persons as long as they did perseuere they had signes in them of being predestinated and they who receaued not the fayth according to their then present state were wicked reprobate This did our Lord declare whē he sayd I came into this world that they who see not might se◠they who see might be blind Which was as much to say Vpon my comming did this iudgment follow and this distinction was made amongst men that many who in their soules were blind through ignorance and errour and vice and who did not see the truth nor did walke in the right way to heauen by beleeuing in me with a liuely fayth they I say might see the truth and follow it And that many others who saw and had knowledg of the Scriptures and did know the law and the Prophets who both in their own and in the peoples opinion estimation were held wise and had a spirituall light wherwith to looke into diuine things they I say for their pride and ingratitude should remaine blind and going astray from the right way should not find their errour and perdition Another diuine and most singular testimony which Christ our Lord hath giuen vs of the desire which he hath in this iudgment of his not to finde any sinnes which he might punish nor any sinners whom he should be so obliged to condemne is That d Let all Angells adore him for this inestimable benefit to men at his first comming he made a law which was to last till the end of the world wherby he gaue faculty to all sinners that during the whole tyme whilst their life should last they might passe a Iudgement vpon themselues acknowledging their sinns and accusing themselues therof with greefe and confessing them to a Priest who should hould the place of Christ our Lord and satisfying for them according to the iudgment of the same Ghostly father and that they performing this he would not in his Iudgment either cōdemne or punish them but would declare them to be not Guilty and would impart the kingdome of heauen to thē And that if hauing once passed this Iudgement vpon themselues they should yet return againe to sinne become abnoxious therby to eternall condemnation yet stil as long as their life should last they might returne to passe the same Iudgment vpon themselus as often as they would and that if they should do it according to e Confessing them all clearely with great sorrow firme purpose of amendmēt Truth he would not condemne them but would admit them into his company and make them happy O Iudgment which is so deerely sweet O Iudge who is so ful of mercy and how vnanswerable is it proued by this most pitteous Iudge that his intention and desire is not to punish but to pardon not to condemne but to absolue and saue since before he comes to passe his Iudgment he vseth so many meanes applyes so many remedies to the end that he may finde no sinnes to punish nor no sinners to condemne If an earthly Iudge had his prison ful of delinquents theeues murtherers and should make a kind of agreement and bargaine with them that f Consider seriously heerof admire the infinit goodnes of God in that wherein the blind world thinkes it hath hard measure namely in the Institution of the Sacrament of Confession euery one of them might choose what friend or kinsman of his owne he would and in secret should declare his offence to him deliuering to him the whole truth and vndergoing but that penalty which he should impose vpon him for the same And that vpon some day of the same yeare himselfe would come to the prison to Iudge them and that he would pronounce them to be free who had declared their offences to friend or kinsman of theirs who had performed the penalty which he had imposed and that he would only cōdemne those others who would not haue recourse to that remedy what would you say of this Iudge of this agreement You would say that there nether is nor euer was nor euer will be in the world any Iudge who sheweth or is to shew any such mercy nor who euer made or will euer make any such Capitulation with persons who had deserued to dye nor are there any laws on earth which can permit any such thinge And if there were any Iudge who would submit himselfe to the like cōdition there would no delinquent be found who would not ioyfully performe this agreement and so be declared for not guilty Well then Christ Iesus the Eternall Iudge and who is of infinite power and Maiesty doth shew this mercy to all such sinners as are worthy of eternall death And he hath made this bargaine and agreement with them all and that is yielded to by the laws of heauē which the laws of earth will not endure Let vs therfore serue our selues of this mercy let vs performe the articles of this agreement and let vs in tyme passe a Iudgment vpon our selues let vs confesse our sinnes with true sorrow let vs amend our liues to the end that when at the houre of our death in the particuler Iudgment and at the end of the world in the Vniuersal iudgment we shal come before this great Iudge he may find no sinnes to punish or condemne in vs. For it is sayd by S. Iohn the Apostle concerning this Lord 1. Ioan. 1. If we confesse our sins repenting our selues truly of them before God and his substitute God is iust and faithfull in fulfilling the promises and rewarding the meritts of Chri◅ our Sauiour and so he will pardon vs our sinnes through his merits and will cleanse vs from all wickednes as he hath promised O most vnhappy men who deferring to do pennance and