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A77556	Gods statute for generall iudgement by the man Christ Iesus. Opened in a sermon at the funerall of the most religious lady, the Lady Lucie Iervoice, sometime wife to the right worshipfull Sir Thomas Iervoice at Herriot. Aug. 26. 1641. By John Brokett Minister of Elsfeild.	Brokett, John.	1642 (1642)	Wing B4845; Thomason E116_1; ESTC R5889	21,463	41

wisdome of God thought it meet that men should be judged by man that whilest wicked men tremble and are full of feare horrour and perplexitie the similitude of nature might make the elect full of joy comfort and confidence Now put all these readings together they amount to this That Christ Jesus as he is the son of man in honour and reward of his great humilitie hath received from the Father this great authority this glorious power in his humane Nature to execute judgement at the last Day And so I come to the last point The warrant to assure us that the World shall be judged by Christ There is nothing more remote from the common sense and apprehension of men then the great works of Christ at the last Day in raising the dead and bringing them with all those that then remaine alive to judgement To Christians this is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a mysterie to Heathens it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 incredible And therefore to convince the infidelitie of Heathens and to confirme the faith of Christians Saint Paul sends us in the end of the text to the resurrection of Christ Whereby God hath given to all sufficientissimam fidem saith Cajetan a most sufficient certaine and infallible assurance of these three things 1. That the Dead shall be raised 2. That they shall rise to be judged 3. That they shall be judged by Christ 1. That the Dead shall be raised Christs Resurrection is a pledge of ours For if Christ be risen then is our nature risen and if our nature be risen then our Persons may rise nay shall rise at the last day that is plain 1 Cor. 15.52 The dead shall be raised incorruptible and they shall be raised by the Power of Christ that is proved Ioh. 5.28 29. The houre is coming in the which all that are in the graves shall heare his voyce and shall come forth The same Power by which Christ quickned his own dead body shall quicken our dead bodies at the day of Judgement 2. That they shall rise to be judged Judgement is the end of Resurrection So saith our Saviour Ioh. 5.29 All that are in the graves shall come forth they that have done good unto the resurrection of life and they that have done evill unto the resurrection of damnation And what Christ here saith Saint Iohn saw though a thing to come yet he saw it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by Revelation Apoc. 20.12 I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened and another book was opened which was the book of life the dead were judged out of those things which were written in those books according to their works 3. That they shall be judged by Christ His resurrection warrants that for by this powerfull and glorious act the Son of man did mightily declare himself to be the Son of God And being God and Man the Holy Trinitie ordained and decreed by him to Judge the world in righteousnesse And thus much for the Exposition of my Text and the Proofe of those points which are contained in it I come now to The Application of this Doctrine touching the last judgement in a threefold use 1. Of Terrour to some 2. Of Comfort to others 3. Of Admonition to all 1. This Doctrine of the last Judgement serves for the Terrour of all unbeleevers and ungodly livers To such the Preaching and expectation of Judgement is as the Hand which appeared to Belshazzar writing upon the wall the period of his life and kingdome or as the Hand which was sent to Ezekiel which had a rowle in it written within and without full of lamentations mourning and woe Ezek. 2.9 10. Aristotle calls death 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the most fearefull of all things He would not have said so had he known that after death comes judgement Heb. 9.27 This exceeds that farre That 's but timendum fearefull but this is tremendum horrendum terrible dreadfull Dreadfull in many respects 1. T is dreadfull in respect of the Preparation to Judgement for the Trumpet shall sound the Archangell shall cry Surgite mortui venite ad Iudicium arise ye dead and come to judgement Then the graves shall open the earth tremble the Sear oare the Stars fall the powers of Heaven shake the world burne Hell smoake and the Judge himselfe shall come in flames of fire to render vengeance 2. T is dreadfull in respect of the strict and severe account the ungodly shall be called unto For they must give account for their bodies which they have defiled for their souls which they have neglected for the creatures which they have abused for the Sabbaths which they have polluted for the Sacraments which they have profaned for all the means of grace which they have despised for their secret thoughts idle words and all evill deeds which they have ungodly committed For all these they shall give account in so rigorous a manner that no eye shall pittie them no tongue shall plead for them no teares no cryes shall procure them the least mercy from their wrathfull Judge 3. But most dreadfull it shall be in respect of the direfull sentence which shall be denounced against them For Christ the righteous Judge wil say to them Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devill and his angels Matth. 29.41 A sentence full of woe and horrour what more wofull more horrible then to see so many admitted into the kingdome of God and themselves separated from the place and presence of God haled with ugly fiends into Hell where the pains of the damned are unsufferable but unavoydable easelesse but endlesse and remedilesse Dolor si longus levis si gravis brevis Pain is lightly light if long short if great t is so here but this rule doth not hold in Hell There is Darknesse that ends not gnashing of teeth that ceaseth not bonds that breake not wormes that dye not fire that never shal be extinguished Damned souls shall howle but none shall heare roare but none shall help looke round about but see no means of comfort nothing but that which helps to encrease their torments which shall have neither ease nor end Oh the fearefull case of all ungodly persons at the day of judgement what aking of Heart what anguish of Minde what horrour of Conscience what wringing of hands what knocking of breasts what cryes filling Heaven Earth and Hell shall be heard amongst the wicked upon this day of vengeance 2. This Doctrine of the last Judgement ministers matter of much comfort and rejoycing to all such as are true beleevers and do lead a godly life To them the day of Judgement will be a joyfull comfortable and most blessed day in many respects It will be a day 1. Of their restauration and perfect freedome from all infirmities and imperfections 2. Of full redemption from all miseries and calamities 3. Of finall deliverance from all sins corruptions 4. Of

