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A62379	The grand assises: or, The doctrine of the last generall judgment with the circumstances thereof: comprised and laid forth in a sermon preached at the assises holden for the county of Southampton at Winchester, on Wednesday, July 28, 1652. By William Sclater Doctor in Divinity, preacher of the word of God in Broadstreet, London.	Sclater, William, 1609-1661.	1653 (1653)	Wing S918A; ESTC R218648	45,998	59

who then shall set all their sins though never so secret in order (w) Psal 50.51 before their faces even then when they shall be drag'd from the prison of their graves shackled in the chains of guilt and so arraigned and set to the Barre of Justice to stand before God And so I passe from what I termed the Arraignment to that which in the order of Judicature is called the Indictment which here stands entred upon record The Books were opened I saw the Dead small and great stand before God and the Books were opened I hasten By these Books thus here and in Dan. 7.10 said to be opened we may not apprehend any (x) Si hic liber carnaliter cogitetur quis ejus magnitudinem aut longitudinem valeat aestimare c. S. August de Civ Dei c. 4. materiall Volumes presented before the Lord with a Catalogue of the Names or actions of all men to be Judged as if the Lord did stand in need of any such Information Loe saith the Prophet Psal 139.5 Thou O Lord hast beset me behind and before searched me and known my thoughts words and actions Psal 11.4 The Lords Throne is in Heaven his eyes behold his eye-lids try the children of men to the same purpose Job 34.21 (y) Hesiod lib 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Poet hath it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 said an old Poet Philemon mentioned by (z) Iustin Martyr lib. de M●narchia Dei Justin Martyr the Platonists therefore called him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the inspector of all things and some Criticks in the Greek tongue are of an apprehension that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifying God is derived 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of a word which denoteth an Vniversall seeing or beholding of things This searcher of all mens hearts doth alone (a) Hooker l. 3. p. 82. Eccles Polit. Intuitively know who are his saith learned Hooker The Lord Christ knoweth all things saith Peter Job 21.17 2.25 to the same purpose are those many other Texts Jer. 17.10 23.24 1 King 8.39 Psal (b) Cor renes in occulto latitant significatur ergo Deum abscondita cogitationum nostrarum scire 7.9 Job 42.2 3. But these Books are only 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ascribed to the Lord by way of dignation or gracious condescension God speaking after the manner of men that men might the better conceive of the things of God and the meaning of them is that all things thought or said or done by men stand all as it were upon record and are all exactly remembred by the Lord and brought likewise afresh unto the memories of all men Psal 50.21 Setting them all in order before their eyes so that Austin thinks thereby quaedam vis est intelligenda divina a certain power of God is understood by means or by virtue whereof all the deeds of men are in a wonderfull serenity recalled to the remembrance ut accuset vel excuset scientia conscientiam that according as they prove to be science may either accuse or else excuse conscience And they are all called Books in the plurall number not in respect of the mind or of the knowledge of God which is a most pure and simple act but in respect of the variety of the objects or diversity of the things therein inscribed And yet Divines both for order and distinction sake have given severall Titles to these my sticall and spirituall Books 1 The first is the Book of Nature or of Providence whereof Psal 139.16 In thy Book are all my members written 2 The second is of Gods Remembrance Mal. 3.16 Psal 56.8 3. The Book of Mans Conscience which is Volumen grande as one calleth it a large volume wherein all things are written by the style of Verity and for the amending of which Book all other Books were invented so (c) S. Ambros ad Psal 1. S. Ambrose What are these Books opened saith hee but Conscience Non atramento scripti sed vestigiis delictorum flagitiorum inquinamento not written with Inke but stamped with the Impression of black Sinnes and most ugly Offences 4. The Book of Life Phil. 4.3 Rev. 3.5 by which is understood Catalogus Savandorum the Catalogue of the Elect whom God in Christ hath chosen from all Eternity unto Salvation who though they now be unknown yet shall then be more manifestly declared 5. To which some adde fiftly the Books of the Scriptures the Two Testaments All of these Books shall be perhaps at that day brought forth bound up together in one volume which being unclasped shall discover all matters how they have been transacted managed and done in the body 1 Tim. 5.25 26. Some mens sins are open before-hand going before to Judgment and some men they follow after likewise also the good works of some are manifest before-hand and they that are otherwise cannot be hid that is some evil deeds are punished in this world to give notice that there is an eye of Providence that observes them here and some likewise are reserved for hereafter to shew that there is a Judgment to come The good works likewise of some follow them Rev. 14.13 that is the reward of their good works shall be imparted hereafter In summe The generall resolve in this matter is that by these Books opened are mainly meant the Consciences of all men the office of which is to (d) Rom. 2.14 15. accuse or to excuse according to the (e) Dr. Field l. 4. c. 33. of the Church privity that the soul hath to things good or ill known to none but to God and it self the Conscience being as it were Gods Register Book wherein all the sins of the Impenitent and Unregenerate or Castawayes with all their severall circumstances of aggravation are kept under their guilt uncancelled unstruck-out It 's true indeed that Actus transit but Reatus permanet the act of Sin was transient and momentany not so the guilt no that is written with a (f) Jer. 17.1 pen of Iron and with the point of a Diamond and graven as it were in characters indeleble upon the table of their heart Jer. 17.1 And this is the Act of Conscience to be its own Testimony yea a thousand witnesses against it self Hence was that saying of (g) Lactant. l. 6. c. 24. Lactantius Quid prodest non habere Conscium habenti Conscientiam It is a true word of the Apostle God is greater then our Conscience 1 Joh. 3.20 and surely none but He Yet under that great God the Supreme power on earth within a man is the Conscience In this Microcosme of Man saith a devout (h) B. H. Soliq 51. edit 1651. Divine there is a Court of Judicature erected wherein next under God the Conscience sits as the Chief Justice from which there is no appeal if that condemne us or our actions in vain shall all the world besides acquit us and if that clear us

