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A09069	A booke of Christian exercise appertaining to resolution, that is, shewing how that we should resolve our selves to become Christians indeed: by R.P. Perused, and accompanied now with a treatise tending to pacification: by Edm. Bunny.; Booke of Christian exercise. Part 1.	Bunny, Edmund, 1540-1619.; Bunny, Edmund, 1540-1619. Treatise tending to pacification.; Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610. Christian directory.	1584 (1584)	STC 19355; ESTC S105868	310,605	572

of al our dooings then it shal be seene evidently what ech man is to have in the justice and mercie of God 12 To speak then of this second judgement general and common for al the world wherin as the scripture saith God shal bring into iudgment everie error which hath beene committed There are divers circumstances to be considered and divers men do set down the same diversly but in mine opinion no better plainer or more effectual declaration can be made therof than the very scripture maketh it selfe setting forth unto us in most significant words al the maner order and circumstances with the preparation therunto as followeth 13 At that day there shal be signes in the sun and in the moone and in the stars the sun shal be darkened the moone shal geeve no light the stars shal fal from the skies and al the powers of heaven shal be mooved the firmament shal leave his situation with a great violence the elements shal be dissolved with heat and the earth with al that is in it shal be consumed with fire the earth also shal moove off hir place and shal fly like a little deere or sheepe The distresse of nations upon the earth shal be great by reason of the confusion of the noise of the sea and fluds and men shal wither away for fear and expectation of these things that then shal come upon the whole world And then shal the signe of the Son of man appeer in the skie and then shal al the tribes of the earth moorn and wail and they shal see the Son of man comming in the clouds of heaven with much power and glorie great authoritie and majestie And then in a moment in the twinkling of an eie he shal send his Angels with a trumpet and with a great crie at midnight and they shal gather together his elect from the fower parts of the world from heaven to earth Al must be presented before the judgement seat of Christ who wil bring to light those things which were hidden in darknes and wil make manifest the thoughts of mens harts and whatsoever hath beene spoken in chambers in the eare shal be preached upon the house top Account shal be asked of every idle word he shal judge our very righteousnes it selfe Then shal the just stand in great constancie against those which have afflicted them in this life and the wicked seeing that shal be troubled with an horrible fear shal say to the hils fal upon us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne and from the anger of the lambe for that the great day of wrath is come Then shal Christ separate the sheepe from the goats and shal put the sheepe on his right hand and the goats on the left and shal say to those on the right hand come ye blessed of my father possesse the kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of the world I was hungry you gave me to eat I was a stranger and you gave me harbor I was naked and you clothed me I was in prison and you came to me Then shal the just say O Lord when have we done these things for thee And the King shal answer truly when you did them to the lest of my brothers you did it to me Then shal he say to them on his left hand Depart from me you accursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels for I was hungry and ye fed me not I was a stranger and you harbored me not I was naked and you clothed me not I was sick and in prison and you visited me not Then shal they say O Lord when have we seen thee hungrie or thirstie or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison did not minister unto thee And he shal answer verily I tel you seeing you have not done it to one of these lesser you have not done it to me And then these men shal go into eternal punishment and the just into life everlasting 14 Tel me what a dreadful preparation is here laied down How many circumstances of fear and horror It shal be saith the scripture at midnight when commonly men are asleep it shal be with hideous noise of trumpets sound of waters motion of al the elements what a night wil that be trowest thou to see the earth shake the hils dales mooved from their places the moone darkened the stars fal down from heaven the whole element shivered in peeces and al the world in a flaming fire 15 Can any tong in the world expresse a thing more forcibly than this matter is expressed by Christ the Apostles and Prophets themselves What mortal hart can but tremble in the middest of this unspeakable terror Is it marvel if the very just men and the Angels themselves are said to fear it And then as S. Peter reasoneth If the iust shal scarce be saved where shal the wicked man and sinner appeer What a dreadful day wil it be for the careles and loose Christian which hath passed his time pleasantly in this world when he shal see so infinite a sea of fears and miseries to rush upon him 16 But besides al these most terrible and fearce preparations there wil be many other matters of no lesse dreadful consideration as to see al sepulchres open at the sound of the trumpet and to yeeld foorth al their dead bodies which they have received from the beginning of the world to see al men women and children kings and Queens princes and potentates to stand there naked in the face of al creatures their sins revealed their secret offences laid open done and committed in the closets of their pallaces and they constrained and compelled to geeve accounts of a thousand matters whereof they would disdain to have beene told in this life as how they have spent the time how they have imploied their welth what behavior they have used towards their brethren how they have mortified their senses how they have ruled their appetites how they have obeied the inspirations of the holy ghost and finally how they used al good gifts in this life 17 Oh deare brother it is unpossible to expresse what a great treasure a good conscience wil be at this day it wil be more worth than ten thousand worlds for wealth wil not help the judge wil not be corrupted with money no intercession of worldly frinds shal prevail for us at that day no not of the angels themselves whose glorie shal be then as the prophet saith To bind kings in fetters and noble men in iron manacles to execute upon them the iudgement prescribed and this shal be glorie to al his saints Alas what wil al those wise people do then that now live in delites and can take no pain in the service of God What shift wil they make in those extremities Whether wil they turn

