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A45484	A map of judgement, or, A pattern for judges delivered in a sermon at the Assizes holden at Guildford-in-Surrey, July 23d, 1666 before Sr. Orlando Bridgeman, Kt., Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Sr. Samuel Brown, Kt. / by W. Hampton ...	Hampton, William, 1599 or 1600-1677.	1667 (1667)	Wing H635; ESTC R21596	21,322	25

Satan that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 most envious enemie of humane happiness shall labour to accuse them to bring forth their sins against them and lay them to their Charge but the true 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the lover of men will not suffer him he will throw them all into the bottom of the Sea cast them behinde his back nail them to the Cross bury them in the grave of his Son drown them in his blood and remove them further than the East is from the West that they shall not be found nor remembred nor brought forth against his faithful people at that day So that though they appear it shall not be ad discussionem peccatorum to have their sins discussed sifted examined censured like the wicked but ad retributionem praemiorum to have their labours and good works rewarded yea to have the works of Christ which are now appropriate to them and made theirs by imputation Crowned with a Diadem of Glory and Immortality in the Kingdome of Heaven If any shall demand with the Disciples 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but tell us when shall these things be I answer Here ye pose me indeed These things shall so come to pass I am sure but when or how soon I cannot tell It is the next quaerie to be discussed Quando When he shall Judge noted in the future sign shall the time is to come at the end of the World That there shall be such a day is most certain most uncertain when it shall be we have the Word of God to confirm the certainty of it Our God shall come and shall not keep silence there shall go before him a consuming fire Psal 50.3 The Lord Jesus shall show himself from Heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire to render vengeance on them that know not God and obey not the Gospel 2 Thes 1. We have his promise for it Behold I come quickly and my reward is with me to give to every man according as his work shall be Rev. 22.12 We have his Oath for it The Mighty Angel lift up his hand to Heaven and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever who Created Heaven and the things that are therein and the Earth and the things that are therein and the Sea and the things which are therin that time should be no more Rev. 10.6 We have the Justice of God to confirm it it stands with his Justice that there should be such a day God is most just he wil shew mercy to the Godly and judgement to the wicked he will as Sr. Paul saith reward every man according to his works but he doth not alwaies so in this life for the wicked enjoy as many outward blessings as the Godly All things come alike to all and the same condition is to the Just and to the unjust to him that Sacrifizeth and to him that Sacrifizeth not c. saith the Preacher Yea the wicked in this world for the most part enjoy more felicity than Gods Children they laugh when these weep they sing when these sigh they prosper when these are persecuted they flourish when these are afflicted they are in pompe and jollity when these are in want and misery sic fuit a principio from the beginning it hath been so Abel righteous Abel lies dead at the feet of his wretched Brother Cain Chaste Joseph is fettered in the Dungeon while his lewd Lady flourisheth in her braverie the Hebrews groan under their heavy burthens sweat in the Brick-Kills while the Aegyptians live at ease domineering over them Elias fainteth in the Desart while Jezabel painteth in her Closet Daniel quaketh in the den of Lyons but the proud King Belshazzer quaffeth among his boon Companions The holy Prophets of God are mocked scourged sawn asunder slain with the Sword while their cruel Persecutors swell and sway and triumph in their sorrows John's head lies bleeding in the Platter while Herod is smiling at his Revels and Dancing among his Damsels Lazarus Famisheth while Dives Feasteth Therefore there must needs be a general day of Judgement when God will give to every man his right when good men shall be rewarded according to their sufferings and wicked men punished according to their deservings If we do but hear two or three Malefactors receive their doom from the Judge and see them led forth to Execution we may thence conclude that there shall be an universal doom for it is not to be thought saith St. Chrysostome that seeing we have all one God who is an upright Judge that he would punish some men for their sins in this world and let others escape which have offended as much or more than they unless he had reserved certain punishment for them also in the future World at the day of judgement and this is that which the Apostle hinteth to us 1. Tim. 5.24 Some mens sins are open before hand and go before unto judgement but some mens follow after The sins of some are known and manifest to the world they are brought to Judgement and they suffer for them here their bodies are punished that their souls may be saved but the sins of some are