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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61274	Of preparation for death and judgment a sermon preached at Whitehall January 27, 1694/5, before the Right Honourable the Lord Chamberlain, the Ladies of the Bedchamber, and others of the household to our late gracious Queen Mary of blessed memory / by George Stanhope ... ; published at the request of that honourable audience.	Stanhope, George, 1660-1728.	1695 (1695)	Wing S5225; ESTC R15063	15,303	36

Of Preparation for Death and Judgment A SERMON Preached at WHITEHALL January 27. 1694 5. Before the Right Honourable the Lord Chamberlain the Ladies of the Bed-Chamber and others of the Houshold to our late Gracious QUEEN MARY of Blessed Memory By GEORGE STANHOPE Chaplain in Ordinary to His Majesty Published at the Request of that Honourable Audience London Printed for R. Sare at Grays-Inn-Gate in Holborn MDCXCV St. Matth. XXIV 44. Therefore be ye also ready for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of Man cometh FROM the Disciples shewing our Lord the Buildings of the Temple He takes occasion V. 1. in the beginning of this Chapter V. 2. to foretell the lamentable Extermination of the Jewish People and the utter Ruine of that Holy Place Satisfying herein V. 3 c. so far as his Divine Wisdom thought fit their Curiosity who desired to know the precise time of those dreadful Punishments God kept in reserve for the malicious Enemies of his Son and the Truth But in regard there was one Day a more eminent Discrimination to be made between them that believed in Jesus and them that believed him not a Distinction not confined to one particular Place or People but Universal and such as none of the Sons of Adam can possibly be exempted from a Process and Sentence of that infinite consequence that the Tribulation of the Jews horrible as it was should be but a faint and feeble Image of the Vengeance of the Lord and the Terrors of the Wicked in That Day our Saviour does therefore prudently improve this Opportunity into a Discourse concerning That also In which he represents it as a Thing of the highest and most general Concernment the Last Great Revolution which the Persons to whom he spoke and all Christians after them were obliged daily and hourly to expect and diligently to prepare for Upon which account it is that he expresses himself in such Terms as might awaken their Souls and quicken their Care by shortening its distance to the Eye and declaring it not only certain but nigh at hand to every one of them For thus according to the known usage of Prophetick style involving withal and looking forward to the Antitype when the Type is more directly mentioned I understand that passage V. 34.35 Verily I say unto you This Generation shall not pass till all these things be fulfilled Heaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass away Several remarkable Dispensations of an avenging Providence had been exhibited to the preceding Ages of the World which might and should have been abundant Intimations V. 37. that God would not fail to call Sinners to Judgment and repay them to their face These ought to have made Men wary and prevailed upon them to live as becomes those who know they must render an account of their Actions But notwithstanding so many repeated Instances of a severe Reckoning V. 38 39. our Lord foresaw that there would be vast numbers still unmov'd and unprepar'd insomuch that the Son of Man's Coming should not more resemble the Flood which drowned the old World in the Horrour and Universal Extent of the Judgment than it would in the Surprise and Indisposition of Men to meet him Just such another sweeping Deluge shall This prove as Swift as Fatal as Astonishing to all who by timely Thought and due Vigilance are not ready for the sudden and amazing Separations it shall make Watch therefore V. 40.41 V. 42. for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come And farther yet Because we ought to be much ashamed that the Children of this World should be so much wiser in their Generation than the Children of Light the Example of a careful Housholder is propounded as a fresh Incentive to our Diligence For if He would most certainly have watch'd could he but have learn'd at what time the Thief would come how much more ought We to be upon Our Guard against the Son of Man's coming V. 43. which for its own suddenness and our unpreparedness is compared to that of a Thief in the Night If He I say the extremity of whose damage is supposed not to exceed the Breaking up of his House and the loss of such Goods as Time and Providence have a thousand ways of Restoring how much rather We whose Treasure is greater and whose Danger is infinitely greater and whose Loss if once sustained is for ever irreparable Therefore be ye also ready for as at a time when that Housholder is not aware the Thief rushes in upon him so in such an hour as you think not the son of man cometh This I take to be the true order and connexion of what our Lord hath deliver'd upon this matter from Ver. 29. to that of my Text inclusively Upon which that I may discourse in the most clear and familiar as well as what I conceive the most profitable manner give me leave to observe this foll●wing method I. First To propose some Observations leading to a right apprehension of the Words themselves II. Secondly Coming up to the Point in my Text To say something of the Suddenness of the Son of Man's coming and how that Quality belongs to it III. Thirdly To lay down some Directions how we may be ready to meet him at that Coming of His. IV. After all which if the Time will allow me to draw an Inference or two from the foregoing Heads I shall fully satisfie my Intentions in the Choice of this Subject I. I begin with some Observations relating to the Words themselves and preliminary to the main Business and immediate Intent of them 1. And here first of all I cannot but take notice That the Son of Man's coming whatever that Expression means is not at all attempted to be proved but declared only and spoken of as a sufficiently known and uncontestable Truth The manner of it indeed and his Pompous Appearance are largely described the Suddenness of it and the Improvidence of the World are particularly foretold many importunate Exhortations to qualify and put our Souls in due posture for it very movingly insisted upon and the end of this Coming both in This and the following Chapter manifestly declar'd to be the taking an account of his Servants Examining how each of them had acquitted themselves in their respective Trusts and Capacities and Awarding to every one his Portion and Recompence accordingly From all which it is exceeding plain that the last General Judgment is meant by it when All men shall give account for their own works and they that have done Good shall go into Life Everlasting and they that have done Evil into everlasting Fire But of the Judgment it self there are no pains taken to argue and evince that such a thing should be because this was already an establish'd notorious Principle And none of those with whom our Saviour now conversed were so bold to call it publickly into question or so