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A94239	The high court of justice. A sermon preached before the judge of assise at Leicester, Julie 30. 1652. / By Antonie Scattergood rectour of Winwick in North-hampton-shire.	Scattergood, Antony, 1611-1687.	1652 (1652)	Wing S841; Thomason E1418_2; ESTC R210320	21,372	75

joyes or pains This shal bee as the Quarter-sessions that other like the generall Assises Thou shalt know by this how it will go with thee then Well Beloved this also is unknown to us Though wee cannot all say as Isaac Gen. 27. that wee are old yet wee may all say as hee did Wee know not the day of our death Let this consideration therefore press the same duty of Watchfulness Ideo latet unus dies ut observentur omnes God hath on purpose kept the knowledge of this one day from us that hee might have our service every day that wee should never bee secure but ever ready ever doing our Masters business ever casting up our own accompts ever considering our later end like wise virgins ever trimming our lamps like faithfull servants ever employing and improving our talents that so when our Master cometh and findeth us about his work wee may receive his wages or rather his gift eternall life So much of the first point That there shal bee a Judgement Come we now to the second II. Christ shall bee the Judge To bee a Judge here upon earth though the Manichees and Donatists of old did and the Anabaptists their successours now do cry it down is an high and honourable calling To bee an oracle of justice a refuge for wronged innocencie a mainteiner of Truth and Peace a prop and pillar of the State To give eyes to the blind and feet to the lame To break the jaws of oppressours and pluck the spoil out of their teeth Job 29.15 17. To drive away wickedness and wicked men with a cast of his ey or with the breath of his mouth Pro. 20.8 26. To carry the life livelihood of others on the tip of his tongue Such actions as these so great so good lift a man almost above humanity And indeed as Judges do Gods work The judgement is Gods Deut. 1.17 and Yee judge not for man but for the Lord 2 Chron. 19.6 so God giveth Judges his own title Psal 82.6 I have said Yee are Gods and all of you are children of the most High If these that ride circuits here below and exsecute judgement and justice but in some small province have so great honour and dignity laid upon them how unconceivable will the autority and majesty of that Person bee that shall bee Lord Chief Justice of heaven and earth that shall bring in his hand the keyes of Hell and Death and shall cause a generall Gaol-delivery to bee made that shall exercise Commission of Oyer Terminer over all both men and angels and shall pass an unrepealable sentence upon both And to this height is Christ advanced All power is given him in heaven and in earth Matth. 28.18 Hee is made not onely Head of his Church Ephes 5.23 but Lord and Judge of all Acts 10.36 42. All things are put under his feet and hee is set far above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named not onely in this world but also in that which is to come Ephes 1.20.22 Obj. But doth not Christ say If any man hear my words and believe not I judge him not for I came not to judge the world but to save the world John 12.47 And the like wee have John 3.17 Resp Such places are to bee understood of that coming which is past not of that which is to come Christ came not indeed to judge the world but hee shall come to judge it Hee came in poverty but hee shall come in power Hee came in the form of a servant and in the similitude of sinfull flesh but hee shall come in the glorie of his Father Hee came to bee judged but hee shall come to judge even those that judged him Hee came like a Lamb to bee sacrificed for sin but hee shall come like a Lion to tear all impenitent and unbelieying sinners in pieces At his first coming such was his meekness and humility that hee hid himself that hee might not bee a King John 6.15 but such shall bee the splendour and terrour of his second coming that even Kings and Potentates shall seek to hide themselves from his presence Rev. 6 15-17 When hee was upon earth hee refused to bee a Judge of civile matters and a divider of earthly inheritances Man who made mee a Judge or a divider over you Luke 12.14 but when hee cometh in the clouds of heaven hee will bee a Judge and a divider indeed hee will bestow the mansions of glorie on the vessels of grace and like his type Joshua divide the heavenly Canaan among all the Israel of God giving to one autority over five cities to another over ten Luke 19.17 19. Qu. But how and why is Judgement attributed to Christ since God is Judge of all the earth Gen. 18.25 Yea since God is Judge himself Psal 50.6 Resp How and why Let the Arian and Socinian hear how and why Christ is therefore Judge of all Heb. 12.23 because hee is God over all Rom. 9.5 His Divinity and his Autority inferre each other That which in the Text the Apostle calleth standing before the judgement-seat of Christ in the twelfth verse hee calleth Giving account to God So then saith hee every one of us shall give account of himself to God So then Christ is God And indeed the Father communicateth both his nature and his power unto him Hee hath given all things into his hand Joh. 3.35 and hee hath given him autority to exsecute judgement because hee is the Son of man Joh. 5.27 But wee must not imagin that by investing the Son with this power the Father hath devested himself of it For hee still reteineth the power hee hath given As in respect of essence the Son is in the Father and the Father in the Son so in respect of action the Son worketh from the Father and the Father by the Son John 17 21-23 Concerning the particular in hand That of our Saviour Joh. 5.22 The Father judgeth no man but hath committed all judgement to the Son is excellently expounded by S. Paul Acts 17.31 God hath appointed a day in the which hee will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom hee hath ordained Yet shall not Christ sit as a delegate or subordinate Judge but as a Judge Paramount principall and absolute from whom there shall bee no appeal whose sentence shall not bee traversed nor his power resisted For hee shall judge not as Man onely nor as God onely but as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as both together As Man hee shall come in the clouds of heaven and sit on the tribunall as God hee shall raise the dead and force all to stand before him As Man every ey shall behold him as God hee shall behold every thought and discover every deed of darkness As Man hee shall pronounce the sentence as God hee shall fulfill and exsecute it The Scripture asscribeth the last Judgement to three sorts of Judges to God

THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE A SERMON Preached before the Judge of ASSISE at Leicester Julie 30. 1652. By ANTONIE SCATTERGOOD Rectour of Winwick in North-hampton-shire LONDON Printed by ROGER DANIEL Anno 1652. ORNATISSIMO VIRO D. THOMAE CAVE BARONETTO ET LECTISSIMAE EJUS CONJUGI PENELOPAE HANC OPELLAM D. D. D. ANTONIUS SCATTERGOOD THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE ROM XIV 10. Wee shall all stand before the judgement-seat of Christ I Know it is usuall in such assemblies as this to handle texts of Scripture proper to the present occasion Such as is Jethro's counsel to Moses concerning the choice of Judges Exod. 18.21 Moses's charge to the Judges hee had chosen Deut. 1.16 17. Samuels example that was a Judge itinerant 1. Sam. 7 15-17 in Bethel and Gilgal and Mizpeh and Ramah 1 Sam. 12.3 King Jehoshaphat's commission to the Judges hee set in the cities of Judah 2 Chron. 19.6 Job's profession of his own integrity Job 29 7-17 David's vow Psal 101. those Proverbs of Solomon and passages of the Prophets that either press the duties of Magistrates or prohibit Bribery Cowardise Partiality or some other vice incident to that honourable calling Such places as these are for the most part the subject of Assise-sermons And indeed so worthy they are to bee ever fresh in the memories of all in autority that I wish they were written on the walls of their houses or rather in the tables of their hearts Yet my desire beeing to speak to all here present and not to one onely or a few though those few yea that one bee more considerable at this time then many others I have therefore balked such texts chosen one of general perpetual concernment a text that will not so much minister occasion to the Preacher to satissie the humour of those that exspect a Satyre from the pulpit and love to see the faults of others great ones especially lashed while themselves sit untouched as it will force us all if well and duly weighed to erect a tribunall every man in his own bosome and to become Accusers and Judges of our selves a text that will not so much give occasion the Preacher to tell the people what the Informer and witness and Pleader and Jurer and Judge should do as it will force us all of what calling or rank soever seriously to bethink ourselves and carefully to enquire of others as they in the Acts chapt 2.37 and 9.6 and 16.30 What wee ourselves should do All here at Church have not business at the Court The Sheriff's men will tell you so anon Yea many there are who never had and haply never shall have any quarrel or controversie to bee tried before an earthly Judge But the Judge that cometh in the clouds every eie shall see him Rev. 1.7 every one shall bee summonned to appear before him to receive according to what hee hath done in the body whether good or bad 2 Cor. 5.10 Wee shal all stand before the judgement-seat of Christ The text yee see is profitable at any time for any congregation And meethinketh it is also seasonable enough at this time and sutable enough to the present auditorie Wee have a Judge and an Assises in the Town and wee have a Judge and an Assises in the Text and each ought to reflect upon the other The Trumpet and Guard and Attendance the Robes the Tribunall the Barre the whole pomp and proceeding of Judges here below should mind us of that awfull Judge who will one day descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangel and with the trump of God 1 Thess 4.16 and coming in the glorie of his Father with his Angels and myriads of Saints Mat. 16.27 Jude 14. shall erect his judgement-seat in the clouds and there sit upon the eternall life and death of all mankind Thus the affair in hand is an embleme of the Text for an Assise is a little Dooms-day And again the Text by Gods blessing may have great influence upon the affair in hand For let all that have to do in matters apperteining to Judgement but believe and remember these few words Wee shall all stand before the judgement-seat of Christ and I am consident there will bee no malicious calumnies or false accusations brought into the Court no rotten cause gilded over by bribed eloquence no verdict given-in against evidence and Oath no perverting no delaying of Justice but all from him that sitteth on the Bench to the meanest Officer will by the terrours of the Lord bee perswaded so to demean themselves as to have alwayes a conscience void of offense toward God toward men Acts. 24.16 The Text then is a word spoken in fit season as appeareth further from our Saviours telling the High Priest and Councel of the Jews when he was apprehended and brought before them that they should see him come in the clouds of heaven Mat. 26.64 and from S. Pauls reasoning before Felix of the judgement to come Acts. 24.25 My porch is big enough It is time to walk into the Court I have hitherto made way for my Text Let us now make entrance into it Therein three things are obvious to our view 1. A Judgement-seat 2. The Person that shall sit upon it 3. The Persons that shall stand before it Whence three points of doctrine 1. There shal bee a Judgement 2. Christ shall bee the Judge 3. The Judgement shall be generall I. That there shal bee a Judgement after death though it bee an article of Christian Faith the property and privilege whereof is to look beyond the veil and to behold things invisible yet was it not wholy hid from the ey of naturall Reason for wee find the wiser sort of the Heathen making some discoveries of it The Sibylls prophesie of it Plato and other Philosophers prove it in their discourses concerning the Immortality of the soul and its condition after death The Poets with their witty fansies paint it out in their fables of Aeacus and his fellow-Judges of the Elysian fields of Tityus's vultur of Tantalus's hunger thirst of the darkness and fire and furies of the infernall regions If these by the glimmering light of Nature could see so much how can wee wonder enough at those Sadducees and Epicures amongst us that deny this truth now the Sun of the Gospel shineth so bright about them what can wee think but that they are mere Atheists and not worthy to bee disputed with since they deny our principles and oppose both Scripture and Nature Time will come when they shall feel what they will not now believe and bewail their errour when it will bee too late As for us let us not bee deceived Let not their evil words corrupt either our minds or our manners Let not us follow swinish Epicures who profess ourselves Christs sheep but let us hear the voice of our Shepherd while they deride the Scriptures let us believe them And they are as clear in this matter as