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A56555	The sinners arraignment; or, The life, death and judgment of stubborn and incorrigible sinners Wherein first is plainly set forth and described the certainty of their death: as also many pithy arguments to perswade men to prepare for it, lest they fall unawares into the great condemnation. Together with a pithy discourse of the last and great judgment, with a discovery of the judge, the judged, and the manner of the pronouncing sentence, the confusion of sinners before the judgement seat, being full of terrour and amazement; as also followed on with many directions to sinners. which, if followed, they may escape the sentence of, Go ye cursed, &c. With some consolations for saints, who have overcome the second death, and may appear with boldnesse at the great day and receive their sentence of, Come ye blessed, &c. By T.P.	Passenger, Thomas.	1668 (1668)	Wing P658E; ESTC R216912	10,389	28

spare you it is your murderer and its the murderer of the World use it therefore as a Murderer should be used kill it before it kill you and then though it kill your bodies it shall not be able to kill your souls If the thoughts of Death and the Grave and Rottennesse be not pleasant to you Oh let not the Thoughts of sin be pleasant to you let this be your Motto Memento mori you love not Death love not the cause of Death Is it nothing to be dead in Trespasses and sins Oh what a Poison is this that kils so many millions that can never be cured but by the blood of Christ Oh unbelieving stupid souls that smart and sin groan and sin and wéep and lament over bodily Diseases and sufferings of which sin is the Cause and yet sin still What fear a Grave and fear not sin which will not onely send the body to the Grave but the soul to Hell What pains and pleasure dost thou take Oh silly soul in working the work of wickedness Dost thou not believe the Scripture the Word of the everlasting God that tels you the wages of sin is Death viz. temporal and eternal Canst thou stare and gaze that King of terrors in the face with Confidence without a firm and well grounded Faith of thy interest in the Lord Iesus Consider thy danger oh Sinner whilst without God in the World and an Alian to the Common-wealth of Israel at the moment of thy Death Beware of the great damnation Can you hang your mouth over Hell by the single thread of a frail Life which you know not how soon you may lose and Death may in a moment snap asunder and then you are lost irrecoverably whilst under the power and Dominion of sin you are in danger of damnation every day Oh dreadful what at the brink of hell and not sée it at the very borders of the Lake of brimstone and not tremble almost within the hearing of bitter shrieking and roaring of damned souls and yet secure In the fear of God let this exhort you whilst it is called to Day to hear the Lords voyce and not harden your hearts What security can you have when you know not but you may dye to morrow I charge you in the name of the Living God that you rest no longer in a careless carnal security séeing the Door is yet open and Death has not yet closed your eyes Return to your God for in your Fathers House are many Mansions 2 Use For Consolation to the Saints to them who are born from above and have gotten the victory over the second death here is a word of comfort from the God of comfort to such souls Oh blessed are the dead that die in the Lord for they rest from their labors their works follow them Rev. 14.13 You who are dead to sin are alive to God 2 Pet. 2.24 Rejoyce oh soul thy name is written in the Book of Life God hath chosen you and set you upon his heart and the sinner shall not intermedle with your Ioy. Let Reprobates and fooles passed by stand trembling and be filled with horror at the approaches of Death but rather let it be your joy for then your joy shall be full Death will be to the Saints but as a Transportation not into bondage but into fréedome for here can those fetch their comfort in that they have peace with God and union with Christ and the assurance of the pardon of their sins and the imputation of Christs Righteousnesse to them they can comfortably conclude that the sting of Death is taken from them When a Believer looks upon himself as a dying man will not this delight his soul that Death comes peaceably to him If God be a Believers Friend Death is so also Out of the Eater comes forth meat yea there is a food in Death for every believing soul Death is the Chariot to carry the soul into everlasting Glory As for the wicked it stings them to death for ever but it doth but lay you asleep it is an in-let to their real misery but it s but an out-let from your present trouble and an in-let to your future happinesse for God hears an especial love to you oh Saints and Servants of the most high God for he hath loved you from Eternity with a Love on purpose to do you good O then delight your souls here and comfort your selves with these words that though you must go down to the Grave yet you shall not goe down to Hell The second Death shall have no power over you though you must be reckoned among the Dead yet you shall not be reckoned among the damned when you are going to your Grave you are not going to eternal darknesse but to God who is Light for your Surety having paid the debt for you and satisfied Gods Iustice at death you shall be received into your Masters Ioy. Now I come to the second Doctrine 2 Doct. After Death comes Judgement The words of the Text are sufficient to prove this Truth but