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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49323	Du Moulin's Reflections reverberated being a full answer to a pernicious pamphlet entituled Moral reflections on the number of the elect : together with several arguments against transubstantiation of the outward elements in the sacrament of the Lords Supper, transubstantiated into falshood and absurdity : to which is added a postscript in answer to some passages in Mr. Edmund Hickeringil's scurrilous piece stiled The second part of naked truth / by Edward Lone ...	Lane, Edward, 1605-1685.	1681 (1681)	Wing L331; ESTC R10768	106,099	120

Heaven And rather say I than to wrest them to a sinister Sense disagreeing from the whole Current of the Gospel as you have done with those Texts mentioned often by you for the Confirmation of your Opinion viz. Mat. 7.14 Strait is the Gate and narrow is the Way which leadeth to Life and few there be that find it And Luke 12.32 Fear not little Flock it is your Fathers good Pleasure to give you the Kingdom and Mat. 20.16 Many are called but few are chosen So Mat. 22.14 To shew you your Error in these it is needless here having said enough of it already in my Antidote set forth against you which hath been sufficient in the Judgment of Rational Men to expel the Poison of your corrupt Doctrine Reflector They that hold the Opinion of the small number that shall be saved alledge the Rigour of the Examination at the day of Judgment and the words of St. Paul in the 2 Cor. c. 5. v. 10. For we 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 c. Answer Those who hold it And are not you one of them that hold it Nay do you not in Rigor surpass all men that ever held it by uncharitable Judging and Condemning your confident boldness therein will appear more in the Sequel of this Discourse But to our present Business First I do not like your uncouth word here Rigor as you use it A more Reverend Term might in this Case have easily been thought upon by you and more proper for your purpose but that your rigid Spirit would have an unseasonable Vent according to its Humor whether with Sense or without you cared not There shall it's true be a strickt and severe Examination at that day of all the whole Race of Mankind all their Thoughts Words and Works shall be made manifest and placed in order before them Gods Law-Book which may be called his Doomsday-Book whether it be the Law of Works for such as are in a Reprobate Condition or the Law of Faith for such as are the Elect of God shall then likewise be opened By both which the sin of the World shall be set out in its Colours I mean as the Apostle It shall be made exceeding sinful for by the Law is the knowledge of sin Rom. 3.20 All this and whatever else you Mr. Reflector can be able to add warrantably from the written word of God concerning that most exact scrutiny and search that shall then be into the Hearts and Lives of all Mankind I do readily consent unto for it will be the day of the Lords Vengeance upon all his Enemies who lived and died in their Malice against him and knowing the terror of the Lord we should all be perswaded in this our day to know the things that belong unto our Peace before they be hidden from our Eyes But after all he granted which you can well Imagine what will be the result of this Righteous Examination Will a general Damnation follow upon it Yes must you say for so you have said though most impiously else your arguing comes to nothing As for your alienating the matter in the twenty fourth Page of your Book it is not a retracting of your bold Censure You say indeed the Apostle did by the Consideration of the Terror of the Lord perswade men to fly to Jesus Christ but what 's this to your opinion of the general Damnation That you hold still in worse terms as may be seen in the following parts of your Discourse than any of your Fraternity for ought I know ever did before you and such as cannot enter into the Heart of Man to conceive which is not void of all Humanity I will therefore here tell you what I believe will be the sequel of this great Judgment and Scrutiny I do not say it shall be for your Condemnation or mine because I hope and pray that both you and I shall before we die repent us of our sins you of your misjudging the World and I of my misjudging you if I have offended therein and of my many other failings wherein I am too sure I have very much offended But this I say that when the horrible Ugliness of sin shall then be discovered an Amazement shall generally seize upon men for their folly in committing it insomuch that those who have been tryed by the Law of Works and are found guilty of the Violation of that Law as all unbelievers and impenitent Persons shall be will say to the Mountains and Rocks fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sits upon the Throne and from the Wrath of the Lamb for the great day of his Wrath is come and who shall be able to stand But others that have been tryed by the Law of Faith and have thereupon found their Judge to be their Advocate as I believe a great multitude not one alone amongst many Millions but a great multitude Rev. 7.9 which no man can number of all Nations and Kindred and People and Tongues i. e. The major part of Mankind shall find him to be they shall then lay aside their Amazements at their former Folly and with loud Acclamations Chant out their Hallelujahs ascribing Blessing and Honour and Glory and Power unto him that sitteth upon the Throne and unto the Lamb for ever and ever These undoubtedly are some of the immediate Consequents that will follow upon the Righteous Judgment of that great Day Some I say for I do not take upon me to determine of all but only what concerns our present purpose viz. the beginning of everlasting Sorrows to all the Reprobate and the beginning of everlasting Happiness to all the Elect People of God I know there will follow the Justification of the Judge himself for it is called Rom. 2.5 The day of the Revelation of the Righteous Judgment of God which may be taken not only in an active Sense but in a passive which will signifie that which is written he will be justified in all his sayings and be clear saith the Prophet overcome saith the Apostle when he is judged meaning all mouths shall be then stopped which have been apt to cavil against him and be forced even against themselves to confess the Judgment of God is according to Truth But to return to our purpose You 'll say how shall they that have lived all their days in unbelief and the hardness of their Hearts as the greatest part of Mankind made up of those that are without alienated from the Life of God and those that are within living under the Light of Gods Word yet have been Ignorant and Prophane how shall they be able to stand with any Confidence in the Judgment at the last Day Hereto I have already also given an Answer in my Antidote to which I remit you But because you object so much that terrible