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A92776	The head of the church, the iudge of the vvorld. Or, The doctrine of the day of iudgement briefely opened and applyed in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable, the House of Peers; in the Abby-Church at Westminster, on a publike fast day, Ian. 27. 1646. By Lazarus Seaman Preacher at Allhallowes Breadstreat London. One of the Assembly of Divines.	Seaman, Lazarus, d. 1675.	1647 (1647)	Wing S2176; Thomason E372_11; ESTC R201316	30,329	46

suffer evill and this hath not onely puzzeld many learned Heathens in their disputations about Divine Providence as Seneca and Plotinus * Quare bonis vir●● mala accidant cum fit providentia Sen. per totum librum Plotinus Ennead 3. lib. 2. c. but the best of Gods children have been much offended hereat as David (m) Psal 73. 2. and Jeremy (n) Jer 12. 1. The best answer to all objections raised from this ground is by asserting a future judgement 3. There be many mysteries and Labyrinths of providence The judgements of God are unsearchable and his waies past finding out and while they are so we may well admire and adore but we can not give God that distinct and rationall service which he deserves and we might render if we had more understanding of his workes The end of Gods workes is for the manifestation of his glory and that he may receive glory neither of which can be perfectly attain'd on his part or ours without a day of judgement But thirdly which is the strongest of all There are plaine Prophesies of the day of judgement in Scripture and that in two kinds 1. By way of threatning against the wicked And 2. by way of promise for the present comfort and future benefit of the godly The way of threatning is most frequent I need not therefore to instance in the particular places The way of promise is very expresse The Lord is not slack concerning his promise (o) 2 Pet 3. 9. saies Peter while he is speaking of the second comming of Christ and answering their objections who say where is the promise of his comming And if God be either as he certainely is both Just and Good Faithfull every way there must needs be a day of judgement If his merce were so great that he should repent of the evill intended though that be but to dream with Origen yet even that greatnesse of his mercy would make the judgement so much the more necessary for the good of his Elect. The use of this truth is either 1. for all in generall Application or 2. more especially for such as are in authority There shall be a day of judgement Therefore 1. Let it ever be in our eye eare and heart and let 's be frequently meditating of it and of all that belongs to it but above all of the account which wee must then give and that condition and state of Eternity which will follow thereupon some never dreamt of a Parliament but they have seene it and felt the weight of it and if we should be so foolish as not to thinke of this day the comming of it will be never a whit the farther off because we put it farre from us but the more dreadfull The Scripture speakes so much of it as serves to call in all our senses For the eye Behold the Lord commeth with ten thousands of his Saints (p) Jude 15. to execute judgement upon all and to convince all that are ungodly among them The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the Gospell of our Lord Jesus Christ (q) 2 Thes 1. 7. 8. Behold he commeth with clouds and every eye shall see him and they also which peirced him and all kindreds of the Earth shall waile before him (r) Rev. 1. 7. For the eare The Lord himselfe shall descend from Heaven with a shout (ſ) 1 Thes 4. 16. with the voice of the Archangel and with the trump of God But that which should most of all affect our hearts is that God shall judge the secrets or hidden things of men * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 (t) Rom 2. 15. Our swarmes of evill thoughts and lusts our simulations and dissimulations as one distinguishes * Dike of the deceitfulnesse of the heart and all wicked desires devices and purposes shall then be disclosed and whereas carnall policy hypocrisy and deceit stands us here instead sometimes among men they shall make most against us before God To thinke on these things and such like may prevent many sinnes speed and quicken our repentance and make us carefull to have a conscience void of offence towards God and man (u) Act 24. 16. 2 Seeing there shall be such a day let oppressors persecutors Tyrants and all that are any way injurious tremble but let the oppressed and afflicted be of good cheere verily there is a reward for the righteous and doubtlesse there is a God that judgeth the Earth (x) Psa 58. 11. The Nimrods Pharaohs Herods Pilates and such like of the Earth shall not stand in judgement as the Psalmists phrase is (y) Psa 1. 5. And where shall the sinner and ungodly appeare when the righteous are scarcely saved (z) 1 Pet 4. ●8 But the poore and meeke of the earth shall there be pleaded for and avenged (a) Jsa 11. 4. Therefore thirdly Let us all live as becomes those who professe this faith Then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect unto all thy Commandements (b) Psa 119. 