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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81900	Maran-atha: = the second advent, or, Christ's coming to judgment. A sermon / preached before the honorable judges of assize, at Warwick: July 25. 1651. By William Durham, B.D. late preacher at the Rolls, now pastor of the church at Tredington in Worcester shire.	Durham, William, 1611-1684.	1652 (1652)	Wing D2832; Thomason E665_23; ESTC R206867	42,547	57

words make strongly for the last judgement As I live saith the Lord 't is an oath peculiar to God himself Have I purposed and shall not I bring it to passe have I sworne and shall it not stand Shall not I who punish perjury in others fulfill mine own oath doubtlesse I will Every knee shall bow Those knees which bowed to him in mockage shall now do him homage and those feeble sinnews shall tremble before him on the throne whom in a contumelious manner they scraped to on the Crosse Every tongue shall confesse Every reviling tongue shal confesse him to be God whom once they thought the worst of men and upon constraint acknowledge him their Judge whom they lately executed as a guilty Malefactor The Apostle Jude in the 14 and 15 verses of his Epistle hath another Testimony to the same purpose And Enoch also the seventh from Adam prophesied of these saying Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of Saints to execute judgement upon all c. 'T is hard to say Vtrumque vitium est omnibus credere nulli tutiùs hoc crimen est illud honestiùs Sen. Rawliegh histor lib. 1o. part 1. cap. 5. §. 6. Vid. Bez. which is worst to believe every one or no body they are both faults only with this difference the former is more ingenuous the later is more secure That this testimony is true there will be more will averre And who this Enoch was is not so hard to ghesse as what was his prophesie That it was an unwritten prophesie calculated onely for that Nation and delivered over from hand to hand is not improbable we find that he prophesied that he spake it but that it was written we do not read Enoch no question was a faithfull Preacher in his time and strove by a floud of divine Rhetorick to beat down those sins which nothing could stop but a floud of water and amongst other of his divine sayings this might be one by the care of the faithfull continuing to succeeding ages Secondly It might be written either by himselfe or some other yet not by divine inspiration nor never reduced into the Canon and such it may be was the Book of Jasher the upright if a very learned man mistake not Junius in loc for the word rendred Book signifies either a Catalogue of books or else it signifies publick records containing acts and proceedings in a Court of Judicature or Ecclesiasticall concerning Church-government or historicall concerning events and occurrences in the State of all which sorts there were severall lodged up in the Ark which never came to light which might be lost without any detriment to the Canon and of this sort might be this of Enoch Thirdly We are not to reckon all those books lost whose names we find mentioned in Scripture but not the books that bear those names as those of Nathan the Seer and Gad the Seer with those which Samuel himselfe wrote Manent libri tacentur nomina Junius make up the two Books of Samuel the books remaine though their names be supprest or changed so have I often seen smaller streams emptying themselves into the vaster Channel lose their own and assume the name of the greater current and so this of Enoch as others may remaine in holy Writ though being annexed with greater works it hath lost its name And it moves not much though we find not the very words if we find that which is equivalent which is sufficient to prove the citations out of the Old Testament true as you saw made clear in the former quotation Thus having proved Enoch to be bonum legalem hominem a man of credit and repute in his country let us hear his evidence Behold the Lord cometh c. where we have two things 1 the Judge and then 2 the Judgement it selfe The Judge set forth by his title and his train 1 His title 't is the Lord and for his traine ther 's the quality or nature of them Saints and the number of them ten thousand of Saints and for the judgement 't is to convince all the ungodly of all their hard speeches and evill works and all this with an ecce Behold ut de presenti loquitur as if it were within his kenn Enoch the seventh from Adam through the perspective of faith saw the day of judgement even at his heels we are some thousands of years nearer then he and can that be far from us Verstegan in his tract of the ancient English tongue p. 192. which so nearly bordered upon him Had Enoch been silent his very name had proclaimed a judgment to come In the old Teutoni●● language the ancient speech of this Nation E signifies Law or Equity and Noch signifies yet once again or to come so that his very name imports a time to come where shall be the administration of justice according to right 2 Tim. 4.8 Paul when he came downe from the third heaven brought with him the certaine newes of a Judge that should come to crown him at that great day and not him onely but all those that shall love his appearing * Causab in annal Baron exer 2. c. 11. 