people 2 Chron. 17.9 Hezekiah commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the Priests the Levites that they might be encouraged in the Law of the Lord 2 Chron. 31.4 If thou hast built and repaired the house of God and places of his worship as did Solomon Josiah Secondly if thou hast been an example of vertue and godlinesse to thy people David himself dances before the Ark and the house of Israel follow him 2 Sam. 6.14 The King of Ninivie was the first that humbled himself in sackcloth and ashes and then the inhabitants of the City did likewise Examples of great personages have a strong influence nay as it were a violence upon inferiors Caesar filled the Empire with Soldiers Augustus with Scholars c. Thirdly if they have provided good Laws executed them that such as live under them may be godly and quietly governed Good Laws are such as are agreeable to the Law of Nature and the word of God And they are then executed when great flies are taken as well as small ones Fourthly if thou hast punished the wicked and cherished the good Mine eyes shall be upon the faithfull of the Land that they may dwell with me he that walketh in a perfect way shall be my servant But I will early destroy all the wicked of the Land that I may cut off all wicked doers from the City of God Psal 101.6 8. Kings and Governors are sent by God for the punishment of evill doers and for the praise of them that doe well 1 Pet. 2.14 It cannot be wel then if Crows be pardoned Pigeons punished Fiftly if thou hast heard the cries of the poor received their petitions redressed their wrongs Defend the poor and fatherlesse do justice to the afflicted and needy Deliver the poor and needy rid them out of the hand of the wicked Psal 82.3 4. Be wise now therefore O ye kings be instructed ye that are Judges of the earth Psal 2.10 Remember there will be Deus dies ultionis A God and a day of vengeance But art thou a Minister Thou shalt be examined First if thou didst enter in at the doore or climb in at the window if thou wert called of God or intrudest thy self A man may know if he be called of God by those talents which are committed to him It is required that every Minister have scientiam competentem if not eminentem that is competent though not eminent knowledge For the Priests lips must keep knowledge the people must seek it at his lips Mal. 2.7 Secondly if thou hast taught and instructed the people committed to thee Feed my sheep John 21.16 I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsell of God Take heed therefore unto your selves and to all the flock over the which the Lord hath made you overseers to feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own Blood Acts 20.27 28. It is required of a Minister that he be διδακτικὸς apt and able to teach 2 Tim. 2.24 He that is ignorant and cannot teach is a dumb dog He that can and will not is a dumb Divel unless lawfully detained Where no vision is there the people perish Prov. 29.18 His bloud will I require at thy hand Ezek. 33.6 Who then is a faithfull and wise servant whom his Lord hath made ruler over all his houshold to give them meat in due season Blessed is that servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing Mat. 24.45 46. Thirdly if thy life hath agreed with thy Doctrine He that was mis-shapen or had any blemish might not come nigh to offer the offerings of the Lord Lev. 21.21 Moses when he blesses the tribe of Levi desires of God that his Thummim and Urim might be with his Holy One i.e. integrity of life as well as the light of Learning Deut. 33.8 It is said of Christ that he was a Prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people Luke 24.19 Thou that teachest another teachest thou not thy self thou that preachest a man should not steal dost thou steal Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery dost thou commit adultery thou that abhorrest Idols dost thou commit sacriledg Rom. 2.21 22. Be thou an example of the beleevers in word in conversation in charity in purity in spirit in faith 1 Tim. 4.12 Or art thou an Officer Thou shall be examined If thou hast not exacted more then was appointed for thee Luke 3.13 If thou hast not dealt with the poor as the servants of Elies sons did If thou wilt not give it me I will take it by force 1 Sam. 2.16 Or art thou a Souldier Thou shalt be examined If thou hast done violence to no man If thou hast not accused any falsly If thou hast been content with thy wages Luke 3.14 Or art thou a tradesman Thou shalt be examined If thou hast not used false weights deceitfull ballances unjust measures all which are an abomination to the Lord Prov. 20.10 If thou hast not sometimes taken the name of God in vain to obtrude a bad commodity upon thy neighbour sic de caeteris I may now say of our Judg as Jacobs sons said of the Governor of Egypt The man asked us straitly of our state Gen. 43.7 SECTION IV. WE have now seene how Christ will proceed with us in the day Judgment let us in the next place consider that final and irrevocable Sentence which shal pass upon us and it is either the Sentence of Absolution or Condemnation The sentence of Absolution THe sentence of Absolution shall be pronounced in these words Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world Mat 25.34 In which sentence there is not a word a syllable a letter but