I shall give a Scripture or two more Romans 14. v. 10 We shall all stand before the Judgment-seat of Christ 1 Pet. 4. v. 5. Who shall give an Account to him that is ready to Judge the Quick and Dead nothing more plain than this Truth Therefore we will enquire a little 1. Who shall be the Iudge and 2dly Who shall be judged and then briefly apply the whole 1. VVho shall be the Judge I Answer God himself by Iesus Christ 1. Principally God as Creator 2. As also God as Redéemer the humane nature of Iesus Christ having a derived and subordinate Power God lost not his right to his Creature either by mans fall or the Redemption by Christ but by the latter hath a new further Right but it is in and by Christ that God Iudgeth for as méer Creator of Innocent man God judgeth none but hath committed all Iudgment to the Son who hath procured this Right by the redéeming of fallen Man as it is in John 5 v. 22. But yet as the Son judgeth in the néerest sense so the Father doth it principally in that the power of the Son is derived from the Father and so standeth in subordination to him as Fountain or Efficient Well then sinners though you may hide your Cause from men yet you cannot hide your Cause from God though Devils may be ignorant of your case yet God knows your thoughts afar off but Secondly VVho are those that must be judged For answer All every man or woman that hath béen born upon the earth but the first in order to be judged shall be the Saints and then with Christ they shall judge the rest of the VVorld the Princes of the World shall stand before Christ even as the Peasants the honourable as the base and poor shall all méet together and the Lord shall Iudge them all But to apply the whole the Vses shall be thrée 1. For

The Sinners ARRAIGNMENT OR The Life Death and Judgment of stubborn and Incorrigible Sinners Wherein first is plainly set forth and descriscribed the Certainty of their Death As also many pithy Arguments to perswade men to prepare for it lest they fall unawares into the Great Condemnation Together with a Pithy Discourse of the last and great Judgment with a discovery of the Judge the judged and the manner of the pronouncing Sentence the Confusion of sinners before the Judgement-Seat being full of Terrour and Amazement as also followed on with many Directions to sinners which if followed they may escape the Sentence of Go ye Cursed c. With some Consolations for Saints who have overcome the second Death and may appear with boldnesse at the great Day and Receive their Sentence of Come ye blessed c. By T. P. Rom. 6.23 For the wages of sin is Death but the gift of God is eternal Life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Psalm 1.5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the Judgment nor sinners in the Congregation of the Righteous London Printed for Thomas Passinger at the three Bibles on London-Bridge 1668. The Sinners Arraignment Heb. 9.27 And it is appointed to men once to dye but after death to Judgment THe greatest concern of men in this Life ought to be to study so to Live as they might not be afraid to dye Now that death is the Lot and portion of all mankind both Scripture and Example do sufficiently evince to us In the handling of these words I shall not only shew that it is the Lords Decrée and appointment for men once to dye but also press on some wholsome Counsels and Exhortations to poor sinful souls to prepare for Death and Iudgment I shall not touch at all upon the fore-going words but come immediatly to the Text and from them draw these two Observations viz. 1 Doct. That though Death to poor unregenerate souls be terrible yet being the Decree and Appointment of God which is immutable it is certain 2 Doct. That after Death comes Judgment To begin with the first which I shall give you two or thrée Scriptures to prove and a few Motives or Arguments to stir you up to prepare for Death then briefly apply it The Text it self is plain enough to prove it to be a truth that it is Gods Decrée and Appointment 1 Sam. 2.6 The Lord killeth and maketh alive he bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up Ezek. 18.4 Behold all souls are mine as the soul of the Father so also the soul of the Son is mine the soul that sinneth it shall dye Psalm 82.7 But ye shall dye like men and fall like one of the Princes Death is the certain Lot and Portion of all both good and bad sinners and Saints wicked and godly but blessed are the dead who dye in the Lord happy is their state and condition they are but gone to their desired home to an eternal Mansion to the everlasting and full fruition of God who is the chiefest Good but the wicked shall goe down to his own place the wicked shall be turned into Hell and all the Nations that forget God But to come to the Motives to move you to prepare for Death and they are such as these 1 Motive To prevail with you to prepare for Death Consider the death of the Righteous and the death of the wicked sée what the Scripture speaks of both though it may be in your Life-time you will not perceive the vast difference betwéen the one and the other yet when Death comes to stare you in the face when the King of terrors comes and hangs your head over the Grave and your mouth over Hell then you will know and perceive that it 's better to dye the Death of the Righteous than the Death of the wicked c. Psalm 11. v. 6. Upon the wicked he shall rain snares fire and brimstone and an horrible tempest this shall be the portion of their Cup. 2. Consider where is the place or what is the condition of the