9. There is no way to live free from inward rebuke here or from open confusion before God men and Angels hereafter but to live up in the power of godlinesse unto that perfect rule which is set before us in the word If the argument be good as it is from the dissolution of the world to a most holy life it is the stronger if we joyne with it the day of judgement Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godlinesse * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 (c) 2 Pet. 3. 11. 12. Looking for and hastening unto the coming of the day of God (d) Psal 51. 6. Labour we therefore both for truth in the inward parts and to clense our selves from all filthinesse of the flesh and spirit perfecting holinesse in the feare of God (e) 2 Cor. 7. 1. 2. For such as are in authority Gods on earth judges among men (f) Psal 82. 6. First Let them be upright and humble because they resemble him are subordinate unto him and must be countable There be higher then they * Eccles 5. 8. And they must one day heare that command and obey it Give an account of thy Steward-ship * Luke 16. 2. Let them therefore judge as those who must be judged 2. Let them beware of all corruptions in judgement to respect persons take bribes directly or indirectly neglect the cry of the widdowes and Fatherlesse with hold good from the owners thereof protract causes and so to make the remedy worse then the disease to be partiall to prefer private interest before publike are all abominations in the sight of God For such like the Land mournes the foundations of it shake some courts of judicature are thrown downe others

already appointed 3. As the day so the Judge 4. The judge ordained is the man Christ Jesus 5. The World is to be judged by this man 6. This man shall judge the World according to the will of God and in righteousnesse Of each of these breifely with some generall application in the close so as may best agree with the scope of Paul in the whole and with the worke and businesse of the day As touching the 1. point There shall be a day of judgement 1. Point to the clearing and proving of it I shall briefely shew 1. what 's meant by a Day and 2. what by judgement 3. what kinde of day it shall be then 4. what considerations may principally strengthen our Faith concerning this Article 1. Concerning a day there are three opinions Some understand A Day a day precisely not to be exceeded Others conceive that by the day is meant a thousand yeares One day is with the Lord as a thousand yeares and a thousand yeares as Meade in Apoc. one day u 2 Pet 3. 8 A third sort take day for time indefinitely this is safest because to put day for time is ordinary in Scripture There must be a day wherein that great worke shall begin and for the continuance of it that is to be measured by the nature of the thing and the Counsell of God That some are said to sit on thrones and have judgement given unto them i. e. power of Judging and to live and reigne with Christ a thousand years w Reu 20. 4. will no more prove that the last judgement shall be continued so long then the nameing of eternall judgement x Heb 6. 2. proves that it shall continue for ever When those thousand yeares are expired Satan shall be loosed out of prison vers 7. The Nations deceived by him shall compasse the Campe of the Saints about and the beloved City and fire shall come downe from God out of Heaven and devoure them vers 9. But how agrees this with that of Paul the last enemy that shall be destroyed is Death y 1 Cor 15. 26. For wherein is death destroyed but in the resurrection of the just 2. As concerning the end and worke of the day that 's A day of judgement judgement Thence is the name so frequent in the New Testament the day of judgement z Math 10. 15. ch 12. 36. Some of the Schoolemen doe thus distinguish There is a judgement of discussion and of retribution * Judicium discussionis retribut That all things shall be rewarded whether good or evill is granted and some things discus'd but whether all is disputed The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to judge as 't is used in Scripture is very comprehensive Aquin tertia parte qd 89. art 7. 8. and signifies either singly to inquire or examine a cause Luk. 12. 14. to give sentence or determine 1 Cor. 5. 3. to absolve Gen. 30. 6. to punish and censure evill doers 2 Pet. 2. 9. to condemne Math. 7. 1. to deliver the afflicted and oppressed Heb. 10. 30. Psal 26. 1. Luk. 7. 51. to reward the righteous or wicked according to their workes Eccles. 3. 17. to reigne as a King 1 Sam. 8. 5. Or else it includes these and all other actions of like nature in one and so I understand it in the Text. There shall at that day an account be given Mat. 12. 36. Some are set forth as ready to justifie themselves a Math 7. 22. and others to condemne themselves b chap 25. 37. 