is musick to the care hony to the mouth and a Jubilee to the heart How wil our ears be ravished and our hearts dance within us to hear Christ pronounce us the blessed ones of his Father To hear that sweet cal invitation Come ye To hear the glory of that inheritāce to which we must come A Kingdome The Kingdome Prepared for us of old Blessed are the people that shall hear this joyfull sound Psal 89.15 CAP. II. The sentence of Absolution shall be first pronounced THE good Servant was rewarded admitted into his Masters joy and then the evil unprofitable servant was punished and cast into utter darkness Mat. 25. They on the right hand are called to a kingdome and then they on the left are cast into fire Mat. 25. God will not cast the wicked into hell till they have seen something of the happinesse of the Saints which increaseth their grief and torment The wicked shall see it be grieved he shall gnash with his teeth and melt away Psal 112.10 Or else it may bee Christ begins with the sentence of Absolution to shew that he had rather save us then damn us He
love thy coming My soul doth magnifie thee O Lord. What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits towards me I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the Name of the Lord Psal 116.12 I will sing of the mercies of the Lord for ever with my mouth wil I make known thy faithfulnesse to all generations Ps 89.1 Let them that fear the Lord say alwayes The Lord be praised Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the holy Ghost As it was in the beginning is now and ever shal be world without end Amen Amen And that for Jesus Christ his sake in whose most blessed name and words we conclude these our imperfect prayers saying as he himself hath taught us OUR Father which art in heaven c. Morning Prayer OLord our heavenly Father almighty everlasting God which hast safely brought us to the beginning of this day defend us in the same with thy mighty power grant that this day we fall into no sin neither run into any kind of danger but that all our doings may be ordered by thy governance to doe alwayes that is righteous in thy sight through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Evening Prayer LIghten our darkness we beseech thee O Lord and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night for the love of thy onely Son our Saviour Jesus Christ Amen THe grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the holy Ghost be with us all evermore Amen V. INTERCESSION INtercessiō is abranch of prayer extending and inlarging our desires for others as we see in Abraham who interceded for Sodom and Mases for Israel and Samuel for Saul And this duty is very acceptable to God for necessity constrains us to pray for our selves but charity moves us to become petitioners for others And the prayer of charity is more acceptable to God then the prayer of necessity Again it is very profitable for us for though our prayers should not profit them yet they will profit us for they shall be turned into our own bosomes Psal 35.13 Si pro te tantum roges pro te tantum rogabis Si autem pro omnibus roges pro te omnes rog abunt Amb. l. 1. de Cain c. cap. 1. I exhort therefore that first of all supplication prayers intercessions giving of thanks bee made for all men for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour 1 Tim. 2.1 3. And pray always with all manner of prayer and supplication in the spirit and watch thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all Saints And for me that utterance may be given unto me that I may open my mouth boldly to publish the secret of the Gospel Eph. 6.18 19. Is any sick among you let him call for the Elders of the Church and let them pray over him And the prayer of faith shall save the sick and the Lord shall raise him up and if he have committed sinnes they shall be forgiven him James 5.14 15. But as for me when they were sick my clothing was sackcloth I humbled my soul with fasting and my prayer returned into mine own bosome Psal 35.13 Peter was kept in prison but earnest prayer was made of the Church for him Acts 12.5 Pray for the peace of Jerusalem they shall prosper that love thee Psal 122.6 THE LETANY of Intercession THat it may please thee to bless thy Church militant here on earth to preserve the purity of doctrine the due administration of the Sacraments and the preaching of thy Word that the gates of hell may not prevaile against it I beseech thee to heare me good Lord. That it may please thee to purge it from schism and heresie and to reconcile all unhappy differences that we may keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace I beseech thee to heare me good Lord. That it may please thee to fence it about with the wall of thy providence to infatuate the counsel to disperse the powers and projects of all those that wish evill unto Sion I beseech thee to hear me good Lord. That it may please thee to blesse that part of thy Church wherein thou hast planted me and to whose brests thou hast applied me with peace and plenty with a free exercise and reverent esteem of all thine ordinances I beseech thee to hear me good Lord. That it may please thee to bless our gracious King Charls our royall Queen Mary our hopefull Prince Charls and all others that are derived from that same sacred stock or ingraffed into