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A04596	Christs vvatch-vvord Being the parable of the virgins, expounded and applyed to these times of security. Or an exhortation of our Saviours to us, that we may watch and prepare our selues for the unknowne times of death and judgement.	Johnston, Thomas, Chaplain to the Bishop of Dromore.	1630 (1630)	STC 14715; ESTC S107830	129,458	212

far frō loathing quia sitientes satiabimur satiati sitiemus for in thirsting after the same wee shall be filled and being filled we shall thirst What shall wee doe in heaven saith Augustine Psal 84.4 The Psalme saith Blessed are they that dwell in thy house they will be alwayes praising thee this shall be our eternall action Thou ceasest to praise him if thou cease to love him but thou shalt not leave loving of him for hee whom thou seest can never be too much looked upon his presence causeth fulnesse of joy nor offend thee with loathing Et satiat te non satiat Mirum est quod dico si dicam quia satiat te timeo ne c. August in Psal 85 in Hebr. 86.17 Adiu visti me consolatus es me Hee both filleth and filleth thee not this is a wonder that I say for if I say he filleth thee I feare thou shouldst conceiue it in earthly manner that thou shouldest depart as one filled with a dinner or supper if I say hee doth not fill thee I feare thou shouldest seeme to want and be empty in some part which should be filled why then shall I say that which cannot be uttered cannot be conceived It is easier to obtaine than declare the joyes of heaven whatsoever wee can conceiue or speake we shall to our great comfort finde it true which is written As we haue heard Psal 48.8 so haue wee seene in the Citty of the Lord but what we shal heare and see cannot come by report Wonderfull things were tolde the Queene of Sheba 2 Chron. 9.6 of Salomons wisedome and glory of his Kingdome she beleeved them not untill she saw and heard them and then she confessed that the one halfe was not reported unto her Glorious things are spoken of heaven unto us and such as wee shall understand could not be delivered and conceiued with words Let us therefore beleeue the Lord and rely with hope untill that blessednesse be shewen upon us he hath done a harder thing than bringing us to immortality For it is harder to beleeue saith Aug. that he who is eternal should die In Psal 148.6 Posuit mandatum c. than that a mortall man should live for ever We beleeue the death of the Sonne of God if God died for man shall not man live with God or hee live eternally for whom one died who liveth for ever Vses of this doctrine The use the Scripture teacheth us of this doctrine is first that considering what entertainment the Lord hath prepared for us in heaven we should winde our hearts from the love of the shadowes which the world presents unto us We are here like the poore estate of the prodigall childe if we considered how many were in our Fathers house in full felicity we would wish to be removed from this place where hogges have as much to maintaine their life as we can obtaine to maintaine ours St. Paul who once tasted of this joy sighed and groaned ever after to bee gone out of the world and little reason have we if wee appertaine unto God to be in love with our worldly estate for it hinders us of a better Secondly what labor should we take to obtaine unspeakable joyes or to purchase a heavenly kingdome August in Psal 93. in Hebr. 94.20 Nunquid sedes iniquitatis c. If we speake the truth eternall rest is worthy to be bought with eternall labour yet the Lord is mercifull in hastening us to get possession Let us therefore consider at what rate we would sell those joyes if once we had them and we shall the better know what labour and paines is worthy to be payed for them Thirdly this doctrine is set downe to comfort and ease all that suffer misery in this life that they looke not on the things which are seene but the things which are not seene that nothing prove so intollerable which they feare to suffer that they may see Christ in glory In Manual therefore Augustine did encourage himselfe against miseries and meditated thus O soule if we behooved to suffer daily torments if to suffer hell it selfe a long time that we might see Christ in glory and be fellowed with his Saints were it not worthy to suffer all that is painfull that we may be partakers of so great a glory Let therefore the infernall spirits beset us let them prepare their temptations let fasting breake the body let labours burden watching dry up let whosoever disquiet me let my conscience murmure heate burne me the body sicken the breast be enflamed the stomack swell let the countenance grow pale let all be weake let my life end in sorrow and my yeares in mourning Habac 3 16. let rottennesse enter into my bones so that I may have rest in the day of tribulation And the gate was shut Now followeth the reward of foolishnesse the foolish are kept without doores and not admitted to the company of the wise nor accounted worthy that the same place should receive the carelesse and improvident which is appointed as a reward unto the understanding and industrious The greatest punishment that could be imposed upon the unprovided for a common wedding was to be exposed to shame and shut out of doores Therefore Christ according hereunto saith that the Reprobate shall be shut out from partaking the felicity of the elect when notwithstanding this is not their greatest sorrow for if they were neither capable of joy Pana damni nor sorrow their estate might seeme more tollerable but their misery can never be enough pitied for they shall be punished with everlasting perdition from the presence of the Lord 2 Thess 1. if once their misery could come to an end it were some hope of comfort but eternally this word is more painefull then all the paine besides that so long they must suffer torment as God is God And so everlastingly they shall be banished from the presence of God who is mercifull and chained in the land of forgetfullnesse When our Saviour sheweth that they shall be deprived of a glorious inheritance and expresseth no more he would have us thereby to understand that there is no man so forgetfull of salvation if he knew how great good he were to have needed to be threatned with any further punishment The like is set downe in the Revelation that the punishment of filthy and wicked men shall be to be without the gates of heavenly Ierusalem Revel 22 15. St. Paul in punishment of diverse kinds of wickednesse pronounceth 1 Cor. 6.10 Gal 5 21. Ephes 5 5. that they shall not inherite the kingdome of God who is able to abide such a doome To bee sure that others in our presence shall enter to possesse unspeakable joyes and our selues receive ashamefull repulse Who can patiently abide to be disinherited When Caine was banished from the Lords presence favour he complained in this life Gen. 4 13. That his