44. But the manner of judging will better appeare under the third head for explication 3. What kinde of day shall this be for the properties of it to cite all texts out of the Old Testament which the Fathers apply this way * Hieron in cap. 24. Isaiae in 7 cap. Danielis and to insist on them or to speake of the signes foregoing or solemnities belonging to the day it selfe as they are more plainly revealed in the New is too great a taske for the present onely in generall the day it selfe in the whole worke of it shall be a day of the revelation of the righteous judgement of God c Rom 2. 5. which implies not onely what but why he shall judge in way of mercy or otherwise In relation to the godly and penitent it shall be a day of refreshing Repent ye therefore and be converted that your sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. And he shall send Jesus Christ which before was preached unto you (d) Act. 3 19. 20. And a day of rest to his afflicted and oppressed ones To you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Iesus shall be revealed from Heaven with his mighty Angels (e) 2 Thes 117. As also a day of redemption Then looke up and lift up your heads for your redemption draweth nigh (f) Luk 21. 28. But with reference to the wicked impenitent it shall be darkenesse and not light (g) Am. 5. 18. A day of wrath (h) Rom 2. 5. When the Kings of the Earth and the great men and the rich ones and the Captaines and the mighty and every bond-man would hide themselves in the dens and in the rockes of the Mountaines And shall say to the Mountaines and rocks fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lambe For the great day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand (i) Reu 6. 15. 16. 17. Now for the fourth thing propounded Some considerations to strengthen our saith that there shall be such a day take these few instead of many which might be produc'd 1. A naturall conscience is terrified with the heareing of it Felix trembled when Paul preached of it (k) Act 24 25. ch 17. 32. And of the Athenians it 's said that when they heard of the resurrection of the dead some mocked but there was no mocking at the judgement the Heathens generally had some glimmerins of light about it though that light was clouded with much darkenesse and obscured by their fables what makes all men so afraid of death and so sollicitous about the sinnes of their life past when they doe most strongly apprehend that they that are to leave this world if it be not from an inward conviction that it is appointed unto men once to dye and after this the judgement (l) Heb 9. 28. 2. There is great need of such a day and that in many respects 1. No humane judgement or judicatory is infallible and perfect we have here but a darke apprehension either of God or of his workes And there are many errours unrighteousnesses and oppressions even among Magistrates But it cannot be thought that errour and wickednesse should take place unto eternity 2. Good men for the most part

of the Lord. (t) Iam. 5 7. If God should make us waite as long for Christs second coming as the Patriarkes did for the first no reason could be brought against it and were the world to last more thousands since then there were hundreds before this might be said for it they had but a bare promise for both but we have the History of his first coming to help us in waiting for the promise of his second Can we desire that one of the elect should not be borne or live uncalled Let 's therefore be content with that course of providence which fals out in our time and for our afflictions death Bonum factum habet Deum debitorem sicut malum quiae Index est omnis causae re●un●rator Ter● shall come between us and judgement to free us of them in the meane while 3 If the day be set then our reward is certaine not of worth but through grace * Here we may take in Saint Paules conclusion from a like ground Therefore my beloved brethren be ye stedfast unmovable alwayes abounding in the worke of the Lord forasmuch as you know that your labour is not in vaine in the Lord. 1 Cor. 15. 58. Next unto the certainty of the day the certainty of 3. Point Ingr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pro 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Graecismus Pisc in Sch. the Iudge is to be considered By that man whom he hath ordain'd or defin'd The honour of this worke is too much for any to assume and the burthen of it too great for any to beare It 's said of the booke of secrets in Gods right hand No man in heaven nor in earth neither under the earth was able to open the booke neither to looke thereon And Iohn wept because no man was found worthy to open and read the booke neither to looke thereon (x) Reu. 5. 3. 4. If it be so great a matter to be of Gods councell who is it that shall be trusted with all his power who ever is judge must be able for so great a worke or else God and man would suffer extreamely by it but note this that ability without authority or a call to exercise it will not suffice no not in Christ himselfe While he was on earth he was exceeding carefull in this respect when the people would have made him King by force he withdrew himselfe (y) John 6. 15 They had no authority to conferre such a dignity or power upon him When one desired him to decide a controversie about the right or wrong of an inheritance He said unto him Man who made me a judge or a divider over you (z) Luk. 12. 