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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

be at Peace among your selves 1 Thes. 5.12 13. And that you will instead of grieving or rejecting your Guides Obey them that have the Rule over you and submit yourselves for they watch for your souls as they that must give account that they may do it with joy and not with grief for that is unprofitable for you Heb. 13.17.7 Encourage your Teachers for their work is great their spirits are weak they are but frail men the enemy is more industrious against them then any men their discouragements are very many and the difficulties which they must encounter are very great Especially Obey Submit and Encourage them in the work of Government and Exercise of Christs Discipline and managing the Keyes of the Kingdom which he hath put into their hands Do you not perceive what a strait your Teachers are in The Lord Iesus requireth them to exercise his Discipline faithfully and impartially He giveth them not empty Titles of Rule but layes upon them the burden of ruling It is his work more then their Honor that he intends and if they will have the Honor it must be by the work The work is as to Teach the ignorant and convince the unbelieving and gainsaying so to admonish the disorderly and scandalous and to reject and cast out of the Communion of the Church the Obstinate and Impenitent and to set by the Leprous that they infect not the rest and to separate thus the pretious from the vile by Christs Discipline that dividing separations and soul-destroying Transgressions may be prevented or cured This work Christ hath charged upon them and will have it done whoever is against it If they obey him and do it what a tumult what clamours and discontents will they raise How many will be ready to rise up against them with hatred and scorn though it be the undoubted work of Christ which even under persecution was performed by the Church-Guides When they do but keep a scandalous untractable sinner from the Communion of the Church in the Lords Supper what repinings doth it raise But alas this is a small part of the Discipline If all the apparently obstinate and impenitent were cast out what a stir would they make And if Christ be not obeyed what a stir will conscience make And it is not only between Christ and men but between men and men that your Guides are put upon such streights The Separatists reproach them for suffering the Impenitent to continue members of their Churches and make it the pretence of their separation from them having little to say of any moment against the authorized way of Government but only against our slackness in the Execution And if we should set to the close exercise of it as is meet how would City and Countrey ring of it and what Indignation should we raise in the multitude against us O what need have your Guides of your Encouragement and best Assistance in this streight God hath set them on a work so ungrateful and displeasing to flesh and blood that they cannot be faithful in it but twenty to one they will draw a world of Hatred upon themselves if not mens fists about their ears Festred sores will not be lancht and search with ease Corrupted members are unwilling to be cut off and cast aside Especially if any of the great ones fall under the censure who are big in the eyes of the world and in their own And yet our Soveraign Lord must be obeyed and his house must be swept and the filth cast out by what names or Titles soever it be dignified with men He must be pleased if all be displeased by it VVithdraw not your help then from this needful work It is by the Word Spirit and Ministery that Christ the King of his Church doth Govern it Not separatedly but joyntly by all three To disobey these is to disobey Christ and subjection to Christ is Essential to our Christianity This well thought on might do much to recover the Unruly that are Recoverable You may conjecture by the strange opposition that Church-Government meets with from all sorts of carnal and corrupted minds that there is somewhat in it that is eminently of God I sha●l say no more but this that It is an Able Judicious Godly Faithful ministery not barely heard and applauded but humbly and piously submitted to and obeyed in the Lord that musst be your truest present glory and the means of your everlasting Peace and Joy So testifieth from the Lord Your servant in the faith of Christ Rich. Baxter To the Ignorant or Careless Reader SEeing the Providence of God hath commanded forth this plain Discourse I shall hope upon experience of his dealing in the like cases with me that he hath some work for it to do in the world Who knows but it was intended for the saving of thy soul by opening thine eyes and awaking thee from thy sin who art now in Reading of it Be it known to thee it is the certain Truth of God and of high concernment to thy soul that it treateth of and therefore requireth thy most sober Consideration Thou hast in it how weakly soever it is managed by me an advantage put into thy hand from God to help thee in the greatest work in the world even to prepare for the great approaching Judgement In the name of Go● I require thee cast not away this advantage Turn no away thine ears or heart from this warning that is sent to thee from the living God! Seeing all the world cannot keep thee from judgement nor save thee in Iudgement let not all the world be able to keep thee from a speedy and serious prepartion for it Do it presently lest God come before thou are ready Do it seriously lest the Temepter over-reach thee and thou shouldest be found among the foolish self-deceivers when it is too late to do it bttter I intreat this of thee on the behalf of thy soul and as thou tendrest thy everlasting Peace with God that thou wouldest afford these matters thy deepest Consideration Think on them whether they are not True and weighty Think of them lying down and rising up And seeing this small Book is faln into thy hands all that I would beg of thee concerning it is that thou wouldest bestow now and then an hour to read it and read it to thy family or friends as well as to thy self and as you go Consider what you read and Pray the Lord to help it to thy heart and to assist thee in the Practise that it may not rise up in Judgement against thee If thou have not leisure at other take now and then an hour on the Lords dayes or at a night to that purpose and if any passage through brevity specially neer the beginning seem dark to thee Read it again and again and ask the help of an Instructer that thou maiest unders●and it May it but help thee out of the snares of sin and promote the saving of thy

