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A02223	The great day, or, A sermon, setting forth the desperate estate and condition of the wicked at the day of iudgement Preached at Saint Andrews in Holborne at London By Nathaniel Grenfield, Master of Artes, and preacher of the Word of God at Whit-field in Oxfordshire.	Grenfield, Nathaniel, b. 1588 or 9.	1615 (1615)	STC 12358; ESTC S118555	51,838	174

wicked Infidels shall be iudged the one being cleared the other condemned in their owne conscience Ambrose thinketh that the righteous only shall come into Iudgement quia festinant innoxij adiudicium the righteous they do hasten to Iudgement and long to heare that cōfortable sentence pronounced Come yee blessed of my Father c. But the places may better be reconciled thus there is a twofold Iudgement a Iudgement of absolution and a Iudgement of condemnation The wicked shall not stand in that Iudgement which the righteous shall receiue as namely to bee quitted and absolued The latter part of the verse thus expounding the former nor the sinners in the assembly of the righteous and the righteous shall not come into Iudgement that is shall not bee condemned with the wicked for they shall both be iudged apart the one at the right hand Mat. 25.34.41 Non iudicabitur .i. no● condemnabitur Irenaeus the other at the left hand of Christ and shall receiue a farre different doome as farre as a curse differs from a blessing hell from heauen so that the Texts alleaged are thus to bee reconciled The righteous shall not come into Iudgement that is into condemnation the wicked shall not stand in Iudgement that is they shall be conuinced in their owne conscience of the iust sentence and deserued condemnation that they shall not be able to gaine say or contradict Now the strictnesse of their account will appeare if wee consider how many things they shall bee call'd vnto an account for First De cogitationibus of the thoughts of our heartes though neuer so secretly contriued though neuer vttered by the tongue though neuer acted by the hand yet if there be a deliberate consent and free approbation of the will and affections and a full resolution to put the same in practice if we had place and fit opportunitie I say this sinne of thought shall not goe for nought at the day of Iudgement else why should the Lord take notice of all the imaginations of the thoughts of his heart Genes 6.5 why should the Lord desire so much the heart My sonne giue mee thy heart but because it is the roote and fountaine either of good or euill If it be the storehouse of good things and Treasurie of diuine meditations it is a Temple meete for God to dwell in but if it bee a cage of vncleane birds of euill thoughts it is already possessed with so many deuils If the euil thoughts of the heart were not sinnes and so by a consequent come to Iudgement Why should the Lord stile himselfe the searcher of the heart and trier of the reines were it not so punish according to the saying of the Wise man There shall inquisition be made for the thoughts of the vngodly there shall not a wicked thought passe in Iudgement Wis 1.9 If adultery be a sinne and lusting after a woman though it breakes not out into act be adulterie Matth. 5.28 And no adulterer shall enter into the Kingdome of Heauen 1. Cor. 6.9.10 then are the thoughts of the heart sinne and so by a consequent they shall come to Iudgement and shall preuaile in Iudgement If manslaughter be a sinne as indeede it is a crying sinne 1. Ioh. 4.15 and if he that hateth his brother be a manslayer and no man-slayer shall inherit the Kingdome of Heauen Reuel 21.8 then are the thoughts of the heart sinne and they shall bee brought foorth to the condemnation of the wicked at the day of Iudgement Hence is it that our Sauiour Christ so sharpely inueigheth against the Scribes and Pharises who stood so much vpon their owne righteousnesse in fulfilling the Law thinking that if they did not violate the Law in act by killing or committing adultery or by any other actuall transgression contrary to the Law of God that they had performed the Law to a haires bredth But our Sauiour reproouing them and their righteousnesse which they did so much extol that they should not enter into the Kingdome of Heauen notwithstanding this their righteousnesse sheweth that there was a stricter course required in performing the Law for whosoeuer is angry with his brother vnaduisedly shall bee culpable of iudgement Matth. 