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A02223	The great day, or, A sermon, setting forth the desperate estate and condition of the wicked at the day of iudgement Preached at Saint Andrews in Holborne at London By Nathaniel Grenfield, Master of Artes, and preacher of the Word of God at Whit-field in Oxfordshire.	Grenfield, Nathaniel, b. 1588 or 9.	1615 (1615)	STC 12358; ESTC S118555	51,838	174

terrae pondus the very chaffe the drosse the off-scouring of the earth and therefore no maruaile though they goe into the holes of the Rocks and into the Caues of the earth from before the feare of the Lord and from the glory of his Maiesty when he shall arise to destroy the earth Isaiah 2.19 Mallent enim impij esse in inferno quàm videre faciem irati Iudicis The wicked had rather be throwne downe to hell where is vtter darkenesse then endure the glorious presence of so angry a Iudge If S. Iohn the blessed Reuelator of heauens secrets fell at the feet of Christ as dead when he beheld him Reu. 1. v. 17. If Moses that man of God could not indure the face of God but couered his eyes with a vaile If the Seraphins that stand about the Throne of God couer their faces with two of their wings as not being able to behold the glorious Maiesty of God how shall the Maiesty of this our great God euer our Sauiour Iesus Christ Tit. 2.13 daunt the hearts of the wicked at his appearing euen more then can be expressed The third reason why the estate and condition of the wicked is so full of horrour at the Day of Iudgement is by reason of the strict account that they must render All men without any exception Adam and all his posterity as many as haue beene dead before as many as are then liuing and they that are then liuing shall not preuent them that sleepe I say all men and so saith the Apostle Wee shall all appeare before the Iudgement seat of Christ Rom. 14. v. 10. Euery one of vs shall giue an account of himselfe to God v. 12. And euery man shall receiue the things which are done in his body according to that he hath done whether it bee good or euill 2. Cor. 5. v. 10. And not onely all men but all the Angels which kept not their first estate but left their owne habitation 2. Pet. 3.4 are reserued in euerlasting chaines vnder darknesse vnto the Iudgement of the Great Day Iude vers 6. This truth the Deuils themselues did confirme by their desperate crying out fearing their present executiō vnto the which they themselues know they are reserued Quid nobis tibi What haue we to doe with thee Iesus thou Sonne of God art thou come to torment vs before the time Matth. 8. v. 29. And this feare is the chaines and fetters before mentioned in the which the Deuils are manacled vntill they bee brought forth vnto the full execution of the wrath of God in Hell the place of Deuils and all the damned And not onely men and Deuils but vnreasonable creatures the heauen and the earth and whatsoeuer is contained within this spacious Vniuerse shall be iudged also after their manner at that day So saith Saint Peter The heauens and the earth are reserued vnto fire against the day of Iudgement and of the destruction of vngodly men and the heauens shall passe away with a noise that is they shall passe away from a mutable condition vnto an immutable degree of perfection The Elements shall melt with heat and the earth with the workes that are therein shall bee burnt vp Not that the great Fabricke and glorious workmanship of heauen and earth shal be burnt and brought to nothing for the earth remaineth for euer Eccles 1. v. 3. Sed ab ea quae nunc habet specie per ignem tergetur ea tamen in sua natura seruatur Greg. l. 17. Moral c. 5. They shall bee purged of their corruptible qualities and purified from the filth of their imperfectiōs as the Sun Moon shall be no more eclipsed and sublunary things shall be no more subiect to generation and corruption but as the gold cast into the fire is purged frō the drosse whereby it becomes a refined substance so the heauens and the earth shall put on as it were new apparell adorned with a new fashion for the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fashion of this world passeth away 1. Cor. 7.31 but not the nature and substance Hierom prooueth as much by that place Isa 30.26 The light of the Moone shall be as the light of the Sunne and the light of the Sunne shall be seuen-fold non interitum significat pristinorum sed commutationem in melius Whereby the holy Ghost doth signifie not a