to make amendment of their liues despise this mercy of God as S. Paul sayth by making ill vse thereof Rom. 2. And g Woe be to thē who will needes be wicked euen because God is so infinitely good by this meanes they treasure vp the wrath and punishment of God for themselues against the day of his wrath which is that of his Iudgement These lawes of mercy were not made nor are they proclaimed vnto men to the end that thereupon they should take such a wicked strange presumption to sinne but that if they haue sinned they should not be dismaid but that in hope of this diuine mercy they should instantly correct themselues and reforme their liues and obtaine pardon So doth the glorious Apostle S Iohn aduertise vs for hauing sayd That if we confesse our selues well God will pardon vs he instātly addeth this 1. Ioan. 2. These thinges haue I written to you my children to the end that you may not sinne but that you may fly from sinne at full speed but yet if any man do sinne we haue an Aduocate before the Father That is to say let him not be dismaid nor out
and who powre out the drink of spiritual comfort and ease to such as are afflicted and deiected that so they may beare their miseryes with patience who cloath their soules with vertues and celestiall guifts who are naked depriued of al spiritual graces and who cure and recouer out of their miserable infirmityes and who draw and deliuer out of that horrible captiuity them who are sicke of sinne and are taken prisoners and made slaues by Sathan Most certain it is that although all they who expresse mercy towards their neighbours shall be esteemed honored in that Tribunal shal be sublimed with glory and royall dignity yet these others who haue imparted it towards the soules of mē shal be much more esteemed and honoured by Christ our Lord and his Angels shal be raised to greater glory more aduaūced in the kingdom of heauen It is also to be considered that although these works of mercy whether they be corporall or spirituall and which respect the spirituall or corporall good of our neighbour are excellent and of great value and merit as we haue already sayd yet the interiour and exteriour workes of Fayth Hope Charity and Religion which haue e How highly gratefull those acts of vertue are which do immediatly respect Almighty God imediate relation to Almighty God and to the worship seruice which is due to him as our God and our Creatour are more excellent and of greater value merit then the workes of mercy which ayme but at the cōfort of our neighbours And so much more as any vertue doth draw neere approach to God so much more is the vertue more excellent Now the vertues which are called Theological which are Fayth Hope Charity do looke vp and serue immediatly honour Almighty God belieuing his truth and louing his goodnes and hoping in his mercy And the vertue of Religion doth respect and exercise the worship and veneration which is due to God as being soueraigne Authour and Lord of all thinges And these vertues being more excellent then that of Mercy towardes our Neighbour it is cleare that those faythfull Christians who with firme and liuely fayth haue beleeued in Christ our Lord and who confessed his fayth in the face of Tyrants who placed all their confidence in Christ searching with care after his glory and resigning themselues entirely to his most holy will and honoring him reuering him with true worship with pure prayers and with an exact performance of their promises and the vowes which they make to his diuine Maiesty certaine I say it is that in the day of his diuine Iudgment they shall be more esteemed and honoured by Christ for hauing done and suffered these thinges then either they or any others shall be for any other inferiour works which they may haue wroght towardes their Neighbours And therefore the reward of glory being so illustrious and so high which for the workes of spirituall and corporall mercy they shall receaue considering that yet the reward which these others shall obtayne is to be much more eminent and great and since notwithstāding that the kingdome which is to be giuen in reward of these workes of mercy is celestiall eternall yet for these acts of faith and Charity and Religion a greater and a better portion shall be allotted and set out in the same kingdome let vs be most diligent in the leading of a good life in cōseruing our soules pure and cleane in exercysing our selues in the acquisitiō of vertue And let vs be full of feruour towards the works of mercy whether they be spirituall or corporall euery one according to his Tallent O happy f Conclusion and for euer most happy they who shall thus imploy themselues Happy because they were elected from all eternity by almighty God Happy because they were called in Tyme to his faith and Religion and were instructed therin Happy because they did correspond to that vocation of God and did begin to lead a good life Happy because they did contynue therin Happy because if they fell they quickly rose againe by penance and were constant therin And Happy beyond all happies because when our Lord came to call them to accompt at the houre of their death he found them imployed in a good life and watchfull in the exercise of good workes expecting the tyme of his comming to receaue the reward of their labours at his mercifull and most liberall handes For it is sayd by no lesse then Truth it selfe Luc. 12. Happy