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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01455	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 9. of Iune. 1605 Vpon the 20. of the Reuelation the 12. vers. treating of these seuerall heads. 1. Of the resurrection of the flesh. 2. Of the iudgement of the quicke and dead. 3. Of the communion of saints, 4. Of euerlasting life. By Samuell Gardnier [sic], Doct. of Diuinitie.	Gardiner, Samuel, b. 1563 or 4.	1605 (1605)	STC 11581; ESTC S118176	31,501	68

to their young ones are but light shaddowes and resemblances thereof they are not equall rules and measures of it The mercie of God is the mother that conceiueth vs the nurse that feedeth vs and that which shall keepe vs for euer and euer saith Cassiodorus 2. It is also caution prouision against rash iudgement it is the vse and applycation the Apostle maketh of it in two places 1. Cor. 4.3 as when he saith Iudge nothing before the time vntill the Lord come who lighten things that are hid in darknes and make the counsels of the heart manifest Ro. 14.10 Againe VVhy doest thou iudge thy Brother for we must all appeare before the iudgement seate of Christ To God onely appertaineth the iudgement and the iudiciall seate he keepeth onely to himselfe wherefore Christ saith Iudgement is mine Wherefore what a presumption is this for the prisoner that must stand at the Barre to be iudged to take the roome on the bench that belongeth vnto the Iudge the Lord wil be sure to recompence this saucines with retaliation of iudgemēt as he insinuateth in this his cautiō Iudge not ye shal not be iudged But this is the common disease of our nature and as kinde vnto vs as the skinne that we carrie about vs we wil giue iudgemēt of a mans inclination if wee but see his outward behauionr and action As if he looketh downeward wee will note him for an Hypocrite If vpward wee conclude him to bee proud If silēt too seuere if somewhat pleasant talkatiue to be too remisse If somewhat frugal too couetous if somewhat liberal too careles if somewhat costly in apparrel too lasciuious if somewhat familiar a flatterer if somewhat graue stoical There was a fellowe shot his fooles bolte at Pompey and argued him of effeminate nature for hee scratched his head forsooth with one of his fingers that was the luxate logique to conclude it This Hydra doth more hurt then any one can diuine yea euen in the church among vs while he that is formall taketh the other side to be too peeuish and those that would reforme take vs to be too Popish For my part I shal iudge of them in loue and if they shall iudge of vs according to their lusts I shall leaue them to their lusts to contend with them wee haue no such custome nor the church of God we will not take vp the Lordes peculiar Chayre which hee hath in the hearts and the reynes of men In many things we sinne all the Lord be mercifull vnto vs all 3. It traineth vs to the timely reuerence and feare of the name of the Lord and to giue him his glorie the spirituall learning deducted from the iudgement which the Angell giueth vs. Feare God and giue glory to him for the houre of his iudgement is come For be our sinewes neuer so hooped about with iron and our hearts harder then the neither most milstone the hāmer of Gods iudgemēt wil break mollifie them or else there is no Iron instrument in the worlde can doe it The Cananites were as contumacious a people as any vnder the Sunne yet the comming of Moses Ioshua the people of Israel in military maner so perplexed apalled thē as their hearts melted in their bellies as waxe before the Sun And shall not the cōming of the great Iehouah riding vpon the heauēs as vpon an horse flying with the wings of the winde like a man of war putting on the habergeon swoord of justice which shal thē be dronken with blood in heauen more strike vs out of heart take our spirits from vs Elias his comming to the Priestes of Baal was their stupefaction destruction wherefore Christ his comming in wrath and indignation his face burning and his lippes full of indignation must needes haue a more terrible operation in vs. Psalme 18 If the earth trembleth and quaketh and the mightie foundations of the hilles shake be remooued because he is wrath how shall hee not rend asunder the foundations of our hearts and make them to stacker like a drunken man when hee shall come to execute the furiousnesse of his wrath Math. 2. If Herod Ierusalem were so trobled at the birth of Christ what an intricate maze of miseries troubles shall encircle the wicked in that great day when he shall come to iudgement Exod. 17. If the thunder clappes and fire flashes on Mount Sinai when the Law was published so quelled all the people as they crouched vnto Moses and besought him that hee might speake vnto them and not God when the whole world shall bee set on fire Et incandescet eundo and it shall flame as it goeth and shall climbe vp to the midst of heauen and the highest shall sound his shrill trumpet to the dolefull and bloodie battell what shall become of vs Hest 14. If Queene Hester was throwne into a traunce at the sight of the Maiestie of King Assuerus at the sight of the ineffable glorye of the King of glorye how shall not all palpitation and extremitye of passion possesse vs If the sight of one Angell put Daniel to an extasie Dan. 9. what effect shall the fight of so manye myriads of Angels haue with vs which must accompanie the iudgement Math. 28. The warders of the Sepulcher were dead men at Christes resurrection wherefore deade and dead againe shall the wicked be in the generall iudgement If the armed Soldiers sent to attache Christ in the garden Iohn 18. were so throwne backward at these milde words of Christ I am the man when euerie word shal be a deadly wound to the wicked in the iudgement how shall they be able to abide it whose brestes and sides shall then bee able to receiue the quiuer of his arrowes which must licke vp all their blood and deuoure their flesh This Doctrine therefore of the opening of the bookes openeth all our hearts wherfore goe we not about to pluck out the eyes of al knowledge of God with Dauids vaine man that saith Tush God doth not see it the God of Iaacob doth not regard it who is there noted for a noddy for his labour O thou foole shal not he that made the eye see The Lord is not liable to the scorne that was throwne vpon Baal Cry lowder for Baal may be otherwise imployed or coasting about the Countrie or happily hath betaken himselfe to his pillow and is at rest His seauen eyes saith Zacharie runne through the world the circles thereof are broader then the Moone And as he is Totus oculus as Augustine saith so he is totus manus he is all hand to strike and let this serue for the Doctrine of this place But there is an other wrighting booke besides these that is to be opened bearing heere the Title of the booke of life namely of our eternall life begun in this life and finished by our death But wee must likewise distinguish