you are tempted to sin by Relations and Neighbours say as the Man to Joab when reproved for not killing Absalom 2 Sam. 18.11 12 13. There is no Matter hid from the King and thou thy self wouldst have set thy self against me So the King even the King of Kings hath commanded that we abstain from Sin and from the appearance of Evil and if I should break his Command it cannot be hid from his omniscient Eye nay you who now tempt will in the great Day accuse me 5. The Book of the Creature It 's said of the wicked Man Job 20.27 That the Heavens shall reveal his Iniquity and the Earth shall rise up against him All the Creatures shall by their common Testimony disclose his Wickedness Ver. 28. The increase of his House shall depart The Vulgar renders it Apertum erit germen Domus ipsius the Branch of his House shall be opened Upon which Sanctius making these words explicatory of the foregoing Verse thus glosses viz. The Heaven and the Earth shall reveal his Iniquities by discovering whence how and by what means his Branch hath grown his Increase hath come by what Frauds Oaths and Oppression the Furniture of his House was compassed that this came by Lies and that by wronging others Thus tho he mistakes the Text he gives us a Gloss which is in it self solid The Prophet tells us Hab. 2.11 That the Stone shall cry out of the Wall and the Beam out of the Timber shall answer it The very Materials of those stately Palaces or whatever Houses are built by Cheating or possessed by Violence as they call to Heaven for Vengeance being procured by Injustice so they shall unitedly witness against their Erectors or Owners the Stones of such Walls will cry Lord we were laid here by Violence the Beams shall answer We were laid here by Fraud They are not a few who now live in curious Houses that will be dreadful Witnesses against them at this opening Day Says the Apostle James Chap. 5.3 Your Gold and