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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77788	A golden-chain, or, A miscelany of divine sentences of the sacred Scriptures, and of other authors. Collected, and linked together for the souls comfort. By Edward Bulstrode of the Inner-Temple, Esquire.	Bulstrode, Edward, 1588-1659.	1657 (1657)	Wing B5443; Thomason E1618_2; ESTC R209646	90,388	257

even all our actions words and thoughts not only which in darkness but also the abscondita tenebrarū even the very hidden and secret things of darknesse shall be then clearly manifested Gods books shall then be laid open as appeareth Revelation 20.12 Rev. 20.12 The severall books of God The book of his knowledge and the book of our own consciences and the book of his covenant they shall all be then laid open by which all our words actions and thoughts shall be laid open before us And then our only appeal will be to the book of the covenant or of Gods mercy in and through Christ Jesus And this may serve for an Answer to an Objection how our thoughts should then be manifested Again a reason of the necessity of the second Judgement when the righteous shall not onely receive the sentence of joy of Come ye blessed c. but of praise likewise Well done good and faithfull servant And the wicked shall not onely then receive the sentence of torment of Go ye cursed c. but also of shame as bad as the torment And so to this end That the praise with the joy of the righteous and the shame with the torment of the wicked might be both manifested for this end a second Iudgement must be As touching this day of Iudgement Use fro similitude drawn from thunder and applied to the day of Judgement it is observed That as thunder strikeing one being asleep killeth him leaving his eyes open but those it striketh waking it killeth them leaving their eyes shut even so in the day of Iudgment those which are then found securely sleeping in their sins and in the pleasures of this world they shall then have their naturall life taken from them that is by sentence and Iudgement pronounced against them they shall be cast into Hell fire yet with their eyes open that is They shall perpetually see feel and enjoy the endlesse torments of hell fire But those contrariwise which are then found waking that is those elect children of God continually expecting the same being alwaies ready and prepared with oyl in their lamps the oyl of faith to attend the bridegroom at his coming evermore rejoycing at the expectation of the last sound of the trumpet those I say although they be deprived of this their naturall life yet they shall have their eyes shut that is They shall be for ever freed from those perpetuall Hell torments pronounced against the wicked of Go ye cursed c. but shall contrariwise perpetually enjoy endless joy happiness Next as touching the Iudge before whom we must appear being Christ our Saviour For as he came first in humility to be judged so then shall he come triumphing in his glory to be a Iudge both of quick and dead And then shall they which were his judges and executioners behold him in all his glory who despised him in his humility and they shall then be all judged by him St. Augustin Of Christs coming to Judgment the manner how And as St. Augustin observeth Veniet Judicaturus Christus eadem carne qua judicatus sed non eadem infirmitate carnis Christ our Saviour shall come to Iudge the world in the last day in the same flesh as he himself was judged but not in the same infirmity of the flesh From hence Objection Why Christ shall come to Judge the world an Objection may be made why Christ the second person in the Trinity rather than the Father or the Holy Ghost shall come in Iudgement at the last day Resp The Answer hereunto is this First For the comfort of the faithfull and elect children of God That he which suffered for them being flesh of their flesh and bone of their bone shall come in the end to be their Iudge And so by way of Simillitude Similitude as Joseph making himself known to his brethren saying to them I am Joseph your brother whom ye sold This was a very comfortable saying to them being in great fear and especially unto Benjamin his beloved brother even so it is with us in Christ his coming to be then our Iudge being also our Saviour and Redeemer Secondly For the greater torment and terrifying to the wicked his executioners saying to them I am he whom ye tortured and crucified and so that he which they had so judged might be their Iudge and they might be judged by him Thirdly That as they had been unjust Iudges in their condemning of him so he might sit in Iudgement pronouncing the just sentence of condemnation against them The reason why God the Father hath given all Iudgement unto his son is this that he might be honoured of all as he is honoured and so to come at the last day to sit in Iudgement It appeareth in Matthew 25.33 Mat. 25.33 34. That there is and then shall be a twofold Iudgement that is to say First Judicium separationis vers 33. the Iudgement of