destruction of those lights which were before but a change into a better Caluin goeth farther saying that they shall bee fellowes with the Saints in that glorious estate And so saith the Apostle the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Non singula generum sed genera singulorum Ordi Gloss 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Creature that is the world shall be deliuered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the Sonnes of God Rom. 8. v. 21. So Acts 3.21 there is promised a * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Non singula generum sed genera singulorum Ordi Gloss 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 restauration of all things So Psal 10. The heauens shall all wax old as doth a garment and they shall be changed that is into a better forme and fashion So S. Iohn saw a new Heauen and a new earth Apo. 21.1 So S. Peter We looke for a new heauen and a new earth according to his promise c. v. 13. Hence is it that the perpetuity of Christ his spirituall Kingdome is shadowed out vnto vs by the continuance of the Sun and Moone His Throne shall be as the Sun Psal 89. v. 36.37 and shall be established for euermore as the Moone Psal 72. ve s 5. Gods children shall feare him so long as the Sunne and Moone indureth vers 7. And Christ his name shall indure so long as the Sunne vers 17. Therefore it must bee granted that these creatures shall be restored and so continue without decay or corruption or else it must must bee yeelded that Christs Kingdome must haue an end which may not bee granted But after what manner this instauration shall be it is not manifested vnto vs in the word of God and to what end they shall serue whether as Monuments of Gods glory it were curiosity to search or determine sufficient is it to know that they shall bee iudged after their kind But if any should obiect against what hath bin spoken as namely that al men shall giue an account The sixt verse of the first Psalme the wicked shall not stand in Iudgement And that of Iohn 5.24 He that beleeueth in him that sent me hath euerlasting life and shall not come into Iudgement Lombardus ex Gregorio binos facit ordines Iudicandorum alij iudicantur pereunt alij non iudicantur pereunt alij iudicantur regnant alij non iudicantur regnant Lomb. l. 4. dist 49. These places indeed haue much troubled the Fathers in so much that Hillarie and Origen were of opinion that neither the godly Faithfull nor the

Whatsoeuer saith Bernard we now blush to confesse before men wee shall then proclaime with our own tongues before the whole world and the booke of our conscience being laid open wee shall make it manifest vnto all men The last sort of accusers are the creatures without them the creatures I say whose vse by right of inheritance belong properly vnto none saue vnto the children of God 1. Cor. 3.25 Rom. 8.32 Howsoeuer churlish Nabals and couetous Ahabs by vsurpation doe withhold them from them the sinne that is committed in the vse of them shall rise vp in iudgement to the condemnation of the wicked And not onely the sensible creatures groaning and trauelling in paine till they be deliuered from the bondage of corruption which against their will suffered vnder the wicked but euen the very senselesse creatures The heauen shall reueale their iniquity and the earth shall rise vp against them Iob 20. v. 27. The stones crying out of the wall and the beame out of the timber Heb. 2. v. 11. that is they that haue erected their houses by iniquity by oppression by keeping backe the hirelings wages this their sinne in so doing shall witnesse against them nay the Moth of the garment and the rust of their cankered coyne shall witnesse against the couetous worldling at the last day Iames 5. v. 3. Nay the dead Letter of the Bible which thou carriest about thee shall witnesse against thee if thou make not good vse of it Thus Christ told the Iewes Doe not thinke that I will accuse you to my Father there is one that accuseth you euen Moses in whom yee trust Iohn 5. v. 45. In illa die vltionis nihil habe bit quod respondere possit homo peccator vbi coelum terra sol Luna totus mundus stabunt aduersus nos in Testimonium peccatorum nostrorum Hugo de S. Victor In that day what shall sinfull man answer for himselfe when the Heauen and the Earth the Sunne the Moone the Starres nay the whole world wil stand vp against the wicked in testimony of their sinnes and yet if all these should hold their peace