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A49962	The great day of judgment handled in a sermon preached at the assizes at New-Bristol, Octob. 7, 1687 / by the reverend and learned Samuel Lee, M.A., sometimes fellow of Wadham Colledge in Oxon ; accompany'd with preparatory meditations upon the Day of Judgment, by Mr. Cotton Mather.	Lee, Samuel, 1625-1691.; Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.	1692 (1692)	Wing L896; ESTC R41402	29,252	97

THE GREAT DAY OF JUDGMENT Handled In a SERMON Preached at the Assizes at New-Bristol Octob. 7. 1687. By the Reverend and Learned SAMVEL LEE M. A. sometimes Fellow of Wadham Colledge in Oxon. Accompany'd With Preparatory Meditations 〈◊〉 THE DAY OF JUDGMENT By Mr. COTTON-MATHER Boston in New-England Printed by Bartholomew Green for Nicholas Buttolph at the Corner of Gutteridg's Coffee-House 1692. Price bound 1 s. THE EPISTLE To the Worthy and Pious Auditory before whom this Subject was treated upon Grace and Peace in Christ Jesus our Lord. VVHereas by the Call and Invitation of some of your very much Honoured and Respected Society ●his Serious Summons to the great day of Judgment was proclaimed in your Ears at Bristol near Mount-Hope in New England at the Ass●ze ●here hold on Friday Octob. 7. ●687 Being also moved to the Publication thereof I do here humbly present it under divine Protection and Blessing to your Candid Acceptation and Defence who sometime Composed the quire of a most attentive benigne and so●emn Audience in the time of its delivery Honourable and Beloved As these Papers tend with your kind leave to●re inkindle the the memorial of that dayes Soul awakening Subject so let me I pray in this proem beg you to ruminate on a saying of an Em●nent Divine at Bury a Town of great note in Suffolk of old England That Sermons are never done Mr. Edmund Calany S●n. till they are Done and let me add If never Done the hearers are undone for ever Especially in such weighty momentous Points as these about the formidable day of Judgment The tears of Auditors said Jerom as J.M. are the Jewels of Preachers and if Sincere Presage a Crown of Eternal joyes to both There are among many others in Divinity three illustrious Doctrines 1. Justification by Faith in Christ alone 2. Sanctification by the Spirit 3. Resurrection to Glory In whose Compass and Bosome was our present Subject about the Vniversal Judgment As to which Give me leave to present three things and Close with the Apostolical Prayer 1. State your own Eternal State while yet in the State of this Life Matter not the day or Censures of mans Judgment They 'l Fluctuate in their love as the wind of their Passions 1 Cor. 4 3 Interests and Envious or false informations tur●s the fane of their Constructions if they are not both wise and godly And sometimes hastily Carp your innocence as if they had forgotten Pl●tarch and Senecas memorials about natures gift of two Ears before they determin matters in question Gal. 6.1 not pondering as they ought in the Spirit of meekness the many Tentations the best of men are incident to Tim. 3.2 their own freq●ent infirmities and others proud and invidious detractions and your own vertuous Slander-Shaming Apologies Taking little heed to the Fifteenth Psalm and how unworthily these blast others usefulness lay up Scourges for their own Consciences in the day when God shall visit them and give their abused Friends Exod. 32.34 the greatest favour at last Prov. 18. ●● 38.23 when his Neighbour Searches him out and then thy Brothers Mote may swell to a Beam in thine eye by the rubbing of others inflamed Censures upon thee when thy turn comes We all need Contrition Confession and Pardon 2. Make Peace with God betimes and Expedite it The ●ands of times hour Glass never stop and are more precious then the golden ones of Tagus Do this work seasonably sincerely speedily to frustrate the trouble of the New Repentance and prevent the divine Judgment Delay not lest Tardy neglect 2 Cor. 11.31 3● quicken Goul-Confounding horrors and Sudden wracks of Conscience will draw out the funeral-Song of Epimetheus O non putaram Prov. 2● 19 or that of the Fool in Solomon Was I not in jest and cry out in earnest concerning laughter Eccl. 2.2 Eccl. 9.6 that 't is mad and of mirth What doth it but as the Crackling of thornes under a Pot whose Prickles fly in his Eyes leave him in utter darkness wringing his hands in the bloud of his heart and streaming out bitter groanes that he did not think the Evening Shadows were so nigh O Sirs this tremendous work cryes aloud for the greatest deliberation the swiftest Execution and perseverance without end O Blessed Lord help us out of the woful Tentations and intricate Labyrinths of delay Aesop lest when Death comes indeed as in the ancient Apologue it prove an other guess work than most are now aware of You 'l stand in need of more then all your Graces Experiences Reliances and Restaurations out of deep and dark desertions Yea and all little Enough and will prove scarce able to list you out of the dungeon