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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22641	St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H.; De civitate Dei. English	Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.; Healey, John, d. 1610.; Vives, Juan Luis, 1492-1540.	1610 (1610)	STC 916; ESTC S106897	1,266,989	952

is the righteousnesse of GOD made manifest without the law hauing witnesse of the law and the Prophets to wit the righteousnesse of GOD by the faith of IESVS CHRIST vnto all and vpon al that beleeue This righteousnesse of GOD belongeth vnto the New Testament and hath confirmation from the Old namely the law and the prophets Wee must therefore first of all propound the cause and then produce the confirmations for CHRIST himselfe so ordered it saying Euery scribe which is taught vnto the kingdome of heauen is like vnto an housholder which bringeth out of his treasury things both new and old He saith not both and new but if hee had not respected the order of dignity more then of antiquity he would haue done so and not as he did Places of Scripture prouing that there shal be a daie of Iudgement at the worlds end CHAP. 5. OVr Sauiour therefore condeming the citties whom his great miracles did not induce vnto faith and preferring aliens before them telleth them this Isay vnto you it shal be easier for Tyrus a and Sydon at the day of iudgement then for you And by and by after vnto another cittie Isay vnto you that it shal be easier for them of the Land of Sodome in the daie of iudgement then for thee Here is a plaine prediction of such a day Againe The men of Niniuie saith hee shall arise in iudgement with this generation and condemne it c. The Queene of the south shall rise in Iudgement with this generation and shall condemne it c. Heere wee learne two things 1. that there shal be a iudgement 2. that it shal be when the dead doe arise againe For Our Sauiour speaking of the Niniuites and of the Queene of the South speaketh of them that were dead long before Now b hee sayd not shall condemne as if they were to bee the iudges but that their comparison with the afore-said generation shall iustly procure the iudges condemning sentence Againe speaking of the present commixtion of the good and bad and their future seperation in the day of Iudgement hee vseth a simily of the sowne wheate and the tares sowne afterwards amongst it which hee expoundeth vnto his disciples Hee that soweth the good seed is the Sonne of Man the field is the world the good seed they are the children of the Kingdome the tares are the children of the wicked the enemy that soweth that is the deuill the haruest is the end of the world and the reapers bee the Angells As then the tares are gathered and burned in the fire so shall it bee in the ende of this worlde the Sonne of Man shall send forth his Angells and they shall gather out of his Kingdome all things that offend and they which doe iniquity and shall cast them into a furnace of fire there shal be weeping and gnashing of teeth Then shall the iust men shine as the Sunne in the Kingdome of their Father Hee that hath eares to heare let him heare Hee nameth not the Iudgement day heere but hee expresseth it farre more plainely by the effects and promiseth it to befall at the end of the world Furthermore hee saith to his disciples Verely I say vnto you that when the Sonne of Man shall sit in the Throne of his Maiesty then yee which followed mee in their regeneration shall sit also vpon twelue thrones and iudge the twelue tribes of Israell Here wee see that Christ shall bee iudge together with his Apostles Wherevpon hee sayd vnto the Iewes in another place If I through Beelzebub cast out deuills by whom doe your children cast them out therefore they shal be your iudges But now in that he speaketh of twelue thrones we may not imagine that he and one twelue more with him shal be the worlds Iudges The number of twelue includeth the whole number of the Iudges by reason of the two parts of seauen which number signifieth the totall and the vniuerse which two parts foure and three multiplied either by other make vp twelue three times foure or foure times three is twelue besides others reasons why twelue is vsed in these words of our Sauiour Otherwise Mathias hauing Iudas his place Saint Paul should haue no place left him to sit as Iudge in though hee tooke more paines then them all but that hee belongeth vnto the number of the Iudges his owne wordes doe proue Know yee not that we shall iudge the Angells The reason of their iudgements also is included in the number of twelue For Christ in saying To iudge the twelue tribes of Israel excludeth neither the tribe of Leui which was the thirteenth nor all the other Nations besides Israell from vnder-going this iudgement Now whereas hee saith In the regeneration heereby assuredlie hee meanes the resurrection of the dead For our flesh shal be regenerate by incorruption as our soule is by faith I omit many things that might concerne this great daie because inquiry may rather make them seeme ambiguous or belonging vnto other purpose then this as either vnto CHRISTS dayly comming vnto his church in his members vnto each in perticular or vnto the destruction of the earthly Ierusalem because Our Sauiour speaking of that vseth the same phrase that hee vseth concerning the end of the world and the last iudgement so that wee can scarcely distinguish them but by conferring the three Euangelists Mathew Marke and Luke together in their places touching this point For one hath it some-what difficult and another more apparant the one explayning the intent of the other And those places haue I conferred together in one of mine Epistles vnto Hesychius of blessed memory Bishoppe of Salon the Epistle is intituled De fine seculi of the worldes ende So that I will in this place relate onely that place of Saint Mathew where CHRIST the last iudge beeing then present shall seperate the good from the badde It is thus When the Sonne of Man commeth in his glory and all the holy Angells with him then shal he sit vpon the throne of his glorie and before him shal be gathered all nations and he shall seperate them one from another as a sheepheard seperateth the sheepe from the goates and hee shall set the sheepe on his right hand and the goates on his left Then shall the King say to them on his right hand come yee blessed of my father inherite yee the Kingdome prepared for you from the foundations of the worlde For I was an hungered and you gaue mee meate I thirsted and you gaue mee drinke I was a stranger and you lodged m●… I was naked and yee cloathed mee I was sicke and yee visited mee I was in prison and yee came vnto mee Then shall the righteous answere him saying LORD when saw wee thee an hungred and fedde thee or a thirst and gaue thee drinke c. And the King shall answere and say vnto them Verely I say vnto you in asmuch as yee haue done

