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A93110	Of the foure last and greatest things: death, iudgement, heaven and hell. The description of the happinesse of heaven, and misery of hell, by way of antithesis. With the way or means to passe through death, and judgement, into heaven, and to avoid hell. / By VVilliam Shepheard, Esquire.	Sheppard, William, d. 1675?	1649 (1649)	Wing S3196; Thomason E551_7; ESTC R205687	96,747	120

terrible will the substance thereof and the execution thereof this last judgment be See Ioel 2. 1 2. 31. c. Zeph. 1. 14 15 16. This judgement is resembled and likened to terrible things as Lightening Theeves in the night the Child-birth of a Woman the comming of a Iudge to guilty Persons c. Notable is that place in Rev. 6. from v. 12. to the end of the chapter upon the opening of the sixt Seale being a prophecy of temporall judgments only to come upon the Roman Empire already fulfilled upon divers great men and others therein enemies of Christ and his Members And I behold and there was a gr●at earthquake and the Kings of the earth great men rich men chiefe Captaines mighty men c. notwithstanding their valour power wit riches and friends 〈◊〉 themselves amongst the R●cks and said to the mountaines fall on us and hide us from the presence of him that sitteth on the Throne an● from the Lamb for the great day of his wrath is come and who can stand Esay 34. 6. 8. Ezek. 10. 11 12. chap. 30. 2 3. 9. Esay 13. 6 7 8 9 10. Of this day then we may say much more who shall stand who shall be able to abide it Mal. 3. 2. This day therefore in 2 Cor. 5. 11. is called the terrour of the Lord. But the dayes of temporall judgments the great and terrible dayes of the Lord. Terrible this judgment will be 1. For the things which shall go before it 2. For the things which shall accompany it 3. For the things which shall follow after it For the things which shall precede it we will not speak of those foregoing but remote signs Which Divines say are 8. To wit 1. The preaching of the Gospell 2. The Apostacy of professors 3. The revealing of Antichrist 4. Great wars and troubles in the world 5. Great trouble in the Church 6. False Christs 7. The calling of the Iewes 8. Strange signs in Heaven But of the immediate signs which shall appeare a little before Christs comming to judgment For some think that alittle before this the powers of Heaven shall be shaken the Sun and the Moon shall be darkened and the Stars shall fall from Heaven out of Mat. 24. 29 30. Luke 21. 26. and that these Prophesies are to be taken litterally that there shall be strange events in Heaven and Earth that the frame of the whole universe shall shake as a house that gives a Crack when it is ready to fall And it is most probable that that which the Apostle 2 Pet. 3 10. prophesieth concerning this day The day of the Lord will come as a Thiefe in the night in the which the Heavens shall passe away with a noise like a mighty Whirl-wind or Temp●st roaring and carrying all before it and the elements shall melt with heate and the earth with the workes that are therein shall be burnt up And after v. 11. That day of God by the which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved answerable to that in Mat. 24. 29. 30. The Sun shall be darkened and the powers of heaven shall be shaken By which is understood the purging renewing and changing of their form and not their utter destruction by comparing these places with Psal 102. 26. Rom. 8. 21. 2 Pet. 3. 13. Rev. 20. 11. After this there shall be new heavens and a new earth This thing we say it is probable is to go immediatly before Christs comming or that Christ shall come in this fire And as the day of Iudgment is the last day so it is likely the judgment it self is one of the last acts of this day For the text ●aith that 〈◊〉 ●●ely after these strange signes and sights the on of man shall appear Matth. 24. 29 30. and in and by this change of all things it is probable that change shall be made of the Saints whereof the Apostle speaks 〈◊〉 15. 51 52. We shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed in a 〈◊〉 c. Some understand by the signe of the Son of man Matth. 