cause 2. By the Judge ● Ex ploration 2. Sentence 3. To see to the Execution But because the Method is less suitable to your capacities and hath something humane I will reduce all to these following heads 1. I will shew what Judgement is 2. Who is the Judge and why 3. Who must be Judged 4. Who is the Accuser 5. How the citation constraint and appearance will be 6. What is the Law by which men shall be Judged 7. What will be the cause of the day what the Accusation and what must be the just Defence 8. What will be the Evidence 9. What are those frivolous insufficient excuses by which the unrighteous may think to escape 10. What will be the sentence who shall dye and shall live and what the Reward and Punishment is 11. What are the Properties of the Sentence 12. What and by whom the execution will be In these particular heads we contain the whole doctrine of this Judgement and in thi● more familiar method shall handle it 1. FOR the first Judgement as taken largely comprehendeth all the forementioned particulars As taken more strictly for the Act of the Judge it is the Tryal of a Controverted case In our case not these things following 1. Gods Judgement is not intended for any Discovery to himself of what he knows not already he knoweth already what all men are and what they have done and what is their due But it is to discover to others and to men themselves the ground of his sentence that so his Judgement may attain its end for the glorifying his grace on the Righteous and for the convincing the wicked of their sin and de●ert and to shew to all the world the Righteousness of the Judge and of his Sentence and Execution Rom. 3.4.26 and Rom. 2.2 2. It is not a Controversie therefore undecided in the mind of God that is there to be decided but onely one that is undecided as to the knowledge and mind of creatures 3. Yet is not this Judgement a bare Declaration but a Decision and so a Declaration thereupon the cause will be then put out of controversie and all further expectation of Decision be at an end and with the justified there will be no more Accusation and with the condemned no more hope for ever II. FOR the second thing who shall be the Judge I answer the Judge is God himself by Iesus Christ 1. Principally God as Creator 2. As also God as Redeemer the humane nature of Jesus Christ having a derived subordinate power God lost not his right to his creature either by mans fall or the Redemption by Christ but by the latter hath a new and further right but it is in and by Christ that God Judgeth For as meer Creator of innocent man God judgeth none but hath committed all Judgement to the Son who hath procured this right by the redeeming of fallen man John 5.22 But as the Son only doth it in the neerest sense so the Father as Creator doth it remotely and principally 1. In that the power of the Son is derived from the Father and so standeth in subordination to him as Fountain or Efficient 2. In that the Judgement of the Son as also his whole Mediatorship to bring men to God their maker as their ultimate end and recover them to him from whom they are faln and so as a means to that end the Judgement of the son is subordinate to the Father From hence you may see these following Truths worthy your consideration 1. That all men are Gods creatures and none are the workmanship of themselves or any other or else the Creator should not Judge them on that right 2. That Christ dyed for All and is the Redeemer of the world and a sacrifice for All or else he should not Judge them on that Right For he will not Judge wicked men as he will do the Devils as the meer enemies of his Redeemed ones but as being themselves his subjects in the world and being bought by him and therefore become his own who ought to have glorified him that bought them 2 Cor. 5.14 15. 2 Pet. 2.1 1 Cor. 6. ●9 20. 1 Ioh. 2.2 Heb. 2.9 1 Tim. 2.6 7. 3. Hence it appeareth that all men were under some Law of Grace and did partake of some of the Redeemers mercy Though the Gospel came not to all yet all had that mercy which could come from no other Fountain but his Blood and which should have brought them neerer to Christ then they were though it were not sufficient to bring them to believe and which should have led them to Repentance Rom. 2.4 For the neglecting of which they justly perish and not meerly for sinning against the Law that was given man in innocency Were that so Christ would not Judge them as Redeemer and that for the abuse or not-improvement of his Talents as he tels us he will do Mat. 25. per totum 4. If God will be the Judge then none can expect by any shifts or indirect means scape at that Day For how should it be 1. It is not possible that any should keep out of sight or hide their sin and the evil of their actions and so delude the Judge God will not be mocked now nor deceived then Gal. 6.7 they grossly deceive themselves that imagine any such thing God must be Omniscient and All-seeing or he cannot be God Should you hide your cause from men and from Devils and be ignorant of it your selves yet cannot you hide it from God Never did there a thought pass thy a heart or a word pass thy mouth which God was not acquainted with and as he knows them so he doth observe them He is not as Imperfect man taken up with other business so that he cannot mind All As easie is it with him to observe every Thought or Word or Action of thine as if he had but that one in the world to observe and as easie to observe each particular sinner as if he had not another creature to look after in the world He is a fool indeed that thinks now that God takes no notice of him Ezek. 8.12 and 9.9 or that thinketh then to escape in the croud He that found out one Guest that had not on a wedding Garment Mat. 22.12 will then find out every unholy soul and give him so sad a saluation as shall make him speechles Job 11.11 For he knoweth vain man he seeth wickedness also and will he not consider it 2. It is not possible that any should scape at that Day by any Tricks of with and false Reasoning in their own Defence God knoweth a sound Answer from an unsound and a Truth from a Lye Righteousness may be perverted here on earth by out-witting the Judge but so will it not be then To hope any of this is to hope that God will not be God It is in vain then for the unholy man to say he is holy or extenuate his sin To bring forth the