Father inherite you the kingdome prepared for you for if there were not another reigning of Christ with the Saints in another place whereof him-selfe saith I am with you alway vnto the end of the world the Church now vpon earth should not bee called his kingdome or the kingdome of heauen for the Scribe that was taught vnto the kingdome of God liued in this thousand yeares And the Reapers shall take the tares out of the Church which grew vntill haruest together with the good corne which Parable he expoundeth saying The ●…est is the end of the world and the reapers are the Angels as then the tares are gathered and burned in the fire so shall it be in the end of the world The sonne of man shall send forth his Angels and they shall gather out of his kingdome all things that offend What doth hee speake heare of that kingdome where there is no offence No but of the Church that is heere below Hee saith further Who-so-euer shall breake one of these least commandements and teach men so hee shall bee called the least in the kingdome of heauen but who-so-euer shall obserue and teach them the same shall bee called great in the kingdome of heauen Thus both these are done in the kingdome of heauen both the breach of the commandements and the keeping of them ●…hen hee proceedeth Except your righteousnesse exceed the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees that is of such as breake what they teach and as Christ 〈◊〉 else-where of them Say well but doe nothing vnlesse you exceed these that is ●…th teach and obserue you shall not enter into the kingdome of heauen Now the kingdome where the keeper of the commandements and the contemner were 〈◊〉 said to be is one and the kingdome into which he that saith and doth not shal not enter is another So then where both sorts are the church is that now is but where the better sort is only the church is as it shal be here-after vtterly exempt from euill So that the church now on earth is both the kingdom of Christ and the kingdome of heauen The Saints reigne with him now but not as they shall doe here-after yet the tares reigne hot with them though they grow in the Church ●…ngst the good seed They reigne with him who do as the Apostle saith If yee 〈◊〉 be risen with Christ seeke the things which are aboue where Christ sitteth at the 〈◊〉 ●…d of God Set your affections on things which are aboue and not on things 〈◊〉 are on earth of whome also hee saith that their conuersation is in heauen ●…ly they reigne with Christ who are with all his kingdom where he reigneth 〈◊〉 how do they reigne with him at all who continuing below vntill the worlds 〈◊〉 vntill his kingdome be purged of all the tares do neuer-the-lesse seeke their 〈◊〉 pleasures and not their redeemers This booke therefore of Iohns●…th ●…th of this kingdome of malice wherein there are daily conflicts with the ●…my some-times with victory and some-times with foyle vntill the time of that most peaceable kingdome approach where no enemy shall euer shew his 〈◊〉 this and the first resurrection are the subiect of the Apostles Reuelation For hauing sayd that the deuill was bound for a thousand yeares and then was to bee loosed for a while hee recapitulateth the gifts of the Church during the sayd thousand yeares And I saw seates saith he and they sat vpon them and iudgement was giuen vnto them This may not bee vnderstood of the last iudgement but by the seales are 〈◊〉 the rulers places of the Church and the persons them-selues by whom it is gouerned and for the Iudgement giuen them it cannot be better explaned then in these words what-so-euer yee binde on earth shall be bound in heauen and what-so-euer yee loose on earth shall bee loosed in heauen Therefore saith Saint Paul 〈◊〉 haue I to doe to iudge them also that bee without doe not yee iudge them that 〈◊〉 within On. And I saw the soules of them which were slaine for the witnesse of Iesus 〈◊〉 for the word of God vnderstand that which followeth they raigned with Christ a 〈◊〉 yeares These were the martires soules hauing not their bodies as yet for 〈◊〉 soules of the Godly are not excluded from the Church which as it is now is 〈◊〉 kingdome of God Otherwise she shold not mention them nor celebrate their ●…ories at our communions of the body and bloud of Christ nor were it necessary 〈◊〉 ●…in our perills to run vnto his Baptisme or to be afraid to dy without it nor to seeke reconciliation to his church if a man haue incurred any thing that exacteth repentance or burdeneth his conscience Why doe we those things but that euen such as are dead in the faith are members of Gods Church Yet are they not with their bodies and yet neuer-the-lesse their soules reigne with Christ the whole space of this thousand yeares And therefore wee reade else-where in the same booke Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord Euen so saith the spirit for they rest from their labours and their workes follow them Thus then the Church raigneth with Christ first in the quick and the dead for Christ as the Apostle saith that hee might thence-forth rule both ouer the quick and the dead But the Apostle heere nameth the soules of the martyrs onely because their kingdome is most glorious after death as hauing fought for the truth vntill death But this is but a taking of the part for the whole for wee take this place to include all the dead that belong to Chrsts kingdome which is the Church But the sequell And which did not worship the beast neither his Image neither had taken his marke vpon their fore-heads or on their hands this is meant both of the quick and dead Now although wee must make a more exact inquiry what this beast was yet is it not against Christianity to interpret it the society of the wicked opposed against the com pany of Gods seruants and against his holy Citty Now his image that is his dissimulation in such as professe religion and practise infidelity They faigne to bee what they are not and their shew not their truth procureth them the name of Christians For this Beast consisteth not onely of the professed enemies of Christ and his glorious Hierarchy but of the tares also that in the worlds end are to be gathered out of the very fields of his owne Church And who are they that adore not the beast but those of whome Saint Pauls aduise taketh effect Bee not vnequally yoaked with the Infidells These giue him no adoration no consent no obedience nor take his marke that is the brand of their owne sinne vpon their fore-heads by professing it or on their hands by working according to it They that are cleare of this be they liuing or be they dead they reigne with Christ