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A34429 An exhortation to firmness and constancy in true religion in a sermon preached at St. Mary Islington, Feb. 2, 1689/90 / by Shadrach Cooke ... Cooke, Shadrach, 1655?-1724? 1689 (1689) Wing C6037; ESTC R20683 19,785 32

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Now as God saith by the Prophet concerning good Men They shall be mine saith the Lord in that Day when I make up my Jewels So contrariwise may be here said or intended of these Christ at that great Day shall utterly disown them and cast them from his Presence for ever as is still Secondly further implied and signified by the time here expressed for his so doing When he cometh in the Glory of his Father c. At that great and solemn Day which is the final Consummation of all things after which there is nothing to be done no more Accounts to be made then shall he pass on them an irrevocable Sentence of Condemnation And is not this a most severe and affrightful Case that forebodes and threatens an eternal Banishment from the Divine Love and Favour and the procuring of God's utter Hatred and Displeasure of which there can be no repeal or recovery To be thus rejected and abandoned by Christ our Lord who hath shed his Blood for our Redemption and has laid on us the strictest Obligations imaginable to own and obey him is a most heightning consideration of Misery and Condemnation To see at that great Day of Accounts the gracious Saviour of the World thus utterly to reject and cast off those for whom he shed his Blood and instead of Reward or Redemption to pass a dismal Sentence of Punishment against them is a cutting consideration even now to think of What will it be to experience another Day Considering in the Second Place That this will be done after the most disgraceful Sort or Manner Of him shall the Son of Man be ashamed Nec Lex est justior ulla For it both represents the Equity of the Divine Proceedings together with the sharpness of the Punishment as they have been ashamed of him so will he be of them he will reject and disown them in the most Vile and Contemptious manner he will be even ashamed to look upon them and will cast them from him with Scorn and Confusion Now there is nothing that doth generally more affect human Nature than to be treated with Contempt to a good and generous Spirit it is most cutting and intollerable And you can't but observe from daily Experience that nothing goes so deep or afflicts so much as to be slighted and contemn'd From whence we may make a guess of the great Punishment of all such Souls as shall be thus treated by Christ at that Day There is even to common Malefactors a kind of secret Pity and Commiseration though Suffering for very Notorious Crimes and Villainies but those Men are prodigiously Guilty and Miserable that fall with universal Scorn and Derision Yet such and much worse is the Punishment here threatned Of them shall Christ be ashamed However others may fare these shall suffer Shameful and Unpitied or one great Punishment to be inflicted on them is Shame or Contempt And you know among Men That 't is a great heightning and sometimes indeed the utmost Aggravation of a Suffering to have the Ingredient or Circumstance of Shame or Scandal And what now shall we think of these at that great Day when whatever is really Shameful and Scandalous shall be the Lot and Portion of such Sinners For Thirdly All this shall be at the most solemn Time and son Of him shall the Son of Man be ashamed when he cometh in the Glory of his Father with the holy Angels Shame or Contempt is a relative Evil that which doth properly depend on the view or apprehension of others which is more and more heightned or improved that is rendered still the worse to bear the more and greater the Objects we are thus exposed to and therefore how great and intollerable is this most Shameful Punishment like to be that is executed or inflicted after such a Serious and Solemn manner bearing in it whatever may render it Affrightful and Terrible Of him shall the Son of Man c. that is Christ who was God and Man this great God shall then be ashamed of him And as if this were not enough to superadd hereunto it is Aggravated from the Time Company or Circumstances here mentioned When he shall come in the Glory of his Father with the holy Angels Every Word bears in it a most cutting Consideration This shall be their Lot and Portion from him when he shall appear in his infinitely glorious Godhead after the most Solemn and Triumphant manner and comes with Millions of Angels to call all the World to Judgment before infinite Multitudes of such Pure and Holy Spirits and before all the World he shall pass such a dismal Punishment upon them As if he should say Men have very great reason to be careful against this Evil considering that such a present denial or being ashamed of Christ shall be thus repayed hereafter They that disown him now before Men in an Adulterous and Sinful Generation shall be shamefully rejected by him before the holy Angels He that will be invested with infinite Glory and Majesty will for This be then ashamed of them in the presence of these Pure and Immaculate Beings And the consideration of these Solemn Circumstances is a most dismal Aggravation of that future Condemnation and Punishment reserved for them against the great Day of Judgment Considering in the Fourth Place That this is in Mens greatest Streights and Necessities Of him shall the Son of Man be ashamed when he cometh in the Glory of his Father with the holy Angels a time of the greatest distress and danger For the future Day of Accounts or Judgment whereof this is such a lively Representation will be the Season when we shall stand in most need of God and Christ our Redeemer Then to have a share and interest in Heaven and to have favour with the great Judge of the World will be our greatest and indeed our only Comfort Nothing will then stand us in stead or avail us but such a happy Provision as this But oh how miserable now must the contrary case of such Men be who have provoked him to the highest degree and rendered him their utter and implacable Enemy To be conscious to our selves that we have done all we could to Affront and Abuse our Lord and Saviour as is too much the Case of these Sinners must strike the deepest Melancholy to our Souls Then when we have most need of Comfort we shall have the the least of it and instead of Acceptance with God have a Shameful and Bitter Sentence from him So that what Solomon saith Prov. 1.24 may be fitly applied to the Case before us Because I have called and ye refused I have stretched out my hand and no Man regarded but ye have set at nought all my counsel and would none of my Reproof I also will laugh at your Calamity I will mock when your Fear cometh when your fear cometh as desolation and destruction cometh as a Whirl-wind when distress and anguish cometh upon you Then shall they