is that seruant whome his Lord when he commeth shall find watching and imployed in the discharge of his duety with fidelity and prudence and complying with his obligations whether they be common to all Christians or particulerly belonging to his state I tell you as an vndoubted truth that to such a seruant as this his Lord shall deliuer vp the possession of all his goods That is Christ our most mercifull Lord and our God will rayse him vp from the blessinges of grace in this life to the blessinges of glory in the next and from the basenes of this earth to raigne eternally together with himselfe in heauen Amen THE CONCLVSION TO THE READER MAKE accompt good Reader that this discourse is a Letter this which now thou art reading is the Postscript of it Thou hast seene the torments of Hell and the ioyes which are imparted to the elect in heauen Thou hast seene that if thou dye in mortall sinne thou wilt for euer be chayned in those torments for euer be depriued of those ioyes Take heed therefore of all sinne and especially take heed of the sinne either of Schisme or Heresy which are of the greatest that can be cōmitted The nature of Heresy consisteth in this That a man will make election of some one doctrine or more which is contrary to the beleefe of that true Church which is celebrated in the Creed of the first Councell of Nice to be One to be Holy to be Catholike to be Apostolike Be sure thou be of that one true Church which soeuer that be for thogh myself be resolued yet I will not heere handle that question by way of Controuersy but there is but one wherin a Christian can be saued one in the faith which it professeth howsoeuer it may be accounted many in respect of the infinite persons which it conteyneth and consequently of the particular Churches which it imbraceth The nature Wher in the nature of heresy doth indeed consist therfore of heresy doth not consist in the multitude or quality of the Articles of Religion which are held in difference from the dotrine and direction of the holy Catholike Church but it consisteth properly in the pride and presumption of that hart which dares preferre a priuate opinion of any one or seuerall Countries or any interpretation of holy Scripture which interpretation is also no more then a For he will make the scriptur affirm
THE IVDGE WHEREIN IS SHEWED how Christ our Lord is to Iudge the World at the last Day to the extreme Terrour of the Wicked and to the excessiue Comfort of the Good With a Preface which it will be necessary to read before the Booke Translated into English Nolite errare Deus non irridetur Quae enim seminauerit homo haec metet Gal. 6. vers 7. Be not deceaued God will not be mocked for the thinges which a man shall sow the same he shall reape Permissu Superiorum 1621. TO MY NOBLE FAITHFVLL WORTHY and most deare Friend Mr. G. T. SYR Since I had the Ioy to see you last I haue looked a little into the next Life as despayring that in this I should be able to find any thing which might be worthy to fill vp that place which is made empty by your ABSENCE And now by chance or rather by Gods good Prouidence I haue met with a Prospectiue-Glasse which giues me a view of Heauen and Hell in a very expresse cleare manner though the Countreyes theÌ„selues be far off I should neuer haue beene able to fit the Instrument towardes any eye but finding now that all was ready made and that so excellently to my hand I haue aduentured to frame a case for it after the English fashion The thing in it self you will not chuse but like for it is excellent and I am but too sure that you wil loue the part that I haue therein because the same Loue hath ceeled vp the eyes of your iudgement concerning me But if abstracting from that you chance to like it I shall stand in little feare of the censure of others who must giue me leaue to belieue that ther liues not amoÌ„gst them all for ought I know a man that can outstrippe you in Translating Heerein I haue seene pretious things of your doing both in Prose and Verse and in seuerall Languages And I neuer misliked any Translation of yours but that one when you traÌ„slated your Presence from the eyes of my body by whose AbseÌ„ce I am in part depriued of being able to translate some of your vertues into my soule The least that I can do against Absence Distance for so great a wrong is to send them a Defiance and to bid them be sure that if they mean to make me loue you one haires breadth the lesse they shal loose their labour Nay they kindle me rather to make this expression of my selfe and to acknowledge as I may say this Statute of my hart before the World For I am fixt in giuing you all power ouer me and I glory in being subiect to such a Friend Your what you will G. M. THE PREFACE A Learned and holy man of this age besides the odour of his Sanctity hath left suruiuing diuers Monuments of his writing and amongst the rest three bookes Of the Imitation of Christ our Lord. In the first of these he sheweth vnder seuerall Titles the seuerall Offices which his diuine Maiesty is performing to the soules of men as he is our God our Redeemer our King our Sauiour our Mediatour our Aduocate our Captaine our Sacrifice our Spouse our Doctour our Law-giuer our Pastour our Light our Life to conclude our Iudge The whole booke is large and not only should I haue felt the paines in translating it all but I might haue doubted of your Patience whether or no