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honour_n	eternal_a	glory_n	immortality_n	1,513	5	10.0609	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59835	A practical discourse concerning a future judgment by William Sherlock ...	Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.	1692 (1692)	Wing S3307; ESTC R14162	228,802	551

careful of our Words CHAP. VII Concerning the Righteousness of the Future Iudgment and the Rule whereby we shall be judged ST Paul tells us That God will judge the world in righteousness which had been a terrible saying did Righteousness always signifie strict and severe Justice For who then could be saved But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies Mercy Goodness Equity as well as Justice or Justice tempered with Equity and Mercy And what the Apostle adds That God will judge the World in Righteousness by that man whom be hath ordained that is by Christ Jesus proves that Righteousness signifies an equal kind and merciful Justice For Christ is a Mediatory King and a Mediatory Judge He judges between God and Man He sets Bounds and Measures to Justice and makes allowances for the folly and weakness of Human Nature and with a Soveraign Authority dispenses not only the Justice but the Mercies of God When God appoints the Great High-Priest and Mediator to be the Judge of the World all Mankind may expect a very merciful Judge for the High-Priest and Mediator must judge with Equity and Mercy or else he does not maintain his Character of Mediator when he judges and yet the Final Judgment is the concluding Act of his Mediatory Kingdom and therefore an Act of his Mediation We know not certainly how God will deal with the Heathen World who never heard of Christ and never had the Gospel preached to them but it seems to look very favourably on them that the Saviour of Mankind the merciful and compassionate Jesus is their Judge also which promises all the Mercy that their Condition is capable of and how much that is we cannot tell for the Saviour of the World must judge with Mercy and Equity not by the Rules of severe and rigo●ous Justice Of which more presently Leaving then the Heathen World to the Mercies of God which are over all his Works it more concerns us to enquire by what Rule Christ will judge us who have had the Gospel preached to us Now in general St. Paul tells us God will judge the secrets of men by Christ Iesus according to my Gospel 2 Rom. 16. that is by the Gospel which I preach The Gospel of our Saviour is the Rule whereby we shall be judged by which our Lives and Actions shall be examined and as the Gospel acquits or condemns any Man so he shall be acquitted or condemned at the last Judgment So that we need not go far to know what our Doom shall be we need not search into the secret and hidden Counsels of God the Gospel lies open before us and though we cannot find our Names there we may read our Sentence for God will render to every man according to his deeds To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality eternal life but unto them that are contentious and do not obey the truth but obey unrighteousness indignation and wrath Tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doth evil of the Iew first and also of the Gentile but glory honour and peace to every man that worketh good to the Iew first and also to the Gentiles for there is no respect of persons with God 2 Rom. 6 7 8 9 10 11. What this good and this evil is the Gospel acquaints us and if we do what the Gospel commands we shall be acquitted and rewarded if we do what it forbids we shall be condemned So that we certainly know that all wicked Men who live in the wilful commission of any known sin shall be finally condemned Christ will at that Day profess unto them I never knew you depart from me ye that work iniquity 7 Mat. 23. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God be not deceived neither Fornicators nor Idolaters nor Adulterers nor Effeminate nor Abusers of themselves with Mankind nor Thieves nor Covetous nor Drunkards nor Revilers nor Extortioners shall inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6.9 10. But the righteous shall shine forth like the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father And who these Righteous are St. Iohn tells us Little children let no man deceive you he that doth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous He that committeth sin is of the devil for the devil sinneth from the beginning for this purpose was the Son of God manifested that he might destroy the works of the devil Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot sin because he is born of God in this the children of God are manifested and the children of the devil Whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God neither he that loveth not his brother 1 Joh. 3.7 8 9 10. This is very plain and so expresly taught in Scripture that every Man may as certainly know whether he shall be saved or damned at the last Day as he can know whether he be a good or a bad Man whether he doth righteousness or commits iniquity But most Men are conscious to themselves of so much wickedness that they don't love to hear of this For what will become of them if they must be rewarded or punished according to their Works What difference is there between the Law and the Gospel if they must still be judged according to their Works For what could the Law do more than condemn the wicked and reward the good But they are very Sound and Orthodox Believers they believe in God who justifieth the ungodly they believe in Christ and trust in him for Salvation and there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Iesus they expect to be justified by Faith to be saved by Grace and that without the works of the law And what has the Law then to do to condemn them who believe in Christ who have satisfied the Law in Christ who have fulfilled the Law in him who are washed from their sins in his Blood and are clothed with his Righteousness imputed to them Those who are not in Christ must indeed be judged by their Works but all true Believers are justified by their Faith and saved by Grace Now it must be confessed this is very expresly taught in Scripture that we are justified by Faith and saved by Grace and that without the Works of the Law By the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifest being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets even the righteousness of God which is by faith in Iesus Christ Being justified freely by his grace thorough the redemption which is in Christ Iesus whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through Faith in his blood to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past through the forbearance of God That Abraham our Father was not justified by Works but by Faith That being justified by faith we