24 30 some ex●●●ding glory which shall appear in heaven before the appearing of the So●●e of man himself which others take to be meant of the dreadfull dissolution of the world by 〈◊〉 immediatly to forego his appearing 2. The comming of the judge shall be terrible For 1 it shall be cons 〈◊〉 as the Lightning for he shall appear in his humane shape so that every eye and those that have 〈◊〉 him shall 〈◊〉 him Rev. 1. 7. Acts 1. 11. 2. It is not improbable as we have touched that he shall discend and come in the clouds in the middest or at the end of that 〈◊〉 Psal 50. 3. God shall co● and shall not keep silence a fire shall 〈◊〉 before him and a mighty tempest shall be round about him 2 Thess 1 6 7. When the Lord I●sus shall shew himself from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 flaming fire 3. his comming shall be suddain like the comming of the Lightning Matth. 24 27. 4. his comming shall be with great power b●●ghtnes majestre and glory Psal 18. 7 8 c. So Matt. 24. 30. Chap. 25. 31. He shall co●e 〈◊〉 and sit mounted on the clouds as on a stately Throne Acts 1. 9. 11. env●●oned as with a flame of fire attended with an 〈◊〉 h●●t of heavenly Angels there shall not one of them be left in heaven but they shall all minister to him in this work What a bright day will this be when so many glorious Suns shal shine in the ●●rmament together and 〈◊〉 all the Sun of righteousnes out●●●ning them so much that the Sun shall 〈◊〉 but a 〈◊〉 to him 2 Thess 1. 7 8. 1 Thess 4 17. Matth. 6. verse 27. Luke 21. 27. Matth. 25. 3● 〈◊〉 15. 16. 3. An unconceivable and unspeakable hor●our and fear shall seize upon all especially upon all wicked men Luke 21. 25 26 27. And there shall be signes in the 〈◊〉 and in the 〈◊〉 and in the Stars and upon the Earth d●●●resse of 〈◊〉 w●th 〈◊〉 the Sea and the Wav● roaring mens hearts failing them for 〈◊〉 and ●or 〈◊〉 after the thing● which are comming on the earth For the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall be 〈◊〉 c. Matth. 24. 30. Then shall the signe of the Son of man ap●ear in Heaven and all the tribes of the Earth shall 〈◊〉 Revel 20. 10. 〈◊〉 and Earth shall ●●e away before him Rev. 6. 18. The King Captains 〈◊〉 great men shall run into holes and corners 4. There will be a long 〈◊〉 terrible ●●und of a Trumpet made by Christs 〈◊〉 an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christs voice and the last Trump like unto that at the giving ●t the Law Exo. 19. 15. and as at their solemn meetings they did 〈◊〉 men together ●y a Trumpet so n●w by this Trump the dead in Christ shall be first raised and called before Christ and the rest of the dead afterwards Iohn 5 28. And by the Ministery of this and the rest of

10. 25. To these Christs comming and the last judgement will be very joyfull and acceptable But such as are not called out of the world and from their sins that are secure unregenerate that hate Gods people rejoyce in iniquity have not the spirit of Christ forsake the fellowship of Gods saints and ordinances profit not under them but grow worse and worse do not imploy or misimploy the Tallents God hath trusted them with are hurtfull intemperate filthy fierce that are impenitent unbeleeving Apostates hypocrites Idolaters whoremongers murderers lyars and such like have little cause to rejoyce in this day To all these Christs comming will be terrible and the judgement day a sad day as we shall shew you by and by Io. 3. 3. 1 Ioh. 2. 9. 1 Cor. 1● 6. Rom. 8. 9. Matt. 25. 14. c. 44. 49. c. 2 Thes 1. 8. Luke 13. 5. Rev. 21. 8 Heb. 10. 25. Matth. 24. 51. Luke 21. 34. The next Use shall be a use of Comfort to all believing Christians that have the characters of Christs Sheep we have before given upon them and truly to them the●e doe issue forth many streams of comfort from this doctrin of the last judgment and Christs Comming thereunto 1. It may comfort and quiet them against the fear of Condemnation for their sin for he that is their Saviour that dyed for them their intercessor their brother their friend their husband and head shall come to be their Iudge What need have they then to fear his severity or a hard or harsh sentence from him Or what reason have they to doubt of their cause how it shall go with them Io. 5. 