these the Prophesie of Enoch the seventh from Adam recorded Iudges 14.15 Behold the Lord commeth with ten thousands of his Saints to execute judgement upon all And in this the last Apostle agrees with the first Prophet Behold saith Saint Iohn he commeth with clouds and every eye shall see him Revel 1.7 Many more texts might be alleadged consonant to these but your knowledge and beliefe of this matter assures me that this labour would be superfluous 2. Conscience testifies it Yea also the conscience of the the vilest Atheist it will be as a thousand witnesses to confirme it How often are they filled with unspeakable horrour especially in death and wherefore it is thus with them because conscience tels that die they must and after death must come to judgement 3. Humane Reason enlightened by holy Scripture conceives and concludes that there shall be a day of Judgement Looke abroad into the world and you shall see a wonderfull confusion of things a strange inequalitie of Divine dispensations The wicked many times flourish and enjoy great prosperitie when the righteous are afflicted and endure great adversitie Now though some doe from hence conclude that there is no present providence and shall be no future judgement yet this confusion of things and inequalitie of Divine dispensations is an argument sufficient in Saint Pauls Divinitie to prove a judgement to come Heare what Saint Paul writes from Athens to his persecuted Thessalonians Your persecutions and tribulations which you endure is a manifest token or an evident demonstration of the righteous Iudgement of God 2 Thess 1.4 5. And Salomon before him in his survey of vanities saith I saw under the Sun the place of judgement that wickednesse was there and the place of righteousnesse that iniquitie was there And what doth Salomon inferre from hence therefore no providence therefore no judgement to come No but the plaine contrary I said in my heart God shall judge the righteous and the wicked for a time there is for every purpose and for every worke Eccles. 3.16 17. 4. Particular judgements which God inflicteth upon men in this life doe prove the universall The drowning of the old world the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah the plaguing of Egypt the desolation of Jerusalem and more particular judgements upon particular persons all these are praeludia judicii universalis forerunners and foretellers of a generall judgement Some sinnes are punished here that we might know that there is a Providence and a Judge that takes notice of every sin and some sins passe here unpunished that we might expect a greater and stricter judgement to come hereafter Thus Scripture teacheth Conscience testifyeth Reason concludeth and present Judgements doe demonstrate the truth of my propounded Doctrine that there shall be a day of judgement So I dismisse the first Point and come to the second 2. Who shall Iudge He shall Iudge saith the Text where the word He hath relation to God mentioned in the foregoing verse where the Apostle saith God commandeth all men every where to repent Because he hath appointed a day in which he will judge So then you see God shall Iudge God essentially meant concluding all the sacred Persons of the Deitie Father Son and holy Ghost The whole Trinitie shall concurre in this work being as the Schooles say Opus ad extra an Externall work of the Godhead And it is an Axiome in Divinitie Opera Trinitatis ad extra sunt indivisa The externall works of the Godhead admit not of any division in the persons of the Deitie It is true there be certaine Internall works which are incommunicably proper to every Person It is incommunicably proper to the person of the Father to have his being of himself It is incommunicably proper to the Person of the Son to be begotten of the Father And it is incommunicably proper to the Person of the Holy Ghost to proceed from the Father and the Son But those works by which the invisible things of the Godhead are made manifest to the Creature as Creation Preservation Redemption and this of Iudgement are equally and indifferently to be ascribed to the sacred three in one and to God in all Object But it may be objected That albeit in this place judgement be attributed essentially to God yet in other places it is attributed personally and respectively to Christ The Father judgeth no man but hath committed all judgement to the Son Joh. 5.22 Again sometimes this worke of judging is appropriated to the Saints Know ye not that the Saints shall judge the world 1 Cor. 6.2 How shall these places be reconciled which affirme that God and Christ and the Saints shall Judge Answ This threefold doubt is easily dissolved by a threefold distinction 1. God is said to Judge because the Power and Right of judging belongeth to God onely 2. Christ is said to Judge because God hath committed to him the Administration of Judgement 3. Saints are said to Judge because they shall approve and give attestation to the sentence which Christ shall pronounce of salvation to the godly of damnation to the wicked The Authoritie is Gods The Execution is Christs The Approbation is the Saints This distinction is sufficient to free the Scripture from the least contradiction and the point from this objection And now having cleared the point that Almightie God onely shall judge the world I will confirme it by two reasons drawne from two Attributes in God proving him onely fit to be the Judge of all the world The first reason is drawne from Gods Omniscience the knowledge of the Lord like himselfe is Infinite nothing can be hid from his sight Heaven is not so high but he can reach it Hell is not so deep but he can search it The Earth is not so wide but he can span it the Night is not so darke but he can see it the Chamber the Bed the Closet is not so close but he whose eyes are as flames of fire can pierce it Psal 94.9 God planted the eare needs therefore must he heare all our words He formed the eye needs therefore must he see all our works He made the Heart Heb. 4.12 needs therefore must he know the thoughts Psal 94.11 and discerne the intents of the Hearts of the sonnes of men The Scripture is plaine and plentifull in the proofe of this Lord thou knowest all things saith Saint Peter Ioh. 21.17 Againe Heb. 4.13 There is no creature that is not manifest in his sight but all things are naked and open Open as an Anatomized body for thence the Metaphor is drawn where the bowels are laid open and every nerve and Muscle and ligament every Atome discovered so as we may take a full view of it Thus the most secret whispers the most retired actions the deepest and darkest thoughts and intentions of all men are open and naked unto the eyes of him with whom we have to doe Rightly therefore is the Lord conceived under the name