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A02223	The great day, or, A sermon, setting forth the desperate estate and condition of the wicked at the day of iudgement Preached at Saint Andrews in Holborne at London By Nathaniel Grenfield, Master of Artes, and preacher of the Word of God at Whit-field in Oxfordshire.	Grenfield, Nathaniel, b. 1588 or 9.	1615 (1615)	STC 12358; ESTC S118555	51,838	174

qui exaudiet In hell there is sorrow mourning crying and yet none that will heare Then shall the wicked wish that they had neuer been borne or that God in their first creation had made them some creatures of another kinde as Todes Serpents or Cockatrices for then their miseries and shame should haue ended with their liues Then shall the rent-racking Lādlord wish that he had neuer oppressed his poore Tenāts Then shall the couetous Patron wish that hee had neuer made a prey of the Leuites portion Then shall the carelesse Pastor wish that he had neuer left his flock vnto the hyrelings who instead of Preaching the word of God in season and cut of season doe tye their flock vnto a slender dyet either a few cold dead Homilies or some certayne monethly Sermons yet thinke their charge is very sufficiently discharged Then shall the couetous Lawyer wish that hee had neuer sold his tongue for bribes to pleade against the fatherlesse and widdowes Then shall the gourmandizing Epicure wish that hee had neuer surfetted at his table and suffer the poore to starue at his gate Then shall the carnall Protestant wish that he had neuer prattled so much of Religion and practised so little Then shall the drunkard wish that hee had neuer turned so much liquor ouer his tongue wantonly wastfully and now want a drop of cold water for to coole his tongue Then shall the wanton fornicator wish that hee had neuer wasted his body and his goods vpon the body of a strange woman and withall shall confesse that breuis est volupt as fornicationis sed perpetua est poena fornicatoris short is the pleasure of fornication but perpetuall is the payne of the fornicator O consider this in time all ye that forget God! I will conclude with Chrysostomes meditation Vtinam homines Hom. 13. in Epist ad Rom. in tabernis vinarijs reliquisque commessationibus balneis imo vbique de gehenna disputarent I would to God that men euen in wine Tauernes Ale-houses in their bāquets in their baths I will adde in bawdy houses yea euery where would dispute of Hell Non enim sinet in Gehennam incidere Gehennae meminisse Men would not run so headlong to hell did they but remember hell did they but meditate on that fire our common kinde of fire is but painted fire in respect of that and yet how hardly can we endure our finger neere it an houre how much lesse shall wee be able to dwell eternally in that euerlastingly burning Lake of fire and brimstone With the Deuil and his Angels The wicked haue serued the Deuill all the dayes of their life and therefore now they must haue an irksome habitation with the Deuils and portion of torments with his Angels as it is said that the beast and the false Prophet were cast into the place of eternall torments with the Deuil Reuel 20.10 And indeede this conclusion of the wicked doth agree well with their conuersation as they haue forsaken God and followed Satan in obeying his sinnefull suggestions now therefore they shall goe their way with Satan as companions in sinne so partakers in suffering The body shall bee tormented because it would not obey the soule the soule because it would follow the rebellious body both soule and body because they obeyed the instigation of Satan and left the directions of Gods holy Spirit Secondly this Iudge is so vpright in iudgement that in giuing of sentence against the wicked first hee cannot erre through ignorance for he searcheth the heart and tryeth the reines to giue vnto euery man according to his wayes and according to the fruit of his workes Heb. 4.13 Ierem. 17.10 Yea all things are naked and open to his eyes before whom we must appeare Hee that knew Iohn the Baptist in the wombe and saw Nathanael vnder the Fig-tree doth also know and see our goings out and our commings in he discernes Esau from Iacob and knowes faire Rahel from bleare-eyed Leah hee knowes the thoughts and intents of our hearts the words of our mouthes and the workes of our hands Psal 139.1.2.3.4 and is able to set before vs euen our most secret sinnes Secondly he cannot be ouer-swayed with fauour or friendship Indeede in earthly Courts amongst the sonnes of men wickednesse may bee in the place of Iudgement Eccles 3. ver 16. but in this great Court of heauen the Iudge will not be parciall to any God hath no respect of persons Rom. 2. v. 21. but euery one that feareth God and worketh righteousnesse shall bee accepted at that day Nothing will then preuaile but a pure heart and an vpright spirit and as for the Iudge with righteousnesse will hee iudge the world Causa non persona iudicabitur Martyr and the people with equity Psal 58.9 If great men bee found in great sinnes they shall be adiudged vnto great torments Tophet is prepared for the King and the poorest begger shall then haue as good audience in this Court of Iustice as the mightiest Monarch in the world Thirdly this Iudge cannot be ouercome with power Indeede amongst the sonnes of men might oftentimes ouer-comes the right but vnto this Iudge all power is giuen both in heauen and earth Matth. 