close secret unknown to the world yet there will come a time when they shall be revealed when they shall be punished their sins are upon the score and kept in store till the great day of reckoning though they escape the judgement of this world yet they shall not escape the judgement of the world to come their sins shall follow after them they shall accompany them to judgement Now as it is most certain such a day shall come so most uncertain when it shall come Some have rashly and presumptuously undertaken to guess at the time and define when it shall be as though they had been in the bosome of God and were the Secretaries of Heaven To whom it may be said as the Cynick to an ignorant and arrogant fellow prating of Heavenly matters beyond his capacity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pray sir how lately came you from Heaven that you know these things so well or as St. Austin telleth of one who answered that busie Inquisitor who would know what God did before he made the world fecit Infernum curiosa scrutantibus he made Hell to punish those who are too curious in prying into his secrets Our Saviour tells us that when that day shall be no man knoweth no not the Angels of Heaven which have farre more excellent knowledge than we no not he himself that is as man he was ignorant of it or had no commission then to reveal it or as Aquinas Dicitur nescire quia non facit scire he is said not to know because he will not make us to know Therefore let no man presume above his reach secret things belong to the Lord revealed things to us and to our Children onely this we are sure of the time cannot be farre off it is even at hand It was near in the Apostles time much more

obtains a Writ Admelius inquirendum and then falls from fifty to forty five from forty five to forty from forty to thirty from thirty to twenty from twenty to ten which small number had that populous City afforded he would have spared all for their sakes I will not destroy it for tens sake And he brings these words as a convincing Argument that it stood not with the reputation of the Almighty who is the great Lord chief Justice of the world to do injustice to burn innocents with nocents to flay the righteous with the wicked Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked Peradventure there shall be fifty righteous within the City wilt thou destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein That be far from thee to do after this manner to slay the righteous with the wicked and that the Righteous should be as the wicked that be far from thee shall not the Judge of all the Earth do right Not that Abraham in this expostulation doth make any doubt of the Justice of God for this Interrogation is indeed a vehement asseveration so that in this negative question is emphatically implyed an affirmative position as if he had said I know the Judge of all the world will do right Frequent in holy Writ by interrogations in the negative to affirm the more earnestly So Elisha to Gehuzi Went not my heart with thee c. Yes I know all thy tampering and juggling well enough So here Shall not the Judge of all the world do right is all one as if he had said I am sure the Judge of all the Earth will do right The words being thus resolved you may note in them three parts A Judge his Circuit and his Judgement The Judge is the Lord his Circuit very large All the Earth His Judgement most just and right or rather if you will as the Text hath four words so I will put four quaeries to be briefly discussed Quis Quos Quando Quomodo First Quis Who this Judge is and that is Christ the Lord of the World he it was that here talked with Abraham that appeared to the Patriarchs and Fathers in the Old Testament Secondly Quos Whom he shall judge All the Earth or the whole World Thirdly Quando When he shall Judge The time is to come at the end of the World noted in the Particle shall Fourthly Quomodo How he shall judge Not according to the corrupt Fashion of the world Sed secundum norman Justitiae according to the Rule of Justice according to equity and right Shall not the Judge of all the world do right And First I begin with him who is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the beginning and the end of all our actions yea of all things and that is Quis who this Judge is namely Christ the Son of God God and man the Messiah the Saviour and Redeemer of the world he is made Lord Chief-Justice of all the world and he hath it by Commission hear his own Testimony for it and we know that his Testimony is true John 5.22 The Father Judgeth no man but hath committed all Judgement unto the Son because that all men should honour the Son even as they honour the Father Upon which place St. Austin Tractat. 