14 He knew how he came by power in heaven and that made him the more exact on Earth The use of this calls me to it because it is of great importance and therefore I hasten from matter of proofe 1. If none be Judge but he who is appointed they who thinke the question de Iure divino in any matter of Religion to be a needlesse one may be better inform'd All authority which may truly be called divine that is to be exercised under God and in his name to a spirituall end can have no other originall then himselfe and must be founded in his appointment or determination That which we expect a divine efficacy in and by must be of divine efficiency or else the effect and cause are not proportioned A divine warrant is therefore necessary in every one that judges in divine things 2. Doth not the supreame Judge intrude himselfe what then will become of his inferiours who thrust themselves into those things whereunto they have no call As 1. the Pope whose office strictly considered in the substance of it is a tyranny And 2. Bishops as a superiour order to Presbyters is little lesse To cleare this heare how some distinguish of Tyrants There is Tyrannus titulo a Tyrant in title and tyrannus exercitio a Tyrant in exercise * Parcus in 13. ad Rom. Of Tyrants by title there be two sorts some whose function is good but they have no right to it or the power which they assume is lawfull in it selfe but not for them others whose office or power as they assume it and in the substance of the thing it selfe is unlawfull The Popes power is a Tyranny in the highest kind because that authority which he challenges is not lawfull neither in him as Bishop of Rome nor in any Bishop of the world The power which Prelates assumed in ordination and jurisdiction in the substance of it was a lawfull power but unlawfull and Tyrannous in them as they appropriated it unto themselves excluding those to whom of right it did belong In the exercise of power they whose authority in it selfe is most unquestionable and whose title is confessed may yet become Tyrannous by abuse of power And therefore care should be had every way by all those who take upon them any thing in affaires of religion This also 3. concernes all Christian people and that singly or combined for single Christians they should not take upon them the work of officers that 's absolutely inconsistable with order politie an organicall body and with the nature of the Church which is built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Iesus Christ himselfe being the chiefe corner stone (a) Eph. 2. 20. And because all the congregation is holy every one of them (b) Numb 16. 3 upon that ground or under that pretence for the congregation to oppose those who are over them in the Lord in those things wherein they are over them is directly to fall into the sinne of Korah Dathan and Abiram and that whereof Saint Iude gives speciall warning in his Epistle (c) Jude 11. ● It 's of great use for every one that does any thing either in government or worship to have an answer ready unto that question when Christ shall propound it at the last who hath required this at your hands (d) Isa 1. 12. 3. This one word more The Iudge is of Gods owne ordaining therefore there can be no appeale from him no not unto the Father The Father judgeth no man but hath committed all Iudgement unto the Sonne (e) John 5. 22. If he say come ye blessed or goe ye cursed we must abide by it unto all eternity How comfortable is this to all that beleive in him and obey him but oh the terror of it unto all those that will not have this man to reigne over them The Jewes cryed out not this man but Barrabas (f) Ioh. 18. 4 They denied the holy one and the Iust and desired a murderer to be given unto them (g) Acts. 3. 14. But God hath made him Lord and Christ (h) Cha. 2. 36 They who will not come unto him to have life (i) John 5. 40. shall be brought before him to receive eternall death But of this more

according to his heart As for the things which Christ hates there be some particulars which are accented with his abhorring as 1. Hypocrisie Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites (b) Mat 23. 13. 2. The deeds of the Nicolaitans for thus he writes in his Epistle to the Angel of the Church of Ephesus But this thou hast that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans which I also hate (c) Rev. 2. 6. 3. the doctrine of the Nicolaitans as well as their deeds for so he writes to another I have against thee * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 h. e. this great evill to lay unto thy charge or some heavy judgement to inflict because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans which thing I hate (d) ver 14. 15. So as evill doctrines are hatefull to Christ as well as evill deeds we may as well plead for the toleration of the one as of the other yea to hold the doctrine h. e. to be stiffe in maintaining evill opinions or to suffer such as doe which thing I hate * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is abominable before Christ as well as to teach them 4. Lukewarmenesse also is another particular because thou art lukewarme and neither cold nor hot I will spew thee out of my mouth (e) Rev. 3. 