it I beseech thee to hear me good Lord. That it may please thee to bless the government preaching of the Clergy make them painful in their Ministry and exemplary in their lives that they may save themselves and those that hear them I beseech thee to heare me good Lord. That it may please thee to blesse the Councell with wisedome the Judges with integrity the Magistrates with courage the people with obedience our Armies with strength victory I beseech thee to heare me good Lord. That it may please thee to blesse all schools and seminaries of learning religion especially the two Universities of this Land I beseech thee to he are me good Lord. That it may please thee to blesse all those that are near and dear unto me by the bond of nature or Christian acquaintance I beseech thee to heare me good Lord. That it may please thee to blesse all those that have been instruments of my good and are yet living Such as have educated and instructed me Such as have counselled and advised me Such as have clothed and fed me such as have reproved and corrected me when I sinned I beseech thee to hear me good Lord. That it may please thee to remember the reformed Churches beyond the seas to repair the ruines desolations which her enemies have made in her to reduce such as are banished to inlarge such as are imprisoned to relieve such as are impoverished and to comfort such as are persecuted for the testimony of a good conscience and the truth of thy Gospel I beseech thee to hear me good Lord. That it may please thee to raise up such as are dejected with the guilt of their own consciences with the horror of their fins with the apprehension of thy wrath with the weaknesse of their graces or jealousies of thy mercy and to say to their souls that thou art their salvation I beseech thee to heare me good Lord. That it may please thee to prosper and assist all those that jeopard their lives for the maintenance of the Gospel go forth with their Armies cover their heads in the day of battel and bring them home with honour and victory I beseech thee to hear me good Lord. That it may please thee to bless all women with child with safe deliverance all young children with a godly and
long ver 6. My loins are filled with a loathsome disease and there is no soundness in my flesh ver 7. I am feeble and sore broken I have rored by reason of the disquietness of my heart ver 8. Lord all my desire is before thee my groaning is not hid from thee ver 9. Forsake me not O Lord O my God be not far from me ver 21. Make haste to help me O Lord my salvation ver 22. DIRECTIONS for the Lords Day HEE that would spend a Sunday well living where he hath the liberty of Gods house and Ordinances must do something before Church something at Church something after Church Before Church 1. So soone as we awake we should have our hearts affected with the majesty and solemnity of the day putting a difference betwixt it and others considering that it is The Lords day An holy day An honourable day Great is the honour of this day above others God the Father honoured it On this day he formed the elements of the world On this day he created the Angels On this day he first rained Manna upon the Israelites God the Son honoured it with his glorious resurrection with his gracious apparitions after he was risen For On this day he appeared to the two Maries that came to the Sepulchre Matth. 28.1 9. On this day he appeared to his Disciples assembled together Thomas then not being present John 20.19 On this day he appeared again to his Disciples Thomas being with them Joh. 20.26 On this day S. John saw him walking in the midst of the seven golden Candlesticks Rev. 1.10 13. God the holy Ghost honoured it On this day he descended upon the Apostles in a golden showr of all spirituall gifts and graces Since which time The Church hath honoured it and made it the day of their solemn Assemblies Acts 20.7 What God and his Church hath thus honoured that do not thou profane Secondly we must lay aside the cares of the world and the works of our ordinary callings leaving them behind us as Abraham did his servants when he went to offer his sacrifice upon Mount Moriah Thirdly we must cleanse our selves by confession repentance for otherwise our prayers in the Church will not be acceptable to God nor his ordinances profitable to us Will ye steal murder commit adultery and swear falsly and burn incense unto Baal and walk after other gods whom ye know not and come and stand before me in this house Jer. 7.9 10. Shall I be enquired of by you ô house of Israel As I live saith the Lord I will not be enquired of by you Ezek. 20.31 God heareth not sinners but if any man be a worshipper of him and doth his will him he heareth John 9.31 The Lord had respect unto Abel and his offering But unto Cain and his offering he had not respect Gen. 4.4 5. I will wash my hands in innocency and so will I compasse thine Altar Psal 26.6 Hence was it that the Jews writ over the doors of their Synagogues this saying of David This is the gate of the Lord the righteous shall enter into it Psal 118.20 And now being thus qualified prepared go unto the house of God and in the way meditate of some of these sentences One thing I have desired of the Lord that I will seek after that I may dwel in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to enquire