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A11811	A godlie sermon of repentaunce and amendment of life, togeather with the acompt which we must render at the day of iudgement Preached at the Rolles Church in London the second of Maye, and taken out of the fifth chapter of Saint Paule his Epistle to the Corinthians.	Scott, Thomas, preacher at the Rolls Chapel.	1585 (1585)	STC 22108; ESTC S102984	32,354	84

heauen at whose comming all men shall rise agayne with their bodies and shall giue accompte for their owne workes It is of necessitie therefore that wee must appeare c. Otherwise saithe the Apostle our prearching is in vayne youre faithe is also vaine yea and we are founde false witnesses of God because wee haue testifyed of God howe that hee raised vp Christe whom hee raysed not vppe if so bee the deade rise not bef●●es you are yet in youre sinnes and they whiche are fallen a sleepe are perished But the preaching of the Apostles is true oure faythe grounded vppon the doctryne of Christe and his Apostles is true and wee beeleeue and receaue it for an vndoubted trueth that GOD hathe rayfed vp Iesus from the dead and that by vertue of his resurrection wee all must ryse agayne and they lykewise Muste appeare A thirde reason maye be taken from the iustice of GOD. For as the Apostle sayth if in this life onely we haue hope in Christe then are wee of all men moste miserable The best Christians are and alwayes shall bee moste hated The worlde shall hate you in the world you shall haue tribulation and aga●●e They that will liue godlye shall suster persecution And therefore theire state who will ●iue godlye of all other maye seeme to bee moste miserable and vnhappye and contrariwise the state of the wicked moste happye and blessed For they for the most part are in no perill of death but lusty and strong they come in no suche misfortune as other folke neither are they plagued as other men they prosper in the lande and haue ryd●● in possession They come to oulde age thi●e children liue in their sighte and theirc generation beefore theyr eyes theire houses are safe from all feare and the rodde of GOD is not vppon them their bullocke ingendereth and that not oute of tyme their Cowe caluethe and is not vnfruitefull they send foorth their children by flockes and their sonns daunce they beare with them tabretes and harpes and reioyce in the iustrumentes of musicke c. What shall wee saye to this Is God vniust whiche thus heapeth his benefites and blessinges vppon the wicked Or is hee vnfaithfull of his promise that forgetteth the poore whome hee hath receaued into his charge God forbid yea let God bee true and euerye man a lyer mee hath promised that no good deede shalbe vnrewarded nor no ill deede vnpunished and bee will performe it I graunte wee see it fall oute contrarye manye tymes in this lyfe but yet her that hathe promised is faythfull hee cannot denye himselfe and thoughe sometyme he doth dissemble him selfe to his children in this life yet the truth consideration of his iustice do preache vnto vs the performance thereof shall be in an other lyfe And therefore Wee must appeare c. Neither must any man thinke him selfe exempted from the generall necessity of this iudgement challenging any prerogatiue as priuiledged from it by his petegree parentage person power riches honour learning wisedom or authority For saithe the Apostle this necessitye is common to all We must al appeare c. All. All flesh all Nations Iewes Gentils Turks insidels Christians high and lowe Princes aswell as their subiectes Magistrates and meane men rich and poore men and women fathers and mothers maisters and seruauntes young and olde I saw the deade sayth Iohn in his reuelation both small and great standing before God Not smal in respect of their stature nor great in respect of kodilye proportion but in respect of the great or small credite they carry in the world These All the scripture deuideth into two sortes foolishe or virginswise chaffe or wheate corne or els cockell good stshes or bad sheep or goaces the children of this world or the children of hight which two sorts onely shall appeare in iudgement wherof one is blessed the other cursed y e one chosen before the foundacion of the worlde the other reiected as also there shall be but 〈◊〉 formes of iudgement Come and goe but two places mencioned for these two sortes to goe vnto heauen or hell no mencion of anye third either before iudgement or after iudgement which were requisite if