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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27038	A sermon of iudgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Maior and aldermen of the city of London, Dec. 17, 1654 and now enlarged / Rich. Baxter.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1655 (1655)	Wing B1408; ESTC R13294	85,241	312

as King of the world shall sit in Judgement on all men at the last and shall separate them one from another as a Shepherd divideth the Sheep from the Goats and so shall pass the final Sentence This Sentence is twofold according to the different Condition of them that are Judged To them on the right hand there is a Sentence of Justification and Adjudication to everlasting glory To them on the left hand here is a Sentence of Condemnation to everlasting Punishment The Sentence on each of these containeth both the state which they are Judged to and the reason or cause of the Judgement to that state For as God will not Judge any to Life or Death without just cause so he will publish this cause in his sentence as it is the manner of Judges to do If you say Christ will not use a voice Let it satisfie that though we know not the manner yet if he do it but by mental discovery as he shews men what shall everlastingly befall them so he will shew them why it shall so befall them 1. The Sentence on them on the Right hand will contain 1. Their Justification and Adjudication to Blessedness and that both as generally denominated as particularly determined and described 2. And the cause of this Judgement 1. In general they shall be pronounced Blessed Satan would have had them cursed and miserable the Law did curse them to misery Many a fearful thought hath possessed their own brests lest they should prove at last accursed and miserable But now they hear the contrary from their Judge All the Promises in the Gospel could not perfectly overcome those their fears all the comfortable words of the Ministers of the Gospel could not perfectly subdue them all the tender mercies of God in Christ did not perfectly subdue them But now they are vanquished all for ever He that once hath heard his Redeemer in Judgement call him Blessed will never fear being Cursed more For he that Christ Blesseth shall be Blessed indeed The Description of their Blessedness followeth Come inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world And also they are called Blessed Of the Father Here is the fountain of their Blessedness The Father and the state of their blessedness in Being the Fathers For I suppose they are called the Blessed of the Father both because the Father Blesseth them that is makes them Happy and because these blessed ones are the Fathers own And so Christ will publish it to the world in Judgement that he came to glorifie the Father and will proclaim him the Principal Efficient and Ultimate end of his work of Redemption and the blessedness of his Saints and that himself is as Mediator but the way to the Father It is the Father that prepared the Kingdom for them and from the foundation of the world prepared it Both for them as chosen ones and for them as future Believers and Righteous ones It is called a Kingdom partly in respect to God the King in whose glory we shall partake in our places and partly Metaphorically from the Dignity of our Condition For so it is that our selves are said to be made Kings Rev. 1.6 and 5.1 1 Pet. 2.9 and not that we are properly Kings for then we must have subjects who must be Governed by us Thus we see their Blessedness in the Fountain end and state of Dignity As to the Receptive Act on their part it is expressed by two words one signifying their first entrance on it Come the other their Possession Inheritance that is possess it as given by the Father and Redeemed by the Son and hold it in this Tenure for ever The true Believer was convinced in this life that indeed there was no true Blessedness but this enjoyment of God in the Kingdom of heaven The Lord revealed this to his heart by his Word and Spirit And therefore he contemned the seeming Happiness on earth and laid up for himself a Treasure in heaven and made him friends with the Mammon of unrighteousness and ventured all his hopes in this Vessel And now he findeth the wisdom of that choice in a rich return God made him so wise a Merchant as to sell All for this Pearl of greatest price and therefore now he shall find the gain As there Is no other true Happiness but God in glory so is there nothing more suitable and welcome to the true Believer O how welcome will the face of that God be whom he loved whom he sought whom he longed and waited for How welcome will that Kingdom be which he lived in Hope of which he parted with All for and suffered for in the flesh How glad will he be to see the Blessed face of his Redeemer who by his manifold Grace hath brought h●m unto this I leave the believing soul to think of it and to make it the daily matter of his Delightful Meditation What an unconceivable Joy in one moment this Sentence of Christ will fill his soul with Undoubtedly it is now quite past our comprehension though our imperfect fore-thoughts of it may well make our lives a continual Feast Were it but our Justification from the Accusations of Satan who would have us Condemned either as sinners in general or as Impenitent Unbelieving Rebels against him that Redeemed us in special it would lift up the heads of the Saints in that day After all the fears of our own hearts and the slanderous Accusations of Satan and the world That we were either Impenitent Infidels or Hypocrites Christ will then Justifie us and pronounce us Righteous So much for the Condition to which they are Judged 2. The Reason or Cause of this Justification of the Saints is given us both 1. In a general denomination and 2. In a particular Description 1. In General it is because they were Righteous as is evident Mat. 25.46 The righteous shall go into life Everlasting And indeed it is the business of every just Judge to justifie the righteous and condemn the unrighteous And shall not the Judge of all the earth judge righteously Gen. 18.25 God makes men Righteous before he Judges them so and Judgeth them Righteous Because they are so He that abominateth that man who saith to the Righteous thou art wicked or to the wicked thou art Righteous who Justifieth the wicked and Condemneth the Righteous will certainly never do so himself Indeed he will Justifie them that are sinners but not against the Accusation they that are sinners but against the Accusation that they are guilty of Punishment for sin but that is because he first made them just and so Justifiable by pardoning their sin through the blood of Christ And its true also that he will Justifie those that were wicked but not those that are wicked But Judgement findeth them as Death leaveth them and he will not take them for wicked that are sanctified and cleansed of their former wickedness So that Christ will first pardon them