in his Temple Psal 27.4 I was glad when they said unto me Let us go up unto the house of the Lord Psal 122.1 We will go unto his Tabernacles we wil worship at his footstoole Psal 132.7 My soul longeth yea even fainteth for the courts of the Lord Psal 84.2 A short morning Prayer for the Sunday O Most glorious and immortall God the eye of whose providence doth never slumber I yeeld thee humble and hearty thanks that thou hast preserved me from the perils of the night past brought me safe to the light of this day and the comforts thereof It is a day holy and honourable a day which is consecrated to thine own service and set apart for thine own honour Let my heart therefore gracious God be so affected with the glory and majesty of it that I may not doe mine own works nor seek mine own pleasure nor speak mine own words but may wait upon thee in the use of thine ordinances discharge those weighty duties which thou requirest of me Now forasmuch as thou art a God of pure eyes and wilt be sanctified in all those that draw near unto thee a God who regardest not the sacrifice of fools nor hearest sinners though they tread in thy courts and call upon thee in the House of praier I beseech thee to pard on and forgive me all my sins remove them out of thy presence as far as the East is from the West accept of me in the death and passion of thy Son Jesus Christ that when I shall come into thy Temple to compasse thine Altar my prayer may come up before thee as incense and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice And as I desire that thou wouldest hear me calling upon thee in my prayers so give me grace to hear thee calling upon me in thy word It is the word of truth of wisdome of righteousnesse of reconciliation that Word which is able to save my soul in the day of the Lord Jesus grant therefore that I may hear it with reverence receive it with meeknesse and mingle it with faith that it may accomplish in me that good work for which thou hast sent it And that this day may be every where a day of holinesse unto thee sanctifie and prepare the hearts of all thy people for thy service fill the places of thy worship with thy glory be present with the assemblies of thy Saints open the mouths of thy Ministers second the ministry of thy word by the efficacy of thy Spirit that it may be powerfull to the casting down of the strong holds of sin and Satan to the advancing inlarging of thy Kingdome to the edifying building up of thy body the Church and to the perfecting of thy Saints till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God to a perfect man Thou ô God who art able to do exceeding abundantly for us above all that we can ask or think hear me and answer me even for the sake of thy dear Sonne Jesus Christ to whom with the Father and the blessed Spirit be ascribed given all power praise might majesty and dominion now and evermore Amen At Church COnsider first the place where thou art it is The gate of heaven Holy ground The house of God Josh 5.15 Gen. 28.17 O how amiable are thy tabernacles ô Lord of Hosts A day in thy Courts is better then a thousand Blessed are they that may dwell
therefore from the bar of thy justice to the bowels of thy mercy beseeching thee in that day to deal with the soul of thy servant not as a severe Judge but as a mercifull Jesus It will be O Lord a day of wrath but gather me under the shadow of thy wings untill the indignation be past over It will be a day of darknesse of gloominesse but lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon me and I shall be saved It will be a day of Judgment but in that day by thine agony and bloody passion and by whatsoever thou hast done or suffered for me good Lord deliver me And to this end I beseech thee give me grace to live soberly righteously and godly in this present world to keep a good conscience void of offence towards thee my God and towards all men to abound always in the works of charity and mercy and to judg and condemn my self here that I may not be condemned hereafter That so whensoever this day shall seise upon me I may not be bound up with the bundle of tares which shall be cast into unquenchable fire but gathered with the wheat into thy garners and set with the sheep upon thy right hand and called in the number of those blessed ones to inherit a Kingdom that Crown of righteousnesse which thou hast purchased and prepared for all those that love and expect that day of thy appearing Now unto thee ô Christ together with thy Father thy blessed Spirit be ascribed all power praise dignity and dominion now and for ever Amen A PRAYER FOR the Morning OEternall and most glorious Lord God and in Iesus Christ our merciful and loving Father we thine unworthy creatures sinful dust and ashes are here in all humility of souls bodies prostrate at the lowest footstool of thy glorious Majesty beseeching thee to bow down thine ears unto our prayers and to open thine eyes upon our supplication who from the ground bottom of our hearts do acknowledg and confess that we have been unprofitable servants prodigall children bad stewards of that time which thou hast afforded us for repentance good works of those talents which thou hast committed to our improvement If we put our hands into our bosomes we must needs draw them out all leprous For we are the brood of rebellious