it would haue reached to the reading of it ouer with due intention The last of the Tytles deliuered to vs by our Authour I haue heere translated and you may see that he is a Lyon by his nayles In this discourse of Iudge which is not founded vpon priuate contemplations and much lesse either vpon loose coniections or streyned conceipts but euen wholy in effect vpon the passages of holy Scriptures though not cyted word for word but duely pondered and truly paraphrased as the best spirituall wryters are wont to do he doth admirably describe the soueraigne Maiesty the incomparable Mercy and the inuiolable Iustice of our Iudge And as incident heerunto he deliuers vs such a Mappe of the next world and doth so describe the Paradise of heauen the Zona Torrida of hell as may serue either to rauish vs with ioy or strike vs through with horrour and make vs euen wither for woe according to the seueral state that we may be in If we be members of the true Church of Christ our Lord and if withall we be in the state of grace we shall looke with more hope vpon the ioyes of heauen then with feare vpon the torments of hell and so we shall get courage in the good course begun But if on the other side we be cut off from the communion of the true Church of Christ our Lord by any one errour in beliefe or if yet being Catholikes we be remaining in state of mortal sinne this Treatise I hope wil help to guide vs by the haÌ„d out of those Labyrinths place vs in that high way of Fayth Charity without which we can haue no tytle to heaueÌ„ but the â—aws of hel will be sure to sucke swallow deuoure vs. Let no man therfore be deceaued or rather let no man deceaue himselfe God is God and he wil be serued And it is all reason that by our beleeuing and liuing as we ought true Homage may be done to that infinite inuisible immortall and most pure Maiesty of his And man is man a thing of nothing for of nothing he was made And as now he is what is he but a Pedlars-shop full of trash or rather a very sincke full of filth and to what height of honour ought he esteeme himselfe to be aduanced if he had but euen a single leaue to serue loue such an omnipotent Creator But now since besides this he is to be rewarded with an immortall Crowne of glory for so doing the sublime excellency wherof no created power can comprehend what meruayle can it be that the torments be also infinite to which he shal be adiudged and chayned if insteed of doing reuerence to God by imbracing an incorrupted faith leading either an innocent or penitent life he enter into rebellioÌ„ and treason against him by imbracing any errour in beleefe or falling into sensuality or any one other mortall sin if withall he dye therin without repentance It is not want of Charity in them who say That all such as dye with any mortall sinne vpon their soules shall eternally be tormented in the fyre of hell but it is true Charity to declare this truth that so in tyme men may know to what to trust S. Paul abounded and ouerflowed with Charity and that very Charity it was which obliged him to proclaim this doctrine Gal. 5. v. 20. That the workes of the flesh be manifest and he saith they are these Fornication Vncleanes Impudicity Luxury Seruing of Idolls Witchcrafts Emnities Contentions Emulations Anger 's Brawles Dissentions Sects Enuies Murthers
vs it will infinitely concerne vs both instantly and exactly to cast vp all the accōpts of our Conscience to be cordially sorry for all our sinns to confesse them distinctly to purpose an amendment firmely and to satisfy for them intierly For this is a busines which must not be dispatcht after a cursory and superficiall manner but we are to consider with what care we would consult about our estats if they were in danger or about our liues if they lay on bleeding And heer we must not faile to vse so much more deligēce then there as Eternity is of more importance then a moment of Tyme And in fine we are to do it so as at the hower of our death when we shall go to stand before our Iudge we would be glad that we had done it For without this true repentance which signifieth a flight from sinne with griefe and supposeth a flight towards God with loue it is no Faith in Christ our Lord which will serue the turne to preserue vs out of that lake of eternall torment But rather the more knowledge we shall haue had of him by Faith the greater will our torment be if we do not pēnance for the sinns which we shal haue cōmitted against that Maiesty of his Which the same Fayth telleth vs to be infinite and that his hatred against sinne is also infinite and that as with strange mercy he will assume to incomprehensible immortall ioy the soule which at that day he shall find to be free from sinne so in whomsoeuer he he shall perceaue that sin remaines the same soule will he then instantly adiudg to that sea of fire brimston where it will saile in sorrow blaspheme and rage for all eternity To the pretious Death Passion of Christ our Lord we owe must acknowledg amongst innumerable others this vnspeakeable benefit for which let all the Angells for euer blesse praise his holy name That through the infinite merit therof we may be receiued to grace by meanes of true contrition and pēnance how often and how wickedly soeuer we shall haue offēded that high Maiesty But that Death Passion will neuer saue the soule of any one creature vnlesse both that mystery and all the other mysteries