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grace_n	deny_v	teach_v	ungodliness_n	4,302	5	11.7286	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62112	The Lord Jesus his commission (under the broad seal of His Highnes the Royal & Real Lord Protector of heaven and earth) as man, to be the alone judge of life and death in the great and general assize of the world proved and improved before the reverend judges at the assize holden at Maidstone, March 17, 1655 for the county of Kent / by Henry Symons.	Symons, Henry, fl. 1657-1658.	1657 (1657)	Wing S6360A; ESTC R26957	35,152	56

happiness so to live as you may be judgement-proofe what a glory will it be for you in such wicked and wretched times as these are to be Noahs Lots Joshuahs Calebs I dare boldly say that Religion was never more owned and honoured in England by the publique Magistrate both in precept and practice and yet I must say never was there more prophaneness vileness wickedness then now is in the Land not only swarmes as ever with drunkards swearers slanderers murtherers whoremongers c. but also with such unheard of sinners who have taken the highest degrees and have commenced Ranters Hectors Trappans and words of Art that all the Logicke I have cannot helpe me to understand so farre as I can conceive they are such as challenge God defie Christ deny Scripture scoffe heaven deride hell Now what an honour will this be for you to be heavenly tapers burning in the damps of sin starres shining in the dark night of prophanness to be like the river Arithusa to run through the brackish Ocean and yet to retaine your sweetness and freshness Laus tribuenda Muraenae and if Cicero commended Muraena that he had lived chastly in incontinent Asia how much more will Christ commend you for living purely and piously in a prophane world Inter malos bonum esse est immensae bonitatis Greg. in Job 1. 1. To be bad in any times is a sin to be bad in good times is a shame to be good in good times is no praise to be good in bad times is a glory Vse 5. To direct you to some means whereby you may be able to stand before this Judge in judgement 1. Repent for all your sins Acts 3. 19. Repent you therefore and be converted that your sins may he blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. Those mens sins shall never be sealed up in Gods bag whose repenting teares have been put up into his bottle If one teare of Alexanders Mother would wipe away all her faults then much more will penitent tears all the failings of Christs Saints 2. Get you garments made of the wooll and dyed with blood of the Lamb of God be sure to appeare in your Pontificalibus on that day you are then to be Judges bring your scarlet robes along with you Matth. 22. 11. 3. Daily arraigne your soules at the barre of your own conscience passe sentence of death and damnation on your selves 1 Cor. 11. 31. If we judge our selves we shall not be judged Those that judge themselves in their own private Sessions shall not be judged by Christ in his publique Assizes Amat deus seipsos judicantes non judicare Aug. Christ loves to judge them that judge others rashly but not those that judge themselves religiously The Patriarch of Alexandria asked the Hermite how he spent his life who answered Indesinenter culpando judicando meipsum who replyed This is the only way to life and salvation 4. Make Blastus the Kings Chamberlaine your friend keep good correspondency with your own consciences do you what God said to Abraham about Sarah Listen to it whatsoever it sayes to thee Maxima est vis conscientiae in utramque partem Cicero 1 John 3. 20 21. If our heart condemne us God is greater then our heart and knoweth all things if our heart condemne us not then have we confidence towards God Conscience is Custos Rotulorum who shall produce and preferre all the bils of indictment against sinners and read all the pardons signed and sealed by the blood of Christ to Saints 5. Get bowels of mercy to the afflicted members of Jesus Christ Matth 25. 31. I was an hungry and you gave me meate c. Christ releived in his members Come you blessed of my Father inherite the Kingdome prepared for you from the foundation of the world Non habebit guttam qui non dedit micam Aug. As he shall not have a drop that gave not a crumb so he shall have an Ocean that gave a drop 6. Live in print keep the copy of your lives free from blots and blurs that the characters thereof may be read by all Tit. 2. 11 12 13. The grace of God that hath appeared to us teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present world looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ Let righteousness and religion holiness and honesty which God hath united together in his Word appeare together in your workes live and lead Evangelicall yea Angelicall lives 1 John 3. 3. As having hope causes us to purifie our selves for that day so purifying our selves causes us to have hope in that day 7. Let the meditation of this rigid and righteous Judge be fixed in your hearts before every action this will wonderfully perswade you to be prepared for this Judge and Nihil est quod magis proficiat ad vitam bonestam quàm ut credamus eum judicem futurum quem occulta non sallunt indecora offendunt honesta delectant Amb. lib. de Offic. Judgement It makes the young man to rejoyce moderately in his youth Eccles 11. 9. It makes the Minister serious and sedulous in his ministry 2 Cor. 5. 11 13 14. It makes the Magistrate diligent in his place as it did the Emperour Constantine Euseb lib. 4. cap. 29. Yea it hath an influence on all M. Perkins reports of a gratious Gentlewoman much sollicited to be a strumpet by an importunate suitor who promised her to do any thing for her sake she desired him to put his hand into the fire and hold it there a quarter of an houre to whom he replyed oh that is an unreasonable request to whom she retorted how much more unreasonable is your request that would have me to satisfie your lust to burne in hell fire to all eternity Holcot reports of two Souldiers coming to the valley of Jehosaphat in Judaea that said one to the other this is the place where the geuerall judgement shall be therefore I will take up said one of them my place before hand and so taking up a stone sate downe upon it but before he arose such trembling seazed upon him that he remembred the day of Judgement unto his dying day So that we see thoughts of judgement have been advantageous to all sorts of persons and I am sure they would be a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to heale all diseases distempers If we Ministers would read every morning a Chapter in this booke of Judgement and write it downe in the common place booke of our consciences with the pen and inke of meditation and prayer it would keepe us from laziness in our places and lewdness in our practises If you Souldiers would anoint your swords with the sword-salve of judgement it would heale all the wounds in your consciences and keepe you from wounds for ever If you Ladies would dress your selves every