19. in Johan moves a doubt whether the Father shall be excluded in the last Judgement which he resolves by comparing these words with the 27th verse He hath given him power to execute Judgement because he is the Son of Man The Father saith he shall not be seen coming to Judgment but yet he shall not be excluded from giving of Judgement he hath the same power with the Son for the power of all the three persons is coaequal The Son only shall be seen in Judgement The Judge shall appear in a visible shape forma humana in a humane form They shall see him onely whom they have pierced He shall come to judgement and sit on the Throne of judgement and pronounce judgement in the very same body wherein hee suffered and dyed That Forme shall be Judge which stood before a Judge and he shall judge that was judged and hoe shall judge justly that was judged unjustly For the Father hath given him power to Execute Judgement because he is the Son of man that is because he did so far condescend and debase himself as to come into the world and assume our Nature to his God-head to be greatly humbled to do and suffer so much for our Redemption therefore the Father will so highly exalt him that in the same nature in the same forme in the same body he shall sit to judge the world He hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in Righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained Acts 17.31 But doth not the Apostle say that the Saints shall judge the world 1 Cor. 6.2 and Christ to his Apostles Ye which have followed me in the Regeneration when the Son of man shall sit upon the Throne of his Glory ye also shall sit upon twelve Thrones judging the twelve Tribes of Israel Matth. 19.28 These places are to be understood either of judging the world 1. By their Doctrine or 2. By their good examples and holy lives as Christ said that the Queen of the South and the Ninevites should rise up in judgment against the men of that generation and Condemn them or 3. Of the attestation and approbation which they shall give to the righteous judgement of Christ Rev. 19.1 2. They shall sit Assistants with him and be by his side like privie Counsellors to the King As we see here at an Assize there be many inferiour Justices who sit on the Bench and are Assistants to the Judge not that they give sentence in any matter for that belongs to the Judge but they sit as approvers and testifiers of the just proceedings So shall it be with the Saints they shall sit as Assistants with Christ to approve and applaud the righteous dealing of that great Judge but to him alone belongs the pronouncing of Sentence 1. O what a strong consolation may this be to all the Faithful people of Christ in that he who saved them shall judge them he who is flesh of their flesh and bone of their bone he who gave his flesh and body and blood and life and all to redeem them No comfort like this to a guilty person arraigned at the Barre as to have the Judge to be his friend to speak for him to plead for him to defend to protect him But so it shall be with the faithful at that day they shall have their friend to bee their Judge their Head their Husband their Kinsman their Brother their Redeemer their Intercessor their Saviour Surely it must needs go well with them their cause shall be heard before him who loved them so dearly that he dyed for them The great Judge of all the world shall acquit them who

in our time all the signs preceding fore-told by our Lord and his holy Apostles being fulfilled except the calling of the Jews which how soon when and in what manner it shall be we know not Behold the Judge standeth even at the door Yet a very little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry Heb. 10. The world is now in decrepito statu● in a declining condition drawing the last breath at the last cast at the last gaspe As man who is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a little world so the world which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a great man as the Philosopher speaks hath its infancy childe-hood youth middle age old age The time saith St. Austin from Adam to Noah was the worlds infancy from Noah to Abraham its childe-hood from Abraham to David its youth from David to the Captivity of Babylon its middle age from the Captivity of Babylon unto Christ its old age from Christ unto the end of all things its dotage for ever since the world hath as it were gone upon Crutches and therefore now cannot stand long if St. Johns age were ultima hora the last hour surely our times are the last minute of the hour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saith St. Paul the time is short the sails are wrapp'd up the Ship is even at hand let us therefore use this world as if we used it not Let this shortness and speediness hasten us to a speedy preparation the uncertainty of this day to a daily and continual preparation for that which St. Austin said of the day of death may as well be said of the day of Judgement why did God hide from us the day of our death was it not that every day we should be prepared ideolatet ultimus dies observer un c●mis dies The last day is concealed that every day may be observed So if any demand why hath God hid from us this day of Judgement why doth no man know when it shall be I answer It is because we should alwaies watch and wait for it and as St. Jerome speaks so lead the course of our lives every day as if to morrow should be Dooms-day This Application let us make of it alwaies to Prepare Because then God will deal with every man according as hee findes him he that is found smiting his fellow Servants eating and drinking with the drunken shall be cut in pieces and have his portion with the Hypocrites but he that is found doing the command of our great Master shall enter into eternal joy for then God will deal to every man his right and reward him according