separation for the righteous and Secondly Judicium condemnationis the Iudgement of condemnation vers 34. for the wicked God hath right unto us by Creation the Devil by usurpation and by his seducing of us And Christ our Saviour to loose us out of the hands and bonds of the devil he hath right unto us by purchase and redemption and that by the shedding of his own most precious bloud for us Object Hence an Objection may be made That Christ is not then to be the sole and onely Iudge seeing that in one of the Psalms it is said that the Saints shall judge the earth Dan. 7.22 and so in Daniel 7.22 And Judgement was given to the Saints of the most High Answ The answer hereunto is this That the Saints may then be Iudices aggravantes amplifying Judices aggravantes the Saints and enforcing the matter against us and righteous men may be Iudices approbantes Judices approbantes the righteous approving of the Iudgement of the wicked and the Apostles they are Iudices assistentes Judices assistentes the Apostles Matt. 19.28 assisting of Christ in his Iudgment And though it be said Matth. 19.28 And Iesus said unto his Apostles Ye shall sit upon twelve thrones and Iudge the twelve tribes of Israel this is not to have a literall construction but was spoken by way of similitude Propter similitudinem Judicii dicuntur Judicare quia post corum separationem sedentur cum Christo in throno suo per eos Iudicia sua approbantur laetantur in illis and so interpretativè Quia consentire ad cum facere interpretantur ipsi facere sic sunt coadjutores cum illo in Iudiciis suis For the likenesse and similitude of his Iudgement and by way of interpretation they are said to Iudge because that after their separation they shall sit with Christ in his throne and by them his Iudgements shall be approved of and they shall rejoyce in them and so by way of interpretation because they do consent agree and approve of the Iudgement of Christ for this cause they are said to Iudge and so they are Coadjutors with him in his Iudgements and not otherwise are these words to be taken Christus Iudex Iudicans But Christ alone shall be then Iudex Iudicans he onely shall pronounce the Iudgement and sentence and this appeareth Matth. 25.31 32 33 34. Mat. 25.31 32 33 34. The righteous come not into that Iudgement of condemnation but into that of dissolution or separation The use of all this is The use of all That seeing it is certain that there will be a second Iudgement and that we all must of necessity whether we will or no appear then before the throne of Christ Let us therefore not onely leave off to mind the world and worldly things but let us have all our thoughts affections and desires mounted and elevated up to heaven and there let us settle all our affections and so let us live here in this world that when at the last we shall be summoned by death and then by the Angels to appear before the Tribunall throne of Christ let us so lead our lives here that when we shall appear we may there for ever remain and have the full fruition of everlasting joy and happinesse and not be thrust out amongst the number of those which shall then receive this fearfull doom and sentence of Go ye cursed into everlasting fire Matth. 25.41 Matt. 25.41 But that we may be then embraced with the arms of grace and mercy and may be and remain amongst the number of those which shall receive the happy and joyfull sentence Matth. 25.34 of Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the kingdome prepared for you Matth. 25.34 And then by way of Exhortation he advised all to be carefull and diligent in their due preparation for this last day in regard that morte nihil certius tempore mortis nihil incertius nothing is more certain than death and nothing more uncertain than the time when or the manner how we shall die and the rather ought we for to be carefull in the whole course of our lives in regard that all our actions are registred For there is the book of Gods knowledge in which book there is registred all our proceedings in our sins whether the same be through infirmity wittingly or willingly Nay therein is likewise recorded all our sighs and grones for our sins And the book of our own Consciences shall be then laid open which is now shut and we do here labour by all the means we can through our own obstinacy and rebellion to keep the same still shut but then in despite of us it shall be laid open before us The due consideration hereof ought to make us the more wary and carefull of all our actions and seriously to think of Solomons advise in Ecclesiastes 11.9 Rejoyce O young man Eccles 11.9 in thy youth and let thy heart chear thee in the dayes of thy youth and walk in the wayes of thy heart and in the sight of thy eyes But know then that for all these things God will bring thee into Iudgement And so he concluded with this Rule to be by all observed that is Do violence to none accuse no man unjustly and be content with thy wages Fear God and keep his commandements this is the whole duty of man Ecclesiastes 12.13 Eccles 12.13 FINIS