soul after Death If thou dye in thy sins whether doth Death hurry the souls of the ungodly on a sudden in a moment in the twinkling of an Eye even into the presence of God there to receive their definitive Sentence it s presently adjudged either to everlasting Ioy or to everlasting Torment Oh unpardoned sinners and unrenewed souls Death will be your passage to everlastins misery Oh could but Guilty ungodly hearts be sure that there is no more Iustice to take hold on them after Death no more pain nor sorrow to be felt after Death but that man dye as a beast that he hath no more to féel or Lose Death then might be a tollerable evil but it s a Living Death and a dying Life and endless Woe and unspeakable Torment to which Death leads the guilty soul The utter darknesse the unquenchable fire the Worm that dyeth not the everlasting flames of the wrath of God These are the chief horrors and stings of Death 3. Consider Death as our enemy the which if it do not excite us to prepare for it certainly then the fore-knowledge of it must néeds encrease our misery it s an enemy to Nature It cuts men off before they have lived half their dayes A beast that knows not he must dye is not tormented with the fear of Death but man knows he must dye We may sée Graves and wéeping Friends every day and we cannot but know assuredly wée must encounter with this Enemy and that we shall be foiled by him Now to come to Application the Vses are two onely 1. For Exhortation 2. For Consolation 1. I exhort Sinners this Day in the Name and fear of the great and Eternal God to provide themselves of a Sanctuary and a sure Refuge for their souls against the day and hour of Death All men with Balaam desire to dye the death of the Righteous oh but how few endeavour to live the Life of the Righteous and that you may truly prepare for Death be first exhorted to avoid the occasion to wit Sin Sin brought Death into the World with it Oh foolish man wilt thou still love such a mortal enemy If a man should Rob thée of a groat or defame thée how hardly wouldst thou be reconciled to him but oh soul sin deprives thée of thy Life and separates thy soul and body in sunder and forfeiteth thy everlast-happinesse and canst thou love that which will undo thée take héed of jetting at the Door of Hell drive not away thy own Salvation harden not thy heart against the fear of God had it not béen for Sin wée had néeded no Coffin or Winding-shéet nor have béen beholding to a Grave to hide our Carcasses from the sight and smel of the Living but as Enoch and Elias were Translated when they walked with God even so should we Oh then sinners use sin as that will use you spare it not for it will not

Examination 2. For Terror and Astonishment 3. For Exhortation Because I Chiefly here intend to speak to Sinners and if the Lord please to set home his Word with power to some hearts it may tend to a waken secure sinners 1. For Examination and Tryal Oh sinner Ask thy soul these questions 1. Dost thou soundly believe the Doctrine which has béen proved by Scripture viz. That after Death comes Judgment What say you Sirs Do you verily believe that you and I must stand at Gods Bar and be judged to everlasting Ioy or Torment when I sée more Infidelity than Faith among us it makes me jealous whether you do firmly believe it or no What are the effects of your Faith do you prepare to look God in the face and that with comfort It is the express word of the God of Truth revealed in his Word Matth. 13.38 39 40 41 c. and Matth. 25. throughout John 5.28 29. The hour is coming in which all that are in their Graves shall hear his Voyce and shall come forth they that have done good to the Resurrection of Life and they that have done evil to the Resurrection of damnation Rom. 14.9.12 So every one of us shall give account of himself to God It is as sure as the Word of the Living God can make it and dare you doubt of the truth of it Oh then confirm your souls in the beliefe of this as if you had heard Christ or an Angel from Heaven say to you Oh man thou art hasting to Iudgment 2. Examine your souls and ask this Question whether you do soberly consider of this great Day and are seriously affected with the consideration of it Oh souls do you when you are alone use to think how certain and how dreadful it will be and how fast its coming on and what answer you shall make at that Day Alass Sirs is this a matter to be forgotten nay are you not worse than mad when you are going to Gods Iudgment and never think of i Let these words be often in your thoughts Arise ye dead and come to Judgement you have warning of it from God and man for the Lords sake dont forget it Some men may have heard of this Day by the Ministry of the Word 20. 30. 