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A62379	The grand assises: or, The doctrine of the last generall judgment with the circumstances thereof: comprised and laid forth in a sermon preached at the assises holden for the county of Southampton at Winchester, on Wednesday, July 28, 1652. By William Sclater Doctor in Divinity, preacher of the word of God in Broadstreet, London.	Sclater, William, 1609-1661.	1653 (1653)	Wing S918A; ESTC R218648	45,998	59

THE Grand Assises OR THE Doctrine of the Last Generall Judgment with the Circumstances thereof Comprised and laid forth In a SERMON Preached at the Assises holden for the County of Southampton at Winchester on Wednesday July 28 1652. By WILLIAM SCLATER Doctor in Divinity Preacher of the Word of God in Broadstreet London 2 Cor. 5.10 Wee must all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his Body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad Nemo futurorum metum cogitat diem Domini iram Dei incredulis futura supplicia statuta perfidis aeterna tormenta nemo considerat quod metueret conscientia nostra si crederet quia non credit omnino nec metuit si crederet caveret si caveret evaderet S. Cyprian de Unit. Eccles sect 23. London Printed by E. Cotes and are to be sold by John Sweeting at the sign of the Angell in Popes-head-alley 1653. To the honble John Wyld L rd Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer a Patriot of Justice an Exemplary Patron of true Piety All Heavenly Benedictions MY LORD IT cannot but be known to your Lordship being so full and rich a Magazine of all Learning and Eloquence that the two main (a) 1 King 7.21 Pillars which as Jachin and Boaz in Solomon's Temple do support a Church and Common-wealth are (b) Eph. 4.12 Ministery and (c) Ti● 3.1 Magistracy the one upholding Religion and Divine Worship the oth●r Order and Civil Justice Happy is that people which is in (d) Ps 144.15 such a case where both of these doe not as those twins within Rebecca (e) Gen. 25.22 struggle together but rather as Righteousnesse and Peace sweetly (f) Psa 85.10 embrace and kisse each other It 's very remarkable in Holy Writ how the Spirit of (g) Eph. 4.3 4. Vnity to ingage no doubt an harmonious accord between them hath been pleased to denominate the persons (h) 1 Tim. 1.11 intrusted with either (i) 1 Tim. 3.1 Office by one and the same name styling them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Publick (k) Rom. 15.16 1 Cor. 3.5 Rom. 13.4 Ministers of God for good the one acting as Stewards of the (l) 1 Cor. 4.1 Mysteries of God the other as Dispensers of Righteousnesse and (m) Ames 5.24 Judgement unto men Both by Gods own (n) Rom. 10.15 sending and (o) Rom. 13.1 appointment And methinks the serious meditation of this their so sacred institution might powerfully put to (p) 1 Pet. 2.15 sil●nce the murmurings whether of (q) 2 Tim. 3 4 heady sons of (r) 1 Sā 10.27 Belial impatient even of the (s) Matt. 11.30 easiest (t) The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Belial is of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 jugum id est absque juge Hieren yoke of the Lord Christ against them or the repinings of other Christians not well informed or mistaken about either Yea indeed it might prove a potent argument to (u) 1 Thess 5.13 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 esteem or (w) Heb. 13.17 obey the one and to be (x) Tit. 3.1 subject unto the other even for (y) Rom. 13.5 conscience of God I can assure your Lordship that those beams of encouragement seconded also by that learned and godly (z) My Lord Ed. Atkins one of the Justices of the Court of Commō pleas Judge then in the Westerne Commission with you darted and with so chearing a diffusion displayed from your splendor as from a bright star of the greater magnitude upon worthy Ministers whom you have professed to reverence even for their (a) 1 The. 5.13 work sake owning them in your solid religious and elegant Charges given upon the publick Bench of Judicature under the title of The Lords (b) 2 Cor. 5.20 Ambassadors holding such as are found (c) 1 Tim. 1.12 Faithfull as the Philippians did Epaphroditus in (d) Phil. 2.29 reputation say those beams by a sweet reflexion and influence so warmed the breasts and revived the drooping spirits of the godly Ministers that the mention thereof proveth as an amulet or even as an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 against all present misapprehensions or future disconsolations It is that which shall welcome your approach whithersoever Providence may direct your Judiciary Circuit and embalme your Name with Honour the fragrant odour whereof shall be resented with a pious and gladsome Commemoration in following generations How willingly could I now wish my selfe a Chrysostome or a Nazianzen some Thucydides or Cicero yea the Quintessence of all their Oratory united into one and that as by some Pythagoricall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 transmigrated into my breast that so I might but in some measure expresse it being a skill beyond Apelles himselfe graphically and fully to delineate your eximious endowments and perfections which render you first a compleat Christian and so by far the better and more accomplished Magistrate Should I mention your Ethicks or Morall part if Plato Aristotle or the whole Chorus of the most refined Philosophers had lived in your dayes your practise might have given them exact rules for all their descriptions or characters of the Vertues or if we look unto what is any way perfect in them there needs no better Comment on them than your practise in Justice Temperance Liberality Mansuetude and that Architectonicall vertue which mainly steers all for which also Sergius Paulus a governor is comm●nded in Scripture (e) Act. 13.7 Prudence In your Theologicall or religious part as is recorded of Cornelius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 you are a (f) Act. 10.2 Devout man one that feareth God with all your house a lover and frequenter of all Gods publick Ordinances giving much Almes to the people and praying to God alway your retinue also and attendants qualified after the perfect Canon of Scripture with (g) Ps 101.6 7. truth (h) Tit. 2.10 fidelity and (i) Ephes 6.5 6 7. Col. 3.22 23. single-hearted (k) Tit. 2.9 obedience and all sobriety In your Noble profession a Promptuary of the laws a learned (l) Act. 5.31 Gamaliel had in singular reputation in the administration of Justice * 2 Sam. 23.3 upright and † Deut. 1.17 impartiall and where is a meet Subject capable full of clemency bowells and indulgence A terror to none but to the evill giving (m) Rom. 13.3 praise and encouragement to every good man and work All which considered How can I but excecdingly congratulate unto my self the so unexpected Happinesse of your Lordships favour and countenance especially when I meditate the occasion thereof to have proceeded from your candid approbation of these my weake endeavours shewn in this and some other Sermons which you were pleased to desire where as you might have commanded it to the Presse The subject of it was