are trod under feete Secondly to shew the great and fearefull things that are then to be done thus a Trumpet sounded before the Law was given and in the Revelation the great alterations of the Church and judgements upon the enemies thereof Revel 8 6 7.8 from the time of Christ unto the last day are foretolde by the blowing of Trumpets which notwithstanding was never heard by them who felt the fearefull events Thirdly to shew that the cry is for the assembling of his people Ioel 2.15 Psal 81.3 not an uncertaine sound but a certaine that all may prepare and appeare 1 Cor. 14.8 Hence wee understand the diverse effects of this Cry The effects of it When the destroying Angell came downe to Aegypt in the night Exod. 12.30 the terrour of God caused them to make an outcry over all the land How many voyces of Lamentations shall be heard at once when the generall Cry shall be Hills and mountaines fall upon us Rev. 6.16 and hide us from the presence of him that sitteth upon the throne for the great day of his wrath is come who can stand They that were never moved with the words of Christ now tremble at his voice and their hard hearts shall make unseasonable lamentation But with the servants of God it is not so for as the same voice of Christ before his suffering which made his enemies fall as dead to the ground yet incouraged Peter and others of his Disciples Iohn 18 6. so this voice of Christ at the great day though it shall be the most terrible that ever wicked men heard yet it shall be the most joyfull that ever Gods true servants heard Iohn 3 29. for he that is the friend of the Bridegroome must needes rejoyce greatly because hee heareth his voice for thereby their bodies shall receive life and immortality Psal 91.1.5 As in their life time they betooke themselves unto the shadow of the Almighty and therefore when wicked men affraid with the terrours of the night made an Aegyptian outcry Psal 118 15. his servants finde that the voice of joy gladnes is in the dwelling of the righteous because prosperity is within their gates Quanta crit electis laetitia in adventu Domini quem comparat adventui Sponsi Muscul in Mat. 25 1 Looke Ier. 33.10.11 no evill can come unto them nor any plague neere unto their dwelling Much more shall they be glad at the voice of Christ in that day for which their soules and bodies have waited long in hope to heare Would you know if the voice of Christ shall be joyfull to you in that day or not The Prophet Esay from the Lords mouth tells us Esay 66.2 They who tremble at Christs voice now shall reioyce hereafter that if we tremble at his words in this life he will looke upon us and we shall rejoyce to heare his voice in the fearefull day calling us the blessed children of his Father if with humility and feare we draw neare to heare what the Lord saith now in his word we shall not appeare in judgement to be censured but commended And this is most certaine that seeing all the creatures tremble at the Lords voice we must either doe so in this life when God commands us or in the life to come when he condemnes us Beholde the Bridegroome commeth Here is the first part of the Proclamation being a notice given of the Bridegroomes coming If these that were prepared for a mariage solemnity heard a warning given without certaine notice for what purpose how could they understand that it concerned them So if in the great day the voice of the Lord shewed not the particular person that came it could not be the trumpet of the Almighty but his voice shall declare that the Bridegroome commeth because the power of God shall goe along with it the diligence of the Angels shall second the sound of it in gathering his Saints unto the great assembly The Scriptures say that Christ shall come for although he filleth all places being God infinite and incomprehensible yet because of his humane nature he shall shew a locall descent The glory of Christs person is now hid and set his throne in the ayre But for his divine nature it filleth the world and of it I say Bern. Ser. 3. Advent as Bernard said of Christs incarnation that he was in the world and the world was made by him but the world knew him not Non ergo veniet qui aberat sed apparebit qui latebat He shall not therefore come as one that was absent but appeare as one that was hidden before and shew the glory of his Majesty shining in his humane nature the glory of both which is now hidden from our eyes for the clouds spheares of heaven have taken him out of our sight and according to the Psalme Psal 18 11. Compare 1 Tim. 6.16 with Act. 22 11. Hee hath made darkenesse his pavilion and secret place which though it be in it selfe a light inaccessible yet it darkeneth our sight Thus our Lord as a Bridegroome is entred into his chamber and there he stayes untill the day come and then shall he come out of his chamber as a mighty man and shew himselfe before all mankinde and as nothing is hid from the heate of the naturall Sunne so no man shall be able to hide himselfe when the Sunne of Righteousnesse shall declare his glory and power for every eye shall see him yea even they that pierced him through Revel 1 7. and all kindreds of the earth shall waile before him This doctrine is of great antiquity for when the olde world by their impieties began to be the first presidents of this last vengeance of God Henoch terrified them with this doctrine Beholde the Lord commeth with thousands of his Saints Iude verse 14. to be revenged on them but their gracelesse hearts tooke no notice of it so while we have the same Proclamation giving us warning so long before hand who are moved to prepare and attend But as often as we reade or heare these words Behold the Lord commeth or the Bridegroome commeth so often is this voice either in characters or sounds sent from heauen to our eyes and eares to give us warning of this last meeting When Moses forewarned Israel of their ensuing calamities Deut. 4 26. and the cause of them he called heaven and earth to be witnesse that he had given them warning and left it registred to be read to all posterity so if they perished their owne neglect should be the cause of it so in the day of judgement the Lord shall call heaven and earth before him to judge his people Psal 50 4. and to prove how often we have heard the Proclamation though we forget and be carelesse yet the Sunne and Moone that give us light Psal 89 37. are faithfull witnesses in heaven and