40 years together and the Preacher hath told them it was at hand now to talk of a day of Iudgment and they all this while sée it not nor féel any hurt by it they think it is but talk and so make nothing of it and this is all the thanks they give to God for his patience long suffering because entence is not spéedily executed therefore their hearts are set in them to do evil 3. You who are not ready or in a condition whereby you may be safe at that day I would ask this Question How you are resolved to prepare for Iudgment for the time to come will you do no more than you have done hitherto or will you set your selves with all your might to make preparation for so great a Day Oh that I could hear you say Lord direct us what to do Oh that there were such hearts in you that you were truly willing to serve the Lord. If ever you would look the Lord Iesus Christ in the face with comfort at the hour of death or day of Iudgment make ready and make it the businesse of your lives to provide for everlasting 4 Question Did you ever set upon your hearts the dreadful evil and mighty weight of sin and the misery which it will bring souls to and didst ever sée the néed of a Deliverer if not dreadful will be the day of Iudgment to your souls better for you you had never béen born for a soul to appear in the presence of God cloathed with the ugly garments of sin and sorrow and there to sée him to sit as Iudge to condemn him for ever to eternal darknesse who would have béen thy Lord and Saviour thy Deliverer and Redéemer who would have Redéemed thée from eternal Death and saved thée to a better Life Oh this will mightily astonish thée 2 Vse Is for terrour and astonishment The execution of this Iudgment is so Certain that nothing is more Certain no sooner is the dreadful Sentence past upon sinners but away they must be gone There is no delay much lesse any Reprieve to be expected nor no hope of escape if the Iudge once say take him Iaylor so if Christ once say Take him Devil You that ruled and deceived him now torment him Oh soul after this all the World cannot rescue you it will be in vain to look about for help Alas there is none but Christ can help and he will not because you refused his help It will be in vain now to cry to the Hills to fall on you and the Mountains to cover you from the presence of him that sits on the Throne It will be in vain now to Repent and wish you had not slighted your salvation nor solo it for a little pleasure to your flesh It will be in vain to cry Lord Lord open to us Oh spare us Oh pity us Oh do not cast us into these hideous flames do not turn us among Devils do not torment us in these hideous flames Consider how fearful the case of that man will be that is newly doomed to the everlasting fire that is haled to the Execution without Remedy Oh then what mad men are they who doe nothing to prevent such a misery The Time was when Repentance would have done thée good but then all thy Repentings will be in vain while the day of thy Visitation lasteth hadst thou but a heart to pray and Cry for mercy in Faith and fervency through Christ thou mightst be saved but then Prayers and Crying will do no good shouldst thou roar out in the extremity of thy horror and amazement and beséech but the Lord Iesus to forgive thée but one sin or to send thée on earth once more to try how thou wouldst Live all would be in vain do not Wonder or Think such that Christ will not then be entreated by thée you shall then have a Remember from Christ or a Conscience he will soon stop thy mouth and leave thée spéechlesse and say Remember I did one day send thée a Message of Peace and thou wouldst not hear it I did once stoop to beséech thée to ●●rn and thou wouldst not stoop I besought thée by the tender mercies of God and all would not do yea by my holy Life and my cursed Death by the Riches of my Grace by the Offers of my Glory yet I could not get thée to forsake the World the Flesh or one beloved sin I bid thée return and live but now 't is too late my sentence is past and cannot be recalled Away from me thou worker of Iniquity Oh how can wée without trembling of heart once think of the condition that such forlorn Wretches will be in when they

look above them and sée the God that hath forsaken them because they forsook him first When they look on the one hand and sée the Saints whom they have despised now sentenced into Glory and the Wicked on the other hand whom they have accompanied and Imitated now Iudged with them to everlasting misery When they look below them and sée the flames they must abide in for evermore and when the Devils begin to hale to the Execution Oh poor soules now what would they give for a Christ or for a time of Repentance but 't is too late the Door is shut and they shut out 't is now no time for mercy 3 Use Shall be for Exhortation I exhort you this day as ever you would look the Lord Iesus Christ in the face at the hour of death or day of Iudgement with comfort to make sure of your interest in Christ and that you may observe a right manner I shal leave with you a few Directions 1. Be sure to do all your works as men that must be judged for them before you venture on any particular action enquire whether it will bear weight in Iudgement Oh that you would remember when temptations are upon you When you are tempted to give up your minds to the world and drown your self in earthly cares bethink your self soberly whether you would hear of this at Iudgement whether it would stand tryal at the Great Day or no When you are tempted to be drunk or to spend your precious time in Ale-houses or vain and unprofitable Company or at Cards or Dice or other sinful néedlesse sports bethink your selves whether this will be comfortable at the day of Reckoning and whether time be no more worth to one that is so near Eternity and must give so strict an Account of his hours Oh Remember we must be judged according to what we have done and give an account of every Talent we receive 2 Direct Get Faith and Repentance wrought in your souls and resolve upon the breaking off former sinful courses Séeing these Changes must be made and these Graces must be had or thou must certainly perish In the fear of God sée thou give no ease to thy mind till thou art thorowly changed be content with nothing till this be done delay not another day get Faith which is the gift of God stand fast in the