of terror unless the gracious Supplies of the Spirit come in upon a Spring tide from Heaven and list up the Ark of Conscience above the floud gates and Rocks of Confusion 3. Labour to provide against the formidable Thunders of Death that the Sun-shines of the Evidences of glory may brighten the dark passages of the Grave The beauty of grace first darted into thy Breast in a beam from the Eye of the Electing Love of God and shall never cease the shining and warming influences till like new Stars that at last Concenter all their motions in the Sun so shall the rayes of thy joyes be inbosomed in the Eternal Love of God When thou hast done this work John 6.19 which the Father hath given thee to do then that TO PHOBEROTATON Aristotles grand King of Ter●ers shall sling down his Crown with amazement at the foot of Christ Heb. 3 14● 1 Cor. 15● 5● 57. and that Dragon who hath the power of death shall himself be slung to Death by the Cross of Christ first upon his illustrious Tomb at Mount Golgotha or like the standard of Constantine carrying TO SEMEION the Labarum or signe of the Son of man Mat. 34 3 set upon the back-bone of the Serpent as you may see it on the Reverse of that Emperors Coin Spelman Aspilogi● P. 20 Ed. Lo●d 1654 cu uptem Yea and a●● holy Christians are like the Roman Draconiseri the Dragoniers of the ancient Empire carrying the Exuviae or case of the old Serpent in triumph and yielding up their Spirits into the hands of a most faithful Creator who once form'd us and will shortly as faithfully Redeem us out of the dust and inform us a new with the same Immortal Souls to inherit the same Body in a State of Immortality to Co-inhabit the Temple of Heaven in an immortal State of Glory ever beginning and never ending When the day of the last Redemption that great day of the feast when the ruddy morning shall Climb the Eastern hills of Mount Olivet with its pleasant Blushes to cure all the dark Solitudes and Sollicitudes of this Vally of Immortal Souls by the Lord Jesus Christ before whom they Appear when ●heir

Bodies here are by Death made ●ntenantable and from whom they ●hen Receive Order Either to be Admitted among the Spirits of Just men made perfect or to be Reserved in Darkness unto the Judgment of the Great Day That Separate Souls thus Exist ●n an Invisible World is a thing whereof I know some who have such pal●able Evidences that were the Scrip●ures wholly Silent which Blessed by God they are not about it yet they could no more Qustion it than they Question their own Existence in the World But there is a more General Work of this kind shortly to be done ●n a Vast Assembly of all mankind unto ●hat end Summoned by the Mighty God and called from the Rising of the Sun unto the Setting thereof The Souls of men shall reassume a fit Portion of the Dust whereunto they were formerly United by the Almighty God fetch'd out of the Various matter whereinto it has been Dissolved and Dispersed but now become as were the Keel where upon shall be Buil● Incorruptible Bodies and some that shall then be found alive shall by 〈◊〉 Translation have their Bodies made i● a like manner Spiritual In their Bodies thus Raised and Changed they shal● stand before a Tribunal of our Lord Jesus descended from the Heavens into our Atmosphere and after a● Exact Examination of their Behaviours While God was upon Earth Trying o● them they shall have One of these two Sentences pronounced upon them Either Come ye Blessed Inherit the Kingdom Or Depart ye Cursed into Everlasting Fire Which will be accordingly Executed on them Such 〈◊〉 Day of Judgment is there to come upon the World Amen Come Lord Jesus come quickly Indeed about the Circumstances of this most Illustriou● Day t is more easy than lawful for us to Enquire into such things as w● are not yet Able to A●swer nor ha● the Lord Indulged our Curious and Critical Enquiries after Particularities which He ha's not Revealed It seem Revealed That this Last Day will be a Long Day It will be a Day of ●ublick Hearing and all Doings of all ●eople must be called out Cunctaque Cunctorum Cunctis Arcana patebunt So that things will not be Hastily ●uddled and Suddenly Shuffled over ●ea It seems Revealed That the ●orning of This famous Day will ●ake up at least a Thousand Years wherein our Lord will be managing His Davidical Kingdom with a New Hea●en and a New Earth wherein shall ●well Righteousness and Reigning before His Ancient People Gloriously at the Close whereof it seems to some that The Rest of the Dead Live again all t●● Dead Small Great stand before God The Hour when it shall be Commenced and ●he Spot where it shall be Che●fly managed seem not Revealed nor a thousand ●hings more that concern the proceedings of the Day But whatever may be yet Unrevealed it is abundantly Plain and Sure unto us That the Son of man shall come in the Glory of His Father with His Angels and then He shal● Reward every man According to hi● Works This is Revealed and it i● a Damnable Thing to Cherish an● Doubt of This That we must a●l appea● before the Judgment-Seat