and disobedient Parents our hearts are cages of unclean birds of noisome lusts and the thoughts thereof have been evil and only evill and that continually And if ô Lord we look forth unto the actions of our lives there is no sin which we have not committed no commandment which we have not broken These eys which now look up unto heaven have beheld vanity these tongues which now call upon thee have blasphemed thee and these hands which we now lift up unto thee have been many times lift up against thee and thy Statutes So that we have made our selves unworthy of the least of thy mercies but worthy of the greatest of thy judgments But deal not with us after our sins neither reward us according to our iniquities Spare us good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast created after thine own Image and redeemed with thine own Blood And according to the multitude of thy tender compassions which have ever been of old to us blot out the multitude of our transgressions Pardon our sins and receive us again unto thy favour for his sake and sufferings who hath satisfied thy Justice to the utmost farthing And for the short residue and remainder of our days give us grace to consecrate it to thy service to redeem that time which we cannot recall and to make our calling and election sure before we go hence and be no more seen And because the corruptions of our nature are too many and too strong for us and the Divel like a roaring Lion goes about continually to devour us leave us not to our selves but assist us by thy grace perfect thy strength in our weaknesse and preserve both our bodies and souls spotlesse and unblameable that when we shall have finished our course and run the race of our naturall Pilgrimage we may receive that crown of righteousnesse which thou the righteous and just Judg hast laid up for all them that love and expect the day of thy appearing And together with us we intreat thee for a blessing upon our King Queen Prince and the rest of the Roiall Progeny upon our Councellors Ministers Magistrates upon our friends kinred and acquaintance upon the whole Church and every afflicted member of it And accept of our morning sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving for all the mercies and favours comforts and deliverances which from time to time thou hast afforded and continued to us We thank thee for thy last mercy in preserving us from the dangers of this night past for refreshing our bodies with seasonable rest and bringing us safe to the beginning of this day Lord what is man that thou art so mindfull of him or the Son of man that thou shouldest thus visit remember him Give us grace O Lord to remember thee and to be mindfull of thy mercies that we may praise thee for all the truth and faithfulnesse which thou shewest to us in the land of the living that as thou hast brought us to the comforts of this day so thou mayest go along with us in the same to enable us for the duties of those callings wherein we are placed and to deliver us from those dangers to which we are exposed even for Jesus Christ his sake in whose most blessed name and words we conclude these our weak and imperfect prayers saying as he himself hath taught us in his holy Gospel O our Father c. A PRAYER FOR the Evening O Most glorious and ever living LORD God which inhabitest eternity and dwellest in that light which no mortall eye can attain unto the God in whom we live and move and have our being we thine unworthy servants do here in all lowlinesse and humility present our persons and prayers before thy divine Majesty confessing acknowledging that we were conceived in sin and brought forth in iniquity and as if that had been but a smal matter we have heaped up our actuall transgressions as the sand upon the Sea shore and as the stars in the firmament for number We have broken thy Commandements we have prophaned thy Sabbaths we have dishonoured thy name we have abused thy creatures we have neglected the day of our visitation turned thy grace into wantonness whereby we have most justly provoked thy wrath and everlasting displeasure we have wounded our own consciences weakned our assurance of salvation grieved thy good Spirit which sealeth us up unto the day of our redemption And now Lord if thou shouldest deal with us after our deservings thou mightest pour upon us the deluge of thy wrath and fury to sweep us out of the land of the living into that place
is slow to anger Psal 103.8 A God that delighteth not in the death of a sinner His own nature inclines him to save us our sins urge and provoke him to damne us Therefore if he must punish he comes as it were unwillingly to it and reserves it for the last place CAP. III. The sentence of condemnation THe sentence of Condemnation shal be denounced in these words Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Divel his angels Mat. 25.41 Not a word in this sentence but is a wound not a syllable but is a sword piercing the heart not a letter but is as loud and terrible as a clap of thunder How shall the loyns of the wicked tremble and their joynts be loosed their knees knock together to hear Christ pronounce them cursed Cursed because of the punishment of losse Depart ye There is their banishment exclusion from him who is the fountain of life the light of glory and in whose presence there is