5.22 The Law condemneth euery inclination to be euill and the heart doth kill as well as the hand in will in wish in desire the heart committeth adultery the heart doth steale as well or rather ill as the outward members For if we consent to those wicked motions suggested by Satan though wee neuer performe them outwardly in act yet before God wee haue done the sinne and if the thought bee truly sinne farre greater is that sinne of act Yea the sinne of thought is not onely a sinne but is the very originall the fountaine and roote from whence all other sinnes do spring and therefore saith our Sauiour Christ That which goeth into the man defileth not the man but those things which come forth from the hart as euil thoughts murders adulteries fornications thefts false witnesses blasphemies these defile the man Mat. 15.19 So that there is not a sinne of what nature soeuer great or small from the least infirmitie to the highest blasphemie but it had its first beginning from the heart thought is the seede of all sins and though but a spark at the first yet wil it encrease into a flame if it be not repressed For this is sins gradation first Hall Meditat there is presented a fit obiect from the obiect is raised an il suggestion suggestion brings on delight delight consent consent endeuour endeuour practice practice custome custome excuse excuse defence defence obstinacie obstinacy boasting of sinne and boasting of sinne a reprobate sense when the custome of sinne hath taken away the sense of sinne and miserable man is sold as a bondslaue vnto Satan to commit wickednes euen with greedines And therefore Salomons counsel in this kind is very worthy to be embraced Keepe thine heart with all diligence for thereout commeth life If thou keepest it not diligently and warily thereout will proceed death Prouerbs 4.23 As Christs aduice vnto the Church is that the little * Heresies Foxes be taken and bee kild whilest they are but Cubs not that they can doe much harme but if they liue vntill they bee Foxes they will spoile kill and make a prey of any thing whatsoeuer euen so the thoughts of the heart at the first may seeme to be but small sinnes but if they bee not slaine at the first and smothered as soone as they be conceiued they will breake forth into actuall transgressions and so lade the soule with sinne kill therfore these Cockatrices in the egge slay them whilest they be but Cubs Oh happie is he that taketh these young children and dasheth their braines against the stones and so much the rather because they are sinnes and shall come to Iudgement for the Lord shall iudge the secrets of men Rom. 2.16 Secondly Inquisition shall not

witnesse against the wicked at that day But farre greater is the royalty of Gods children they haue gards of Angels thousands of Angels doe inuiron them about and defend them from all their foes though neuer so many neuer so mighty sometime striking off the fetters in which they are tyed prisoners and making passage for them by throwing open the dores of the prison and as these swift-winked messengers doe obserue the wayes of the wicked whose ministery they haue abused and as they haue presumed to commit sin in the sight of the Angels the Angels being spectators and eye-witnesses to all their actions shall bee produced as so many accusers at the day of Iudgement Tremble then thou profane and loose liuer that darest to cōmit that in the sight of the Angels which thou fearest to doe in the sight of little children The fourth sort of accusers are the Saints before them whom they haue despised scorned and abused in this life whom they haue accounted as the scumme and the off-scowring of all things men vnworthy to liue whom they haue had in derision and a prouerbe of reproch as the wicked haue iudged the godly at their pleasure so the Saints then shal iudge the wicked the world that is the company of the wicked and they that in this life haue been made the foote-stooles of the wicked shall then sit vpon Thrones iudging the twelue Tribes of Israel Matth. 19.28 The fifth sort of witnesses are the wicked witnessing against the wicked The men of Niniue saith our Sauiour Christ shall rise vp with this generation and shall condemne it the Queene of the South shall rise vp with this generation in the Iudgement and shall condemne it Matth. 