of the Lord Jesus Christ S. 3. The Judgment of the Great Day Or a Day wherein all men shall b● Raised and Changed into a State o● Immortality and appear before the So● of Man within the Bounds of our Air to be Judged according unto wha● they Did before they Dy●d This is 〈◊〉 thing which the People of God in al●●ges have given their Assent unto Even in Old Times long before th● Flood the Church of God made this a● Article of their Creed We hav● some short Notes of what was delivered by the Venerable Enoch abou● it so long ago in Jude 14. Behold ●he Lord comes to Execute Judgmen● upon all Yea This was a main Controversy between the Antediluvia● Saints and the Impious Impure Ge●●●●tion of Atheists then upon th● Stage The Godly did Assert There ●ali be a Day of Judgment but the pro●ne did with Hard Speeches Deride ●xplode the Belief of that awful Truth We read in Gen. 4.8 Cain spake to Abel his Brother the Hebrew Bibles ●sually leave a Blank at the end of his clause and the ancient Jewish ●argum● presume to put in the Dis●urse which they had they say that ●he Quarrel between Cain and Abel ●as upon this point Abel said There 〈◊〉 to be a Day of Judgment and there is Judge and there shall be another World ●nd the Godly shall be Rewarded and the Wicked Pun●shed But Cain said There 〈◊〉 no such Thing and as the Targum ●f I. Ben. Vzziel adds Et Propter ha●um Rerum Causam Contendebant Super●acies Agri. And methinks the A●ostle in the Beginning of his Eleventh ●hapter to the Hebrews may seem to ●ountenance this Tradition It seems ●s if Abraham also saw this Day a●r off inasmuch as there are those ●ho put his Plea for Sudom into this ●nglish in Gen. 18.25 W●ll not the Judge 〈◊〉 all the Earth Execute Judgment 〈◊〉 q d. Lord Thou dost intend hereafter to appear for a Judgment upon a● the World in such Flames of Devouring Fire as thou art now going to destroy this miserable Place withal b● Entreated therefore to spare these Towns until that Revolution come Indeed all Christians have alwayes Agreed in this Acknowledgment long before as well as ever since the Daye● of Job I know that my Redeemer Lives and that He shall stand at the Eatte● Day upon the Earth and though Worms Destroy this Body yet in my Flest I shall see God And even in that Confession of Faith which the Jews themselves at this Day embrace their Eleventh Fundamental Article is the Eternal Judgment To what the People of God have thus Received as the Faith delivered unto the Saints they have had the Scriptures of God most abundantly given their Infallible Testimony There is hardly any one part of the Old Testament which has not Considerable Glances a● the Day of Iudgment But in the New ●estament it is yet more plentifully insisted on Very many of the Sermons Preached by our Lord Jesus Christ ●nd all the Letters written by His A●●stles do set the Day of Iudgment before our Eyes Yea not only the Approach but also the Process of this wonderful Day is diverse times Expressed in these Lively Oracles The Holy Spirit of God hath Chosen to make one of the East Clauses in the Bible an Admonition unto us here●bout the very last Lines of the last ●dvice we have had from Heaven are ●o this purpose The Lord Jesus Christ will shortly come to Iudge the World And with the Assertions of Scripture ●oncerning this matter the Apostle in 〈◊〉 certain place tells us the Accusing● ●nd the Excusing●s of Conscience do join ●heir Testimony thereunto 〈◊〉 The Ver●ict of Conscience upon the Sinner is ●s Tertallian calls it Futur● Judici● Prejudicium a presage of a future ●udgment It is true the

be solaced in this World and afterward to Reign with Christ By SAMVEL LEE M. A. and sometimes Fellow of Wad●am Coll. in Oxon. BOSTON Printed by B. Green for N. Buttolph at the Corner of Gutteridg 〈◊〉 Coffee-House 1692. Price bound 〈◊〉 Preparatory Meditations upon THE DAY OF JUDGMENT S. 1. THE Great Apostle PAUL according unto the Wisdom given unto him Writing unto the Hebrewes hath with Good Reason erected Those as the Two Pillars even the Jachin and Boaz of all Religion GOD IS and HE IS A REWARDER Nor are the mountainous Pillars of Heaven more stable or more lasting than these two mo●● Glorious Principles That there is a GOD or a JEHOVAH is a Truth more Engraven in the whole Fabric of the World than the Name of the Artificer was of old into the Image of his Minerva Even the Dumb and Mute Creatures do so loudly proclame the Being of a GOD Presentenque docet quaelibet Herba Deum that I may say with Job Ask now the Beasts and they shall Teach thee and the Fowls of the Air and they shall Tell thee Or speak to the Earth and it shall Teach thee and the Fishes of the Sea shall declare unto thee The World must necessarily have a Beginning that it could not have its Beginning from it self is evident inasmuch as Nothing would have then been the cause of Something Nor dos any thing less than the Power of a GOD the Wisdom of a GOD and the Goodness of a GOD appear in the Constitution of the Universe And as all the Creatures are so many Letters in the Book