28.18 He it was that threw the Angels out of heauen Adam out of Paradise Saul out of his Kingdome Nebuchadnezzar out of mens society to conuerse with beasts and he it is that wil humble the high lookes of man and abase the loftinesse of men in that day Isa 2.11 As this Iudge cannot be ouer-swayed with power so can he not be bowed with pity and compassion The time was indeede when our Sauiour wept ouer Ierusalem and made a Sermon full of teares O Ierusalem Ierusalem Luke 19.41 But now alas there is no place for pardon though Ierusalem should seek it with teares Could thine eyes then shead as many teares as there are drops of water in the Sea yet thou couldest not bee able to moue Christ vnto compassion The day before the trumpet sound mercy shal be preached to the penitent and beleeuers by the Gospell but from the time that the sentence is once giuen there shall neuer be more offring of mercy the dore shall be closed though the wicked cry for mercy with Esau seeke the blessing with many teares yet shall they neuer finde it But as Christ doth now weepe for the sinners conuersion so wil hee then laugh at the sinners destruction 5. Lastly this Iudge cannot be corrupted with bribes which amongst the sonnes of men peruert iustice blinde the eyes of those that sit in Iudgement for the richest in the world must appeare naked and empty-hāded before Christ as naked as euer wee came into the world and nakeder then euer we went out of the world by as much as a winding sheet comes vnto Riches Pro. 11.4 gold and siluer auaileth not in the day of wrath but righteousnes saueth the soule I will conclude

only bee made of the thoughts of the heart but wee must also giue an account of the words of the mouth They are the words of him that is the word of truth Of euery idle word that men shall speake they shall giue an account thereof at the day of Iudgement Matth. 12.36 If a man might be called to an account but for his grosser sort of sinnes as for his Whoredom Swearing Cheating Stealing Vsuries Briberies Extortions dishallowing of Sabbaths and the like there were some hope of safety although God knowes there is no hope of the saluation of such without a speedy and vnfained repentance which doth consist in an holy confession of their sinnes in an hearty sorrowing for the same Sermonem otiosum vocat inanem nullius vtilitatis qui sc nihil aedificatienis vel fructus adfert Marlor ex Cal● in a faithfull restitution of that which hee hath taken from any man by falsity and wrong and in a godly reformation of his forepast life but God will bring into iudgemēt not onely euery secret thought but euery idle word and who alas shall be able to answere him one of a thousand Iob 9.3 Now an idle word is that which is spoken without a fruitfull edification of the hearers for our wordes ought not onely to be few but also they must be good and gracious they must be sauoury and well seasoned with the salt of the Sanctuary and therefore Iob cals the eare the taster of the Word that as we in the common foode of our body swallow not any thing downe into the stomack but what the pallat approues to be good and the grinders prepare for digestion so the eare will not giue passage vnto any word vnlesse it rellish of the Spirit of sanctification and bee truely good to the vse of edifying and may conuay some spiritual nourishmēt vnto the soule and therefore it is the exhortation of the blessed Apostle Let no cōmunication proceed out of the mouth but that which is good to the vse of edifying that it may minister grace vnto the hearers Ephes 4.29 The tongue is the Harbinger of the heart and the truest Ambassador both of the minde and meaning it will soone discry and make manifest vnto others what Countreymen we are whether we belong vnto the Prouince of Babel or the Land of Canaan If wee belong vnto the Prouince of Heauen then our speech is of this Countrey our language is heauenly we are frequent in praising of God in talking of his Word and in telling forth what great things the Lord hath done vnto our soules as our affections are in heauen so is our talke of heauen and heauenly things But if we belong vnto that infernall Kingdome then is the speech carnall sensuall diabolicall then is the tongue exercised in the language of that Countrey in swearing false-swearing cursing banning and blaspheming then is our communication such as may helpe to aduance the Kingdome of Satan whereof wee our selues are limmes and whereof hereafter without repentance wee shall be euerlastingly burning and neuer consuming fire-brands To conclude therefore if euery man must giue-an account of euery idle word not tending to the edification of himselfe and others and of all corrupt and filthy cōmunication