Faith quit your selves like men and be strong 1 Corinth 16. ver 13. Without Faith it is impossible to please God Heb. 10. ver 6. and then Repent from your dead works How canst thou live merrily or sléep quietly in a carnal condition If thou shouldst dye without Repentance thou wouldst perish for ever Oh then what wilt thou do at Iudgement Be zealous therefore and Repent Revel 3. ver 19. Except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish Luke 13. vers 3. Oh séeing every hour thou art uncertain of séeing another hour thou maist be presently snatcht away by Death Methinks whilst thou art in so sad a case which way soever thou art going whatever thou art doing It should still come to thy thoughts Oh what if I should dye come to the eternal and last Iudgement before I be regenerate and have part in Christ 3. Establish your souls in the sincere belief of this Iudgement and everlasting Fire If you do not soundly believe you will not seriously prepare for it Vnbelief shuts out the most of the world from Heaven shut not your eyes against the Light believe it lest you unawares come to féel it for the Lord Iesus shall be revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire taking vengeance on them who know not God and obey not the Gospel of our Lord Iesus who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and the glory of his Power even then shall he come to be glorified in his Saints and to be admired in all them who believe Oh did men believe the Doom would be so dreadful the Punishment so sure the Torment so tedious the Place so hot and the durance of it everlasting they would never live as they do in Chambering and in Wantonnesse in Whoring and in Drunkenness Rom. 13.13 Did they believe it we should not hear so many Oaths sworn in our Stréets nor the Name of God so vilely blasphéemed as it is this day Well sinners think of these things now it will be too late hereafter time is spending to day therefore if thou wilt hear the Lords Voyce harden not your hearts 4. And lastly Think Oh soul of the suddennesse of this day and of the quick dispatch God will make with sinners thereon the Apostles in their day did bid people Repent using this Argument the day of the Lord was at hand much more near must it be now when so many of those Signs are fulfilled which our Saviour spoke of in the 24. of St. Matthew it wil also come unexpectedly before many sinners are aware 1 Thes 5. v. 2.3 For you your selvs know that the day of the Lord cometh as a Thief in the night for when they shall say peace peace then destruction cometh upon them as travail upon a Woman and they shall not escape It will take sinners away in their sin yea in the very act Oh sinner God hath appointed one time one way for thy deliverance and if thou fail in that one thou perishest for ever and all the world cannot help you afterward 2 Cor. 6. vers 2. I have heard thee in a time accepted in a day of salvation have I favoured thee Well then sinners come yield before God come to Iudge for Iudgment is near even at the door and the Lord will make quick work the hour is coming in which all they who are in their graves shall hear his voice and come forth they that have done good to the resurrection of life they that have done evil to the resurrection of damnation Joh. 5.28 29. And now I am concluding this Point I have spent so much time in the speaking to sinners which the Lord grant may be set home to some hearts that they may prepare for that great Terrible Day that I have not room left to leave a Cordial to the Saints onely close up all with one terrifying Scripture or two Mat. 25. v. 30. Cast the unprofitable servant into utter darkness there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth Mat. 7. v. 21. Not every one that saith Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdome of Heaven but he that doth the will of my Father which is in Heaven Rev. 22. v. 14. Blessed are they that do his Commandments that they may have right to the tree of Life and may enter in by the Gate to the City which that poor sinners may make hast to do is the prayer of him who is desirous of their Salvation T. P. Books sold by Thomas Passenger at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge THe Wise Merchant Or The Peerless Pearl By T. Calvert Minister of Gods Word in the City of York The Christian Combat Or his true Spiritual warfare By C. Love late Minister of Gods Word in the City of London The Book of Graces with Prayers for Morning and Evening All but three pence a piece The Sinners Warning-piece Or Heavens Messenger By Tho. Robins B. of D. Mans chief Guide to Salvation By T. R. B. of D. The Scholars Winter Garment Or The Garment of Righteousness By T.R. Batchelor of Divinity Englands Golden Legacy Or A brief Description of the Mercies of God bestowed upon England By L. P. A Wonder of Wonders Or Gods People the Worlds VVonder By R. Hough Gods Message from Heaven to Sinners on Earth By T. P. B. of D. L. The School of Learning Being Prayers for Morning and Evening for every day in the week with Graces before and after Meat and a short Catechism for Children The Vertuous Wife is the glory of her Husband Being a new Book shewing the rare qualities of the truly vertuous woman Now or Never work out your Salvation with fear and trembling c. Gods Call to unconverted Sinners The School of Patience The Door of Salvation opened Englands Warning or Englands sorrow for Londons misery These thirteen last are but two pence apiece and very seasonable for these sinful times in which we live FINIS