of Creation from which we may spell the Existence of a GOD so ●o's the Book of Providence give us a Continuation of the Demonstration which proves a Deity For therein besides the Extraordinary Occurrents In Prophecies and Miracles and Retaliations upon the sight which every one cryes out The Finger of God! the Excellent Order wherein all things 〈◊〉 preserved abundantly argues a GOD whose Kingdom Ruleth all But indeed I may say What need we any further Witnesses Or what Need of any Coming from the Dead unto us with such Advice as the Spectre of Major Sydenham gave to Captain Dyke a while ago I am come to tell you that there is a GOD and that He is a Just a Terrible God! The Notion of a GOD is imprinted so deeply in the Spirit of man it self that it can be ascribed unto none but such an Author and therefore such an Author there is as a GOD who Forms the Spirit of man within him Had this Idea in the Soul of man been a Meer Tradition of our Ancestors why is it not all this while detected like other Vulgar Errors of much less Importance Or Had it been a meer Policy of our Governours whence is it that Rulers themselves as much as any other Mortals are smitten with the Terrors of it The Notion is as Natural as t is Powerful man is born with an Inclination to acknowledge a GOD and he will have Many rather than have None Atheism has not been so agreeable to mankind as Polytheism The Notion also is as Ge●eral as t is Natural t is not peculiar to any one Kingdom or Kindred they which Differ in all other things yet Vnite in their sense of a GOD and the Salvage Indians themselves in the most hideous and Barbarous Thickets of America own a Koutantowit as the First Cause of all Yea I do considently affirm That of all the Few Professed Atheists which have been known among the Brutify'd part of mankind there has been hardly so much as One which hath stedfastly Believed That there is no God without Vehement Suspicions of the Contrary T is by some Remarkable Plague from our Injured and Provoked GOD upon the more Atheistical sore of them things which would be called Men That none use the Name of GOD in the profane A●●ses of Swearing and Cursing so much as those Monsters do and Calvin as I Remember mentions one of them that upon a Blow given him Cry'd out O God help me though he had just before been Vehemently ●isputing that there was no God at all ●ut b●sides those Vndesigned Confessions of a GOD from the Mouiks of those Miscreants there are at some times usually before they Dy such Flashes of Lightening from Heaven darted into their Souls as force 'em Deliberately to Recant the Folly which acted them when they said that is wish'd rather than Thought in their Hearts NO GOD. Some that have in their Lives pretended unto the more than Divillish Bravery of Renouncing the Belief of a GOD yet have declared at last that their Minds inwardly and frequently twitch'd 'em with direful Remonstrances against their Impiety and Read 'em Lectures upon the Reality of a GOD which made 'em alwayes Live uneasily And if some Wretches by the Constant Practice Lerry of their Vices have laid the sense of a GOD in their Souls a sleep yet our great GOD na's Commonly rows'd them into some waking Minutes wherein they might have said When I Consider I am afraid of GOD GOD makes my Heart Soft and the Almighty Troubles me Wicked men that Forget God would fain also Destroy him and that they may go as far as they can they Labour to Shake Off and Root Out that Remembrance of GOD in their Souls which gives 'em so many Vexations in their Courses of Ungodliness but it will not Off it will not Out the Almighty GOD makes the most haughty Criminals to stoop under this Instance of His Empire over them A Certain Spark a while since in Company begun to brag Well Ill prove for I am now able to prove There is no God A Gentleman if a Beast may be called so then present reply'd Prethee Do and I●l give thee a thousand Guinnies for thy Pains But all the Guinnies in the World will not rescue a man from the force of this perswasion That there is a GOD and such are the Circumstances of the perswasion as that it must be From the GOD OF whom it is Now from the Faith of a GOD we are led presently to Conceive of a JUDGE JEHOVAH will be ELOHIM t is to be Concluded that He ha's given Lawes according whereunto Mankind is under His Moral Government and in the Execution of this Government He will dispence Rewards unto the Children of men according to the Rules for the Distribution thereof by Himself Prescribed S. 2. There are Various Dispensations of Providence wherein the God of Heaven discovers Himself a REWARDER unto that People which He has formed for Himself that they may show forth His Praise And were there more Collections with fit Reflections made of Dispensations this way Remarkable it would be a Work full of Service and Hon●ur into our God They that were so Wise as to Observe these things would certainly Vnderstand the Loving kindness of the Lord even in the Remarkable Things that would be done for themselves But it is not