there were anye collects or third sore of people as they fandly imagine to them selues which dream of a third place And these two sortes shall all be found aliue or dead not halfe aliue or halfe dead as they may seeme to be which are supposed to be in the third place according to the articles of our Christian faith wherein we beleeue that hee shall come to iudge the quicke and the deade which the Apostle also witnesseth when he sayth We shall not all dye but we shall all be chaunged not meaning that we shall hee chaunged in substaunce or qualitie of oure bodyes but in the qualitye and nature of oure bodyes The teares beeyng wyped from our eyes all sorrow and griefe taken out of our myndes All infirmities and blemishes out of our bodies and cur hearts replenished with such psalmes of ioye as no man can take from vs. Besides this corruptible must put on incorruption this mortall must put on immortalilye and as wee haue borne the image of earth so wee shall be are the image of heauen Our bodles are sowen in corruption they shall rise agayne in incorruption they are sowen in dishonoure they shall ryse agayn in honour they are sowen in weakenesse they shall rise agayne in power they are sowen naturall bodyes they shall rise agayne spirituall bodyes and death shall be swallowed vp into victory If any man be so curious to aske whether those that shall bee founde alyue or those which shall bee dead shall appeare first the Apostle doth aunswere him That those which be aliue and which remaine vnto the comming of the Lorde shall not preuent them that sleepe For the Lorde him selfe shall descende from heauen in a shoute and in the voice of the archangell and in the trumpe of God and the deade in Christe shall rise first then we which liue and which remayne shall be caught vp together with them in the cloudes to meet the Lord in the ayer to remaine and liue with him for euer So that whether we remaine aliue or be found dead at his comming We must all appeare c. All whether we died at home or abroad in our beds or in the field whether we were drowned in the sea or slaine on the lande or whatsoeuer becommeth of our bodyes in this life to come We must all appeare c. I saw the sea giue vp her dead death and hell saith S. Iohn deliuered vp the dead that were in them and al stood before God Manye thinke that those bodyes which are buried in Christian buriall as they tearme it that is such as are laid in graues and included with in Church walles-shall rise againe but as for those bodies which

haue beene brent and consumed to ashes slayne in fieldes and veuoured of wild beastes or corne in peeces with vermine or which haue miscarried on the seas they thinke it impossible that those bodies should be brought againe But that which is impossible to man is possible with God al is one with him whether the sea hath receaued vs or lande the Church or the Chancel earth or water and as easie it is for him to raise vp our bodies out of the earth sea or land as it was easie for him at the firste of nothing to make vs something and with the breath of his spirite to breath into vs a liuing soule which before were boyde of life Dost ●oe thou see it is possible for thee being but a man and the creatour of God to strike ster out of the harde flint where before thou flindest it it may seeme impossible to haue fier And why shouldest thou thinke it were impossible thy creator and maker which hath giuen that nature to the stone that power to thee himselfe hauing greater power to raise thy body out of y e dust water or cinders seeing at first he gaue thee thy bodye Those that finde not them selues thus satisfied with the consideration of the omnipotent power of God but requyre to be further satisfied with reason the apostle saith there are fooles mad men as thaugh he should say the resurrectiō of the body is either to be beleeued that it shalbe then to be reasoned vpon how it can be they but fooles madd men that will stand reasoning about it when they are bound simply to beleue it Nay he that will call in question euery kind of doctrine in the scriptures wherof he cannot conceaue or giue a reason maye chaunce to doubt of the highest points of a christian mans faith and religion For what reson in there that there should be one and one three as that the Father shoulde be God the sonne God and the holye Ghoste God yet not three Gods but one God a trinity in vnity and an vnitye in trinitye What reason is there that a Virgine shoulde conceiue with childe