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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36355	A sermon of judgement, preached before the Queen Dowager in Her Majesties chappel at Somerset-House, on the first Sunday in Advent, being the 27th. of Novemb. 1686 / by J.D. of the Society of Jesus.	J. D. (John Dormer), 1636-1700.	1687 (1687)	Wing D1927; ESTC R8585	10,972	34

Yes Yes Videbunt filium hominis venientem in Nube They shall see the Son of Man comming in a Cloud A Cloud which shall burst out into a Thunder of Justice and Revenge against the Impious Videbunt They shall see Yea a day shall come They shall see and We shall see But again As God is a First and Necessary Being so of necessity he must be the first Rule of Justice and can any one be so fond as to imagine That the first Rule of Justice it self can put up so many wrongs done under pretence of Authority deriv'd from him To Enact unjust Laws which carry the Woe of God in their Fore-head written by Isaiah Vae qui condunt leges iniquas 〈…〉 ut vim faciant causae humilium populi me● Wo to those who make unrighteous Laws to use violence to the Cause of the humble of my people To quit the Guilty to condemn Innocents are things possible I say no more Sometime Passion and oftener Mistake over-rules Judges They are Men and the Learned know That Humane Laws cannot sufficiently provide for all Contingencies Now if it be the part of a Superiour Court to Retrieve the Errours and Disorders of an Inferiour Thô the written Word of God were Mute were not in Being would not Reason decide That it is but just and equitable That all Injuries uneven Dealings and Oversights Voluntary and Unvoluntary should be Rectified in a Supreme and Final Judgement More Is it fit that any Crime should pass unjudged and unpunished Good and Holy Actions unrewarded But that 's performed you 'l say at the hour of each Man's Death And the Judge himself is He not to be Vindicated What murmurings at Providence for the Prosperity of the Ungodly and hard fortune of the Righteous These Poor those Wealthy these Scorn'd those Honour'd these Depress'd and those Rais'd Is not the mouth of Malice to be stop'd Besides is it not just that a publick shame should now check and then punish the privacy of Sin That a publick honour should now Cherish and then Crown Merit and Virtue I end not here be pleas●d to take yet one step with me How inconsiderable a part of our Actions fall under the Verge of Humane Authority Amongst Divines and Canonists it is a current Rule De internis non judicat Ecclesia The Church it self judgeth not of the interiour it takes Recognizance only of apparent things And is it credible that thoughts and desires the Origin and Source of all exteriour Evil surmounting in number and quality whatever betrays it self to our Sense and Knowledge so offensive to God so pernicious to our Neighbour and our Selves shall pass un-try'd and un-chastiz d Rash Judgements Treacherous M●chinations Malicious Designs Rebelli●u● Rancours as they p●●judice the whole by being destructive to Hum●n● Society and Christian Charity so before the whole Universe they are to be accounted for and not only at the point of Death The substance of my Dis●●●●se is reduce'd to this if there be a God he 's Just and if there be a Just God there will be a final Judgement But there i● a God and a Just God as Light of Nature evidences Therefore a day a Judgment there will be Tunc videbunt c Then they shall see Reason then turn'd Herald proclaims Judgement Reason Summons us to Appear Reason moves us to Apprehend Fear and Provide for a Tryal either with pleading Guilty by a timely and true Repentance or Not Guilty by the continuance of a harmless and godly Conversation Fratres hora est jam nos de somno surgere R●● 13.11 says the Apostle in the Office of this day It is now the hour for us to rise from sleep Nunc enim propior est nostra salus For now our Salvation is nearer We are in a holy time dedicated to the coming of Christ and therefore termed Advent implying a Coming One coming of Christ is pass d● the other is drawing on that which is pass'd was the coming of a Saviour that which is drawing on is the coming of a Judge the first we Celebrate for the second we are to provide In the first the Son of God became the Son of Man in the second the Son of Man will become Judge Fear the Judge and you 'l not slight but adore the Infant Timuit omnis homo ●sal 6● 1●● says David All Men were replenished with Fear where S. Augustine as he is wont divinely puts in Qui non timuerunt nec homines fuerunt If all Men feared they who feared not were not Men. Cease then to be Men or fear Judgement for he that fears it not according to S. Austine is void of Reason is no Man Qui non timuerunt nec homines fuerunt Now what Reason declares in general the Spirit of the Lord lays down in more express and significant terms I say nothing of the foretelling Sibyl or of the perswasion of some An●●ents touching the Conflagration of the World I take no notice of the fantastical Conceits relating to the end of the Platonick year To you O holy Prophets for your Oracles and Summons I address my self Know then says the Prophet Ezekiel Finis venit venit finis super quatuor plagas terrae The end is come there is come an end upon the four parts of Earth Et judicabo te juxta vias tuas A●●● will judge thee according to thy ways And why twice An end is come there is come an end It is a Force an Emphasis a Replication becoming so important a Truth Or give me leave to throw in a thought and say The end of Time is come and so is that of Eternity for Eternity has but one End and that is its Beginning An end then is come there is come an end and between this End and End the End of Time and Beginning of Eternity J●●licabo says the Lord I will erect my 〈…〉 ment 〈…〉 Eyes says the Prophet 〈…〉 ●veniet crudelis 〈…〉 Behold 〈…〉 ●●all come full of ●n lig● 〈…〉 and fury And if you yet 〈…〉 the nature of the Day Sop●oni●● bid● you take your Pen in hand and wr●● the Index of Epithets he sets do●n 〈…〉 Dies Domini magnus The great day of the Lord Dies irae the day of Anger● Dies illa The Day Dies Tribulationis Angustiae The Day of Tribulation and Disiress Dies calamitatis miseriae A Day of calamity and misery Dies tenebrarum A day of Darkness Dies Tubae Clangoris A day of Trumpet and Alarm Such is the Day which is to Usher us in to Judgement And here I stop for not to repeat what last Sunday has left so fresh in your minds Then you saw and to your terrour and fear by expert Pencils in both the Royal Chappels the gast piece of the expiring World drawn out to life The Sun darkened the Moon in blood the Stars falling the ●arth in smoak and fire the Sea in rage Here an Angel