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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02194	A treatise of the great and generall daye of iudgement necessarie for euerie Christian that wisheth good successe to his soule, at that great and terirble day. By Henrie Greenwood, Master of Arts, and preacher of the word of God. With an addition of certaine godly prayers the contents appeare in the next page.	Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5.	1606 (1606)	STC 12337; ESTC S119048	37,421	106

A TREATISE of the great and generall daye of Iudgement Necessarie for euery Christian that wisheth good successe to his Soule at that great and terrible day By Henrie Greenwood Master of Arts and Preacher of the word of God With an addition of certaine godly prayers the contents appeare in the next page But I say vnto you that of euery idle word that men shall speak they shall giue account therof at the day of iudgement Mat. 12.36 The contents of the Praiers A short disputation betweene the diuell and the poore soule of a christian A short death-bed dialogue A praier for the morning A praier for the Euening A thanksgiuing for our late deliuerance A prayer comprehending the matter of the last iudgement A short prayer of purpose against Sathans assaults A short prayer at hand vpon all occasions A prayer for all sorts â§ TO THE Right Worshipfull and my very good friends LESTRANGE MORDAVNT of Massingham Hall in the County of Norfolke Esquire and Mâ— MARGARET MORDAVNT his louing bedfellow Eternall welfare and euerlasting happines in Christ Iesus our Lord and Sauiour BEeing earnestlye requested and often intreated Righte worshippefull by manye of my good friendes to putte in printe this small Treatise of the Generall day of doome which I lately preached and in publike place deliuered I haue being ouercome with their perswasions condescended to their earnest demaund although very vnapt and exceedingly vnworthy for the penning of so worthy a matter Wherefore I haue made choyse crauing pardoÌ„ for my presumption herein of your well disposed worship at this time being the Alpha of my tender and slender endeuours to sound in your sacred cares this last and generall trumpet to dedicate to your worship the same both in regard of the demonstration of my true vnfamed and lasting thankfulnesse to your benigne worship for saith Seneca Beneficium hominem gratuÌ„ semper delectat ingratum semel id est A thankfull man will alway remember a benefit but an vnthankfull person wil soone forget it for your extraordinary Kindnesses bestowed vpoÌ„ me Absque vllo demerito without any desert in the world as also in regard of the greateâ— affection good deuotion and thrice welcom entertainment you beare to diuine and spiritual tractates which appertain to the euerlasting blisse of the soule accounting theÌ„ blessed which bring glad tidings of saluation I desire therfore idque more humillimo in most submissiue maÌ„ner this one thing at your worships hand that you would pardoning my boldnesse vouchsafe aequi bonique consulere to take in good worth this simple and slender gift Which thing if your worship shall vouchsafe to doe it shall not onely be an incouragement to my future proceedings but also it shall be vinculum in dissolubile an inuincible bond to tie me in all duty in al loue to your worship dum memor ipse mei duÌ„ spiritus hos regit artus so loÌ„g as life shal last Thus huÌ„bly taking my leaue of your good worships nothing doubting of the goodnes of your natures in the acceptaÌ„ce of these my first preseÌ„ted fruits I coÌ„mit you with yours to the safe protection of the almighty alwaies begging before the throne of his moste glorious Maiesty that he would in this life infuse his holy spirit with all his graces into your heartes aboundantly and in the worlde to come crowne you with the crowne of immortall glory that for Christ Iesus his sake our Lord and only Sauiour AmeÌ„ From Sampford Magna in Essex this 30. of Aprill 1606. Your Worships in all duty for euer to commaund Henry Greenewood A Treatise of the Great and general day of Iudgment necessary for euery Christian that wisheth good successe to his soule at that great and terrible day But I say vnto you that of euery idle word that men shall speake they shall giue an account thereof at the day of â—udgement math 12.36 MAn in regard of the corruption of his nature through the fall of his greate Grandfather Adam who was the foyle of Mankinde the parent of sinne and the author of death to all his posteritie forasmuch as wee were all In Iumbis Adama