to his deservings And so I come to the last querie or part of my Text Quomodo How he shall Judge and that is secundum norman justitiae according to the rule of justice according to equity according to right Shall not the Judge of all the Earth do right Righteous is the Lord in all his judgements with righteousness shall he judge the world and the peole with equity Psal 98.10 Some Examples of his Justice he gives in this present world as fore-runners of his upright dealing in the future world rewarding the wicked according to the nature and quality of their sins paying them just as they have deserved measuring to them the same measure they have measured and punishing them in the same kinde wherein they offended It is said Wisd 11.15 16. That for their foolish devices in worshipping Serpents void of reason and vile Beasts God sent a multitude of unreasonable beasts upon them for vengeance that they might know that wherewithal a man sinneth by the same also shall he be punished So Hab. 2.8 Because thou hast spoiled many Nations all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee and Jer. 30.16 All they that devour thee shall be devoured and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey And for proof of this I might bring a cloud of witnesses and Examples Sodomiticae illae civitates c. saith St. Austin Those Sodomitical Cities that burned with filthy lusts were justly burned with fire from above and as they made a Hell upon earth by their beastliness and uncleanness so Gehennam misit è Coele as Silvianus speaks he sent a Hell out of Heaven to consume them for it Pharaoh that caused the silly Infants to be drowned in the River Nilus was himself and all his Host drowned in the Red Sea Adonibezeck that caused seventy Kings having the Thumbs of their right hands and great Toes cut off to gather crumbs under his Table was served with the same sawce by Judah As I have done so hath God rewarded me Judges 1.7 Judah did it yet he confesseth Gods Justice in it The Dogs ear the flesh of Jezabel because she made them lick the blood of Nuboth Haman hangs on his own Gallows which he prepared for Mordecai As Agags sword had made many women childeless so was his Mother by the sword made childless among women Maxentius falls into the same trap which he laid for Constantine his Lord and Master Pope Alexander the sixth by the mistake of his Butler was poisoned with the same Bottle wherewith he intended to dispatch his Cardinals That brand of Hell Pope Hildebrand Agent was slain with the same instrument wherewith he was hired to slay Henry the Emperour This Emperour being at Rome used every morning to pray in St. Maries on Mount Aventine Hildebrand suborned a wicked villain secretly to convey up to the rafters of the Church great and massie stones and so to dispose them that as the Emperour was kneeling at his devotions they might fall down upon his head and dash but his brains but as this wretch the minister of Popish cruelty was hastening his design and sitting a massie stone for the execution of his Treason the stone fell down and beat him down withall which falling on the pavement by the just Judgment of God dashed in pieces the carkass of that traiterous workman How miraculously doth he reveal murthers revenging blood with blood how frequently doth he give them their fill of blood who delight in blood As 't is written of Cyrus King of Persia who had been the occasion of much blood-shed that being taken by Tomyres Queen of Scythia she struck off his head and put it into a hogs-head of mans blood with this exprobration of his cruelty satiate sunguine quem fuisti cujus insatiabilis fuisti Glut thy self and take thy fill of blood which thou hast alwaies thirsted after and of which thou hast been unsatiable The like almost we read of Joab a man of blood who shed the blood of war in peace and put the blood of war upon his girdle at was about his joyns and in the shoos that were on his feet basely 〈◊〉 treacherously killing Honer the Son of Ner and Amasa the Son of Jether and though by his power and greatness he long

in your hearts as I doubt not but ye alwaies have and let all your Actions be such that ye may stand before him without fear with joy and comfort at that day Let not friends nor favour passion nor affection cause you to decline to the right hand or to the left remember the judgement is the Lords in whose place ye sit whose vice-gerents ye are on earth let his example be the square of all your proceedings your judgement like his secundum norman Justitiae according to the rule of Justice equity and right your charge is great being well discharged your reward 's the greater As St. Paul said the Elders that Rule well so the Judges that judge well are worthy of double honour they deserve it in this world they shall be sure to have it in the future world this impartial Judge will do right and recompence them according to their works In the next place worshipful and worthy Commissioners ye which now sit Assistants on the Bench let your actions be such that ye may also sit assistants with this Heavenly Judge at the last day and be in the number of the Saints which the Lord in mercy grant St. Austin laid it to the charge of the old Romans that they were more tender of their own honour than of the honour of their Gods