life resembled by Daniel ch 7.9 10. when he saith that his throne was like the fiery flame a fiery siream issued and came forth from before him and so in his wrath God is said to be a consuming fire Heb. 12. ult and the Psalmist to expresse it in the Actuall execution compares it to the Hills melting like wax at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth Psal 97.5 To this purpose tends that expression in the person of the Lord Christ Those mine enemies that would not that I should reign over them bring hither and slay them before my face Luk. 19.27 Nor is it more then equall that those who in the fury and rage of their impetuous corruptions (l) Psal 2 3. teare the bonds of Christ's injunctions in sunder at least in their attempts should when he is advanced and got into his throne bind them fast in (m) Psa 149.8 chains yea and though they were Nobles themselves in links of iron the meaning is to crush them as Christ an anointed (n) Psal 2.6 King who refused him for a Jesus a redeeming Saviour And yet if yee peruse Rev. 4.3 yee shall there read that howsoever He who sate upon the throne was to look upon like a Jasper and a Sardinstone which sparkled with radiant blazing and dazeling colours or coruscations yet even then he had a rainbow round about that throne in sight like unto an Emerald the (o) Gen. 9.13 rainbow was a sign of the Covenant of favour after the great deluge of the old world and the Emerald being green and fresh delighteth the eyesight Whereto tendeth all this but to shew a strong propensity to mercy even in the (p) Hab. 3.2 middest of severity yea the very damned in hell find this for though a greater judgement could not befall them Extensive in regard of Continnance for it 's Everlasting yet Intensive he could lay more upon them then they suffer It 's an old word in Orthodox Divinity God rewardeth Ultra condignum punisheth citra condignum Ezra 9.13 Christ is said in the Revelation 1.13 to wear his girdle about his paps or breast we about our loynes we about our loyns (q) Luk. 12.35 the seat of Concupiscence to curb that Christ about his breast these at of Anger to restrain it to wit in point of Execution the motion of anger in Christs bosome was like the stirring of pure water in a crystall glasse without all disorderly * His girding about the paps and breasts signifieth that there is no defect or aberration in any motion or affectiō in our Saviour Christ but every thought and inclination of his heart is kept in order by the fulnesse of the Spirit Mr. Ed Leigh Annot. ib perturbation such as is in the defiled muddy and polluted breasts of sinful men indeed the Lord is so propense to snew ‖ There is a sweet expressiō in ludg 10.6 His soule was grieved for the misery of 〈◊〉 he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men Lam 3.33 In all their affliction hee is afflicted Isa 63.9 Atque delet quoties cogitur esse serox Therefore in the Psalms wee read that God as he had a red to Correct so withall a staffe to Support Psal 23.4 the acts of benignity rather than the contrary of extreme rigour that even when he is proceeding to the very act of Execution his very Heart is turned within him and his repentings are kindled together making many expostulations both with the sinner and with his own mercy How shall I give thee up Ephraim How shall I deliver thee Israel c. Hos 11.8 Justice and Mercy strive as it were which shall first manifest it self Justice like Zarah one of Tamars twins Gen. 38.28 puts out the hand on which is bound a scarlet thread of a bloudy colour but it draws back the hand again till Mercy like to Pharez breaketh forth before it and carries the priority ver 29 30. But I must hasten yee see here in the Text as the Throne was Great to strike terror into the hearts even of the mightyest Potentates upon earth so also it was White the colour as of Clearnesse and Innocence so of Lenity Kindnesse and of Indulgence And which must not be passed over both these exercised when actually upon his Throne Seated there not in any posture of haste as on any sudden to passe sentence before due pawsing examination or conviction Hee first sits down and ponders the whole cause As much as this was intimated in the Lords proceeding with Sodom Gen. 18.21 the enormities whereof though they were exceeding clamorous and cryed to heaven for judgment yet before the execution of fire and brimstome upon them he is said first to goe down and see whether all things answered that loud and lewd report of their unnaturall and most prodigious crimes I saw saith St. John a great while throne Great for Terror and Severity White for Lenity and Moderation a Throne for Counsel and sage Deliberation And so I come to the next particular which the Text in order presents us with and that is the Judge fitting on his throne who is here said to be God himself set forth under expressions of Majestick terror from whose face the earth and the heaven flee away and there was found no place for them God himself then is the Judge seated upon his throne so is his style Heb. 12.23 God the Judge of all even Father Son and Holy Ghost Trinity in Unity and Unity in Trinity which howsoever distinguished in regard of Personal subsistence and peculiar appropriations of operations yet are still but One and the same in Essence and divine Being even as if you take water and ice and snow though in Apprehension distinct things yet put together into one vessell and dissolved all prove but one water or as (r) Gregor Nyssen Catech. 15. Gregory Nyssen makes the observation in Abraham Gen. 18.2 3. who though as it 's said He saw three men from his tent dore yet hee called all but my Lord in the fingular as for the device of the Rabbins that these three Men were three Archangels Michael who foretold the birth of Abraham's Son Raphael who healed him of his wound received in his Circumcision and Gabriel who rescued Lot out of Sodom this conceit we may reckon among those which St. Paul calleth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 foolish and unlearned questions 2 Tim. 2.23 the mystery of the Text is to represent the Trinity of Persons in the Unity of the divine Essence so Isa 33.22 The Lord is our Judge the Lord is our Lawgiver the Lord is our King this threefold repetition of the word Jehovah implyeth the mystery of the Holy Trinity as (s) Ioh. Gerard. loc Com. tom 9. c. 3. sect 26. tract de Extremojudicio Gerard apprehends it To the Father judgment is given Psal 9.8 The Lord hath prepared his throne for