In his Ioynes as hee is subiect to all sinnes whatsoeuer so is hee especially addicted to the sinne of securitie and carelesnesse Therefore as Adam sleeping securely in his transgression and hiding himselfe from the presence of the Lorde behinde the bush had greate neede of that watchbell from God to rouse him from the sleepe of sinne and to call him againe vnto God Adam vbi es Adam where art thou So as necessary for euery sinful Adamite to raise him vp from the sleepe of sinne wherein hee was borne is this notable Memento this worthy rehearsall of the great and terrible day of doome But I say vnto you c. which wordes of our Sauiour Christ spoken to the scribes and pharisees who would not beleeue that be wrought this miracles by the powrful spirit of God but slanderously and contemptuously tolde him to his face that hee did cast out diuels through Beelzebubs name are as much in effect as if he had said on this manner It account must be rendered at the daye of Iudgement of euery idle word that men shall speake then much more of blaspheamous wordes But I say vnto you that of euery idle worde that men shal speak they shall giue account therof at the general day of Iudgement Ergo much more of blasphemous wordes as yours are in saying that I cast out diuels through the name of Beelzebub So that these words of our Sauiour are nothing else but a true proposition and sound argument drawne A minore ad maius whereby Christ doth prooue the greatnes of punishment that should befall the blaspheamous Pharisees in regarde of the greatnesse of they re sinne In which portion of Scripture fowre things necessarily must be considered 1 The persons that must giue account who they bee 2 Of what things these persons must giue an account 3 To whome must this account bee giuen 4 When this account must bee giuen 1 The persons that muste giue an account they are expressed in this text in general to be meÌ„ That men shall speake Men yea all men must giue an account as wee may reade in the Epistle of Saint Paule to the Corinthians VVee must all appeare before the tribunall seat of Christe that euery man may receiue according to his works All men none excepted of euery age of euery sex and of euery nation ritch and poore Princes and common people noble and ignoble all that haue beene from the beginning of the worlde and shall bee to the end of the same shall appeare before Christs Iudgement seat and giue an account euery one for himselfe to God For It it is appointed vnto men once to die and after that commeth iudgment As it is therfore most sure that al men must die so it is sure that all men most come to iudgment

thy seruice to thy seruaunts Blesse vs in this part of thy seruice prayer and thanksgiuing to thee and Because none are to meddle with anie part of thy seruice but thy called seruants good Lord bestow that grace vpon vs that we feele more and more our effectuall Calling before wee presume to come neer thee becaus each duty is to be done by and in the name of thy sonne we confesse that till our ingraftment into him by grace the appreheÌ„sion of faith through thy spirit our effectuall calling doth not appeare so that if we waÌ„t faith thy spirit we must not intrude our selues into thy sight but our attendaÌ„ce is vpon the diuell and thou wilte not part seruice with him O Lord in the weaknes of faith we presume accept of vs be in the middest of vs thou hast strongly vs called to obedience in this and all other things by worde and worke it is a dept therefore to be rendered heare of vs Lord receiue it we confesse our sinns haue driuen vs far awaie they are many and great thy Curse is the due of them to our shame we confesse we haue beene warned and yet since warning against our knowledge and conscience of forgetfullnes weaknes and sometime of frowardnesse we haue of our naturall inclination as lightly esteeming thee thy law transgressed offeÌ„ded Nowe Lord albeit wee can destroy our selues yet we Cannot saue our selues wee intreat thy Ritch mercy for our pardon our sauiour Iesus Christ for our ful satisfactioÌ„ Lord in that mercy pardon vs in Iesus christ be coÌ„tented wel ple-w t vs for former conceiued displesurs forget theÌ„ in the multitude of thy coÌ„passions remoue theÌ„ with sin of al kinds the cause of them and so iustice being answered thy wrath appeased hel gates shut a conquest assured Let vs walke in the coÌ„fort of this peace yea in holines assuraÌ„ce of it as we haue lost all by that life rule of sin so we pray that let vs find our selues restored by the death and captiuity of sinne let our