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evil_n	evil_a	heart_n	thought_n	2,080	5	8.0009	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

wicked Infidels shall be iudged the one being cleared the other condemned in their owne conscience Ambrose thinketh that the righteous only shall come into Iudgement quia festinant innoxij adiudicium the righteous they do hasten to Iudgement and long to heare that cōfortable sentence pronounced Come yee blessed of my Father c. But the places may better be reconciled thus there is a twofold Iudgement a Iudgement of absolution and a Iudgement of condemnation The wicked shall not stand in that Iudgement which the righteous shall receiue as namely to bee quitted and absolued The latter part of the verse thus expounding the former nor the sinners in the assembly of the righteous and the righteous shall not come into Iudgement that is shall not bee condemned with the wicked for they shall both be iudged apart the one at the right hand Mat. 25.34.41 Non iudicabitur .i. no● condemnabitur Irenaeus the other at the left hand of Christ and shall receiue a farre different doome as farre as a curse differs from a blessing hell from heauen so that the Texts alleaged are thus to bee reconciled The righteous shall not come into Iudgement that is into condemnation the wicked shall not stand in Iudgement that is they shall be conuinced in their owne conscience of the iust sentence and deserued condemnation that they shall not be able to gaine say or contradict Now the strictnesse of their account will appeare if wee consider how many things they shall bee call'd vnto an account for First De cogitationibus of the thoughts of our heartes though neuer so secretly contriued though neuer vttered by the tongue though neuer acted by the hand yet if there be a deliberate consent and free approbation of the will and affections and a full resolution to put the same in practice if we had place and fit opportunitie I say this sinne of thought shall not goe for nought at the day of Iudgement else why should the Lord take notice of all the imaginations of the thoughts of his heart Genes 6.5 why should the Lord desire so much the heart My sonne giue mee thy heart but because it is the roote and fountaine either of good or euill If it be the storehouse of good things and Treasurie of diuine meditations it is a Temple meete for God to dwell in but if it bee a cage of vncleane birds of euill thoughts it is already possessed with so many deuils If the euil thoughts of the heart were not sinnes and so by a consequent come to Iudgement Why should the Lord stile himselfe the searcher of the heart and trier of the reines were it not so punish according to the saying of the Wise man There shall inquisition be made for the thoughts of the vngodly there shall not a wicked thought passe in Iudgement Wis 1.9 If adultery be a sinne and lusting after a woman though it breakes not out into act be adulterie Matth. 5.28 And no adulterer shall enter into the Kingdome of Heauen 1. Cor. 6.9.10 then are the thoughts of the heart sinne and so by a consequent they shall come to Iudgement and shall preuaile in Iudgement If manslaughter be a sinne as indeede it is a crying sinne 1. Ioh. 4.15 and if he that hateth his brother be a manslayer and no man-slayer shall inherit the Kingdome of Heauen Reuel 21.8 then are the thoughts of the heart sinne and they shall bee brought foorth to the condemnation of the wicked at the day of Iudgement Hence is it that our Sauiour Christ so sharpely inueigheth against the Scribes and Pharises who stood so much vpon their owne righteousnesse in fulfilling the Law thinking that if they did not violate the Law in act by killing or committing adultery or by any other actuall transgression contrary to the Law of God that they had performed the Law to a haires bredth But our Sauiour reproouing them and their righteousnesse which they did so much extol that they should not enter into the Kingdome of Heauen notwithstanding this their righteousnesse sheweth that there was a stricter course required in performing the Law for whosoeuer is angry with his brother vnaduisedly shall bee culpable of iudgement Matth. 5.22 The Law condemneth euery inclination to be euill and the heart doth kill as well as the hand in will in wish in desire the heart committeth adultery the heart doth steale as well or rather ill as the outward members For if we consent to those wicked motions suggested by Satan though wee neuer performe them outwardly in act yet before God wee haue done the sinne and if the thought bee truly sinne farre greater is that sinne of act Yea the sinne of thought is not onely a sinne but is the very originall the fountaine and roote from whence all other sinnes do spring and therefore saith our Sauiour Christ That which goeth into the man defileth not the man but those things which come forth from the hart as euil thoughts murders adulteries fornications thefts false witnesses blasphemies these defile the man Mat. 15.19 So that there is not a sinne of what nature soeuer great or small from the least infirmitie to the highest blasphemie but it had its first beginning from the heart thought is the seede of all sins and though but a spark at the first yet wil it encrease into a flame if it be not repressed For this is sins gradation first Hall Meditat there is presented a fit obiect from the obiect is raised an il suggestion suggestion brings on delight delight consent consent endeuour endeuour practice practice custome custome excuse excuse defence defence obstinacie obstinacy boasting of sinne and boasting of sinne a reprobate sense when the custome of sinne hath taken away the sense of sinne and miserable man is sold as a bondslaue vnto Satan to commit wickednes euen with greedines And therefore Salomons counsel in this kind is very worthy to be embraced Keepe thine heart with all diligence for thereout commeth life If thou keepest it not diligently and warily thereout will proceed death Prouerbs 4.23 As Christs aduice vnto the Church is that the little * Heresies Foxes be taken and bee kild whilest they are but Cubs not that they can doe much harme but if they liue vntill they bee Foxes they will spoile kill and make a prey of any thing whatsoeuer euen so the thoughts of the heart at the first may seeme to be but small sinnes but if they bee not slaine at the first and smothered as soone as they be conceiued they will breake forth into actuall transgressions and so lade the soule with sinne kill therfore these Cockatrices in the egge slay them whilest they be but Cubs Oh happie is he that taketh these young children and dasheth their braines against the stones and so much the rather because they are sinnes and shall come to Iudgement for the Lord shall iudge the secrets of men Rom. 2.16 Secondly Inquisition shall not

