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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97360	The works of the judicious and learned divine Dr. Thomas Taylor, part 1. sometimes preacher of Aldermanbury, London. Published by himself in his life time, in several smaller volumes, now collected together into three volumes in fol. two of which are here bound together. The first volume containing, I. An exposition on the 32. Psalm ... The second volume containing, I. An exposition of the parable of the sower and seed, on Luk. 8. ... The third volume is in the press, and will containe in it, I. The progress of sts, to full holinesse ...	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1659 (1659)	Wing T560A	683,147	498

Friers plea we are exempted Lord will doe no good here no not that which all mens Courts must needs excuse absence by that the party is dead for this Judgement Seat is set up for the quick and the dead God must for his glory truth and justice bring every man to this tribunal that if he have been good and faithful hee may have his time of refreshing and be put into the perfe●t state of happiness in soul and body And contrarily if hee have been hard-hearted and impenitent hee may know the weight of Gods justice and power and bee in full state of endlesse and easelesse misery both in soul and body Oh then what great cause hath every man to fore-cast this day and expecting it to prepare for it rather than to betake themselves to that Epicurean and profane practice of mocker● who put farre from them this evil day saying Where is the promise of his comming we see all things alike since the beginning he makes but small haste And thus because judgement is not speedily executed they resolve themselves on a most wicked course not knowing that as a snare it shall come upon them when they least look for it and that though slowly yet he will come surely and make them know what it is to abuse his patience which should lead them to repentance Now followeth the manner of this Judgement and that is comprehended in three things 1 It shall bee glorious and powerful 2 Just and righteous The glory of the last judgement described 3 Strict and accurate For the first it is said that the Son of man shall come with power and great glory yea in the glory of the Father that is such as belongeth to his Father with himself but to no creature else The clouds and the air shall be as a fiery Chariot to carry him with admirable swiftnesse his train and attendants shall be the Arch-angel making his way by the sound of a trumpet which the very dust and ashes shall hear and follow and all the other Angels of Heaven from whose multitude power and glory this coming shall be wonderfully glorious and yet the Judge himself shall surpasse them all in glory and brightnesse and as the Sun doth darken all the lesser Starres so shall his most admirable glory obscure them all This a●pearance may be shadowed by the coming in of earthly Judges to hold Assizes through their Circuit attended with the Honourable Nobles Justic●s and Gentlemen of the Country yea with the High Sheriffs power besides all their own followers by which great state and attendance they are both honoured and aided as becometh such publick Ministers of Justice as also are made formidable to daunt and quell malefactors Or rather look as Princes going to their Parliament to make Laws put on their royal robes and shew themselves in their greatest glory even so shall this great King of glory coming to require the obedience of his Laws cloath himself with such a robe of glory as the brightest Sun shall not endure to behold neither the Heavens nor the Earth shall be able to see this glory but shall shrink at it and melt away with a noyse Revel 20.11 John saw a great white Throne and one that sate upon it from whose face fled away both the earth and heaven and their pla e was found no more Thus may we in some dark resemblance something conceive of this glory of the Judge of all the world unto which the consideration of the persons that shall bee judged by him addeth not a little moment for not only small but great must stand before him It is indeed a great honour among men to bee deputed the Lord high Steward under a King whose office is to sit in Judgement upon a noble man what an height of glory then is it for the Son of God to sit in Judgement and call personally before him not nobles only but all the Kings and Monarchs that ever the earth bare If there be such preparation and state amongst men for the trial but of some one noble man what glory may wee conceive must attend the mighty God whilest he bringeth to their trial not only meaner