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A62379	The grand assises: or, The doctrine of the last generall judgment with the circumstances thereof: comprised and laid forth in a sermon preached at the assises holden for the county of Southampton at Winchester, on Wednesday, July 28, 1652. By William Sclater Doctor in Divinity, preacher of the word of God in Broadstreet, London.	Sclater, William, 1609-1661.	1653 (1653)	Wing S918A; ESTC R218648	45,998	59

THE Grand Assises OR THE Doctrine of the Last Generall Judgment with the Circumstances thereof Comprised and laid forth In a SERMON Preached at the Assises holden for the County of Southampton at Winchester on Wednesday July 28 1652. By WILLIAM SCLATER Doctor in Divinity Preacher of the Word of God in Broadstreet London 2 Cor. 5.10 Wee must all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his Body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad Nemo futurorum metum cogitat diem Domini iram Dei incredulis futura supplicia statuta perfidis aeterna tormenta nemo considerat quod metueret conscientia nostra si crederet quia non credit omnino nec metuit si crederet caveret si caveret evaderet S. Cyprian de Unit. Eccles sect 23. London Printed by E. Cotes and are to be sold by John Sweeting at the sign of the Angell in Popes-head-alley 1653. To the honble John Wyld L rd Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer a Patriot of Justice an Exemplary Patron of true Piety All Heavenly Benedictions MY LORD IT cannot but be known to your Lordship being so full and rich a Magazine of all Learning and Eloquence that the two main (a) 1 King 7.21 Pillars which as Jachin and Boaz in Solomon's Temple do support a Church and Common-wealth are (b) Eph. 4.12 Ministery and (c) Ti● 3.1 Magistracy the one upholding Religion and Divine Worship the oth●r Order and Civil Justice Happy is that people which is in (d) Ps 144.15 such a case where both of these doe not as those twins within Rebecca (e) Gen. 25.22 struggle together but rather as Righteousnesse and Peace sweetly (f) Psa 85.10 embrace and kisse each other It 's very remarkable in Holy Writ how the Spirit of (g) Eph. 4.3 4. Vnity to ingage no doubt an harmonious accord between them hath been pleased to denominate the persons (h) 1 Tim. 1.11 intrusted with either (i) 1 Tim. 3.1 Office by one and the same name styling them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Publick (k) Rom. 15.16 1 Cor. 3.5 Rom. 13.4 Ministers of God for good the one acting as Stewards of the (l) 1 Cor. 4.1 Mysteries of God the other as Dispensers of Righteousnesse and (m) Ames 5.24 Judgement unto men Both by Gods own (n) Rom. 10.15 sending and (o) Rom. 13.1 appointment And methinks the serious meditation of this their so sacred institution might powerfully put to (p) 1 Pet. 2.15 sil●nce the murmurings whether of (q) 2 Tim. 3 4 heady sons of (r) 1 Sā 10.27 Belial impatient even of the (s) Matt. 11.30 easiest (t) The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Belial is of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 jugum id est absque juge Hieren yoke of the Lord Christ against them or the repinings of other Christians not well informed or mistaken about either Yea indeed it might prove a potent argument to (u) 1 Thess 5.13 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 esteem or (w) Heb. 13.17 obey the one and to be (x) Tit. 3.1 subject unto the other even for (y) Rom. 13.5 conscience of God I can assure your Lordship that those beams of encouragement seconded also by that learned and godly (z) My Lord Ed. Atkins one of the Justices of the Court of Commō pleas Judge then in the Westerne Commission with you darted and with so chearing a diffusion displayed from your splendor as from a bright star of the greater magnitude upon worthy Ministers whom you have professed to reverence even for their (a) 1 The. 5.13 work sake owning them in your solid religious and elegant Charges given upon the publick Bench of Judicature under the title of The Lords (b) 2 Cor. 5.20 Ambassadors holding such as are found (c) 1 Tim. 1.12 Faithfull as the Philippians did Epaphroditus in (d) Phil. 2.29 reputation say those beams by a sweet reflexion and influence so warmed the breasts and revived the drooping spirits of the godly Ministers that the mention thereof proveth as an amulet or even as an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 against all present misapprehensions or future disconsolations It is that which shall welcome your approach whithersoever Providence may