1 Tim. 3. ult 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Now there is a double appearance of Christ the first called by the Ancients 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the unridling of that great mystery God manifested in the flesh the second that is here mentioned by the Apostle 2 Thes 1.6 7. When the Son of man shall come in the clouds and every eye shal see him or to use his own words in that most accurate and dreadfull expression When the Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and obey not the Gospel of Jesus Christ c. Not to be injurious to your patience in a businesse so obvious our Saviour the best of preachers hath laid down this truth in the parable of tares and in plain terms Matth. 25.31 2 Thus have you heard the testimony of Nature Naturae naturantis Naturae naturatae now lend an ear to nature her selfe Nor is this word far from thee that thou shouldest ask Who will bring it unto me only unrivet the secret Cabine of thy brest and thou shalt find this doctrine legible Whence else arise those secret twinges girds of thy conscience which like an under-officer bind thee over to the great Assize whence else that horror in thy dejected soule for sin committed which anticipates thy finall doom and executes thee before thou art condemned whence else those renting spasmes and tearing convulsions in his brest whose sin is so secret that none can know it whose person is so eminent that none can punish him Every mans secret thoughts bode and fore-speak a judgement to come when●● conscience tels him that sinne went before Culpam paena premit comes Hor. Carm. lib. 4. Od. 4. Sin and

an excellent Pattern to proceed against false witnesses by where the law injoynes them legem talionis that they be mulcted so far forth Deut. 19.16 as their false witnesse would have prejudiced their neighbour But if the Judge cannot find it out yet God will you call God to be a witnesse that you speak truth and to be an Avenger if you speak falsly God is both a witnesse and a Judge Behold Mal. 3.5 I will be a swift witnesse against the false swearer whereby the hireling the widow and the fatherlesse are opprest and the stranger turned from his right And he will be a swift Judge too it will not be long before he rip up all your combinations concealments of truth your equivocations reservations falsehoods perjuries in the face of all the world he stands at the door and sees all Take heed what you do 5. To All in one word that shall be imployed in this businesse whether Judges Sheriffs Justices Jurors Witnesses and all inferior Officers and I shall wind up all with a short story out of Damascene which runs thus There was a mighty and Puissant King In Historiâ versus principium who being clothed in his Royall Apparrell riding in his golden Chariot attended with all his Nobles met upon the way with two poor thred-bare Ministers of Jesus Christ and presently leaping from his Chariot runs and fals down at their feet and kisses them Which act of his his Nobles disdaining but not daring to reprove acquainted the Kings owne brother with what had past and desired him to rebuke his brother the King for thus debasing his power and greatnesse which accordingly he undertook to do and performed his task with sufficient tartnesse which yet the King bare with much patience and made him no answer at all It was the custome of that place that when the King whose will was the only law was resolved to take away any mans life he sent one whose office it was to sound a Trumpet before that mans door whereby he and all his neighbours knew that such a man must die At night the King sends this Trumpeter to blow before his brothers door who no sooner heard that fatall sound but giving up himselfe for dead spent the night in weeping and wringing of his hands setling his estate condoling his wife and children and in the morning comes to the Kings gate all in mourning trembling every minute expecting execution The King being informed that his brother was thus at the gate sends for him into his presence and seeing him in such a miserable pickle prostrate at his feet bespeaks him thus O thou foolish and unwise man if thou thus fear and tremble at the sound of the Trumpet of thine own naturall brother against whom thou hast done no hurt how dost thou find fault with me for humbling my self before these living Trumpets who proclaim the coming of the Great God to Judgement against whom I have most grievously offended My Lords and Gentlemen I hope you have prevented me in the application of this story and that when by and by you shal see the faces of poor prisoners grow pale their hands shake their knees beat together at the sound of that Trumpet which summons them to your Tribunall You will then be pleased with an awfull Reverence and a trembling fear Judex quisque judicii sui sempiternum sustinebit judicium Chrysol ser 26 to consider that there is another Assizes another Trumpet another Tribunall where you your selves must every one give up an account as of all other things so of this dayes work before this Just and Impartiall Judg who standeth at the door The Lord touch your hearts with his fear and direct you in your work FINIS