whereby hee hath grieued the holy Spirit of God Ephos 4.30 Tremble then thou swearing and false swearing tongue whose Rhetorick and Eloquence of cōmon talke is an execrable oth nay as many othes as wordes thou that canst not sell a penny worth or a pound weight without dozens of othes we haue a world full of such tongues and because of such kind of tongues the lād mournes Gods heauy iudgements are gone out against it if account must bee made of euery idle word what shall become of that tongue that hath pleaded an vniust cause to the peruerting of Iustice wresting the Law to the vtter vndoing of the fatherlesse widdowes what shall become of that tongue that cannot speake a word in the defence of the poore vnlesse it be well tipt with gold the oyle that makes euery ioynt to bee nimble and euery bad cause to goe for current If account must bee made of euery idle word then stand amazed thou vaine and wanton tongue vnderstand and quake when thou hearest mentioned the terrible day of Iudgement thou whose words doe not only not tend to edification but to disgrace the Scripture the word of God it selfe thou that thinkest no iest wil goe for current vnlesse it be seasoned with the salt of the Sanctuary such is the profanenesse of the age in which wee liue that euery Actor vpon the stage euery profane Swaggerer and euery mincing Minion cānot speake a word but must haue a fling and gird at sanctified Scripture assuredly thine account is the greatest thy case fearefull thy iudgement intolerable Let euery man therefore take heede vnto his waies that he offend not in his tongue let him refraine his tongue from euill let him desire the Lord to set a watch before his lips that he may not speake his owne wordes but such as the Lord by his word cōmands him to speake for if our wordes are not such as they ought to be wee shall giue an account for them at the day of Iudgement 3. We shall not only be called vnto an account for our thoughts De operibus and wordes but also of our works wheresoeuer and whensoeuer committed whether by day or by night whether in the field or in the Citie whether in the City or in the house whether in the house or in our chamber whether in our chamber or in our bed there is nothing couered that shall not bee reuealed nothing hid that shall not bee knowne and made manifest before God before the Angels before Saints before the whole world at the day of Iudgemēt so saith the blessed Apostle We must all appeare before the Iudgement seate of Christ and there receiue according to our workes 2. Cor. 5.10 God will giue vnto euery man according to his waies and according to the fruit of his works they that haue done good shal goe into euerlasting life but they that haue done ill shal goe into euerlasting fire This God himselfe reuealed to S. Iohn for truth it selfe I saw the dead great and small stand before God and they were iudged according to their workes Apoc. 20.12 To this purpose saith August In quibus actibus quisque homo inuentus fuerit quando exierit de corpore in his iudicabitur in what sins soeuer man goes out of the body vnrepented of of the same hee shall be iudged at the day of Iudgement as the Preacher therefore concludes his Booke so will I conclude this point God will bring euery worke vnto Iudgement with euery secret thing whether it be good or euill Eccles 12. v. 14. 4. Neither shall we bee onely called vnto an account for our thoughts our words and workes but also for our goods and possessions how we haue gotten them how

and heart is heauie Isai 1.5 where by head as Interpreters obserue is meant the King for the Prophet speaketh vnto the Iewes as if they were one body and when the Prophet complained of this sicknesse of the head he meant Ahaz who then was head of the Kingdome and his disease was not in the foote as Asa his gout but in the corruption of his life hee did nothing that was right in the sight of the Lord his God 2. K. 16.2 the hart is the Priests that if they be such as they should be may very well resemble the heart that as the heart communicateth vitall spirits vnto the whole body so the Ministers of God should endeuour to create the life of grace in euery mans soule But if like the heart they do not employ themselues in their peculiar office and dutie preaching the Word of God in season and out of season quickning the members that are dead in sin and endeuouring daily the conuersion of soules by wholsome doctrine and holy conuersation then are they not hearts any longer but harmes and in Gods due time they shall bee trodden vnder foote like clay in the streete or cast out with vnsauory salt to the dounghill The foot may not find fault with head or heart only I will ingeminate the Prophets words Both head is sick and hart is heauy The matter which I haue in hand forceth mee to shew the generalitie of sinne and so consequently the propinquity of the general Iudgement If God should look downe from heauen vpon the children of men and marke what is done amisse in this our sinful Sublunarie he may see that al are gone aside euen from the highest to