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A19279 The true and perfect copie of a godly sermon preached in the minister at Lincolne, by the reuerend father in God, Thomas L. Bishop of Lincolne the .28. of August. Anno. 1575. Cooper, Thomas, 1517?-1594. 1575 (1575) STC 5691; ESTC S111168 25,439 76

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what vnestimable power is he which hath a thousand thousand that is an infinite number of Angels and Archangels of powers and principalities and dominions attending on him at his commandemēt to execute what soeuer iudgement he shal appoint them The Bookes that are laid open doe descriue vnto vs the detection of al mens faultes and the opening euen of their secret thoughts and déedes For the iustice of God hath kept as it were a perfite register of al things euē of our idle thoghts words so that our consciences shall be at that day straightly burdened and charged with them al. Not muche differinge from these wordes of the Prophet is that discription of Christes comming whiche S. John vseth in his Reuelation And I savv heauen open and behold a white horse and he that fate vpon him vvas called Faithful and true and in righteousnes he doth iudge and make battaile his eyes were as a flame of fire on his head were many crownes he had a name vvriten that no man knew but himselfe And he vvas cloathed in a vesture dieped in bloud his name is called the vvorde of god And the armies that vvere in heauen follovved him vpon vvhite horses cloathed vvith vvhite and pure raynes In this discription the white horse issuing out of heauen is the pure and sincere doctrine of the Gospell sent from God in these latter dayes before the last appearing of Christ For by the preaching of the Gospell as by an horse or chariot Christ is caryed He that sitteth on this horse is Christ himselfe beeinge faithful in all his promises and verie trueth it selfe who commeth to iudge the world in righteousnes and in battell by force of trueth to ouercome Antichrist and all his enemies His eyes like flaming fire declareth his wrath and vehement displeasure against the aduersaries of his trueth He hath many crowns vpon his head to declare that he is king of kings and Lord of Lordes that al power both in heauen and earth is giuen to him and that it is in his power with the crown of glorie to rewarde all his faithfull seruants that haue constantly fought vnder his banner against the deuil Antichrist His garment dieped in bloud signifieth that the conquest of his enemies consisteth in his passion sheading of his most precious bloud for thereby sinne was taken away and the power of Satan ouerthrowen The armies of heauen follovving him on vvhite horses and apparelled in vvhite and pure reynes Be the number of his saints and faithfull professours of his Gospel which in this vale of miserie haue constantly fought against the enemies of his trueth The sworde that issueth out of his mouth is the woorde of God and principally that two edged sworde of his sentence at the latter day by which he shal pronounce on the one side Goe ye blessed of my father inherit the kingdome that hath bene prepared for you since the foundation of the vvorlde and cōtrariewise vnto the wicked ones on the left hand depart from me ye cursed into euerlasting fire vvhich is prepared for the deuil and his Angels By this discription of the last iudgement left vnto vs by the holy Ghoste in the scriptures of god we may know that at that day we shal not haue to do with a common fraile man but with a most dreadful Lord terrible Judge y knoweth the verie secretes of mens heartes and iudgeth according to perfite righteousnes Whom as Augustine saith neither fauoure can peruert nor mercie bend nor money corrupt nor satisfaction and repentance at that day can aswage Whose beautie and brightnesse is such as darkeneth euen the starres of heauen whose might is so great as it melteth mountaines and the whole frame of the worlde before him whose wisdome is so perfect that by it the wisell of the worlde are intrapped in their owne craftinesse whose puritie is so excellent that in respect of it all things are vncleane whose iustice is so exquisite that the verie Angels are not able to abide that straight measure of it Before this God I say before this Judge shal the whole worlde at that day appeare and yéelde a most straight accompt of all things that euer they haue done spokē or thought Oh dearely beloued let vs followe therefore the counsaile of that good father Ephrem the Syrian Preparemus nos sine macula inueniri in terribili illo Christi examine c. Let vs prepare our selues that in that dreadfull examination of Christe we may be found without spot For then al our thoughts wordes and déedes shall be reproued and conuinced of corruption yea our idle talke our lose and vncomely gestures and all our smallest offences shall be layde to our charge Yea those things wherein in this lyfe we did put our greatest pleasure and glory shall then be vnto vs our greatest griefe and torment Let vs therefore in time repent and before hande enter into a straight account with our selfe for as the same father addeth omnia dura aspera amara occurrent hijs qui poenitentiae tempus perdiderunt All thinges shall be harde grieuons and vnpleasant to them that léese the time of their repentance in this life In that day sayth Bernarde for the wicked to hide them it shal be vnpossible though they desire the mountaines and rockes to fall vpon them and to appeare before the Judge it shall be vntollerable For in so great distresse their owne consciences shall torment them and the secretes of their heart shall vexe them while their owne heartes shall force them to be their owne accusers and with trembling spirits they shal stand looking for that moste grieuous and dreadfull sentence Goe you cursed into euer lasting fire If there be any so obstinat wicked and forlorne in sinne as he trembleth not at the cogitation of these things Let him imagine that whiche shall be most certemly true that he heareth that hydeous sounde of the last trumpe and voyce of the Archangell summoning all fleshe to the iudgement seate of God that he séeth the heauens melting with fire and the whole world burning about him that aboue him he seeth the sonne of God comming with the glorious armie of his Saintes and Angels that before him he seeth layde open the booke of all his wicked thoughtes wordes and déedes that within him he féeleth the worme of his conscience gnawing with perpetual torment that beneath him he séeth hell mouth readie to swallowe him that he séeth in euery quarter the Angels of God gathering together his electe and reiecting him as a wicked reprobate that on his right and left hand he beholdeth cruel fendes watching vpon the sentence of the iudge to carie him to that place where shal be perpetual flame without quenching wéeping and gnashing of téeth without ending darkenesse without light griefe without ease sorow without comfort where death shall be wished for and neuer obteined where shall be nothing but lothsomnesse horror stench