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judgement_n	according_a	judge_v	righteousness_n	1,406	5	7.1256	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45484	A map of judgement, or, A pattern for judges delivered in a sermon at the Assizes holden at Guildford-in-Surrey, July 23d, 1666 before Sr. Orlando Bridgeman, Kt., Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Sr. Samuel Brown, Kt. / by W. Hampton ...	Hampton, William, 1599 or 1600-1677.	1667 (1667)	Wing H635; ESTC R21596	21,322	25

in our time all the signs preceding fore-told by our Lord and his holy Apostles being fulfilled except the calling of the Jews which how soon when and in what manner it shall be we know not Behold the Judge standeth even at the door Yet a very little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry Heb. 10. The world is now in decrepito statu● in a declining condition drawing the last breath at the last cast at the last gaspe As man who is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a little world so the world which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a great man as the Philosopher speaks hath its infancy childe-hood youth middle age old age The time saith St. Austin from Adam to Noah was the worlds infancy from Noah to Abraham its childe-hood from Abraham to David its youth from David to the Captivity of Babylon its middle age from the Captivity of Babylon unto Christ its old age from Christ unto the end of all things its dotage for ever since the world hath as it were gone upon Crutches and therefore now cannot stand long if St. Johns age were ultima hora the last hour surely our times are the last minute of the hour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith St. Paul the time is short the sails are wrapp'd up the Ship is even at hand let us therefore use this world as if we used it not Let this shortness and speediness hasten us to a speedy preparation the uncertainty of this day to a daily and continual preparation for that which St. Austin said of the day of death may as well be said of the day of Judgement why did God hide from us the day of our death was it not that every day we should be prepared ideolatet ultimus dies observer un c●mis dies The last day is concealed that every day may be observed So if any demand why hath God hid from us this day of Judgement why doth no man know when it shall be I answer It is because we should alwaies watch and wait for it and as St. Jerome speaks so lead the course of our lives every day as if to morrow should be Dooms-day This Application let us make of it alwaies to Prepare Because then God will deal with every man according as hee findes him he that is found smiting his fellow Servants eating and drinking with the drunken shall be cut in pieces and have his portion with the Hypocrites but he that is found doing the command of our great Master shall enter into eternal joy for then God will deal to every man his right and reward him according to his deservings And so I come to the last querie or part of my Text Quomodo How he shall Judge and that is secundum norman justitiae according to the rule of justice according to equity according to right Shall not the Judge of all the Earth do right Righteous is the Lord in all his judgements with righteousness shall he judge the world and the peole with equity Psal 98.10 Some Examples of his Justice he gives in this present world as fore-runners of his upright dealing in the future world rewarding the wicked according to the nature and quality of their sins paying them just as they have deserved measuring to them the same measure they have measured and punishing them in the same kinde wherein they offended It is said Wisd 11.15 16. That for their foolish devices in worshipping Serpents void of reason and vile Beasts God sent a multitude of unreasonable beasts upon them for vengeance that they might know that wherewithal a man sinneth by the same also shall he be punished So Hab. 2.8 Because thou hast spoiled many Nations all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee and Jer. 30.16 All they that devour thee shall be devoured and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey And for proof of this I might bring a cloud of witnesses and Examples Sodomiticae illae civitates c. saith St. Austin Those Sodomitical Cities that burned with filthy lusts were justly burned with fire from above and as they made a Hell upon earth by their beastliness and uncleanness so Gehennam misit è Coele as Silvianus speaks he sent a Hell out of Heaven to consume them for it Pharaoh that caused the silly Infants to be drowned in the River Nilus was himself and all his Host drowned in the Red Sea Adonibezeck that caused seventy Kings having the Thumbs of their right hands and great Toes cut off to gather crumbs under his Table was served with the same sawce by Judah As I have done so hath God rewarded me Judges 1.7 Judah did it yet he confesseth Gods Justice in it The Dogs ear the flesh of Jezabel because she made them lick the blood of Nuboth Haman hangs on his own Gallows which he prepared for Mordecai As Agags sword had made many women childeless so was his Mother by the sword made childless among women Maxentius falls into the same trap which he laid for Constantine his Lord and Master Pope Alexander the sixth by the mistake of his Butler was poisoned with the same Bottle wherewith he intended to dispatch his Cardinals That brand of Hell Pope Hildebrand Agent was slain with the same instrument wherewith he was hired to slay Henry the Emperour This Emperour being at Rome used every morning to pray in St. Maries on Mount Aventine Hildebrand suborned a wicked villain secretly to convey up to the rafters of the Church great and massie stones and so to dispose them that as the Emperour was kneeling at his devotions they might fall down upon his head and dash but his brains but as this wretch the minister of Popish cruelty was hastening his design and sitting a massie stone for the execution of his Treason the stone fell down and beat him down withall which falling on the pavement by the just Judgment of God dashed in pieces the carkass of that traiterous workman How miraculously doth he reveal murthers revenging blood with blood how frequently doth he give them their fill of blood who delight in blood As 't is written of Cyrus King of Persia who had been the occasion of much blood-shed that being taken by Tomyres Queen of Scythia she struck off his head and put it into a hogs-head of mans blood with this exprobration of his cruelty satiate sunguine quem fuisti cujus insatiabilis fuisti Glut thy self and take thy fill of blood which thou hast alwaies thirsted after and of which thou hast been unsatiable The like almost we read of Joab a man of blood who shed the blood of war in peace and put the blood of war upon his girdle at was about his joyns and in the shoos that were on his feet basely 〈◊〉 treacherously killing Honer the Son of Ner and Amasa the Son of Jether and though by his power and greatness he long