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A93736 A discourse on the extensiveness and comprehensiveness of future judgment of God In another method than what hath been hitherto extant in any other books or sermons upon this subject. By Richard Stafford. Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703. 1697 (1697) Wing S5115A; ESTC R230355 16,898 16

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11.9 Observe here again this last For all these things God will bring thee into Judgment And some of all these things are done every day by the young Man So that the consequence is evident that of every day after we are come to the knowledge of Good and Evil we shall certainly be called in question yea and be called to the Bar of God for to give an account for the same Many think of what is past as if it were over and there is no more to be said thereof It seems forgotten and perished and to be come to an utter end But the word saith otherwise God requireth that which is past Eccl. 3.15 yea all one as the present for what is past was once present also and what is now present will soon be past The judgment of God will be retrograde or by way of rehearsal or remembring or ripping up of former miscarriages as we commonly say or by reciting up the several Thoughts Words and Actions of this Life that now is These things hast thou done and I kept silence thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thy self but I will reprove thee and set them in order before thine eyes Psal 50.21 That is in order and succession of time as each thing was done and committed together with the other circumstances of place and manner and such like as also with the several aggravations belonging thereunto some instances whereof are given in this same Fiftieth Psalm and many more there are throughout the Book of the Lord. Another great Scripture which proves the extensiveness and comprehensiveness of the future Judgment as before explained is 2 Cor. 5.10 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 It is said Deeds indefinitely which reaches to all the deeds done in the Body Like as when it is said in general words It is appointed unto men once to die That is It is so appointed unto all men once to die as we sensibly know And truly even common Reason manifesteth the very same for if we were to receive for some Deeds done in the Body Why not for other Deeds as well as for them and so on till it comes to all as indeed the Decree of God and our case is The Lord looketh upon all the Inhabitants of the Earth he considereth all their Works Psal 33.14.15 And give to every man according to his way whose heart thou knowest for thou even thou only knowest the hearts of all the Children of Men. 1 Kings 8.39 And so all those other places of Scripture as there are many which speak of Gods rewarding or rendring unto the Children of Men according to their works and according to their deeds and such like all these do manifest and make known the comprehensiveness and extensiveness of the future Judgment And so all these Deeds done in the Body the several works and ways are done in the several days of our Life some in one day and some in another so that the same Truth holds firm that of this day and of all the past days and of all the succeeding days between this time of my publishing this unto ye and the day of our several respective Deaths we shall be called to an account We must give account of this Concourse whereof I hope we shall give a good one with joy and comfort our only end and design herein being to worship the God of Heaven and Earth and to hear his word I must give account of every Sermon that I preach or publish that I be faithful in the handling thereof not shunning to declare unto ye the whole Counsel of God and to make known the Truth the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth whether it pleases or displeases Man for if I yet pleased Men I should not be the servant of Christ. Through good and evil Report as Deceivers and yet true And ye must give account of your Hearing whether ye do mind and are attentive unto the same and how ye profit and edifie thereby How ye ponder and remember it in your hearts But chiefly that ye continue therein Good God! how much dost thou delight in this one thing of continuing The Children of thy Servants shall continue Psal 102.28 But whoso looketh into the perfect Law of Liberty and continueth therein he being not a forgetful Hearer but a doer of the Word this man shall be blessed in his deeds James 1.25 This is the principal Matter to be doers of the Word and not Hearers only Though ye are to be Hearers also before ye can be doers For a man cannot do a thing before he knows it God will likewise call the Non-hearers of his Word to an account for the same for their disobedience and rebellion for their stubbornness and perverseness therein which is the same as if a Son or Servant should be obstinately resolved not to Hear what his Father or Master will say unto him All those Threatnings and evil Things as they are many which are written and spoken forth in the Book of the Lord against such who refuse to hear his words will be fulfilled upon them unto their greater Condemnation So it will be of the several Seasons and Opportunities of Prayer whether it be private Prayer in ones Closet or Family-Prayer or Prayer in the Cougregation and Assemblies of his People of all this we must give an ●●count as also of all our other holy Things and of all acts whatsoever pertaining to Religion and so likewise of all the doings of common Life otherwise than what are meerly natural and necessary and so of all the Transactions between Man and man There is nothing done by any Men or Women under the Sun in any Country or Language of the Earth whether the same be done by Nations Families or single Persons in any Time or Generation but what will come into account and examination and to be heard and decided over again at the Judgement of the Great God Indeed there will be multitudes multitudes in the Valley of Decision Joel 3.14 So that what appearance is ever at the greatest Assizes or at the Rendezvous of the most numerous Armies or the greatest Concourse of People to see some extraordinary sight in populous Cities all this will be no more to the multitude and number of Creatures which shall be then gathered together in the great Day of God then a single Man is now in comparison of an hundred thousand or a million I have heard to this purpose that the Schoolmen should say That because of the multiplicity of Business and the multitude of Creatures which shall appear then thereupon they suppose that the Day of Judgment will last a thousand years But herein they imagine and talk after the manner of Men For known unto God are all his works from the Beginning of the World as also the Times