Ipse cogitationes nostrae ipsa specialiter opera stabunt tante oculos nostros nos ante Deum accusantes Chrys super illud Mat. 24. virtutes c. Our very owne thoughts especially our owne workes shal stand before our eyes and accuse vs before God The fift reason Reason 5 why the state and cōdition of the wicked is so full of horror at the day of Iudgement is by reason of that fearefull sentence of condemnation pronounced against them by that iust and most vpright Iudge Their sentence is already reuealed vnto them by our Sauiour Christ in the 25. of S. Matth. vers 41. Depart from me yee cursed into euerlasting fire prepared for the Deuill and his Angels This sentence is very fearefull whether we respect the words themselues the Iudge from whose mouth they doe proceede or the irreuocablenesse of them Depart from me Those are words of separation you cursed wordes of detestation into euerlasting fire words of desperation prepared for the Deuill and his Angels a dolefull exemplifieation Depart from mee what shall the Creature do when he is banished from the presence of the Creator Oh the bitter fruit of sin which causeth the Lord to denie that Creature to be his as not belonging vnto him but vtterly to disclaime him which once he made to his owne Image O consider this in time who shall receiue thee when God casts thee out from his face Assure thy selfe euery Creature shall refuse her comfort to thee if a drop of cold water might be a reliefe vnto thee thou shalt not get it But as thy whole life was but a turning backe from the Lord a wandring and a going a whoring after lying vanities at that day thou shalt receaue this for a recompence of thine erring Depart from me and who are they that must depart the cursed they that in their life time haue beene renowned by great and glorious Titles as King Prince Duke Noble Reuerend Worshipfull now all their glory shall bee turned into shame their honor into ignominy and their seemingly blessed estate shall be turned into a truely cursed yee cursed depart from me and whither into fire and what fire euerlasting fire If this fire were but like that fained fire of Popish Purgatory where venial sinnes are clensed purged there were some hope that their torments should haue an end but they that are cast into this fire shall there lye and cry and fry for euer Vbi per millia millia annorum cruciandi nec tamen in secula liberandi Mat. 9.46 there they shall continue a thousand nay ten thousand nay a thousand thousand as many yeares as there are haires vpon thine head starres in heauen drops of water in the Sea Moates in the Sunne leaues in Autumne all these must be doubled nay redoubled euery one must be a thousand nay ten thousand and yet thy torments shall not haue an end Matth. 22.13 To this purpose Augustine setting forth the desperate estate of those that are adiudged to that place saith In inferno nulta est redemptio quoniam qui illic damnatus demersus fuerit vlterius non exibit In hell there is no redemption because he that is adiudged to that place shall neuer come out any more In inferno nulla est redemptio quoniam ibi nec pater potest adiuuare filium nec filius patrem In hell there is no redemption because there the Father cannot helpe the sonne nor the sonne the father Ibi non inuenitur amicus aut propinquus qui valeat argentum diuitias dare There is no friend or neighbour to be found that will giue a sum of money for the ransome of our soule None by any meanes can redeeme his brother or giue to God a ransome for him Psal 49.7 Then shall they weepe and howse bitterly by reason of the extremity of their paines shal break forth into these or the like lamentable exclamations What hath our pride our riches our honors our royall dignities our riotous kinde of life all our carnall pleasures and delights what haue they profited vs loe al things are past away like a dreame like a shaddow and as a poste that hasted by as a ship that passeth ouer the waues of the water or as a bird flowne through the aire and are become as if they neuer had been and hither are we adiudged vnto perpetual paynes and euerlasting punishments But neither their weeping nor their crying August in Ser. ad Erem nor their screeching wil auaile them any thing In inferno nulla est redemptio quoniam ibi gemitus sunt suspiria non est qui misereatur In hell there is no redemption because there is weeping sobbing and sighing and yet there is none to take pitty Ibi est dolor planctus clamor non est