22. The Father hath committed the judgment to him 2. It may comfort them against the meanesse and contempt of Christ the Christians God when he was in the world for he albeit he did then appear in weaknes and in a mean condition yet shall he appear the second time with power and great glory to the admiration of his friends and terrour of his enemies 2 Thess 1. 7 8 1● When the Lord Iesus shall shew himself from Heaven with his mighty Angels Inflaming fire c. When he shall come to be glorified in his Saints and to be made marvelous in all them that believe 3. It may comfort them against the horror of the grave and the corruption of the body for at Christs comming it shal be brought before him therefore it must be raised and restored Iob 19. 25. I know that my Redeemer liveth and he shall stand the last day on the earth c. 4. It may comfort them against persecutions for when Christ comes the persecuted shall be delivered and rewarded and the persecutor punished 2 Thess 1. 4 5. It is a righteous thing with God to recompence tribulation to them that trouble you and to you which are troubled rest with us When the Lord Iesus shall sh●w himself from heaven c. 5. It may comfort them against the ●ast Iudgment of men and things evill men and evill things are now called good and good evill Esay 5. 20. But at this last Iudgment all men and things shall appear in their colours and be seen to be as they are Matth. 10. 25 26. There is nothing covered that shall not be disclosed nor ●id that shall not be known and when shall this be if not at this day which shall be the day of the declaration of the just judgment of God Rom. 2. 5. and the time when God will lighten things that are hid in darknes and make the counsell of the heart manifest and then shall every man have praise of God 1 Cor. 4. 5. Rom. 14. 12 13. Then the righteous cause and person trodden down here shall have the upper hand Psal 49. 14. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning i at the day of the resurrection after the night of death and the grave is past Then it shall be known who was in fault Ioseph or his Mistress Gen. 39. 7 8. c. 17 18 19. Whether it were Ahab or Eliah that troubled Israel 1 Kings 18. 17 18. And whether Christ or the Scribes and Pharisees that did so much censure him were most faulty Then will it be seen who indeed is the hypocrite the factious seditious 〈◊〉 person who is the truly foole and who is the truly wise man there will be a resurrection of names as well as of bodi●s 6. It may comfort them against the injuries they su●●er by unjust Iudges and their unjust sentences Iam. 5. 6 7 8. Eccless 3. vers 16 17. 5. 8. Esdras 7. 32. the most high shall appear upon the seat of Iudgment and misery shall vanish 7. It may comfort them against all manner of misery and sorrow when Christ shall come to judgement all sorrow shall be done away and perfect deliverance shall come to them Then shall all tears be wiped away from their eyes Luke 21. 28. When yee see th●se things lift up your heads for your redemption draweth nigh It is called therefore a time of refreshing from the presence of the Lord. Acts 3. 19 20 21. This held up Iobs head above water who otherwise had been overwhelmed with the flouds of affliction Iob. 19 25. and Daniel 12. 1 2. and those Saints in Hebr. 11. 35. and as the summer after the winter so Heaven after these sorrows will be much the sweeter 8. This may comfort them against the dissolution of Heaven and Earth these shall be dissolved but we shall have new Heavens and a new Earth i we shall have them with renewed qualities shining with brightnes and glory somwhat proportionable to the Saints to delight their eyes and minds Wherein shall dwel righteousnesse i. none but righteous persons 2 Pet. 3. 12. Esay 1. 21. 9. This may comfort them in respect of all the good they do and evill they suffer it is perhaps little heeded of men they do as much as they can obscure it and the glory of the Saints for it when Christ comes to judgement he will trumpet out their praise Matth. 25. 35. I was hungry and yee fed me c. 1 Cor. 4. 5. Then shall every one have praise of God The next and last use we shall make of this point of the last judgment is a use of discomfort and reproof to two sorts of people 1. It is for the great terrour and fear and sharp reproof of all such as viewing themselves in the glass of the former discoveries find themselves to be not the Sheep of Christ but Goats as Murtherers Whoremongers Pornicators Sorocrers Lyars Persecutors Oppressors Buggerers Thieves Drunkards Raylors Extortioners Disobedient Unbelieving Idolatrous Ignorant Unregenerate Unpenitent Fearfull Hypocriticall Apostate Unprofitable Formall Persons and such as are ha●ers and despisers of Christ his People his Graces and Ordinances And yet if they think at all of the day of judgment and of Christs comming it is as of a day far off or a day that will not