of Catholike faith be well beleeued al sinne be cordially detested which sinne is a monster so fierce and cruell as that it did cost the very sonne of God his life By that life and by that death I begge that thou wilt giue ouer to trample with thy durty feete in the sacred Bloud Royall of our B. Sauiour which he shed for thee vpon the Crosse For so thou dost preferring Barabbas before him as often as thou cōmittest any mortall sinne and so long thou hast continued to doe it as thy soule hath beene spotted with that crime Or if thou haue so little of the noble in thee as to be moued more by thine owne interest then by the consideration of that immense benefit which the foūtain of Maiesty vouchsafed with such excesse of loue to this wicked creature man then do I coniure thee euen by that very interest of thine owne that instantly thou make hast into thy selfe and that discharging thy soule by pēnance of whatsoeuer may be offensiue to the pure eyes of God thou implore his mercy now which may saue thee from that inflexible iustice of his in the last dreadful day At which tyme euen this very paper will appeare to thy extreme and euerlasting confusion if thou forbeare to serue thy selfe of this admonition Heauen and earth shall passe away but the word of God shall remayne for euer Matth. 24. v. 30. And that word hath thus aduised vs and thus assured vs by the mouth of the most B. Apostle S. Paul speaking to the Galathiās Gal. 6.7 Nolite errare Deus non irridetur Quae enim seminauerit homo haec metet Quoniam qui seminat in carne sua de carne metet corruptionem qui autem seminat in spiritu de spiritu metet vitam aeternam The plaine and cleere sense whereof is as followeth Take heed you frame not certaine fantasticall and false opinions to your selues as if you could ouer-reach Almighty God euacuate his truth make him belieue that he gaue you a free law wherby to liue thē indeed he gaue But be well assured that the very truth is this Let euery man aliue consider seriously what he sowes for iust so and no otherwise shall he reape If you sow works of flesh which are particulerly cited before in this Preface out of a former Chapter of S. Paul to the same Galathians yow shall reape nothing but corruption but destruction but euerlasting damnation But if yow sowe workes of the spirit which are wholy contrary to those others and are there expressed to be Charity Ioy Peace Patience Benignity Goodnes Longanimity Meekenes Fayth Modesty Continency Chastity yow shall in vertue of that spirit wherewith you liue and whereby you are to walk passe on from this transitory to an eternall life then at the most liberal hands of God you shal receaue a most precious crowne of immortall glory A TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS OF THIS DISCOVRSE chapter 1 HOW the office of being our Iudg doth belong to Christ our Lord as he is man and of the great benefite which God imparteth to vs in giuing him to be our Iudge Chap. I. chapter 2 Of the great desire which Christ our Lord hath for as much as concerneth him not to condemne any one in his iudgmēt but to saue them al. Chap. II. chapter 3 Of the benefit which Christ our Lord imparteth to vs in giuing vs to vnderstand and feele the grieuousnes of sinne by the meanes and manner of his Iudgement to the end that we may in tyme do pennance for it Chap III. chapter 4 How we are to haue great sense of the grieuousnes of sinne by reason of the demonstrations which shall be made by all the creatures of God before the Iudgement Chap. IIII. chapter 5 How Christ our Lord discouereth the hate which he carryeth towardes sinne by the so particuler account which he taks thereof Chap. V. chapter 6 How Christ our Lord declares to vs the detestation which he carryeth against sinne whereof the wicked are conuinced by that sentence which he pronounceth against them Chap. VI. chapter 7 How Christ our Lord discouereth the grieuousnes of sinne the hatred which he carryeth against it by the last sentence whereby he is to condemne the wicked and by the punishment which he inflicteth vpon them Chap. VII chapter 8 How the grieuousnes of sinne is yet more discouered by the causes of the Iudgmēt which are alleadged by Christ our Lord. Chap. VIII chapter 9 How a Christian is to draw a detestation of sinne out of the consideration of this Iudgement of God and great vigilancy in the leading of a good life Chap. IX chapter 10 Of other Considerations from which
by it that he would rather chose death then it And what then shall they feele who burning in that hideous fire are possessed with such a most raging thirst wheras yet they shall not get the least drop of water for all eternity For as S. Iohn affirmeth Apoc. 14. The smoke of their torments shall ascend for euer and for euer and neuer shall they rest either by day or night They l The indissoluble chains of hell shall also continue in that euerlasting prison bound hand and foot and so are they to be cast into that fire as Christ our Lord signifyeth when giuing sentence against him that came into the Feast which is the bosome of his Church without his wedding garment which is charity and grace he sayd thus to the Ministers of his Iustice Bind him hand foot and so cast him bound into exterior darknes where shal be weeping gnashing of teeth Matt. 22. That is the wicked shall remaine obstinate hardned for euer without meanes of remedy or deliuery And this