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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

House as well as others as well Alexander as Dametas fair Nereus as deformed Thersites there is no remedy they must unstrip they must uncase and be all uncloathed they must exchange their Canopies of state for costins their Ivory couches for graves their Palaces for charnell houses their Tapestry for shrowds and all their embroidered Mantles for coverlets of dust Sic in non Hominem vertitur omnis Homo Dust at the first was mans Composition and into dust at the last will be his resolution Gen. 3.19 Homo ab (w) Man is named in Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Adam of Adamab the earth or the red earth Humo and whilest even the best men carry about them a (x) Rom. 7.24 Body of death they must unavoidably for the abolishing of the remainders of Corruption the Law in their members expect the death of the body for the wages of Sin is Death Rom. 6.23 They say there stands a Globe of the world at one end of a great Library and the Sceleton of a man at the other end which may not unfitly be thus moralized though a man were Lord of all that he sees in the Map of the world yet hee must dye and become himself a map of morttlity even provant for worms to revell with in the grave It 's true indeed what (y) Stitius lib. 9. Theb. Statius utters in his losty verse Mille modis Lethi miseros mors una fatigat Though there be many wayes to one and the same (z) Solomon Eccles 12.5 cals the grave 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Domum seculi the House of age long home yet we must all meet together at last in the same (a) Job 30.23 House and in the chambers of death must be our dwelling that Grammarian who can decline a Noune in every Case yet cannot decline Death in any Case In short this being a Doctrine which more needs application than proof sith as (b) In ortu adhue suo ad finem nativitas proper at S. Cyprian contr Demetrian Tract 1. one saith Naseimur morituri we are no sooner born but instantly we begin to dye as M●ses had no sooner wrote his Book of Genesis but soon after his Book of Exodus we dye from infancy into childhood from childhood into youth from youth into age and from age into old age and perhaps into dotage and at length into the grave surely it were well if every one of us could as one observes out of the Acrostick Letters in the four degrees or steps of mans Age to wit Puerit a Juventus Virilitas Senectus experimentally make up Pius that piety might be the golden thread to run through all that we would dye before we do dye so that when we do dye we may not dye that is that we would dye daily unto (c) Rom. 6.7 1 Pet. 2.24 sinne by continuall mortification of all our vile and corrupt affections before we do dye into our graves by a naturall dissolution so that when we do dye a naturall death we may not dye the death eternall which death eternall doth not consist in the annihilation or utter abolition of the Body and Soul in regard of their beeing or subsistence as the Epicures might sancy 1 Cor. 15.32 but only of the cessation of their well-beeing in regard of the everlasting separation of both from the gracious and glorious (d) 2 Thes 1.9 presence of Almighty God and withall of the plunging of both into the sense of torments in both unto all eternity even for ever and ever By this occasion sith we are sure we must dye (e) Heb. 9.27 once and but once as the day hath but one starre but it is the Sun the Lyonesse but one young one but it is a Lyon so we having but one death it had need be a good one We perhaps securely contemplate our Naturall complexions having milk in our breasts and (f) Job 21.24 marrow in our bones blithe and buxom at the present may be apt to say to the summons hereof as sometimes Felix did to S. Paul reasoning of righteousnesse temperance and judgement to come Act. 24.25 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Goe thy way for this time till a more convenient season whereas it may be in respect of the Lords Divine Praescience according to which from aeternity every mans dayes are (g) Job 14.5 14. appointed it may be this night before we know what (h) Prov. 27.1 Jam. 4 14. to morrow may bring forth our (i) Luk. 12.20 souls may be taken from us But yet if we consummate and finish a good life before Death seise on us so that the thought of our (k) Deut. 32.29 Eccles 7.36 end be still at the end of our thoughts it will not be to the godly in insidiis as a snare but alwayes in januis under expectation as at our doors the stroke of Death can never be too sudden when to a mortified soul it 's alwayes under expectation Thus qui moritur non moritur quando moritur as S. (l) August lib. 65. quaest qu 32. Austine made his riddle so prepared he doth not dye when he doth dye Yea he so dyeth that he both is and shall be sure to live and rise again and so shall all others of all sorts whatsoever None ever but a (m) Luk. 10.27 Sadduce or men infected with the same leaven denyed it those dry bones in Ezekitl chap. 37. which being made to live again having breath and sinewes and flesh drawn over with skin did immediately indeed represent new vigour to be shortly put into the dead hopes of the Jewes but yet by many or most Divines taken notice of likewise as (n) Peter Martyr loc Com. Class 1. p. 82. num 24. a Type of the Resurrection foredenoted say some in Aaron's rod which being pluck't up by the roots withered and dry (o) Numb 17.8 budded afresh so (p) Rabanus Maurus Comment in Ierem. cap. 1. fol. 7. Rabanus Maurus hanselled it was also in those raised under the Old Testament as the (r) 2 King 4.36 Shunamites son and the man (s) 2 King 13.21 who touched the bones of Elisha c. and some others raised by Christ under the New Testament as (t) Joh. 11.44 Lazarus the widows (u) Luk. 7.15 son of Naim the (w) Mar. 5.42 daughter of Jairus those Candidates of immortality as one cals them and in expresse texts there is enough in both Testaments to evince it both the (x) Cant. 4.5 breasts of the Spouse yeeld us milk which we may thence (y) Isa 66.11 suck out and be satisfied with as with the breasts of consolation so Isa 26.19 Thy dead men shall live and the earth shall cast out the dead the almost whole fifteenth chapter to the Corinthians is spent on the same subject yea some Christian Philosophers have attempted to draw as much for the thing it self from