with looking after the Mat. 24. 12. things which are comming on the world yet iniquity doth abound and the whole Earth seemeth to be filled with Gen. 6. 11. violence and wickednes and most men live as if there were neither God nor Devil Heaven nor Hell It is true these things are continually sounding in our ears and is it not as true and wo and alas that it is so they do for the most part as soon passe through the ears of the hearer as from the mouth of the speaker● Whence Vox audita perit Amos 6. 3. else is it that wicked men approach to the seat of iniquity but that they put far from them the evill day Whence is it that they cry peace peace and sing a requiem to their Souls with the fool in the gospel but 1 Thess 5. 3. 2. that they forget that sudden destruction is at hand and Luk. 12. 19 20 this night their soules may bee taken from them● whence is it that good mens hearts shake so at the present Heb. ●2 27. ●8 shaking of things in the world but that they have forgotten the Kingdome that cannot be shaken● whence is it that the good and bad both slumber and watch not but that they have forgotten that the comming of the Lord is nigh and he will come as a Mat. 25. 1 2 3 c. Thief in the night And whence is it tha● there is such an overflowing of sin in the world but from hence that men think not enough of these things For the prevention and cure therefore of these epidemicall evils I have gathered and bound up together these heavenly truths as medicine made of many ingredients and give it you in writing And oh that now we could perswade you to turn aside from you●●age● Litera Scripta manet pursuit of earthly things and come and see what it is and try what it wi●l do And for this may we prevail with you to look into them and keep them as a signe upon your hands as fron●●e●s between your eyes that you will write them on the posts of your houses and your gates or rather on the tables of your hearts that they being ever in your sight may be never out of Deut. 6. 6 7 8. your minde Remember and forget not that very shortly the grie●ly Serjeant Dea●h will a● rest you and clap you up in the Prison of the grave where you shal by and by heare the dreadfull vo●ce of the last T●ump● crying a wake ye dead and come to judgment look sometimes in at H●ll gates and think of the wrath to come and at other times take a view of the Heavenly Canaan and walk a turn or two in the Paradice of God If the thought of one of these how much more shall the thought of them all make us apply our hearts to wisdome Th●se thoughts w●ll 〈◊〉 lesse much settle the hearts of Saint in this shaking time 1 Cor 15. 31. Psal 1. 1. 5. Mat. ● 15. Col. 1. 12. Deut 32. 39. make them active for God careful to 〈◊〉 their 〈◊〉 so that they may be alwayes ready to dye able to stand in the Judgment sure to escape the damnation of Hell and to be made meet for the inheritance of the Saints in heaven And oh that men were thus wise to understand this to consider their latter end Thy Christian friend W. S. Of the foure last and great things Death Judgement Heaven and Hell and the things that concern the same Of Death DOCTRINE All men must die or There is an unavoidable necessity of dying laid upon all men Hebr. 9. 27. It is appointed to men once to die Psal ●9 48. What man is he that liveth and shall not see death not a man Eccles 6. 6. Doe not all go to one place Job 30. 23. I know thou wi●● bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living FOr the opening of this point we must say something to these three things First what this death whereof we speak is Secondly What necessity there is that all men must die this death Thirdly Wherefore this necessity is imposed upon mankinde and wherefore it is so For the first By death here we mean not the privation of our communion with God or the separation of soul and body from Gods favour in this world which is caused by sin and is called an alienation from the life of God or the second death or spirituall death Luke 1. 