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Christ in the clouds, or, God's coming to judgment A short treatise, very necessary in these evil and dangerous times, for all those which desire that the day of the Lord may be their day of joy.
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St. Hillaries Advice in all the course of our Lives the Memory of the Last and Great Iudgment is to be planted and grafted in our hearts For happy is the man that doth what he must do in Remembrance of the Last day And why Hear the words of Jesus the Son of Sirach VVhatsoever thou takest in hand remember thy end and thou shalt never do amiss Thus much shall suffice that there shall be a Day of Iudgment and that that day is near Now somewhat remaineth to be spoken of the manner of this day and the Terrour thereof that the Wicked being touched with the understanding of the same might be driven nearer to God In that Day saith St. Paul every mans Work shall be made manifest for the day shall declare it because it shall be revealed by the fire and the fire shall try every mans Work what sort it is The Time is now come when Iudgment shall begin at the house of GOD and if it first begins with us what shall the end be of them that Obey not the Gospel of God And if the Righteous scarcely be saved where shall the Vngodly and Sinners appear Where will they hide themselves in that terrible Day wherein there shall be nothing but wéeping and â—nashing of Teeth Howling Lamentation and Repentance too too late when the Foundations of the Mountains shall be moved and the Land be burnt with Fire When as St. Peter saith the Heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the Firmament shall melt with fervent heat the Earth also and the Works that are therein shall be burnt up When as God himself said in the Gospel Mat. 24. The Sun shall be darkned the Moon shall not give her Light the Stars shall fall from Heaven and the Powers thereof shall be shaken Where will the Wicked then betake themselves Where will Adulterers Drunkards where will Cursers and Swearers appear Where will the Luxurious Deceivers Proud Unclean and filthy Persons be found What imhappy as they are can they then plead for themselves to appease the Anger of a Iust Iudge of Heaven and Earth Surely nothing Howl ye therefore O ye wicked that forget GOD For the day of the Lord is at hand it shall come as a Destruction from the Almighty For the Lord shall lay the Land as desolate and shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it He will punish the World for their Evil and the Wicked for their iniquity He will cause the Arrogancy of the Proud to cease and will lay low the Haughtiness of the Ambitious Worldling What fear and what horror what terrour and amazement shall there seize upon and possess those that are marked out for eternal Destruction In the name of God let us therefore while we have time rouze our selves up while there is time set us correct and amend our selves that were never brought to these tortures of Body and Soul Let us rather preferr the simplicity of the Dove and the chastity of the Turtle the Spiritual feathers of Graces lift up your Souls up to Heaven by your Prayers that so we may be always ready to resign our Souls and Bodies into the hand of our Redeemer with Ioy and Alacrity of Spirit But that we may the better hear understand the terror of that day to avoid the same we will hear the Prophets what they foretell Gird your selves and lament you Priests howl ye Ministers of the Altar lye all night in sackcloth ye Ministers of my God for the meat-offering and the drink-offering is with-holden from the House of God Alas for the day of the Lord is at hand and as destruction from the Almighty shall it come Blow a Trumpet in Zion and sound an Alarm in the holy Mountain let all the Inhabitants of the Land tremble For the day of the Lord cometh for it is nigh at hand A day of darkness and gloominess a day of clouds and thick darkness For great is the day of the Lord and very terrible sure 't is a great day wherein so great a God greatly to be praised to be above all gods shall come to Judgment to reward all men for their doings 'T is a great day after which there shall be no change of clime no course of dates shall follow which day in it self shall contiue either everlasting Condomnation or Salvation without end It is a very terrible day and the Prophet Malachi seems to give the reason of it For behold the day cometh that shall burn as an Oven and all the Proud and all that do wickedly shall be as stuâ—ble and that day that cometh shall burn them up saith the Lord of Hosts Leaving them neither Root nor Branch And as the Prophet David hath it Our God shall come and shall not keep silence a Fire shall devour before him and it shall be very tempestuous round about him he shall call to the Heaven from above and to the Earth below that he may judge his People For God is Judge himself who therefore will endure the fury of this day where the Strong shall be thus weakned and oppressed and where the Proud and all that do wickedly shall be burnt us as stubble Whe wist not stand astonished where the Root with the Branch shall de pluckâ— up and consumed what wicked man what sinner even dareth to appear where the â—ust shall scarce be saved 1 Pet. 4.18 ver But many men partly out of dull Stupidity and partly being oppressed with crosses and vocations of this Life do little esteem of the Tercour of this fast day very earnestly to will and desire the 〈◊〉 But the Pronhet Amo. 5.18 doth threaten these men saying Woe unto you that desire the Day of the Lord to what and is it for you The Day of the Lord is darkness and nor sight as if a man did fly from a Lyon and a Lear meet him or went into the house and leâ—ned his hand on the Wall and a Serpent hite him You do saith he â—pery evil to your selves in that you do rashly desire the Day of the Lord for ye shall not walk in the light of God's countenance because ye have not been Children of the light but Children of darkness There noysome darkness shall come upon you whatsoever you shall then assay you shall not shun Terror you cannot abide Horeor And if you may shun the face of the Lyon of the Tribe of Judab that you render not account for your sins Yet that Bear the Devil will run upon you meâ—t you and punish you for the same Or if you escape this Bear and enter into the house of your conscience to consider the Evils you have committed and the Good you have omitted the tormenting worm will seize upon your conscience The Worm that Esaiah 66. speaâ—eth of The VVorm shall never dye and the Evangelish Mark 9 did testifie the same The VVorm dyeth not there Fire never goeth ours there torments are endless Neither is there in that Day