the lowest from the youngest to the eldest from the richest to the poorest from the Eagle to the Wren They are altogether become abominable there is none that doth good no not one Psalme 14.3 The foundations of the Earth are out of course sinne hath gotten the vpper hand iniquity aboundeth vertue is disgraced vice aduanced Sin now adaies is growne vnto such a presumption and that notwithstanding the sword of Authoritie which vnlesse it lay vnsheathed in the hand of the Magistrate bearìng it in vaine were able to destroy this Hydra of sinne though new heads budded out continually It it recorded of a French Ambassador in the time of King Richard the third how he told the King that there were three great Whores in England Pride Couetousnesse Luxurie If this Ambassador were to come againe he may tell the King that there are more then tenne times three not a sinne but hath his mate Pride and Ambition Couetousnesse and Extortion Adultery and Fornication Flattery and Dissimulation Strife and Contention Swearing and Forswearing Lying and Cursed speaking Chambering and Wantonnesse Strife and Enuying nay more sinnes then I can name Si superbientibus angelis Deus nō pepercit quantò minùs tibi putredo vermis Bernard and such sinnes as are not to be named To insist a while vpon some particulars to begin first with the first that first sinne of Pride so hatefull in the highest Eye that it threw the Angels out of Heauen whereby they became reprobate Deuils and yet no sinne so common none growne more generall then this sinne of Pride Were the daughters of Zion euer more proud and haughtie then our Dames of England who are so farre from being like women that professe the feare of God 1. Tim. 2.10 that they scarce looke like the creatures of God being so miscreate ofttimes and so deformed with their French their Spanish and their foolish fashions with their Plumes Fannes Feathers and Fardingales Veluet Vizards that they looke rather like some Antickes Maskers May games Esaias Text of fashions is multiplied by the fancies of our time Their bonnets and their bracelets their slippers and their mufflers their vailes their wimples and their crisping pinnes their round tyers like the Moone Isaiah 3.19 Yet he makes no mention of the yellow Ruffes of their perfumed shagged haire which neuer grew vpon their ownehead nor of their painted faces a pretty artificiall meanes to mend the workmanship of their Maker But I thinke that the Mystery of this art may rather be reduced to the common place of whorishnesse or in a nearer tearme the attire of an harlot Prou. 7. that as Erasmus said of a Lyar Oftende mihi mendacem ostendam tibifurem shew me a Lyar and I wil shew thee a thiefe so shew mee a painted face may I say and I will shew thee a whore for shee dwels at the Signe of a painted face Neither is this sinne of pride peculiar vnto women onely but also to men for they are almost become like vnto women as though they were willing to change sexes with them In the time of Popery as one saies wittily England was made an Asse to beare the burthen of the Popes taxations but now England is metamorphosed into an Ape an imitator of all fashions of all Countries and Nations France Spaine and Italy c. To leaue pride as an vgly monster and to speake of the generalitie of the sinne of whoredom which deserues the second place in Satans Kingdome The base-begotten-bastard-broode that this sin brings foorth into the world manifests the generality of it for almost what Parish within this Kingdom nay almost in the whole world but hath an adulterous issue within it and wheras one hath none another hath two Beside how is the bed of honourable marriage abused by vnlawfull mixtures God that is vnus one as Bernard Vnissimus most one hath made vnam one woman vni for one man and one man for one woman so speakes the Prophet And did hee not make one where God sends vs backe to the coppie and first institution of marriage he made one man for one woman Adam for Eue and ioyned them both together in one inuiolable band of honorable wedlock Ge. 2.24 Yet had he abundance of spirit that is by that selfe same secret inspiration whereby Adam became a liuing soule by that same powerfull influence if I may so speake God could haue created more men for one woman yet he did not And why would he not Because he sought a godly seede that is as marriage is honourable so the fruite of this diuine ordinance should bee holy not illigitimate not bastards not a promiscuous seede Malach 2.15 But alas how is the ende of marriage peruerted how doth euery man neigh after his neighbours wife Ieremie 5.8 That is men are as shamelesse and as resolutely impudent in this filthy fact like welfed horses that haue no vnderstanding Psalm 32.9 which the Prophet calles the sinne of abomination Ezek. 22.11 How doth euery man lay waite at his neighbours doore Iob 31.4 that is by priuate stealth to warme anothers bed leauing their own cisternes the wife of their youth to embrace the bosome of the stranger Prou. 5. But I will leaue this sinne in secret where it is committed for