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A21040	The iudge 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 willbe necessary to read before the booke. Translated into English.; Libro de la imitacion de Christo Nuestro Señor. English. Book 7	Arias, Francisco.; Matthew, Tobie, Sir, 1577-1655.	1621 (1621)	STC 741; ESTC S120328	84,537	253

and serued The Sunne shall grow darke not as now it doth somtymes by naturall causes or in respect that any cloude may ouershadow it or because the Moone may cast it self betweene it and the earth as it hapneth in the case of an Eclipse but it is to be obscured by a supernaturall and miraculous cause and so it is to be vnderstood that for a while it shall loose the whole light it had The Moone shall also loose her light The Stars shall fall from heauen Ioel. 2. either because when they are without light it shall seeme to be as if they were fallen or els for that in very deed they shall dislodge themselues from that high firmament where they are fixt and for some tyme shall fall from thence and deteine themselues in the ayre till they returne againe into their place The powers of the heauen shal be moued that is those celestiall bodies with their naturall vertue shall tremble and so shift their places as in an earthquake the earth is wont to do or if it be vnderstood of Angells the meaning is how in that day they shall make some kind of spiritual demōstration motion of great admiratiō The Sea shal be troubled shal be moued in a most wōderful māner and with the waues thereof shall make such a hideous noyse as will astonish the whole world oppresse and afflict with excessiue feare and horrour the harts of mortall men will make them euen whither againe with woe The Earth shall tremble 2. Pet. 3. and shal be open in many partes and shall disclose euen the pits of hel The Ayre with the same Earth and Sea shall burne by that most ardent ouerflowing of fire which shall consume al the liuing bodyes of fishes beasts and men God in his law commanded the children of Israel Deut. c. 13. v. 20. that when they should be to fight against the Idolatours and Pagans who dwelt in the Land of Promise and whome he was pleased to punish for their sinnes not only that they should kill the men but euen the very beasts which did them seruice and so in particuler he b A sign of this truth in the old Testamēt exacted this of Saul when he went to fight against the Amalecites and because he did not punctually comply with this cōmandment but suffered some of the Cattle to liue God was offended Saul was punished 1. Reg. 3. Let vs now see why God did not content himselfe with causing the men who had sinned to be put to death but the beasts also which had no fault It was to make men vnderstand and feele that sinne is so great a mischeife and is so worthy to be abhorred and punisht and that God doth indeed so much abhor it that it is a most cōuenient thing not onely to punish sinners with eternall tormēts death but to destroy also and consume and as it were to chastice the creatures wherof they did serue help thēselues towards their sinnes Therfore is it that resoluing in the Vniuersall Iudgment to chastice the wickednes of all men in a most complete manner he will not content himselfe to deliuer ouer sinners themselues to those eternall ardours of fire those other immense paines of hell but to the creaturs also wherof they made some vse in sinning he giues as it were a kind of payne and punishment in detestation of the sins themselues as also to the end that they may be purged and cleered frō that indecency and deformity which grew to them by the seruice which they did to sinners For thus it is that the Sunne the Moone Stars which did illuminate sinners whilest they were committing their sinnes shal be depriued by him for a whyle of all the light beauty which they haue he shall conuert it into thick darknes And as for the Sea the Earth Ayre which gaue food to sinners did maintaine them whilest they were offending God he will make them as it were feare and tremble will depriue them for a tyme of the naturall quality and disposition they haue and will consume and kill all those liuing creatures and plantes which were the food of sinners and wil destroy al those buildings which were the habitation of wicked men And thus through the mutation demonstration desolation which in the Iudgment God will shew in al the creatures which serued sinners he doth teach and testify the infinite hatred which he hath against sin And he doth induce perswade vs that now through the knowledge of this truth we may be drawn to abhor detest them and that with a penitentiall holy life we may cleanse our soules as well as possibly we can frō al fault offence of his diuine Maiesty 2. Pet. 3. S. Peter c This truth is insinuated by S. Peter doth admonish vs of the good effect which we are to draw from the change which is to be made vpon the creatures by saying to this effect Since there is a day of the vniuersall Iudgement to come wherin all the creatures for hauing serued sinners are to be purged with fire and burnt inferre my brethren from hence how diligent and constant it is fit for you to be in the leading of a good life and how holily and purely you are to conuerse in this world and how vigilant and carefull it will becom you to be in performing the works of piety towards God and of mercy towards your Neighbour expecting with a liuely fayth that day of our Lord and approaching and drawing neere to him with speed not with paces of the body but with the desires affections of the soule desiring and louing this day and preparing to see your selues at that tyme accompanyed with purity of life and with the exercise of vertue CHAP. V. How Christ our Lord discouereth the hate which he carryeth towardes sin by the so particuler account which he taketh of them all ANOTHER mystery of this diuine Iudgement discouering the mighty demonstration and detestatiō which God doth expresse against the faults whereby he is offended is the so particuler accompt which he will take of vs which we all must giue of all the facultyes or powers al the senses both of our body and soule of all the creaturs which we haue vsed and a If you beleeue this point of fayth to be true I shall not need to wish you to looke wel about you of all the workes which we haue performed all the wordes which we haue spoken and all the thoughts which we haue conceaued how little soeuer they fall out to haue beene without leauing out so much as any one idle word or any one idle thought We shall giue accompt of how we imployed our Vnderstanding if we did set it on worke vpon the inquiry and search of God and his truth and in contemplating on him his holy Cōmandments and the workes of

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