79. Ephes 2. 1 2 4. 18. or the separation of the whole man from Gods heavenly presence and glory to be punished with everlasting fire in Hell called eternall death or the perdition of soul and body in Hell or the second death And this is proper onely to wicked men and cannot touch the godly Rom. 6. 23. Revel 20. 6. 4. Rom. 8. 6. 2 Thess 1. 9. Matth. 10. 28. Rev. 2. 11. But by death in this place we intend the privation of the life of the body or the separation of the soul from the body for sin or the change of this mortall for an immortall life And this is called a bodily or worldly death or the first death And this death is common to all men good and bad Heb. 9. 27. 1 Cor. 15. 32. Gen. 5. 24. 35. This death is either naturall i. when a man liveth out his full daies and then dieth or violent i. when a mans death is hastened by some violent accident that a man doth kill himself or is killed by another Also it is said to be common and ordinary when it is by an ordinary or usual means or extraordinary when it is by some strange or unusuall m●ans Numb 16. 29. 〈◊〉 The necessity we here speak of is not absolute but limit●ed to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For he may if he please dispense with his own Law and the penalty thereof and exempt some men from this common lot of mankind as once 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who is said to be translated that he did not 〈◊〉 death Hebr. 11. 5. Gen. 5. 24. so afterwards Eli●h 2 Kings 2. 11. and as again he will do with those which shall be a live at Christs comming to judgement 1 Thess 4. 17. 1 Cor. 15. 51. W● shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed But in an ordinary way God hath appointed to all men once to die and to this law of the King of Kings must all men young and old rich and poor without difference of necessity submit For the third thing 1. That it is so and must be so that all men must die these reasons may be given for it 1 God in his eternall counsell hath decreed it Heb. 9. 27. It is appointed to men once to die And his counsell standeth fast for ever and the thoughts of his heart unto all generations Psal 33. 11. Esay 46. 10. We read in ●say 28. 15. of some that had made a Covenant with death That it should not come ●igh

14. 7 8. 5. And we are then like the Swan to endeavour to sing sweetest by our devout prayers and praises to God and gratious speeches to men So Iacob Gen. 49. David 2 Sam. 23 Christ Luke 23. 34. Stephen Acts 〈◊〉 56. Isaac Heb. 11. 22. Iob. Iob. 1. 21. we shall say somewhat more to this p●●nt in the next branch which we are now to descend unto 4. The fourth thing we are to be exhorted unto from this doctrine of the necessity of dying is to make a virtue of this necessity and not to fear death but when we see our time is come to die let us resolutely patiently and willingly undergo ●t A naturall and moderate fear of it as it is an Enemy to nature 〈◊〉 be cha●ged as an evill upon us being no other but what was in the 〈◊〉 h●●rt of Christ Jesus but an immoderate afflicting distracting fear of it is to be avoyded of all Christians And for the Cure hereof and our further fitting for death let us be well instructed in the nature thereof to a beleever as it is set forth in the Gospell wherein we have these considerations 1. That there is a necessity of it and it cannot be avoyded Psal 49. 7. 2. It is sancti●ed and sweetned by Christs death so as it is not now a curse but a blessing a passage a departure a change of roomes a going out of a worse place into a better 3. Assoon as the body goeth out of this world it goeth to a place of rest where it shall be troubled no more and then Gods Covenant of peace shall be made good to it And to speak properly the beleeving Christian doth not die he lyeth down to sleep in his bed for his death is but the bodies going to bed and to sleep after the many labours of the day of this life are ended out of which he shall awake after the night of death is past at the morning of the r●surrection to everlasting life and no s●oner is the soule out of the body then it is in possession thereof Esay 57. 