16. This is said to be the Church of Englands sinne in worship and government Brightman in apoc c. 3. under Liturgy and Episcopacy would to God it were not her sinne even till this day we are neither so cold as by publique indulgence to tolerate all opinions nor so hot as to suppresse one Sect. Not so cold as not to admit of Presbyteriall government upon triall and in part nor so hot as to receive it wholly in the power and practise 'T were well if in these things we were more then almost perswaded to be Christians The Fourth use Above all things let 's take heed of crucifying Christ againe and of putting of him to an open shame or of betraying him or his cause for by-respects least as he said unto his Brethren I am Joseph whom ye sold (f) Gen 45. 4. so it be said unto us I am Christ whom ye denied The Jewes will not believe him to be the true Messiah and feare not his second comming though some prove a first and second comming of the Messiah by their owne traditions * Petrus Galat. de Arca. Cath. verit lib. 4. c. 1 Tit 2. 13. but his glorious appearing is our blessed hope yet while we desire he may be our Saviour let 's so walke as becomes those who remember he must be our Judge The fifth point followes The world is to be Iudged by this man The world this 5. Point implies 1. All persons for we must all appeare before All persons the Iudgement seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body (g) 2 Cor. 5. 10. And whereas it is written Jsa 45. 23. As I live saith the Lord every knee shall bow to me and every tongue shall confesse to God The Apostle from thence concludes in this manner So then every one of us shall give an account of himselfe to God (h) Rom. 14. 11 12. Saints as well as sinners for of such he there speakes And yet more distinctly Jewes and Gentles Behold he commeth with clouds and every eye shall see him they also which pierced him and all kindreds of the Earth shall waile because of him (i) Rev 1. 7. small and great (k) ch 20. 12. quicke and dead (l) 1 Pet 4. 5. Our Saviour speakes of Tyre Sidon and Sodome that it shall be easier for them at the day of Judgement then for Capernaum and Bethsaida (m) Mat 11. 22. 24. which implies that all who ever lived not onely after his incarnation but from the beginning of the world shall be respectively countable unto Christ one as well as another And as all persons so All causes 2. all causes shall be judged by him The distinction between civill and ecclesiasticall judicatories shall then vanish all things shall be indifferently heard at one Barre and men shall give an account of their practise or conversation He shall reward every man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 (n) Mat. 16. 27. Of their workes The dead were judged out of those things which were written in the bookes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 (o) Rev 20. 12. of their words Every idle word that men shall speake they shall give an account thereof in the day of judgement (p) Mat 12. 36. of their councells Judge nothing before the time untill the Lord come who both will bring to light the hidden thing of darknesse and will make manifest the councels of the hearts (q) 1 Cor 4. 5. and of their secrets God will bring every worke to judgement with every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evill (a) Eccl. 12. 14. 3. As all persons and causes so likewise all creatures All the Creatures the Angels not excepted The creature it selfe also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God (b) Rom 8. 21. And the Angels which kept not their first estate but left their owne habitation he hath reserved in everlasting chaines under darkenesse unto the judgement of the great day (c) Jud. 6 ●e This in the use of it serves 1. To shew us the vanity Application of the world and of all humane jurisdiction 't is not finall nor supreame When a Parliament is sitting all inferiour courts tremble and every one is ambitious to get in to be a member of that Court which is the highest There shall be a time as we are now assured when Lords and Commons must also give an account How much better is it therefore to be a Christian a Saint then a member of either House Doe you not know that the Saints shall judge the world (d) 1 Cor. 6. 2. Let all that judge in this world carry themselves so in all respects as to be not onely willing to be judged by Christ but also in the number of his assessors at the last 2. Hence is comfort to Gods people they are chastened in and by the world But when we are judged we are chastened of the Lord that we might not be condemned with the world (e) 1 Cor. 11. 32. 3. Let 's all prepare for judgement in every thing Here the Church complaines not onely of men but sometimes of God himselfe My judgement is passed over of my God (f) Jsa 40 27. Though there is no cause for this yet Satan takes occasion to make corruption give such language But surely when Christ judges all the world he will remember his Church yet let Saints beware that they doe not