is to haue the hands and feet tyed vp To be incapable of doing any one work or conceauing any one good desire in such sort as that whatsoeuer they shall do or thinke for all eternity is to be wickednes and sinne And as a man who being bound hand foot and cast into the bottome of the sea cannot swimme nor scape from being drowned so those wretches can neuer wrastle out of those paynes For if there could be any remedy it must be by pennance and amendement of their liues but that can neuer be because they are to remaine obstinate in euill and disabled to do any thing which is good These miserable damned creatures shal also be subiect to most m The filthy smells of hel offensiue smells which shall extremly afflict and torment them This is signifyed by S. Iohn who sayth Apoc. 14.19.20 That into that lake of fire which is Hell the Diuell shal be cast who is the occasion of the paynes of Hell and of death for which cause he is called sometymes by the name of death and hel it selfe Aug. de ciuit Dei l. 20. c. 14. that into the same lake all the wicked who are not written in the booke of life shal be also cast and that this lake of fire shall burne with brimstone which signifyeth the detestable smell of that horrible prison which is caused supernaturally either by brimstone or some such thing These and innumerable other paynes there are in that most hideous prison and although they be all so immense as that they exceed all expression Riber in Apoc. c. 19 num 37. yet the n If thou belieue not this truth it is a sign that thou art extraordinarily in ill case greatest of thē all is hauing lost the glory of God and then being to want it for al eternity For as the greatest good and suprem felicity of man is to see God and to enioy him so the greatest misery and mischiefe and torment is for euer to want the sight of God the possession of his celestiall Kingdome This is that which aboue all things doth torment those most vnhappy soules of the damned to see that they might haue gained an infinite good and that they had tyme commodity for it and that through their owne fault negligence they gained it not nor did serue themselues well of their tyme and of those other meanes which were giuen thē by our Lord for that purpose And to see that innumerable other men of their owne naturall condition fraile like themselues doe for the good imployemēt which they made of the guifts of God obtaine to enioy so great a good and to possesse it with a perpetuall security whereas they by their negligence or malice lost it The remēbrāce heerof which for euer shall be imprinted in their minds will be so liuely and fresh as that they will neuer be able to cast it off and this will breed in them an intollerable griefe beyond all griefs and a most vehement indignation a hoat boyling rage against themselues for hauing so lost God But yet this torment doe they not feele for the respect of God for they doe not loue but do abhorre him but only for the interest profit which they might haue had by his glory And this torment of indignation is that which Christ our Lord did signify by the gnashing of teeth which springeth from the inraged wrath of the hart That o Note this certain truth so piously deliuered excellent writer Rusbrochius doth ponder the grieuousnes of these torments very excellently well and particulerly he sayth That the hauing lost the glory of God is the greatest of them all and he expresseth it by these wordes Rusbroch Epist 1. Belieue me that whatsoeuer can be sayd of the paynes of hell if it be compared with that which there is felt in very deed is lesse then a drop of water is in respect of the whole Sea and yet neuerthelesse all those paynes of hell put togeather are nothing in respect of that one only payne which is felt by hauing for euer lost the sight of God And of this paine S. Iohn Chrysostom said Chrys in Matt. c. 7. hom 24. If thou put before me a thousand hells they are not all so great a mischiefe as is to loose the glory of Christ our Lord to be abhorred and driuen away by him with those p O infinite affliction wordes I know you not CHAP. VIII How the grieuousnes of sin is yet more discouered by the causes which Christ our Lord alleadgeth as the reasons of his Iudgment ANOTHER point very worthy of Consideration in this diuine Iudgment which discouereth also the mighty hatred which Christ our Iudg doth carry against sinne which sheweth also the greiuousnes of those paines wherewith he is to punish the same are the faults which he relates and which he alledgeth at the tyme of his Iudgment in the sentence of damnation which he pronounceth against the wicked saying Matt. 25 a So that men shall not be iustifyed by faith alone since they are to be dāned for want of Charity I was hungry and you did not giue me to eate I was thirsty and you did not giue me to drinke I was a stranger and you did not harbour me I was naked and you did not cloth me I was sicke and in prison you did not visit me For it is euident that amongst all mortall sins the very least and they whereof men make least accompt and scruple are the forbearing to succour their neighbours euen in those cases of necessity wherin yet they are bound to do it by the precept of Charity And for this reason Christ our Lord who had no meaning in this relatiō which he makes at the tyme of his Iudgment to reckon vp all those sins for which he is to cōdemne the wicked for that