beare a childe and yet after her conception and birth remain a pure and vndefiled virgine stil What reason is there that a man deade buried laid in his graue three daies should rise again aliue Or what is he that baring the name of a Christian dare denye or doubt of the truth of these thinges because he seeth not the reason of thē No God almighty his misteries are hid and inserchable not to be construed by reason but conceiued by faith And we are taught in the scriptures bound to beleeue many things whereof our reason can conceiue but few I come to the lord his table who hath hidden me vnder the signe of bread wine to receiue his bodye and drincke his bloud and I doe nothing doubt but he doth truly offer him selfe to me and I do truely receiue him Howbeit if anye man aske me how hee beeing in heauen shoulde be receiued in earth I aunswere as Maister Caluine De modo si quis me interrogat fateri me non pudebit sublimius esse attamen quam vt vel meo ingenio comprehendi vel enarrari verbis queat atque vt apertius dicam experior magis quam intelligam Itaque veritatem dei in qua acquiescere tuti licet hic sine controuersia amplector That is If anye man aske me of the maner howe Christe is present in the Sacrament I will not shame to confesse that it is a higher mistery than can either bee conceiued with my wit or expressed with my tongue and to speake more plainely I rather feele it then vnderstande it And therefore in this poynt I doe willinglye embrace God his truth wherein I doe safely rest stay So for the resurrection of the dead though I see no reason in it or that the reason is hid from me yet I doe acknowledge it to be an article of my Christian faith and therefore do vndoubtedly beleeue that the spirit of him that raysed Iesus from the dead shall raise my mortall and corruptible bodye and that my bodie and all mens bodies throughe his omnipotente power and myght being so raised Must appeare before the iudgement seate of Christe c. But heere now leaste anye man shoulde thinke that among such a multitude as must then appeare it were possible for some to hide themselues from the presence of their iudge and so escape the seueritie of his sentence therefore the Apostle saith we shal not onely be summoned by the trumpe of the Lorde and so dismissed agayne but of necessitye We must ad appeare before him and can no waye hide our selues from him The worde Apparere that is appeare is very emphaticall in this place notinge vnto vs the appearaunce of the soule as the bodye the inwarde heart and conscience as well as the outward man And because the nature of the wicked is to promise themselues perpetuall impunitie of those simes before God whereof they can not bee detected before the world to confute and confound that vain hope of theirs the Apostle telleth them plainly they must then appeare Which importeth so much as if he should saye whereas we haue heere played the Hipocrites dissembled our selues and oure sinnes before men with a counterfaite show of vprightnes not beeing the same men before God in our consciences now we must haue the vizardes pulled of frō our faces and be vncased laid wide open to the whole world Euen as though our bodyes were ript in peeces for euerye man to view vs to looke ouer vs vnder vs round about vs and into vs. Naie either the verye heartes in our bodyes which now we 〈◊〉 count the most feereat partes of vs shal be so 〈◊〉 sought and searched into as if they were 〈◊〉 in smell peeres for euerye 〈…〉 and discerne the secreates thereof which now are onelye knowne to oure selues Let vs take herd therefore we be no bescher incouraged to bee 〈◊〉 for the 〈◊〉 of our 〈◊〉 or the 〈◊〉 〈…〉 of the place wherein we doe 〈◊〉 For how 〈…〉 we be in our selues or how 〈…〉 yet will our wickednesse one daye appe●●● when nothing can hide it Nothing so secreat but it shall 〈◊〉 Sayth Christ it is not alwayes reuealed as it is done but it shall be The wicked presumptuous sinner who 〈…〉 ●he world with his glosing speech and ●ocketh God with his abhominable lyfe thinking that his hipocrisie shall neuer be found out because it is not alwayes pi●nished and detected of God But God by the Prophet telleth him an other ca●e When thou sawest a theife thou diddest consent to him and haste bene partaker with the adulterers Thou hast let thy mouth speake wickednesse and with thy tongue thou hast set foorth deceit Thou sattest and spakest againste thy brother yea thou hast slaundered thy owne mothers sonne these thinge haste thou