only bee made of the thoughts of the heart but wee must also giue an account of the words of the mouth They are the words of him that is the word of truth Of euery idle word that men shall speake they shall giue an account thereof at the day of Iudgement Matth. 12.36 If a man might be called to an account but for his grosser sort of sinnes as for his Whoredom Swearing Cheating Stealing Vsuries Briberies Extortions dishallowing of Sabbaths and the like there were some hope of safety although God knowes there is no hope of the saluation of such without a speedy and vnfained repentance which doth consist in an holy confession of their sinnes in an hearty sorrowing for the same Sermonem otiosum vocat inanem nullius vtilitatis qui sc nihil aedificatienis vel fructus adfert Marlor ex Cal● in a faithfull restitution of that which hee hath taken from any man by falsity and wrong and in a godly reformation of his forepast life but God will bring into iudgemēt not onely euery secret thought but euery idle word and who alas shall be able to answere him one of a thousand Iob 9.3 Now an idle word is that which is spoken without a fruitfull edification of the hearers for our wordes ought not onely to be few but also they must be good and gracious they must be sauoury and well seasoned with the salt of the Sanctuary and therefore Iob cals the eare the taster of the Word that as we in the common foode of our body swallow not any thing downe into the stomack but what the pallat approues to be good and the grinders prepare for digestion so the eare will not giue passage vnto any word vnlesse it rellish of the Spirit of sanctification and bee truely good to the vse of edifying and may conuay some spiritual nourishmēt vnto the soule and therefore it is the exhortation of the blessed Apostle Let no cōmunication proceed out of the mouth but that which is good to the vse of edifying that it may minister grace vnto the hearers Ephes 4.29 The tongue is the Harbinger of the heart and the truest Ambassador both of the minde and meaning it will soone discry and make manifest vnto others what Countreymen we are whether we belong vnto the Prouince of Babel or the Land of Canaan If wee belong vnto the Prouince of Heauen then our speech is of this Countrey our language is heauenly we are frequent in praising of God in talking of his Word and in telling forth what great things the Lord hath done vnto our soules as our affections are in heauen so is our talke of heauen and heauenly things But if we belong vnto that infernall Kingdome then is the speech carnall sensuall diabolicall then is the tongue exercised in the language of that Countrey in swearing false-swearing cursing banning and blaspheming then is our communication such as may helpe to aduance the Kingdome of Satan whereof wee our selues are limmes and whereof hereafter without repentance wee shall be euerlastingly burning and neuer consuming fire-brands To conclude therefore if euery man must giue-an account of euery idle word not tending to the edification of himselfe and others and of all corrupt and filthy cōmunication whereby hee hath grieued the holy Spirit of God Ephos 4.30 Tremble then thou swearing and false swearing tongue whose Rhetorick and Eloquence of cōmon talke is an execrable oth nay as many othes as wordes thou that canst not sell a penny worth or a pound weight without dozens of othes we haue a world full of such tongues and because of such kind of tongues the lād mournes Gods heauy iudgements are gone out against it if account must bee made of euery idle word what shall become of that tongue that hath pleaded an vniust cause to the peruerting of Iustice wresting the Law to the vtter vndoing of the fatherlesse widdowes what shall become of that tongue that cannot speake a word in the defence of the poore vnlesse it be well tipt with gold the oyle that makes euery ioynt to bee nimble and euery bad cause to goe for current If account must bee made of euery idle word then stand amazed thou vaine and wanton tongue vnderstand and quake when thou hearest mentioned the terrible day of Iudgement thou whose words doe not only not tend to edification but to disgrace the Scripture the word of God it selfe thou that thinkest no iest wil goe for current vnlesse it be seasoned with the salt of the Sanctuary such is the profanenesse of the age in which wee liue that euery Actor vpon the stage euery profane Swaggerer and euery mincing Minion cānot speake a word but must haue a fling and gird at sanctified Scripture assuredly thine account is the greatest thy case fearefull thy iudgement intolerable Let euery man therefore take heede vnto his waies that he offend not in his tongue let him refraine his tongue from euill let him desire the Lord to set a watch before his lips that he may not speake his owne wordes but such as the Lord by his word cōmands him to speake for if our wordes are not such as they ought to be wee shall giue an account for them at the day of Iudgement 3. We shall not only be called vnto an account for our thoughts De operibus and wordes but also of our works wheresoeuer and whensoeuer committed whether by day or by night whether in the field or in the Citie whether in the City or in the house whether in the house or in our chamber whether in our chamber or in our bed there is nothing couered that shall not bee reuealed nothing hid that shall not bee knowne and made manifest before God before the Angels before Saints before the whole world at the day of Iudgemēt so saith the blessed Apostle We must all appeare before the Iudgement seate of Christ and there receiue according to our workes 2. Cor. 5.10 God will giue vnto euery man according to his waies and according to the fruit of his works they that haue done good shal goe into euerlasting life but they that haue done ill shal goe into euerlasting fire This God himselfe reuealed to S. Iohn for truth it selfe I saw the dead great and small stand before God and they were iudged according to their workes Apoc. 20.12 To this purpose saith August In quibus actibus quisque homo inuentus fuerit quando exierit de corpore in his iudicabitur in what sins soeuer man goes out of the body vnrepented of of the same hee shall be iudged at the day of Iudgement as the Preacher therefore concludes his Booke so will I conclude this point God will bring euery worke vnto Iudgement with euery secret thing whether it be good or euill Eccles 12. v. 14. 4. Neither shall we bee onely called vnto an account for our thoughts our words and workes but also for our goods and possessions how we haue gotten them how