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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

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

and is called dictum domus Eliae the saying of the schole of Elias and is attributed to the sonne of the widowe which Elias raysed from death to lyfe The summe of it is that the worlde should remayne sixe thousande yeres that is two thousand before the law two thousand vnder the lawe and two thousand vnder Messiah The first foure thousande we sée by iust computation fulfilled before Christe of the last two one and more then an halfe is passed nowe if we call to our remembrance that Christe him selfe hath promised that for his electe sake because of the excéeding trouble miserie and wickednesse the latter dayes should be shortned we shall easily gather that the world hath not many yeres to continue and howe fewe we knowe not for howe much or how litle he will abridge them we are vncerteine Nowe séeing the proofes be so euident that the last day can not be farre of for séeing the figge trée leaues be spreade Sommer must néedes be at hande the nexte is the more to moue our dull hearts diligently to consider howe and in what maner it shall be The story thereof Christ briefly comprehendeth Mat. 25. VVhen the sonne of man sayth he shall come in his glory and all the holy Angels vvith him then shall he sitte on the throne of his glory and before him shall be gathered al nations and he shal separate them one from another as the shephearde deuideth his sheepe from the goates and he shall set the sheepe on the right hande but the goates on the left so forth as there foloweth Christes first comming was with al méekenesse lowlines simplicitie according to the saying of the Prophet Behold thy king commeth to thee meeke and sitteth vpon an Asse He came then to saue sinners and therefore he shewed him selfe altogether in mercy and gentlenesse but his latter comming shall be with great power maiestie and glory for then he commeth as a dreadfull Judge to reward in iustice the vnrepentant sinners that contemned his great mercies offered at his firste comming But let vs examine the maner of his comming somewhat more particularly After those signes and tokens that goe before his comming whereof I haue already spoken there be other also ioyned with the verie time of his latter appearing The sun shall be darkened the moone shall lose her light the starres shall fall from heauen and the povvers of heauen shall be moued the earth shall burne the firmament shall melt away and the last trumpe shall blowe and the voyce of the Archangell shal be heard summoning as it were all people aud sounding in their eares Surgite mortui venite ad iudicium arise you dead and come to iudgement whiche voyce S. Hierome thought he hearde euer ringing in his eares Then shall the sonne of mā appeare in the cloudes with great Maiestie as is sayde and the dead shall rise and they that be lyuing in the twinckling of an eye shall be changed and caryed into the ayre to appeare before the Lorde who commeth to iudge the worlde in ryghteousnesse This maner of Christ his comming beside his owne wordes in sundrie places of the Euangelistes is witnessed by S. Paule 2. Thes 1. VVhen the Lord Iesus Christe shall be reuealed from heauen vvith the Angels of his povver in flaming fire rendring vengeance vnto them that knovve not God and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Iesus Christ The very place whence he shall be reuealed giueth a great authoritie and maiestie vnto his comming to iudgement from heauen saith S Paule that is from the seate and habitation of the eternall and euerliuing God where is al power wisdome and iustice From thence saith he in another place doe we looke for our sauiour the Lorde Jesu And the Angell to the Disciples at the ascention of Christ VVhy stand you saith he gasing vp into heauen this same Iesus vvhich is taken from you into heauen shal so come euen as you haue sene him goe into heauen And therefore all christians in their beliefe confesse that Christ is ascended vp into heauē from whence say they he shall come to iudge the quicke and the dead In the witnesse of the Apostle aboue rehearsed the power and ende of his comming is noted vvith the Angels of his povver saith S. Paule and to this end That he may be reuenged on them that knovve not God nor haue not beleeued his Gospel Which thing muste néedes be most terrible to the wicked as it is in the same place more precisely noted But of all other the Prophet Daniel most gloriously discribeth the maner of his comming I beheld saith he til the thrones vvere set vp and the Auncient of dayes did sit vvhose garment vvas vvhite as snow and the haires of his heade like pure vvool his throne vvas like firie flame and his vvheles as burning fire There issued forth before him a firie streame a thousand thousande ministred vnto him and ten thousand stoode before him the iudgment was set and the bokes were opened c. First the Prophet sayth the Thrones vvere set vp whereby it may appeare there be moe Thrones then one that this Judge shal haue a great number of assistances to be as witnesses of his iustice against the wicked and these shal be the number of his saintes as it is witnessed in sundrie places of the Scriptures Verely verely I saye vnto you saith Christ That vvhen the sonne of man shal sit in the throne of his maiestie you that haue follovved me in regeneration shal sit also vpon twelue seats iudgig the twelue tribes of Israel This iudge is noted by Daniel to be An olde man vvith his haire as white as vvool Therby to signifie the reuerence wisdome and experience y is in him that he cā not let passe any thinge by ignorance errour or follye his garmentes as white as snowe declare vnto vs his securitie vprightnes and integritie in iudgement not respecting any person nor being corrupted with fauour hatred or money The firie stream e y issueth forth before him the flaming throne that he sitteth in signifie the dreadfull force and pearsing strength of his iudgement which no creature is able to resist As fire consumeth all things is consumed of nothing so doth the straight iudgement of God consume all the wicked of the earth For God as the Scriptures saye is a consuming fire And the Prophet Esay saith The Lorde shall comme in fire and his chariot shall be like a vvhirle vvinde that he may recompence his vēgeance in his vvrath and his indignation in a flame of fire For the Lord shal iudge all fleshe with the fire and vvith his svvorde The assistance of an infinite number of saints and Angels set forth vnto vs the wonderfull maiestie and power of the sonne of God in iudgement for if one Angell in one night were hable to destroye 185000 ▪ of the host of Senacherib of