committed vvickedness The Thief and Deceiver vvill Remember the Time Place the persons they wronged and the Things which they robbed or deceived them of The worldling will Remember the business which he preferred before the service of God the worldly matters which had more of his heart than his Maker and Redeemer had the work which he was doing when he should have been Praying or Reading or Catechizing his Family or thinking soberly of his latter end A thousand of these will then come into his mind and be as so many Evidences against him to his Condemnation 3. The very effects also of mens sins will be an Evidence against them The wife and children of a Drunkard are Impoverished by his sin His family and the neighborhod is disquieted by him These will be so many Evidences against him So will the abuse of his own Reason The enticing of others to the same sin and hardening them by his example One covetous unmerciful Landlord doth keep a hundred or many hundred persons or families in so great necessities and care and labour that they are tempted by it to overpass the service of God as having scarce time for it or any room for it in their troubled thoughts All these miserable families and persons and all the souls that are undone by this Temptation will be so many Evidences against such Oppressors Yea the poor whom they have neglected to relieve when they might the sick whom they have neglected to visit when they might will all witness then against the unmerciful Matth. 25. The many ignorant worldly careless sinners that have perished under an idle unfaithful Minister will be so many witnesses against him to his Condemnation They may then cry out against him to his face I was ignorant Lord and he never did so much as teach me catechize me nor tell me of these Things I was careless and minded he world and he let me go on quietly and was as careless and worldly as I and never plainly and faithfully warned me to waken me from my security And so their blood will be required at his hands though themselves also shall perish in their sin Ezek. 33.7 8. 2. And as these Evidences will convince men of sin so there are many more which will convince them of the Greatness of their sin And these are so many that it would too much lengthen my discourse to stand on them A few I shall briefly touch 1. The very mercy of God in Creating men in giving and continuing their Being to them will be an Evidence for the Aggravation of their sin against him What will you abuse him by whom it is that you are men will you speak to his dishonor that giveth you your speech will will you live to his dishonour who giveth you your Lives will you wrong him by his own creatures and neglect him without whom you cannot subsist 2. The Redemption of men by the Lord Jesus Christ will be an evidence to the exceeding Aggravation of their sins You sinned against the Lord that bought you 2 Pet. 2.1 When the Feast was prepared and all things were Ready you made light of it and found excuses and would not come Mat. 22.4 5 6. Luk. 14.17 18. Must Christ Redeem you by so dear a price from sin and misery and yet will you continue the servants of sin and prefer your slavery before your freedom and choose to be Satans drudges rather then to be the servants of God The sorrows and sufferings that Christ underwent for you will then prove the increase of your own sorrows As a neglected Redeemer it is that he will condemn you And then you would be glad that it were but true Doctrine that Christ never d●ed for you that you might not be condemned for refusing a Redeemer and sinning against him that shed his blood for you How deeply will his wounds then wound your consciences You will then Remember that to this end he both d●ed rose and revived that he might be Lord both of the Dead and the Living And that he therefore dyed for all that they which live should not henceforth live to themselves but to him that dyed for them and rose again Rom. 14.9 2 Cor. 5.14 15. Matth. 28.18 19 20. 1 Pet. 1.17 18. You will then understand that you were not your own but were bought with a price and therefore should have glorified him that Bought you with your Bodies and Spirits because they were His 1 Cor. 6.19 20. This one Aggravation of your sin will make you doubly and remedilesly miserable that you Trod under foot the Son of God and counted the blood of the Covenant wherewith you were sanctified an unholy thing Heb. 10.26 27 28 29. and crucified to your selves the Son of God a fresh and put him to open shame Heb. 6.5 6. 3. Moreover All the personal mercies which they received will be so many Evidences for the condemnation of the ungodly The very earth that bore them and yielded them its fruits while they themselves were unfruitful to God The Aire which they breathed in the food which nourished them the cloaths which covered them the houses which they dwelt in the beasts that laboured for them and all the creatures that dyed for their use All these may rise up against them to their condemnation And the Judge may thus expostulate with them Did all these mercies deserve no more Thanks should you not have served him that so liberally maintained you God thought not all these too good for you and did you think your hearts and services too good for him He served you with the weary labours of your fellow-creatures and should you have grudged to bear his easie Yoak They were your slaves and drudges and you refused to be his free servants and his sons They suffered Death to feed your Bodies and you would not suffer the short forbearance of a little forbidden fleshly pleasure for the sake of him that made you and redeemed you Oh how many thousand mercies of God will then be reviewed by those that neglected them to the horrour of their souls when they shall be upbraided by the Judge with their base requital All the deliverances from sickness and from danger all the honours and priviledges and other commodities which so much contented them will then be Gods Evidences to shame them and confound them On this supposition doth the Apostle reprove such Rom. 2.4 5 6. Despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long suffering not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to Repentance But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thy self wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous Judgement of God who will render to every man according to his Deeds 4. Moreover All the means which God used for the Recovery of sinners in the day of their visitation will rise up against the Impenitent souls in Judgement to their condemnation You can hear Sermons carelessly and