direct your Judiciary Circuit and embalme your Name with Honour the fragrant odour whereof shall be resented with a pious and gladsome Commemoration in following generations How willingly could I now wish my selfe a Chrysostome or a Nazianzen some Thucydides or Cicero yea the Quintessence of all their Oratory united into one and that as by some Pythagoricall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 transmigrated into my breast that so I might but in some measure expresse it being a skill beyond Apelles himselfe graphically and fully to delineate your eximious endowments and perfections which render you first a compleat Christian and so by far the better and more accomplished Magistrate Should I mention your Ethicks or Morall part if Plato Aristotle or the whole Chorus of the most refined Philosophers had lived in your dayes your practise might have given them exact rules for all their descriptions or characters of the Vertues or if we look unto what is any way perfect in them there needs no better Comment on them than your practise in Justice Temperance Liberality Mansuetude and that Architectonicall vertue which mainly steers all for which also Sergius Paulus a governor is comm●nded in Scripture (e) Act. 13.7 Prudence In your Theologicall or religious part as is recorded of Cornelius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 you are a (f) Act. 10.2 Devout man one that feareth God with all your house a lover and frequenter of all Gods publick Ordinances giving much Almes to the people and praying to God alway your retinue also and attendants qualified after the perfect Canon of Scripture with (g) Ps 101.6 7. truth (h) Tit. 2.10 fidelity and (i) Ephes 6.5 6 7. Col. 3.22 23. single-hearted (k) Tit. 2.9 obedience and all sobriety In your Noble profession a Promptuary of the laws a learned (l) Act. 5.31 Gamaliel had in singular reputation in the administration of Justice * 2 Sam. 23.3 upright and † Deut. 1.17 impartiall and where is a meet Subject capable full of clemency bowells and indulgence A terror to none but to the evill giving (m) Rom. 13.3 praise and encouragement to every good man and work All which considered How can I but excecdingly congratulate unto my self the so unexpected Happinesse of your Lordships favour and countenance especially when I meditate the occasion thereof to have proceeded from your candid approbation of these my weake endeavours shewn in this and some other Sermons which you were pleased to desire where as you might have commanded it to the Presse The subject of it was

the great (h) Heb. 12.23 Judge of all adorned with majesty attended with the glorious retinew of (i) Heb. 12.22 innumerable Angels and glorified (k) Dan. 7.10 S. Jud. v. 14. Saints seated upon his royall glorious throne with (l) Mat. 25.31 Mat. 24.30 power great glory shall call the one Sheep and the other Goats and making a finall and everlasting (m) Mat. 25.31 32. separation between them shall say unto the one Come ye blessed inherit the Kingdome praepared for you from the beginning of the world and to the other Go ye cursed into everlasting fire and these shall go away into everlasting punishment but the righteous into life eternall The sum of all I find to be epitomized into these four Latine verses Quam tristis vox est Vide hos versus apud Ioh. Gerardum tom 9. c. 4. sect 60. cum Iudex dixerit Ite Tam duleis vox est cum dixerit Ille Venite Mortis vel vitae breve verbum est Ite Venite Dicetur Reprobis Ite Venite Piis So that this sentence is like to that pillar of the cloud which was darknesse to the Egyptians but light to the Israelites Exod. 14.20 The word or sentence of Life or Death eternall it is but short yet curt and sharp to the Reprobate or Castawayes but short and sweet to all Gods Elect and Christs redeemed precious Holy ones Vse And thus my beloved Hearers after my weak measure though not as I fully desired after the expectation happily of such an auditory I have dispatch'd the Divinity or Explication of the Text It remains now that under the same favour of your continued patience I descend to the morality or the effectuall Application of the same Thus much I shall assure you all that I have it in my wishes that my remaining words may fall like Manna upon every ear and heart for that they say had a taste which every man did like or wish for I know its difficult to please all yet it shall not be my aime justly to displease any only my main intention is to (n) 2 Tim. 2.15 approve my self to God the (o) Heb. 12.23 Judge of all in the discharge