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A53325	The last judgment, or, A discourse shewing the reasonableness of the belief of such a thing deliver'd in a sermon, at the assizes held for the county of Denbigh, on the 18th of April, anno 1682 / by John Oliver ...	Oliver, John, d. 1730.	1682 (1682)	Wing O275; ESTC R10726	13,587	32

V. 31. with the great noise of a Trumpet to summon all men to their last Reckoning Would you know the Person of the Judge 'T is that Son of man to whom the Father has committed all Judgment A Person of that Wisdom Act. 17.31 that he sees into the Merits of every Cause of that Justice that he cann't determine wrongfully and of that Authority that from his Sentence there lyes no appeal Would you know the Persons that are to appear before him They are the Quick and Dead all that shall be found alive upon Earth at his coming and all that shall be cloyster'd up in the dark Regions of the Grave At the great Goal-delivery Rev. 20.13 the Sea shall render up the dead that are in it and Death and Hell shall bring their Prisoners to the Bar that they may all receive according to their doings Would you know the Proceedings of that Court They 'l be according to Law the natural Law written in our Hearts and those Positive Laws the Scripture has superadded to them Would you know the Evidence to be produc'd upon every man Rev. 20.12 'T is the Testimony of Conscience which keeps a perfect Diurnal of our several Actions from the beginning to the end of our dayes An Evidence we have no reason to except against because part of our selves and so will never give in a wrong or partial Information An Evidence the Judge will never question because 't is his Minister in every one of us one part of whose Office it is to keep a true Record of all our doings Would you know the Conclusion of all The Righteous shall go into Life Eternal Mat. 25 46. where they cann't fail of the most ravishing Delights being possess'd of him in whose presence are Joyes and at whose right hand are Pleasures and that for evermore The wicked shall go into a place of Torment provided for the Devil and his Angels where the Atheist will meet with late and sad assurances of a Divine Power and Justice the Blasphemer will find what it is to affront the Author of his Being the Prophane and Dissolute will see what an unhappy choice they made when they left the rugged wayes of Vertue and pitch'd upon the broad Paths of Sin pleasant indeed to the Eye and easie to the Traveller but ending at last in a Precipice of unavoidable ruine Knowing therefore the Terrors of the Lord let me perswade all that hear me this day so to live that they may be thought worthy to escape them Whether Persons in Authority that they remembring whose Ministers they are and to whom they are accountable for that Power entrusted to them may be careful to employ it to the Punishment of Wickedness and Vice and to the maintenance of true Religion and Vertue Or other subordinate Persons that they having alwayes before their Eyes the great Account may endeavour to live in a due Reverence to the Majesty on High and a quiet subjection to his Vicegerent on Earth and in common honesty among themselves In a word that we may all of us both in Church and State act suitable to the Rules of our holy Profession to the many weighty Obligations our Religion has laid upon us and especially to the Belief of this great Article of a Judgment to come that so we may finish our Course with joy and then receive the Fruit of our doings even a Crown of Glory God of his infinite mercy grant for his Sons sake Jesus Christ our Lord to whom with the Father and the blessed Spirit be all Honour and Glory World without end FINIS

Instances are but rare to wha●●ight be produc'd to the contrary How often do we see Meekness oppress'd and Innocence slander'd and Vertue trampled in the dust while Pride Ambition and Tyranny have been lifted up to the highest Pinacles of Honour As if Satan had clear'd his pretended Claim to all the Kingdoms of the Earth and the Glory of all sublunary things and none were to be advanc'd there but his own Favourites How often do we see the unjust and the fraudulent to rise upon the Ruins of the honest plain-dealing man as if that famous Maxime which has done more mischief in the World than any other Position besides concerning Dominion being founded in Grace were perfectly turn'd the other way and wickedness were the only support of a good Title Good men are no more exempt from the common miseries of humane Life than they are from death it self the close of all Nay there are some Cases wherein these are the only Sufferers witness the Primitive times when to be Atheist or Idolater a worshipper of false Gods or none at all was Protection enough against the force of the Laws but to be a Christian was such a Crime as all the murdering Engines Hell could invent or the malice of a persecuting Age could set on work were not severe enough to punish These are some of the Objections that puzled the Heathens and upon this score the Belief of a Providence suffer'd so much in the World some utterly denying it others allowing it under various Reflections though the wisest of them inclin'd to the safest side And no wonder since the Royal Prophet himself was offended at it After he had observ'd that the Proud the Violent the Atheist and the Blasphemer were the thriving men he was just reeling into Infidelity Ps 73.13 14. Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain and washed my hands in innocency for all the day long have I been plagued and chastened every morning But whatever impressions the uncertainty of Gods Proceedings here might make upon the Spirits of some men 't is an undeniable Evidence of a Judgment to come For if there be a Supreme Power presiding over all things and that Power be furnish'd with infinite Knowledg and so in a condition to observe the Actions of all men good and bad with infinite Justice and so resolv'd to render to all according to their doings with infinite strength and so fitted for the Execution of that Justice it must follow that Vertue will certainly be rewarded and Vice as certainly punish'd and if that be not exactly done here 't will also follow that there is another time appointed to review the Lives and Actions of all men and to give them an answerable Recompence to vindicate the Honour of Gods Justice and Providence and to make all men see that to be Religious was to be wise to be Atheistical and Prophane the greatest madness in the World If it be said that Vertue is its own Reward and Vice its own Punishment in respect of that Peace of Conscience which follows the one and that stinging remorse which attends the other and consequently that there is no need of a future reckoning for the Vindication of Divine Providence I answer That notwithstanding these moral advantages or disadvantages ensuing upon mens actions there is some Physical good and evil to be expected from all Law-givers without which they could not be just Would it be a sufficient discharge of a Governors Duty to let the blackest Crimes go unpunished because the Actors of them have been already tormented by some revengeful guilt Or to suffer his best Subjects to lye under the most unjust Oppressions because they feel within themselves the happy Testimonies of their own innocence Besides what reward is there to him who offers his Life a Sacrifice for his Religion supposing no future State Is the pleasure of Martyrdom so great to outweigh the pain of it Is there any thing so desirable in Racks and Prisons the Cross and the Flames to make a sober man quit all his Interests in the pursuit of If we had only hopes in this Life were not we Christians of all men the most miserable And what Punishment is there to him who has by a constant Custom of sinning so baffled his Conscience that like 〈◊〉 disoblig'd Friend it grows weary of rebuking him and suffers him to follow his own Inclinations without any check Add to this that the satisfaction arising from doing good and the regret which follows the contrary are not sufficient Motives to keep men within due bounds and therefore could never be intended by the great Law-giver as the whole of that Recompence which good and bad men are to expect from him Were there no other inducements here below to secure Obedience to humane Laws and to preserve a due Reverence to the Authors of them Princes would be but the more glittering pieces of State-Pageantry and their Laws as empty as the Breath that uttered them No man would think himself any farther oblig'd to obey than than Obedience could be reconcil'd to his Interest Nor would the Divine Laws speed much better These would be slighted as much as the other notwithstanding the greater Majesty of their Author whensoever mens worldly Advantages might tempt them to it There must be therefore some greater incitement to Vertue than Peace of mind and some stronger discouragement to Vice than the disquiet of it There must be a far more exceeding weight of glory to draw down the Ballance against all the hardships good men meet with upon the score of Religion And some more intolerable load of misery to keep bad men in awe and innocent though against their wills And if these are not dispens'd here there must be another day for that work a day wherein we must all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ which brings me to the last thing viz. 3. That this Doctrine is infinitely certain upon the grounds of Scripture and especially the Gospel whose great Priviledge it is to have brought Life and Immortality to Light This is the great Instrument of our Belief moral Arguments may make it reasonable this makes it our duty to assent and turns humane Perswasion into Divine Faith Here we shall find the solemn Assize of the great Day painted to the Life and all necessary Circumstances relating to it punctually set down Time and Place indeed God has reserved as secrets to himself because not so fit for us to be acquainted with and so has barr'd us out from all nice and curious speculations about them but every thing else is allow'd us Would you know the Preparations leading to that great appearance of Men and Angels They are infinitely beyond all Pomp and Ceremony on Earth For the Sun shall be darkned Mitth 24.29 and the Moon shall not give her Light and the Stars shall fall from Heaven and the Powers of the Heavens shall be shaken And the Angels shall be sent abroad