12.40.41 Tyre and Sydon shall witnesse against Corazin and Bethsaida Sodom and Gomorrah against Capernaum Ephraim against Manasses Manasses against Ephraim the Pharises against the Sadduces the Sadduces against the Pharisees the Pope against the Turke the Turke against the Pope and they that know not whether there bee a holy Ghost or no shall witnesse against the formall Protestants of our time who often talke of the Spirit and yet walk after the flesh hauing a shew of godlinesse and yet denie the power thereof yea and not onely so but birds of a feather such as haue been companions in sinne and haue had fellowship in the vnfruitfull workes of darknesse shal witnes one against another the Egyptians against the Egyptians the swearer against the swearer the Extortioner against the Extortioner the Vsurer against the Vsurer the Drunkard against the Drunkard and they that haue slept in the same bed of sin the Adulterer against the Adulteresse one wicked wretch shal witnes against onother at the day of Iudgement And what know we but that the Satyrs of Virginia may witnesse against many seeming Saints in England at that day they vnto whom the light of the Gospell hath not dawned as yet but are nuzled in darknesse bred in blindnesse and led along in ignorance shal doubtlesse witnesse against many of vs that liue vnder the sound of the Word enioying the free passage of the Gospell the pure preaching of the Word of God in season and out of season that haue had so many Sermons of repentance that haue had so many threats of Gods Iudgements denounced against vs and yet wee perseuere in the same sinnes which wee finde condemed by the Word for where grace is most plentiful there sin is most sinful doubtlesse the Heathens Pagans and Infidels Whores and Harlots shall enter into the Kingdome of Heauen before such as turne the grace of God into wantonnesse Neither shall the wicked onely one witnesse against another but they shal all witnes against themselues Out of the hellish horror of a distracting conscience they shall witnesse against themselues and pronounce themselues guiltie of euerlasting condemnation for when the Ancient of daies shall sit downe vpon his white Throne before whom Heauen and Earth fled away then shall the Bookes be opened and the Bookes are two the Booke of the Law and the Book of thine owne conscience The Law will pleade for transgression of her Precepts and will tell thee what thou shouldest haue done thy conscience will present vnto thy view the things which thou hast done and shall pronounce the sentence of condemnation with so shrill a voice that thy deafest eare may heare it this booke of conscience is in thine owne keeping lockt vp within the closet of thine owne bosome none can falsifie it neither is there any thing written in this booke but what thine owne hand hath subscribed therunto therfore thou canst not take any exception against it As was Gods proceeding against Iuda and Ierusalem such shall his proceeding bee against the wicked at the day of Iudgement before he pronounced their Iudgement hee appealed vnto their owne consciences whether they had not deserued that God should vtterly reiect and forsake them O Inhabitants of Ierusalem and men of Iudah iudge Isaiah 5. I pray you betwixt mee and my Vineyard Iudge you that is looke into your owne consciences and there reade your owne sinnes and iudge whether you haue not deserued that I should take away the hedge that is leaue off to defend you from your enemies and suffer the Babylonians to inuade and spoile you Make you desolate that is destitute of politicall gouernment and that Briers and Thornes should grow vp that is many of you carried away vnto the Idolatrie and other sins of the Babylonians and that the clouds should raine no raine that is that you should be depriued of all kind of comforts in your captiuitie altogether pining with sorrow Psalm 137 sitting downe by the waters of Babylon weeping and hanging vp your Harps vpon the Willow trees that are therein So shall it bee at the day of Iudgement God will appeale vnto the consciences of the wicked and the consciences of the wicked shal frame that desperate conclusion of euerlasting condemnation against themselues They shall not bee brought to the fight of their sinnes by parables as Iuda and Ierusalem here or as Dauid 1. Sam. 12. But their sinnes shall be written in the book of their conscience in such great capitall Letters that he that runnes may reade it and so shall they be euidently conuicted and conuinced by the contents of this booke and testimony of their owne conscience so that as Eliphaz said falsely of Iob thine owne mouth and not I condemne thee shall the iust Iudge of all things at that day speake truly vnto thee by the mouth of thine owne conscience O thou euill seruant thine owne conscience bearing witnesse against thee will I condemne thee Ascendat itaque homo tribunal mentis suae si timet illud meminerit quod oportet eum ante tribunal Christi exhiberi August Hom. 50. Quicquid enim erubescimus confiteri hoe totum proprijs linguis coram totomundo proclam abimus Et apertis conscientiarum libris singulis manifestabimus