persons but all the most powerful Monarches and Potentates that ever were or shall be to the end of the world This consideration ministreth comfort to the godly seeing hee cometh to Judgement who is able perfectly to free them from all misery able to strike oft their bolts of sin to acquit them from terrours of conscience fears of death the Grave the Devil and Hell it self the cometh from Heaven for their release who hath trodden down all his enemies under his feet and all this glory is for their safety and happinesse who wish and wait for the appearing of this mighty God Tit. 2.13 And on the contrary it serveth to strike the wicked and ungodly with terror and dread seeing the Lord Jesus shall come from Heaven in such power and majesty and all to judge and condemn them whom when they shall see arrayed with vengeance against them no marvail if they be driven to their wits ends yea as it is with guilty Malefactors when they see the Judge coming in so honourably attended so shall it bee here this very glory of Christ shall strike them with fear horror and an azednesse and force them to all miserable and unavaylable shifts and to wish if it were possible that the rocks would fall upon them and crush them to peeces so as they might never come before his presence for the great day of the Lord which is to all the wicked of the world a black day a cloudy day a dismal day this day is come and they cannot abide it Secondly this Judgement shall bee righteous and according to the truth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 2.2 We know that the judgement of God is according to truth Heb. 1.8 Thy throne O God is for ever the scepter of thy Kingdom is a righteous scepter The righteousness of the Judge and judgement Thou lovest righteousnesse and hatest iniquity Hitherto is to bee referred that of Daniel 7.9 who saith that this Judge shall sit upon a great white throne alluding to the white Ivory throne of Salomon but infinitely more glorious the whitenesse betokenning the purity and righteousness both of the Judge and the judgement for every man shall receive according to his works Here shall be no concealment of things for he will bring every secret into judgement Eccles 12. He will lighten all things that are hid in darknesse and make the counsels of the hearts manifest 1 Cor. 4.5 Here shall bee no daubing or salving up of bad matters in corners no pleading of Lawyers who craftily cloud the truth of Causes for gain no respect of persons no favouring for the sake of any friends nor fear of foes or any displeasure Here shall be no inducement by gifts which blind mens eyes to pervert judgement the purest gold of Ophir

into the Wildernesse three reasons page 8 Spirits created of three sorts ibid. Sundry sorts of men snared by Satan in seeking unlawful courses to help themselves page 62 To turn stones into bread an ordinary temptation How and wherein page 68 Sundry sorts of men to whom Christ never revealeth himself page 76 T. TEmple of Jerusalem described with the several Courts and their contents page 104 Temptation not a sign of Gods hatred but of the Devils page 7 Temptations all of them appointed and limited by God two reasons page 9 It was not against the holinesse or power of Christ to be tempted page 21 Christ being tempted was without sinne how in three grounds ibid. Of Temptations three degrees page 22 Greatest temptation not to be tempted ibid. Temptations manfully to bee resisted three motives page 24 Being tempted look up to Christ tempted for 1 salvation 2 imitation page 25 By lesser Temptations Satan makes a way to greater four reasons page 36 Where Satan begins Temptation we must begin resistance page 37 To tempt any to evil a fearful sin page 47 The first Temptation of Christ was not to gluttony as Papists two reasons page 51 No temptation no faith page 56 Eight things slily couched in the first temptation page 68 In the second temptation Satan aimeth at five things page 126 Satan tempting seeketh to bring men to extreams five reasons page 127 Satan can tempt and perswade but not force us to sin five reasons page 137 Temptations armed with Scripture most dangerous page 149 Men tempt God in 1 judgement 2 affection 3 actions page 173 God actually tempted four waies page 175 To tempt God dangerous four reas page 176 Five sorts of Tempters of God page 177 How men tempt God in matters 1 of soul ibid. 2 of body three waies page 178 Tempters of themselves as if there were no Tempter page 45 Christ abideth the whole temptation to the end four reas page 234 God suffereth his children to bee vexed with long and strong temptations three reas page 236 Gods children shall outstand all