vnderstanding be lightned let our memory be sound let our wills be holy let our affection be honest let our conscience be tender and ready to euery good exhortation let our apetites be sober let vs be free from bondage to prophanenes in al our faculties in all our liues at all times and in all places let vs perseuer striue and ouercome Let vs be armed and watch let vs heare read and pray let vs meditate and study in thy loue let all sad motions and passions be examined and if ill suppressed let vs resigne al our bodies and soules holinesse vnto thy seruice Let vs not want that we ought to haue let vs not haue that we ought to waÌ„t or that is good to be wanting Lord let vs shew mortification in al our behauiour Let the life of righteousnes appeare in all our actions inward and outward secret open Let vs Regard our callings the duties belonging to the same Let vs haue grace to finde out all the sound and peculiar Euidence of thy kingdome let vs determine to keepe thy word let vs vowe it whatsoeuer standeth in the waie O Lord be our keeper in our waies this day and for euer looke from heauen vpon thy whole Church euery member of it militant that hath neede of the prayers of thy saintes especially this part of it where we liue and aboue euery particular member Lorde let it please thee to regard our Soueraigne Lord the Kings Maiesty with his Queen the noble Prince of Wales their Son with the residue of that Royall issue haue an eie deare Father to his Maiesties honorable priuy Councell to councell them and to the trusty nobility to sanctifie them and to all subordinate maiestrates of City and Cuntry to be the God of gods among them and to stir them vp to stand in the gap and to take thy part against the Diuell and his and to animate them blesse them hereunto and to guide them Let thy word haue a free passage let all lets be remooued let the piller and cloude of protection further it night and dayÂ· Let all that are able and willing to help in Macedonia be called in and countenaÌ„ced let knowledge heale painfulnes a godly life appear in all thy ministers Let hearing and obedience meet in all thy people becaus few preferred by thee doe prefer thee before their chiefe ioyes O Lord turn their harts as they beloÌ„g to thee let generall consideration hee had of the beneaÌ„ts thou bestowest to mooue the hearts of al high and low to put to hand to help thee against Anti-christe and the diuell and let the corrections of thy hande especially that heauy rod and stroke of the pestilence continued and greatly spread through the kingdome this foure yeares be stayed let there be an humiliation proportionable generall earnest true vnfained without delay Least thy angell haue his commission inlarged not onely to kill hundreds but thousands as not long since not onely thousands but millions O Lorde stop yet the mouth of our cheefe crying sins in the howse of Dauid in the house of NathaÌ„ in the house of Leuie in all the howses of Iudah let a search bee made good Lord for Achan for Ionas that our state may be calme and the Epha sent into Shinnar Lord help thy church in all places and in all things let Babilon fall let the Iewes come on let all them be as Meroz that haue ill will and no good will to Sion Amen Euening Prayer O Rich God infinite in all goodnesse we presume again to resort to that ouerflowing fountain Lord turn vs not awaie though we be fools like thy seruant Gedeons Armie that we cannot tell the fittest way to take in the sweetnes of thy goodnes yet accepte of our weaknes because that good minde and harte we haue thou art the author of it thou hast called and beckned vs to thee now we are come to know thy good plesure to beg from thy liberality what shall please thee thy doâ—e of mercy is euer open to thy saintes and thou fittest as Abraham at the dore to entertaine poore weary and heauy loaden ones and we know thou hastest to meet vs to do vs good like a good God according to thy accustomed goodnes we are therfore confidently comforted that in this that the least soule-whispering of an adopted child is as odours to thee though it be silly and as the chattering of Ezechiah O Lord we willingly confesse to thy praise that thou hast hearde our praiers offered to thee in the morning we haue through thy mercy fared well this day in soule and body not withstanding the spight of Satan the malice of our sinne the pestilent enmity of corrupt nature and the enuy of the world and the deceits of others among whom we dwell O prouident kind Lord and Father we haue

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