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judgement_n	according_a	appearance_n	judge_v	2,239	5	7.7140	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77664	A rare paterne of iustice and mercy; exemplified in the many notable, and charitable legacies of Sr. Iames Cambel, Knight, and alderman of London, deceased : worthy imitation. Whereunto is annexed A meteor, and A starre : or, Briefe and pleasant meditations of Gods providence to his chosen, of the education of children and of the vertue of love; with other poems. / By Edw: Browne.	Browne, Edward.	1642 (1642)	Wing B5105; Thomason E1109_1; ESTC R208421	51,495	182

the objections of these men and makes this the foot of his song Thou wilt say unto me have not many just men perished by shipwracke certainly hee cannot die ill which live● well Have not many just men been● slain by the enemies sword Certainly he cannot die ill which lived well Have not many just men beene kille● by theeves Have not many righteou● men beene torne in pieces by wild● beasts Certainly hee cannot die il● which lived well c. But I will say unto such as censure the righteous for their strange and violen● death as Christ said of thos● eighteene upon whom the wa 〈…〉 of Siloam fel and slew them Think yee that these were greater sinners then others I tell you nay but except ye repent ye all shall likewise perish As for sudden death it is evill to them which lead an evill life because it findes them unpr●pared it carries them away suddenly unto torment but it is not evill to them which live well because it findes them prepared it frees them from much paine which others endure through long sicknesse and carries them forthwith to the place where they desire to be The righteous doe so dispose of themselves in the morning as if they might die before night and at night as if they might die before morning and therefore whensoever death comes it finds them prepared and is a benefit unto them 2 Againe if the righteous a little before death bee dangerously tempted by Satan and shew their infirmitie by uttering some speeches which tend to doubting or desperation though afterward they get victorie and triumph over the divel carnall people think there is no peace of conscience and therefore no salvation to bee had by that religion and so speake evill of it Let such consider the estate of Iob in his misery who cursing the day of his birth said that the arrowes of the Almighty did sticke in him the venome whereof had drunke up his spirit that the terrors of God did fight against him that the Lord was his enemie did write bitter things against him and did set him as a butt to shoot at As also the estate of David through terror of conscience while he concealed his ●inne His bones consumed he roared all the day long his moisture was turned into the drought of summer Againe let them know that the devill doth most tempt the best Hee then tempted Christ when hee was baptized and filled with the holy Ghost so will he most tempt Christians when they have received greatest gifts of Gods Spirit As theeves labour to breake downe and rob those houses onely where great store of treasure or wealth is laid up and as Pyrates desire to take that ship which is best loaden with the dearest merchandize so the Divell doth most seeke to make a prey of them which are endued with the greatest measure of spirituall graces When the strong man armed keepeth the house the things that he possesseth are in peace but when a stronger then he overcommeth him then he gathereth greater forces and makes a new assault to enter againe In any commotion whom doe Rebels kill and spoil not those which submit themselves unto them and joyne with them in their rebellion but those which are faithfull unto their Prince and fight for their Prince against them as doth appeare now in the Rebels of Ireland Now the Divell is as a Rebell in the Lords Kingdome whom then will he most trouble and assault not the wicked which submit themselves unto him and joyne with him in rebellion against God but the godly which abide faithfull fight under the Lords banners against him Whosoever would reigne with Christ in heaven must overcome the Divell on earth for he promiseth To him that overcommeth will I grant to sit with me in my throne even as I overcame and sit with my Father in his Throne How can there be a victory where there is no battell And how can there be any battell where there is not assaulting and resisting And no marvell though the Divell doe most assault the righteous at their death for he taketh the opportunitie of the time his wrath is then great knowing that hee hath but a short time Hee must either overcome them at that instant or else not at all yea he takes the advantage of their present weakness and those sinnes which before he perswaded people to be small and light at the time of death hee maketh great and heavie Even as a tree or piece of wood while it swims in a river seemeth to be light and one may easily draw it but when it comes to the shore and is laid upon dry ground can scarcely be drawne by ten men so sinne is made light by the Divell so long as men live that so hee may still encourage them to practise it but when it comes to the shore of death then hee makes it heavie and begins most to trouble their consciences with it that if it were possible they might by it bee brought to desperation In the middest of the tentation when the godly seeme most to overcome who lyes as though hee were dead yet hee hath life in him and therefore as Paul saw that life was in Eutiches embraced him and delivered him alive when the people tooke him up for dead and he will at last so restore them as that they shall live for ever 3 Lastly others beholding them which were reputed righteous to die very strangely to rave to blaspheme to utter many idle and impious speeches to bee unruly and behave themselves very foolishly they begin to suspect their profession but let them know that these things may arise from the extremity of their disease For in hot Fevers and burning Agues the choler ascending into the braine will hinder the use of understanding and so cause them thus to misbehave themselves rather like mad men then Christians And therefore as Paul said of himselfe after regeneration It is no more I that doe it but the sin that dwelleth in me so may I say of them it is not they which doe it but the disease which is upon them All sinnes committed by the righteous in those extremities are but sinnes of ignorance because they want the use of reason to judge of sinne they are also sinnes of infirmitie arising from the frailty of their flesh and for them they wil afterward repent if they recover the use of reason and bee able to know them to be sinnes or if they doe not they are freely pardoned in the death of Christ as well as other sinnes bee Wherefore I say to those which censure them uncharitably for that their end as Christ said to the Jewes for their carnall censure of him Iudge not according to the appearance but judge righteous judgement yea judge not that yee bee not judged For rather then rashly judge of others those which survive the righteous have just cause to feare some present evils and labour by unfained repentance if it