temptations four reas page 235 A sober use of humane testimonies in Sermons not unlawful page 162 Men thrust from God by Satan page 209 God hath sundry ways threatned this land of late years page 255 Greatest tryals of the godly cannot make them unhappy four reas page 261 To try spirits alledging Scripture four rules page 145 Holy times as the Sabbath not to bee prophaned page 114 V VNjust getting of earthly things accursed three waies page 94 All the voice of Satan is Cast thy self down page 159 Usurers live not by Gods word but against it page 95 W TO watch over our weakness five notable rules page 43 Five sorts of persons fail in the watch over their senses page 153 Many warnings of God to Jerusalem and England page 116 Wilde beasts why Christ was with them four reas page 28 Wealth becomes ours and rightly used four waies page 98 God never brings his children into the wilderness of temptation but first fits them with sufficient grace four reas page 26 Will of man moved two waies page 138 A principal wile of Satan to overthrow men by Scripture four reas page 160 Witches and seekers to them condemned three reas page 63 Wicked men by no means lay aside their malice to Gods children four reas page 101 Wicked men are loath to bee compared to the Devil but are sometimes worse page 103 Word written a principal weapon of the Christian souldier five reas page 77 Word is then used aright when temptations are cut off by it three reas page 81 The Word cutteth off temptations to despair in six instances 82. to presumption in eight instances 83. to pride in five instances 84. to injustice six instances ibid Only Gods word but every word of God preserveth the life of man four reasons page 90 Word of God susteineth us 1 above all means three waies 91. 2 without all means ibid. 3 against all means ibid. Word of God made the air light without the Sun and the earth fruitful without rain page 92 Word of God from an evill man may bee heard with blessing to a good man four reas page 110 To hear or read the word religiously four rules page 146 Satan seldome so good as his word three reas page 197 Worship is twofold 1 Civil 2 Divine both of them two-fold page 218 Worship civil and religious differ in five things page 220 Worship Civil is grounded in Divine ibid Worship religious due to God onely five reasons page 221 Six means by which Satan prevaileth to set up the worship of himself page 208 AN EXPOSITION UPON Peters Sermon BEFORE CORNELIUS VVhich was the first general Calling OF THE GENTILES OR JAPHETS First Publike Perswasion INTO SEMS TENTS BY Thomas Taylor D.D. Preacher of Gods VVord at Aldermanbury London LONDON Printed for A. K. and R. I. and are to be sold by Elisha Wallis at the Golden Horse-shooe in the Old-Bayley 1659. TO THE RIGHT VVORSHIPFVL Sir JAMES ALTHAM Knight one of the Barons of his Majesties Court of Exchequor AND Sir CHARLS MORRISON Knight Baronet TWO VVorthy Justices and Magistrates of the Town of Watfort in Hartfordshire Grace Peace and abundance of all Blessings accompanying Salvation Right Worshipful LEt it stand with your pleasures whom one profession of Religion towards God and execution of Justice towards man whom one neer Neighbourhood and one neer affection combine to bee conjoyned also in this Dedication wherein as my desire is to manifest my dutiful respect of you both so also to entreat your favourable construction and acceptance of this my presumption whereof I want not just reasons whether I look upon you joyntly or severally Your joynt government under which we the Inhabitants of this Town of Watford enjoy our publick peace bindeth all of us wherein wee may to testifie our thankfulness for so great and publick a good God might govern the World if he pleased by himself immediately yet he committeth it to Magistrates and Rulers both supream and delegates whom he honoureth with an high style calling them Assistants to him that ruleth the whole earth Zach. 4.14 yea the shields of the earth Psal 47.9 to bear off wrongs and evils from men The boughes of this fair tree of Magistracy as in that sacred embleme are shelter for all and the fruit meat for all Dan. 4.7.17 And the weilding of so stately an Ordinance is not to be committed but to fit and qualified persons as they are described by Jethro to Moses by four most worthy properties Exod. 18.21 First they must be men of courage stout to undergoe all the parts of their calling How fit a vertue this is for a Magistrate will appear if we consider 1 The good and godly in the hand Rom. 13.3 who are to be incouraged and praised in well-doing by their Rulers which will never be if a man be afraid to be seen or be timorous as Nicodemus