2 3. The righteous are taken away c. he shall enter into peace they shall rest in their beds c. 2 King 32. 20. Thou shal s be gathered to thy fathers in●eace Matt. 9. 24. Acts 7. 60. He fell asleepe 4. The body by death is not reduced to nothing as the body of a bea●t is but it is only resolved to earth again where the ●otting of it is only to refine it that as the Corne which first di●●h it may arise more glorious 1 Cor. 15. 36. Gen. 3. 19. So that death to the Saints is neither totall but of the body only nor perpetuall but for a time only Rom. 8. 10. 5. God is as much the God of the dead as of the living beleever Mat. 22. 34. God is not the God of the dead but of the living i. his Covenant is with them to make them happy in communicating to them grace life and glory and this Covenant is with the body as well as with the soul Rom. 14. 8. Whether we live or die we are the Lords 6. The body and soul of a beleever notwithstanding the death of the body is still a member of Christ Ephe. 5. 30. Rom. 14. 8. Death devides us not from God but brings us home to him 7. God hath the power of death and the grave and his providence doth dispose thereof and of everything therein and he will be with the beleever in this estate to support him under and deliver him out of it and to turn it to his good and he w●● not leave him till he hath settled his soul and body in heaven Rev. 18. I have the Keyes of Hell and Death i. power to keep from or deliver to death Iude verse 9. Acts 4. 28. Psalm 16. 10. 11. Thou wi●● not leave my Soule in grave nor suffer thi●● holy one to see corruption Heb. 2. 14 15. Acts 2. 24. Psalm 116. 15. The death of his Saints is pretious to him 1. either God will preserve them from wicked hands or will sharply revenge their death on them that kill them Acts 20. 24. 2 Kings 1. 13. Psal 72. 14. 8. The death of the beleever cannot seperate his soul from Christs love to it or its love to Christ Iohn 11. 5. 20. 3. 1. Rom. 8. 38. 39. What shall sep●rate us from the love of Christ Shall death c. 9. Death reacheth to the body only and not to the soul Mat. 10. 28. Feare not them which kill the body but are not able to kill the Soule c. 10. By death God requireth again of us that soul he ●●usted us with and every honest man will willingly deliver up his trust when it is required Eocles 12. 12. 11. The sting of death is now taken away to the beleever that it cannot hurt him 1 Cor. 15. 55. Buzze it may snake whose sting ●● pulled out 1● The Angels will be ready to receive and carry the beleevers sould into the presence of the God of peace in Heaven Luke 16. 22. 23. Death shall be destroyed and it is the last Enemy that shall be destroyed ●evel 20 v. 14. ● C●rin●h 15. v. 26. Rev. 20. 14. 14. The body of the beleever shall be gloriously raised after death to die no more for then death shall be swallowed up into victory and body and soul united and placed in eternall felicity for the soul being loosed out of prison the body may not be kept in prison 2 Cor. ● 1. Rev. 21. 4. 20. 13. 1 Thes 4. 13. Psalm 49. 14 15 16. 8 9. 1 Cor. 15. 43. Iohn 6. 39. Rom. 8. 11. To say all in one word death to the beleever makes a happy change and doth infinitly better his condition for it ●reeth him from all evill and puts him in possession of all good It ●reeth him from the evill of sin and pun●●●ment felt and feared present and to come and puts an end to all his cares fears teares labours griefs combats with sin the world and the Devill for in death he gets beyond and above them all It is a passage and going from Aegyt to Canaan out of an old rotten house wherein a man hath no estate at all into a glorious Mansion and Kingly pallace of his own inheritance the going out of a base prison to a glorious liberty the return from a banishment to his own Country and home the comming to the haven after a long and dangerous voyage by sea It is a going to bed after a man hath laboured hard all day and is ●yred and weary It is a going from corruption to incorruption from mortallity to immortallity from death to life from earth to heaven from a miserable to a happy life It is the putting off a mans old ragged Cloathes to put on princely robes It is a loosing from the shore and a lanching out into the main to take possession of a Kingdome It is the