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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01078	The great day of chancery A sermon preached at White-Hall, the last day of October. 1619. By Iames Forsith, one of his Maiesties chaplaines in ordinarie.	Forsyth, James, fl. 1615-1619.	1619 (1619)	STC 11192; ESTC S105640	20,697	60

TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE FRANCIS Lord VERVLAM Lord high Chancellor of England and one of his MAIESTIES most Honourable priuie Counsell Grace and peace from God the Father in the mediation of his Sonne Iesu Christ and by the operation of the blessed Spirit for euer Amen Right Honorable WHen Paul and Barnabas did preach the word of God at Antioch Act. 13.14 the people seemed to giue such attendance vnto their words of exhortation that they desired to heare the same the next Sabboath day When I preached this Sermon at Court the auditors did seeme to giue such attention vnto what was spoken although vnworthy of their meanest attention that they did earnestly desire to see in writing what that day they had heard by preaching Visus enim est perfectior sensus so that my weake labours through Gods blessing passed along the Court like plaine honestie with euery mans good leaue and liking and if this place had beene the furthest period ● had beene eased of some future paines But then it pleased some Honorable and worthy friends to impose vpon mee this second view and surely pruritus scribendi the disease of our age had almost hindered me for I know litera scripta manet and is more subiect to censure then quod auribus auditur for which cause I did not at the first yeelde Yet at last vpon more serious deliberation least I should haue encurred the breach of loue of some worthy and much respected friends as also the censorious conceit of some supercilious Stoickes I resolued prodere in vulgus to lye Noah-like in the Tent doore that euery scoffing Cham may smile at my nakednesse And because that a seruant of meane birth and qualitie is many times preferred aboue his worth for his Lord and Masters sake I haue therefore made choise of your Honorable Patronage being at that time when it was deliuered one of my most Noble Auditors Vtinam esset possibile me vnum esse ex principibus offerre genimas ad ornamentum Pontificis sed quia haec supra me sunt certe vel pilos caprarum habere merear in Tabernaculo Dei as Origen elegantly I wish that I could speak any thing worthy of this Text or your Honours Dedication A day it is and that a great one when not onely all criminall causes will be heard as in the Court of the Kings Bench as also euery mans case shall be adiudged as at the Common-pleas barre but when and where the iust Iudge of all the world will according to the euidence of euery mans conscience distribute righteous Iudgement and therefore more properly I call it The great day of Chancery plaine it is that the rudest and most Ignorant may vnderstand it yet as I thinke profitable that the most wise and learned may reape some instruction by it the best Remembrancer that Iudges can haue about them is to remember the day of Iudgement Summus enim iudex iudicata reiudicabit and vnto whom much is giuen of him much shall bee required in that day wherefore I beseech the Lord of heauen and earth to assist your Honour with his grace and holy Spirit that you may Honourably long continue as hitherto a good Iusticiar in that place whereunto you are worthily called to his glory and your eternall comfort that you may stand boldly before the Tribunall in that day Amen Your Honours in all seruice in the Lord IAMES FORSITH TO THE READER EXpect not courteous and gentle READER Critical conceits nec ipsum Ciceronem not any Rhetoricall fine phrases in this plaine Sermon for we ought to come to the people as Saint Paul speaketh not with the wisedome of words 1. Cor. 2.4 but plaine euidence of the Spirit to benefit and not to fit the humour is my desire not to please but to displease rather doe I seeke that their sorrow might bee godly against sinne to cause repentance not to bee repented of The dangerous securitie and damnable Impietie of these last and perillous times which euery true iudicious eye discerneth and euery good Christian lamenteth did cause mee to choose this Text that hereby I might rouze vp all carelesse sleepers and sluggish slumberers from their secured safety for some there be I pray God not too many that hardly entertaine at any time so much as any shew of desire or care how they shall appeare in that day as if they had made a couenant with death and hell Esa 28.15 or rather I thinke they beleeue that false Axiome of Atheisme that there is neither heauen nor hell nor yet such a day as is spoken of here for their actions seeme such as these in Iob bidding the Almightie to depart from them Iob. 21.14 for they desire not the knowledge of his waies and stand scoffing like these Mockers in Peter ● Pet. 3.4 that aske Where is the promise of his comming Such monsters there bee vnder the habite of men worse then the very deuils themselues Ia. 2.19 for the deuils beleeue this day and tremble in remembrance of it for whose prosperitie I thinke charitably of all Psal 122.8 de viuo sperandum as for my brethren and companions sake I am bound to pray and he that is the searcher of the heart knoweth Ro. 10.1 that mine heart desireth their conuersion that all men and women that haue heard of the trueth may truly receiue this true doctrine concerning Christ and his comming to Iudgement that we all being in our liues reformed in our consciences cleared by true repentance of our sinnes and that euery day wee may be readie Luc. 1.17 as a people prepared for the Lord and my prayer dayly shall be vnto Almightie God with the blessed Apostle for my selfe and all Christians that he may grant vs according to the riches of his glorie that wee may be strengthened in the Inner man that Christ may dwell in our hearts by faith in this life so that in that day wee may bee freed from Iudgement and after that day continually dwell with Christ in glory Vnto that God that brought Iesus Christ againe from the dead and made him Iudge of quicke and dead Eph. 3.20 that is able to doe exceeding abundantly aboue all that wee aske or thinke according to the power that worketh in vs be praise in the Church by Christ Iesus throughout all generations Amen Thine in the Lord IAMES FORSITH S. Michaels in the Quern London 20. Nouemb. 1619. THE GREAT DAY of Chancery 2. COR. 5.10 We must all appeare or be manifested before the Tribunall seat of Christ. A Text as I thinke fit to be preached at all times and to all persons Recordare nouissima non peccabis in aeternū saith the Son of Syrach Ecclus. 7.36 Let any man or woman of what degree soeuer alwaies remember their last end and it will bridle them in their courses and curbe them in their waies the remembrance of death is the way to life and for