corrupt age wherein alas whilest Atheisme like the (w) Jon. 4.7 worm in Jonah's gourd hath eaten out the sap of Religion and almost damp'd the very life and power of godlinesse wee meet with those (x) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quod significat ludo pueriliter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 veluti puer puerorum more such as make children play of the Terrors of the Lord. M. L. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those scoffers of whom S. Peter makes mention 2 Pet. 2.3 4. also Jude v. 18. walking after their own lusts and saying Where is the promise of his coming vainly and scoffingly putting (y) Jam. 1.22 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 paralogismes or deceivings upon themselves sophistically reasoning from the delay of the time to a Nullity of the thing it selfe and because Sentence is not executed speedily against their evill works therefore as Solomon long agoe observed Eccles 8.11 the heart of the sons of men are fully set in them to doe evill and so believe the Doctrine of the Judgment to come to be but fabulous together with the torments of Hell that follow after it upon all such mockers To whom I shall onely now say thus much Vae quibus haec experienda sunt prius quam credenda as (z) Granatense tom 2. Conc. d. Temp. Conc. 1. Granatensis expresseth it Woe bee to those besotted and impenitent miscreants whose sad experience may anticipate their Credulity in this and prevent their Faith O how well had Felix that corrupt Governor answered his name and been happy if as the reasoning about this truth made his conscience to tremble he had instantly reformed his practice and shun'd the danger of it Act. 24.25 But for the attestation of this Doctrine the Firmament is not more bespangled with starres then the Scriptures are stored throughout with proofes thereof Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied hereof saith Jude v. 13 14. Behold the Lord cometh with Ten thousand of his Saints to execute Judgement upon all both for their deeds and speeches From whence St. Jude had that Prophesie whether by undoubted tradition as Paul is said to have received the names of Jannes and Jambres the Magicians that withstood Moses 2 Tim. 3.8 or by some (a) Vid. Scalig. in notis ad Euseb p. 244. c. book written of the translation of Enoch extant in that Apostles dayes but since intercepted by time though I am praecisely of (b) S. August lib. 18. de Civ Dei cap. 38. Austin's opinion that however some records might be lost which did pertinere ad ubertatem Cognitionis appertain to the plenty of Knowledge yet the Church hath been so faithfull a Keeper of the sacred Canon that nothing is escaped her custody which doth belong ad Authoritatem Religionis to the Authority of Religion It 's most likely S. Jude might receive it by Apostolicall and immediate Revelation some praeludiums whereof were seen in the destruction of the old world by (c) Gen. 7. 2 Pet. 3.6 Water and of the Cities of Sodome and Gomorrah by (d) Gen. 19. 2 Pet. 2.6 S. Jud. ver 7. Fire the two colours in the Rainbow figure it the caerulean colour minds us of the watery Deluge past and the flame colour of the (e) 2 Pet. 3.10 fiery Conflagration to come It would be a large if not a tedious taske for mee to enumerate all those Texts which in Moses in the Psalms in the Prophets and almost in each page of the New Testament make mention hereof and prove the Doctrine Two places which I have also named already may be in stead of all Act. 17.31 2 Cor. 5.10 and the manner of it is expressed in the 24 and 25. Chapters of S. Matthew But yet to say something of it 1. This may be proved from what hath been already seen in those particular Judgments inflicted in the course of Gods providence upon impenitent sinners inwardly and outwardly as upon Cain Ahitophel Judas Herod whom God was pleased to make visible Examples here and thereby also to give intimation of what in the last day of wrath is like to bee inflicted on such as committing like sins are reserved with the apostate and damned Angels to the day of Judgment to bee punished 2 Pet. 2.9 2. Besides this the justice of God and the truth of his promise in regard of the righteous requires it whose afflicted estate in this life shall be recompensed with a glorious one hereafter and all their persecutors have shame and consusion poured upon their faces forever 2 Thess 1.5 3. That there may bee a publick acknowledgment of the Lord Christs Dominion purchased by his passion to himselfe over men and Angels so that every knee shall bow and every tongue confesse unto him and own his Soveraign power Rom. 14.9 10 11. 4. Equity requires it that though the soule and body be separated in death yet having sinned or obeyed together they should accordingly be tormented or rejoyce together unto all eternity In a word some of the wiser Heathen have discoursed of a future reward upon tryal of mens actions after death making mention of Pluto Minos Rhadamanthus c. as grim Judges supposing the flakes of Aetna to smel of the sulphur of Hell and moreover what they also speak of the Elysian fields implies an apprehension of some future estate of Happinesse in another world What need I adde more to this proof sith it is an expresse Article of our Creed that Christ shall come again to judge the quick and the dead proved also 2 Tim. 4.1 1 Pet. 4 5. Heb. 6.2 Now which I thought not amisse to mention on this occasion howsoever our Saviour interdicted his Disciples the curious in quisition after the times and seasons Act. 1.7 sith the Father hath put that in his own power yet there have been found some in all ages very adventurous who as (f) Bullinger lib. 2. advers Anabap. c. 1. Bullinger writes of some Enthusiasts have presumed to define a set time for this generall Assises though the Scripture indeed mention a set day determined by God for the same as Act. 17.31 2 Pet. 2.9 and as St. John acquaints us Rev. 1.10 that as there is Dies Dominica the Lords day so St. Paul 1 Thess 5.2 that there is Diēs Domini the day of the Lord or the day of God 2 Pet. 3.12 In the one it is for us to give him here the Glory of his Publick service in the other himself will give us that beleeve then and there his Glory for our reward Though this be said in the generall yet of the very Day and (g) Mar. 13.32 Hour before-hand no man no not the Son of man as man himself knoweth at least thinks it not fit to acquaint us with so much There is as (b) Pet. Galatin lib. 4. c. 20. Petrus Galatinus well styleth it a Thalmudisticall tradition but no true Propheticall prediction and yet it