the tormentors togither with the most lothsom filthines of the place which is otherwise described in the scriptures by the names of adders snakes cocatrices scorpions and other venemous creatures as shal be afterwards declared 10 Having declared the names of this place and therby also in som part the nature it remaineth now that we consider what maner of pains men suffer there For declaration wherof we must note that as heaven and hel are contrarie assigned to contrarie persons for contrarie causes so have they in al respects contrarie properties conditions and effects in such sort as whatsoever is spoken of the felicitie of the one may serve to infer the contrarie of the other As when Saint Paul saith that No eie hath seene nor eare heard nor hart conceived the ioies that God hath prepared for them that shal be saved We may infer that the pains of the damned must be as great Again when the scripture saith that the felicitie of them in heaven is a perfect felicitie containing Omne bonum Al goodnes So that no one kind of pleasure can be imagined which they have not we must think on the contrarie part that the miserie of the damned must be also a perfect miserie containing al afflictions that may be without wanting any So that as the happines of the good is infinite and universal so also is the calamitie of the wicked infinite and universal Now in this life al the miseries pains which fal upon man are but particular and not universal As for example we see one man pained in his eies another in his bak which particular pains notwithstanding somtimes are so extreme as life is not able to resist them and a man would not suffer them long for the gaining of many worlds togither But suppose now a man were tormented in al the parts of his bodie at once as in his head his eies his toong his teeth his throte his stomak his bellie his back his hart his sides his thighs and in al the joints of his bodie besides suppose I say he were most cruelly tormented with extreme pains in al these parts togither without ease or intermission what thing could be more miserable than this What sight more lamentable If thou shuldest see a dogly in the street so afflicted I know thou couldest not but take compassion upon him Wel then consider what difference there is between abiding these pains for a week or for al eternities in suffering them upon a soft bed or upon a burning grediron and boiling fornace among a mans frinds comforting him or among the furies of hel whipping and tormenting him Consider this I say gentle reader and if thou wouldest take a great deal of labour rather than abide the one in this life be content to sustain a little pain rather than to incur the other in the life to come 11 But to consider these things yet further not onlie al these parts of the body which have been instruments to sin shal be tormented togither but also every sense both external internal for the same cause shal be afflicted with his particular torment contrarie to the object wherin it delited most took pleasure in this world As if for example the lascivious eies were afflicted with the uglie fearful sight of devils the delicate eares with the horrible noise of damned spirits the nise smel with poisoned stench of brimstone other unsupportable filth the daintie taste with most ravenous hunger and thirst al the sensible parts of the bodie with burning fire Again the imagination shal be tormented with the apprehension of pains present and to come the memorie with the remembrance of pleasures past the understanding with consideration of the felicitie lost and the miserie now come on O poore Christian what wilt thou do amidst the multitude of so greevous calamities 12 It is a woonderful matter and able as one father saith to make a reasonable man go out of his wits to consider what God hath revealed unto us in the scriptures of the dredful circumstances of this punishment and yet to see how little the rechlesse men of the world do fear it For first touching the universalitie varietie and greatnes of the pain not only the reasons before alleaged but also divers other considerations in the scriptures do declare As where it is said of the damned Cruciabuntur die nocte They shal be tormented day and night And again Date illi tormentum Give hir torment speaking of Babylon in hel by which is signified that the pains in hel are exercised not for chastisement but for torment of the parties And torments commonly we see in this world to be as great and as extreme as the wit of a man can reach to devise Imagin then when God shal lay his head to devise torments as he hath done in hel what maner of torments wil they be 13 If creating an element here for our comfort I mean the fire he could create the same so terrible as it is in such sort as a man would not hold his onlie hand in it one day for to gain a kingdom what a fire think you hath he provided for hel which is not created for comfort but onlie for torment of the parties Our fire hath many differences from that therfore is truly said of the holie fathers to be but a painted and fained fire in respect of that For our fire was made to comfort as I have said and that to torment Our fire hath need to be fed continuallie with wood or else it goeth out that burneth continuallie without feeding Ours giveth light that giveth none Ours is out of his natural place and therfore shifteth to ascend and to get from us as we see but that is in the natural place where it was created therfore it abideth there perpetually Ours consumeth the matter laid in it and so quiklie dispatcheth the pain that tormenteth but consumeth not to the end the pain may be everlasting Our fire is extinguished with water and greatlie abated by the coldnes of the aire about it that hath no such abatement or qualification Finallie what a strange and incredible kind of fire that is appeereth by these words of our savior so often repeated There shal be weeping and gnashing of teeth Weeping is to be referred to the effect of extreme burning in that fire for that the torment of scalding and burning inforceth teares sooner than any other torment as appeereth in them which upon the sudden do put an hot thing into their mouth or scald any other part of their bodie And gnashing of teeth or chattering at least as everie man knoweth proceedeth of great and extreme cold Imagin then what a fire this is which hath such extreme effects both of heat and cold O mightie Lord what a strange God art thou How woonderful and terrible in al thy works and inventions How bountiful art thou to those