of my conscience And now if any look that I should in the first place assume the boldnesse to advise or admonish these learned and reverend Judges who like Castor and Pollux appearing together promise good to the Common-wealth as that Asterisme doth to the Mariners at Sea I shall disappoint that expectation sith their great abilities and their cordiall both aims and endeavours to do Justice for Justice sake are so well known to the chiefest seats of Judicature and to this Nation already I shall therefore in stead of exhorting them take this occasion to perswade all you that hear me this day to be enlarged towards God in thankfulnesse that by his propitious providence he hath furnished the seats of publique Justice with so accomplished Magistrates as these are seeing therefore that by you we enjoy great (p) Act. 24.2 3. quietnesse and that very worthy deeds are done unto this Nation by your providence we accept it alwayes and in all places Honourable Lords with all thankfulnesse My Admonitions must be directed unto all such who enjoy the benefit and blessing of government which in the just administration thereof is a Terrour to the wicked lawlesse and ungodly and an encouragement to those that be good Rom. 12.3 4. Yea a (q) Xenophon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Xenophon expresseth it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Those who are good men by beholding the dishonour cast upon vicious persons by the Justice of the Magistrate for their unlawfull deeds and their illegall perpetrations do by sarre more chearfully follow and embrace vertue and not only so but exemplary Justice upon some proves a common terrour unto all When a scorner is smitten the simple will beware saith the wise man Prov. 19.25 or as Moses expresseth it When any praesumptuous sinner was punished all Israel must hear and fear and do no more praesumptuously Deut. 17.12.13 To all the people in generall then let me say as Elisha the Prophet did by the mouth of Gehazi his servant to the Shunamitish woman 2 Kin. 4.13 Behold thou hast been carefull for us with all this care What is to be done for thee So say I Behold our Governors have been carefull for you with all the care they can take that you may every one dwell safely under your own (r) 1 King 4.25 Zech. 3.10 Vines and Fig-trees in peace and quietnesse that there may be no (s) Psal 144.12 13 14. leading into captivity nor complaining in your streets but that your sons may grow up as Plants and your daughters as the polished corners of the Temple that your sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in your streets c. If ye aske me then What is to be done for the Magistrates I answer They must be spoken for If ye desire to know to whom I answer To the King of Heaven even to that (t) 1 Tim. 6.15 King of Kings of whose Kingdome there can be (u) Dan. 7.14 Luk. 1.33 no end If ye demand further How this King of Heaven must be spoken to for them I answer or rather the great Apostle for me 1 Tim. 2.1 2. In supplications and Prayers and intercessions If you would know for what that same Text resolves you namely that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty intimating hereby that men in lawfull authority are or should be the prime supporters both of Religion and morall Honesty and therefore being subject to many temptations and undergoing many difficulties they stand in need of many and those too the most fervent Prayers of all those good people who expect protection support encouragement from them Yea if men did seriously ponder but the weight of the Magistrates office they would double the zeal of their devotions for them some of the Rabbins went so high in their expressions this way as to say qui funguntur magistratu non veniunt in judicium as Paulus (w) Paulus Fagius senttenanor 3. Ben Syra Fagius acquaints us to have been the sentence of Rabbi Ben Syra that is such as conscientiously undergoe the office of Magistracy were exempted from the Judgement to come as if their present vigilancy care study travell and other laboriousnesse which they underwent for the good and weal of Community had been so great that it had after a sort excused them for all things else but we will take notice of this as an hyperbolicall expression and an excessive speech in the Rabbi Yet neverthelesse we read in Scripture that Moses however then the (x) Num. 12.3 meekest man upon earth being in the office of a Governor found cause to call it a (y) Num. 11.11 confer Exod. 18.22 Burthen yea and to call out too for some (z) Num. 11.14