if any one had wrong'd a Senator but in a word he was sure to smoak for it but they suffered their Poets to quip and whip their Gods and never questioned them for it I hope you are free from any such imputation of being more forward in revenging your own wrongs than Gods wrongs Yet give me leave humbly to put a case to you If Drunkards Blasphemers Swearers Adulterers Riotous Debauched Atheistical prophane persons who forget the God that made them and deny the Lord that bought them who kick at his Word and worship who scorne at holiness and scoffe away Religion and jest away holy Scripture or directly cry it down daring to Blaspheme and say it is the voice of man and not of God as in truth it is I Thes 2.13 whose madness is manifest enough to all and deserves a severe check who swear away our mercies and curse away our blessings and drink away their healths by drinking healths and do what in them lies to damne their precious souls having God damne me more often than Lord have mercy in their mouthes who shew their sins like Sodom and commit them with an Harlots face without shame or blushing by whom God is more dishonoured than by any other shall swarme in your several Divisions perhaps in some of your Families and yet be seldome or never questioned censured or punished at least by some of you Are ye not too slack in vindicating Gods honour I appeal to your own hearts Surely a heavy clog will at last lye upon their Souls and Consciences by whose connivence sin is nurtured and increased when it is in their hand to restrain it If ye will not do justice on them the time is coming when the great Lord-Chief-Justice of the world will do justice both on you and them on them for sinning and on you for suffering them For Shall not the Judge of all the World do right A sad thing it is and sorry I am I must speak this to our shame That a greater restraint should be put upon sin and foul enormities under the usurped powers than under the true just and lawful powers Will ye so requite the Lord O foolish people and unwise Is not he thy Father that hath bought or redeemed and established thee said Moses to Israel Deut. 22.6 And shall we thus requite the Lord for the signal mercies the great things the wonders he hath done for us in the blessed restauration of our King our Religion Laws and liberties God forbid For this the mouth of the Adversary is open against us though they see not their own sins of stubbornness disobedience murmuring Schism Heresie as vile in Gods sight though not so visible to the world Yea I fear the Lord hath a Controversie with our Land for this for this his fierce anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still For this gird thee with sackcloath O England weep and howl and let thine eyes run down with tears night and day and let them not cease This is a lamentation and shall be for a lamentation till it be reformed But do ye desire to redress these abuses as I hope you do then let me humbly commend to you two or three directions 1. Put in Execution the good laws more duely 2. give good example your selves more sincerely sincerely 3. Lessen the occasions thereof more effectually by taking away clandestine blinde and superfluous Ale-houses the Pest-houses of the Nation Let them not be like the head of Hydra when one is cut off two to start up in the place thereof I have read of a certain street in Rome called Vicus Sobrius the sober street perhaps because there was never a tippling-house in it which is hard to be said of any street in England but surely both our Towns Streets and Villages would be more sober if the number of these needless houses were diminished The King of Meth sometime in Ireland asked one how certain noisome birds that came flying into his Realm and bred there might be destroyed who answered nidos eorum ubique destruendos that the only way to rid them out of the Land was to destroy and pull down their nests Do you desire to lessen the number of those noisome birds and unclean beasts that defile our Land your best way is to pull down the nests where they are brooded the dens where they are harboured blind and base Ale-houses which are the nests and Nurseries of all vices There quarrels are bred murthers occasioned oaths coyned robberies plotted thieves harboured whoredomes committed and to conclude they are the very dens and cages of all uncleanness Let me add one Word to Gamaliel the learned of the Law and all who relate to it remember the hour is coming wherein they who plead for others shall not plead for themselves where unless they now work the Judge to be their friend by keeping faith and a good conscience they shall have none to plead for them I say not to you as our Saviour to those in his time Woe be to you Lawyers I hope better things of you and such as accompany salvation Only give me leave to make a supposition if there bee any which blow up the coals of dissention among neighbours to warm their own fingers at the fire who tell their Client his Cause is good when in their conscience they know it to be stark naught who say good is evil and evil good who put light for darkness and darkness for light sweet for bitter and bitter for sweet who make truth falshood and falshood truth whose tongues cannot move nimbly and so by silence smother the poor mans right because