Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n

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judgement_n	day_n	lord_n	terrible_a	1,748	5	9.3439	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02242	A sermon, at the funeral solemnitie of the most high and mighty Prince Ferdinandus, the late Emperour of most famous memorye holden in the Cathedrall Churche of saint Paule in London, the third of October. 1564. Made by the reuerend father in God, Edmund Grindall, bishop of London.	Grindal, Edmund, 1519?-1583.	1564 (1564)	STC 12377; ESTC S103449	21,147	38

A Sermon at the Funeral solemnitie of the most high and mighty Prince Ferdinandus the late Emperour of most famous memorye holden in the Cathedrall Churche of saint Paule in London the third of October .1564 Made by the reuerend father in God Edmund Grindall bishop of London ¶ Imprinted at London by Iohn Day dwelling ouer Aldersgate beneath saint Martins Cum gratia priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis ¶ These bookes are to be sold at hys shop vnder the Gate ❧ A sermon at the Funeral solemnitie of the most high and mighty Prince Ferdinandus the late Emperour of most famous memory holden in the Cathedral church of saint Paule in London the third of October 1564. Made by the reuerend father in God Edmund Grindal bishop of London ¶ The prayer for the vniuersal church the Church of Englande Ireland the Quenes Maiesty the states of the realme ▪ c as is ordinarily accustomed were first made Matth. 24. Ideo et vos estote parati quia qua hora nō putatis ea filius hominis vēturus est Therfore be ye also redy for the Lord wyl come at the houre which ye thinke not on EMonge many euyll naughtie affections which folowe the nature of man corrupted by synne ryght honorable and beloued in Christ fewe or none brynge greater inconueniences with them thē doth the inordinate hope and expectation of long lyfe And this affection is so much the more hurtfull and perillous for that it is grounded so depely and sticketh so firmly in our nature that it cannot easely be remedied or remoued which thing beside cōmon experience hath of old time bene noted by diuers and sundry prouerbes as this for one Nemo est tam senex qui non putet annum se posse viuere Ther is no man so olde but that be thinketh he may liue yet one yeare longer and whē that is done yet an other and an other yet after that and so in infinitum vntil all yeares daies be cleane past and expired The like hope of long life is expressed by thys prouerbe Aegroto anima dum est spes est The sick man as long as he hath life breath so lōg hath he hope signifieng y t euen in the greatest most daungerous diseases the sick parties euer hope to liue and to escape so that neither olde age which by natural course foresheweth death at hande neither yet extremitie of sicknes be it neuer so greuous cā remoue from vs this inordinate expectation and vain hope of long life so long as this body hath anye breath abiding or life left in it Out of this euill roote spring many braunches of great inconueniences For when men be in expectacion of long life and promise vnto them selues continuaunce of many yeares they fall by litle and litle into carnal securitie they grow remisse in all godlye exercises delight altogether in pleasures of this worlde little or nothing thinking of the world to come or of any amendement or correction of lyfe but deferring it to a longer time and so often times preuēted with vnlooked for death founde a sleepe in their wicked securitie they tumble headlong or they beware into the pit of damnacion For the curing therfore of this daūgerous disease in our sicke nature the holy ghost hath prouided in the scriptures two special remedies The one is the setting forth before our eyes the seueritie of Gods terrible iudgement at the last day when the Lorde him selfe shal come with the voyce and sommoning of the Archangell with the sound of the trumpet from heauen in iudgement to render to euerye man according to that he hath done in the flesh be it good or euill and therewith also the sodainnes of the same iudgement which shall come as a theefe in the night without geuing any forewarning as a snare that catcheth the bird and as the lightening whyche most sodenly in one moment flasheth frō East to the West ouer al heauen The other remedye is the often warnyng which the scriptures do geue vs to put vs in remembraūce of our forgetfulnes of the frailty of our nature cōtinuallie subiect vnto death who will not suffer vs long to continue here vpon this earth but shortly very often sodenly also bringeth vs most certainly to an end of this vncertain life The text which I haue chosen ministreth iust occasion to thinke of both these matters being a percel and the very cōclusion of a sermon made by Christ hym selfe sittyng on mount Oliuet vpon occasion that his disciples asked him of the signes of his cōming and of the end of the world The wordes are these Ideo et vos c. Therfore be ye also ready for the Lord wil come at the houre which you thincke not on which sentence as most notable and worthy to be regarded our sauiour in that sermon doth sundry times repeate vigilate ergo c. Therfore wherfore It is the conclusion of a similitude going before which is this If the good man of the house had knowen what houre the thefe woulde haue come he would surely haue watched not haue suffred his house to haue bene broken vp And therfore be you redy As if he should say The good man of an house woulde be diligent to saue and preserue his house and worldly goods being thinges corruptible how muche more ought you to be continuallye vigilant least the daye of iudgement whiche commeth sodaynlye as a theefe in the night finde you sleeping in sinne and wickednes and so you loose a farre more excellent treasure redeemed not with golde and syluer but wyth the precious bloud of the immaculate Lambe Christe our Sauiour Alhough therfore this text most properlye pertaineth to put vs in remembraunce of making preparacion agaynst y ● general iudgement yet notwithstāding I entend presently to apply it to the preparation towardes death partly by reason of this present occasion and partlye for that bothe tende to one effect For S. Augustine saith looke in what state the last day of our life doth finde vs in the same state wil the last day of the world iudge vs. I purpose therefore by occasion of this text to put you in remembraunce of .3 thinges First of the exhortacion in the scripture mouing vs to prepare to die Secondarely of the causes that ought to moue vs to this preparation And thirdlye of the true waies and meanes how to prepare to die And by the waye I entend somewhat to speake of the cause of this solemne assembly For the first as it is said here Be in readines c so are there very many places in the scriptures tending to the same effect In the .xij. of Luke Christ saith thus Sint lūbi vestri praecincti lucernae ardentes in manibus vestris Let your loynes be girded and your candels burning in your hands By girding of the loines is signified the brideling or rather mortifieng of our carnal and corrupt affections