fulnesse of joy Cursed because of the punishment of Sense Depart ye into fire there is the extremity Into fire everlasting there is the eternity Prepared for the Divel and his Angels there is their Company Immediately after these sentences are pronounced shall follow execution The wicked shall goe away into everlasting punishment but the righteous into life eternall Mat. 25.46 SECTION V. IT remains now in the last place to view the use and influence which the consideratiō of this great day of the Lord ought to have upon our affections It is matter of terrour to some of comfort to others but of instruction to all CAP. I. Terrour to the wicked AS Paul reasoned of righteousnesse temperance and judgment to come Felix trembled Acts 24.25 The Jews fell backward when they came to apprehend Christ in the days of his humility how then shal they stand before him when he shal come in glory and majesty How terrible must this day needs be when The mountaines shall quake at him and the hills melt and the earth bee burnt up at his presence yea the world and all that dwell therein Who can stand before his indignation and who can abide the fiercenesse of his anger his fury is poured out like fire and the rocks are throwne down by him Nah. 1.5 6. What a hard distresse shall the wicked be in when they shall have On one side their sins accusing On the other the justice of God terrifying The gulf of hell gaping under them An angry Judge frowning over them Within them a conscience stinging Without them the world burning Anselme Surely the Kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief Captains and the mighty men and every bondman and every free man shall hide themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains and shall say to the mountains and rocks fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on 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 Rev. 6.15 16 17. Rejoyce ô young man in thy youth and let thy heart chear thee in the days of thy youth and walk in the ways of thine own heart in the sight of thine eyes but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee to judgment Eccles 11.9 O consider this you that forget God lest he tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver you Psal 50.22 Knowing the terrors of the Lord we perswade men 2 Cor. 5.11 CAP. II. Comfort to the godly THen shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory And when these things begin to come to passe then look up and lift up your heads for your redemption draweth nigh Luke 21.27 28. The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the Archangell and with the trump of God c. Wherfore comfort ye one another with these words 1 Thes 4.16 17. When Christ ascended the Angels comforted the Disciples in this manner This same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven Acts 1.11 Hence it is that the righteous are said to love the day of his appearing for then they shall receive a crown of righteousness 2 Tim. 4.8 The Lord is good a strong hold in the day of trouble and he knoweth them that trust in him Nahum 1.7 But of this we have heard before where this day in respect of the godly is called a day of refreshing redemption CAP. III. Instruction to all IF it be thus what manner of men ought we to be in all holy conversation on and godliness 2 Pet. 3.11 That which raised up the soul of S. Jerome to such a pitch of devotion was the continuall meditation of this day Whether I eat or drink or whatsoever I do me thinks I hear the last trump sounding in my ears Arise ye dead and come to judgment We must give an account not only for our presumptuous sins but for our smallest sins I say unto you That of every idle word that men shal speak they shall give account thereof at the day of judgment Mat. 12.36 We shall reckon not only for our own sins but for the sins of others which we have occasioned by our command company counsell or ill example We shall reckon for the talents of grace and nature and for the precious time afforded to us Hear the end of all fear God and keep his Commandments for God will bring every work into Judgment Eccles 12.13 14. Abound in the works of mercy and charity for according to them wee shall be judged Mat. 25. Judge your selves here you shall not be judged hereafter 1 Cor. 11.31 As for the time when or the place where the Judgment seat of Christ shall be erected O my soul enter not into these secrets Such knowledg is too wonderfull for thee Secret things belong to the Lord our God and revealed things to us and our children A short Prayer for the day of Judgment O Most blessed Lord Jesus who now sittest at the right hand of God the Father and from thence shalt come to judg both the quick and the dead in power and great glory I confess and acknowledge that such is the hainousnesse of my sins the guiltinesse of my Conscience and the dreadfulness of that day that my very flesh trembleth and my heart melteth within me when I consider that I must appear before the tribunall of thy just Judgment to give an account of whatsoever I have done in the flesh whether good or evil I know ô Lord that if thou shalt enter into Judgment with me I cannot be justified in thy sight and if thou shalt be extreme to mark what amisse hath passed from me I shall not be able to answer thee one for a thousand I appeal