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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41706	A discourse of Christ's coming and the influence, which the expectation thereof hath on al manner of holy conversation and godlinesse / by Theophilus Gale.	Gale, Theophilus, 1628-1678.	1673 (1673)	Wing G144; ESTC R6924	117,103	244

the fruit of his doing So 2 Cor. 5.10 For we must al appear before the Jugement seat of Christ as they who pleaded their own or other mens cause were wont to stand in an open place before the Judge that every one may receive the things done in his bodie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. the things due to his bodie or person according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad i. e. proportionably to his actions and manner of life according to the formal nature of justice which consists in giving every one his own Thus also Gal. 6.7 Gal. 6.7 Be not deceived God is not mocqued For whatsoever a man sowes that shal he also reap Be not deceived i. e. deceive not your selves delude not your own souls by fallacious fond presumtions and conceits God is not mocqued c. Should carnal secure sinners who sow to the flesh reap life everlasting how would God be derided and mocqued by them But the holy God wil not be mocqued They that sow tares must not expect to reap wheat Such as sow to the flesh shal reap wrath and damnation Again should not God recompense to his people according to their workes and sufferings God would be also mocqued by wicked men in that al the workes of his troubled Saints were in vain But Paul tels us 1 Cor. 15.58 that their labor is not in vain which he expounds 1 Cor. 3.8 every man shal receive his own reward according to his own labor By which it is most evident that Christ wil at last day recompense to every man according to his workes Neither doth this at al make for merit or Justification by works as the Papists would needs persuade us For 1. The Reward which God confers on believers is not For but According to their good workes It is Rom. 2.6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to not for his deeds Good works are not the meritorious cause but the evidence by which God mesures their evangelic sinceritie and perfection It is impossible for a creature to merit any thing in a proper sense because there can be no mutual obligation betwixt the creature and the Creator or any thing given to God which bears proportion with the good things of eternal life which he confers on us Indeed were our good workes perfect yet they could purchase nothing from God by way of merit because they are but the fruit of his own Grace neither do we give unto God but what is his due But alas the best workes under Heaven are so far from meriting any good from God as that by reason of their sinfulnesse they demerit wrath and damnation Hence 2. The Recompence which God gives unto believers according to their good workes is properly a Gift and metaphoricly only a Reward Al the proportion or regard which our good workes have to the reward given according thereunto flowes merely from the evangelic constitution and promisse not from any inherent worthe in the workes themselves So that although it be a day of Jugement yet it is also a day of Grace as to the rewards given to believers There is not more of justice than of free-grace in the rewards distributed So Rom. 6.23 But the gift of God is eternal life 3. Albeit Christ allows a place to workes in the last Jugement yet he wil not allow them the least place or mention in our present justification thereby to exclude al boasting as Rom. 3.27 There wil be no danger of boasting in the believers being judged according to his workes because his good workes are produced not as the principal ground of his acceptance but only as an evidence of his sinceritie and evangelic perfection As faith is the federal Instrument that justifies his person so good workes are produced in the last jugement as that which wil justifie his faith and Gods former justification of him before the world Jam. 2.12 So Jam. 2.12 so speake ye and so do as they that shal be judged by the law of libertie The law of libertie by which men shal be judged at last day is the Moral Law Evangelised which shal judge not according to the rigor of the first Covenant but according to the Evangelic constitution of the New Covenant which accepts faith and sinceritie in lieu of perfect obedience 4. In the last jugement Christ wil procede even with believers according to their workes because then they are to be compared with wicked men For to vindicate the equitie of Gods procedings with the wicked it is necessary that the Evangelic obedience of believers be brought forth in jugement which wil stop the mouths of al ungodly men and vindicate Christ from that false Imputation of having respect to mens persons as Rom. 2.11 But now in the present justification of believers the comparison is not with unbelievers but they are compared with themselves and the law of God that so seeing the Imperfection and pollution of their best workes they may abandon themselves their own righteousnesses and sufficiences and flie to Christ for refuge So that should good workes have the least room here the whole design of Justification by Christs righteousnesse would be frustated and made void Now this being made evident that Christ at his second coming wil judge al men according to their workes the consideration hereof cannot but have a prevalent influence on al such as by faith look for and hasten to the coming of the Day of God I shal only adde one text which indeed should worke a dread and terror in us al namely Mat. 12.36 37. Mat. 12.36 27. But I say unto you That every idle word that men shal speak they shal give account thereof in the day of Jugement For by thy words thou shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt be condemned By 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Idle word we must understand 1. Every emty vain word that hath not its due soliditie mesure and weight 2. Every unprofitable word which has not some conducence and tendence to the honor and glorie of God 3. The whole conversation For if we are to give an account of every idle word then surely by a paritie of reason of al other parts of our conversation And oh what a weighty consideration is this to al those who wait for the coming of their Lord to labor after al manner of holy conversation and Godlinesse What! saith such an expectant soul doth my judge stand at the dore as Jam. 5.9 and must I shortly render an account to him of every idle word O! then hat an essential obligation do I lie under to labor after al manner of righteousnesse and holinesse So much for Christs general relation to al as Judge 2. If we consider Christs special mediatorie Relations to Saints these cannot but be exceding influential on such as by faith daily look for and hasten to the coming of the day of God Christ out of his rich free and condescendent love has brought