to condemn whatsoever translations are so false as these praetend and if these wil not serve those other by-matters that are left behind are much more unable and never need to come to the muster And therfore I thought it best to rip no further into the particulars leaving that course to the answerers onlie but rather to make the whole trial that I do mean by those very points that themselves have thought woorthie the place of best account for this matter And first I must needs protest thus much that how greevous soever the things are that they lay to our charge in these our labors yet for my part I can now more quietly bear it and think that others do so besides for that themselves begin to translate howsoever the scriptures likewise For though they have not done it without their affections but so favorably as they could on their own behalfe and with such limitation besides as laboreth to chase men away over-much from the reading of it and lastly not without great bitternes against our translations and us and against the truth it selfe yet notwithstanding al this and whatsoever else might be laid therunto now that themselves do also translate let them find fault so much as they wil. We shal better find out the matter betwixt us and their own doings for the most of ours shal witnes with us Hitherto it was thought by divers that we might have been charged with great matters indeed now they begin themselves to espie that there is little else against us but quarrel of words Now as touching the things they lay to our charge and first as touching our purpose or inward meaning in translating so as we have translated it is good for every one to judge the best in al such causes and not to be over-hastie in so secret matters to give foorth our judgment when as none other but God alone can thoroughly know the bottom therof As for us notwithstanding that we are undowtedly persuaded that in these matters those our adversaries are very wrong yet do we make no dowt at al but that divers of them mean very wel and do not wilfully go about to suppresse or yet to resist the open truth The same persuasion if it may please them to conceive of us we think that they may safely do it and that it is not to be thought any more than both the truth and charitie too do justly require It were meet that displeasure were on al parts laid aside for the wrath of man can never accomplish that which is right Concerning the matter two things there are that I wish to be considered of them whether those points for whose sakes they account our translations so faultie be not as yet in controversie betwixt us and whether these points are of such importance as that if we should be faultie therin they might then account the residu of the scriptures by us translated to be no part of the word of God That they are in controversie betwixt us it is so evident that I need not busie my selfe to declare it saving onlie that one point of Christs descending into hel For as touching it there is no quaestion at al betwixt us whether he did descend or not so far as is sufficient for to deliver us thence but onlie as touching that maner of his descending which they have set down without sufficient warrant of the word of God as we do take it not refusing the trial therof by any sound translation whatsoever As for the rest there is no quaestion but that as yet they are in quaestion betwixt us and that we are in conscience persuaded that our selves have gotten the surer side both in the points that are in controversie and in the truth of the text it selfe If it be so then must they needs first know thus much that they leave the way as open to us to lay to their charge that in dissenting from us in their translations they do it to maintain their own opinions as it is unto them so to aesteem and judge of us During which time of controversie betwixt us if needs they wil so resolutely over-rule the case to their advantage though to some of their own fellows they may seem to have done stoutly and wel yet so manie as are indifferent would rather like that first they would obtain the principal matters afore that ever they invade as their own those other advantages that hang therupon Then also themselves wil not denie but that it is the dutie of everie one to take so good heed as they can that they give no offence neither to the Iew nor to the Gentile nor especially to the church of God and if it be the duty of al then is it the duty of translators also especially those that have to translate the word of God For the more needful that any thing is to the use of man the more must it be of al frequented and the more that it is frequented of al the more hurt doth come if there be any danger Fire and water are so needful that we cannot be without them and therfore there commeth much hurt therby when they are not warily handled The word of life is much more needful unto the fountain of living waters al the children of God daily resort to draw to their use as need requireth If therfore there should be any danger therin either in the thing it selfe by other corruption mingled withal or for that there is not sufficient provision made about it for those that should resort therunto it cannot be avoided but that much hurt must come therby So our translators are not to be blamed if having their choice they forbeare those words out of which the deceived may suk the maintenance of their wrong opinions and use such others as cannot so easily be mistaken by any Sure we are of this that the holie Ghost useth no such speech as may justly give offence unto any and that none can interpret the holie scriptures aright but by the selfesame spirit by which they were written at the first Which spirit whosoever followeth he can never find in his hart wittingly to lend foorth his pen to that which may tend to advance any error or il and if he could yet should he find no help in the text being rightly taken to bear him out Insomuch that so long as these controversies are undecided or at least until they shal find more substantial grounds to establish their conceived opinions than to our knowledge they have any as yet we cannot but think that whatsoever want of supportation there is to those opinions the same is rather in the text it selfe than in our translations Concerning the other that is the validitie of those points of religion or whether they be of that force or necessitie rather that for their sakes so hard a censure may proceed against us that we have not among us the tru word of God I would wish them to