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heart_n	believe_v	faith_n	power_n	4,181	5	5.2665	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25250	Ultima, = the last things in reference to the first and middle things: or certain meditations on life, death, judgement, hell, right purgatory, and heaven: delivered by Isaac Ambrose, minister of the Gospel at Preston in Amoundernes in Lancashire.; Prima, media, & ultima. Ultima.	Ambrose, Isaac, 1604-1664.	1650 (1650)	Wing A2970; ESTC R27187	201,728	236

it was committed till Dooms-day again yet then shall it out with a witnesse and be as legible in thy forehead as if it were writ with the brightest stars or the most glistring Sun beam upon a wall of chrystall Vse 2 As you mean the good of your souls amend your lives call your selves to account while it is called to day search and examine all your thoughts words and deeds and prostrating your selves before God with broken and bleeding affections pray and sue that your names may be writ in heaven in that Book of life This will be the joy of your hearts the peace of your souls the rest of your minds yea how glad will you then be to have * It is a question whether the sinnes of Gods people shall be manifested at that day some say they shall be manifested not for their ignominy or confusion but onely that the goodnesse and grace of God may be made the more illustrious and for this they urge Matth. 12.36 2 Cor. 5.10 Revel 20.12 Others say they shall not be manifested 1. Because Christ in his sentence onely enumerates the good works they had done but takes no notice of their sins 2. Because this agrees best with those expressions that God blotteth out our sins and that they are thrown into the bottome of the sea 3. Because Christ is their bridegroom friend advocate and how ill would it become one in such relations to accuse or lay open their sins which of these opinions is truest is hard to say Heb. 6.10 all these books laid open by this means I speak it to the comfort of all true hearted Christians shall your obedience and repentance and faith and love and zeal and patience c. come to light and be known God is not unrighteous to forget your works of labour and love No all must out especially at that day when the books shall be open our works manifested and as we have done so must we be rewarded for then he shall reward every man according to his works The books are opened and now are the matters to be examined there is first a view and then a tryall The Law-book whereby we are tryed contains three leaves Nature the Law and the Gospel the Gentiles must be tryed by the first the unbelieving Jews and Gentiles by the second and the faithfull Jews and Gentiles by the last Those that confesse no God but nature must be judged by the law of nature those that confesse a God no Christ must be judged by the Law of God without the merits of Christ those that confesse God the Father and believe in God the Sonne shall be judged by the Gospel which reconcileth us to God the Father by the merits of Christ Atheists by the law of nature infidels by the law of God Christians by the Gospel of our Saviour Christ To the statutes of the former who can answer our hope is in the latter we appeal to the Gospel and by the Gospel we shall have our tryall They that have sinned without the law Rom. 2.12 shall perish without the law and they that have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law Rom. 2.16 But God shall judge the secrets of all hearts of all our hearts by Jesus Christ according to my Gospel Rom. 2.12.16 Vse Vel te totaliter absolvit vel te capitaliter damnat John 16.9 Let this then forewarn us what we have to do It is the Gospel that will either throughly justifie thee or extremely condemn thee The Spirit shall convince the world of sinne saith Christ and why so but because they believe not on me John 16.9 There is no sinne but infidelitie no righteousnesse but faith not that adulterie intemperance malice are no sinnes but if unfaithfulnesse remain not all these sinnes are pardoned and so they are as if they were no sins indeed How quick a riddance true repenting faith makes with our sinnes they are too heavie for our shoulders and we cannot bear them faith onely turns them over unto Christ and we are disburthened of them whereas there would go with us to judgement an huge kennell of lusts an armie of vain words a legion of evil deeds faith instantly dischargeth them all and kneeling down to Jesus Christ beseecheth him to answer for them all howsoever committed O then make we much of faith but not of such a faith neither as goes alone without works it is nothing at this judgement to say I have believed and not well lived the Gospel requires both faith to believe and obedience to work not onely to repent and believe the Gospel Mark 1.15 Mark 1.15 but to obey from the heart that form of doctrine Rom. 6.17 Rom. 6.17 True indeed thou shalt be saved for thy faith not for thy works but for such a faith as is without works thou shalt never be saved we say therefore A justificando non à justificato works are disjoyned from the act of justifying not from the person justified heaven is given to us for Christs merits but we must shew him the fair copie of our lives O then let this move us to abound in knowledge and faith and repentance and love and zeal and clothing and feeding and lodging the poor members of Christ Jesus and howsoever all these can merit nothing at Gods hands yet will he crown his own gifts and reward them in his mercy Say then dost thou relieve a poor member of Christ Jesus dost thou give a cup of cold water to a Prophet in the name of Prophet Matt. 10.42 Christ doth promise thee of his truth he will not let thee lose thy reward certainly he will not so thy works be done in faith why this is the covenant the glad tidings the Gospel to live well and believe well O let not that which is a word of comfort to us be a bill of inditement against us albeit in our justification we may say Be it to us according to our faith yet in our retribution it is said as you have it before you in this Text read unto you Then he shall reward every man for manifestation of his faith according to his works A little to recall our selves The Prisoners are tryed the Verdict's brought in the inditement is found and the Judge now sits on life and death even ready with sparkling eyes to pronounce his sentence This we must deferre a while and the next time you shall hear what you have long exspected The Lord grant us an happy issue that when this day is come the sentence may be for us and we may be saved to our endless comfort Shall reward VVHat Assize is this that affords each circumstance of each prisoners triall the time is Then the Judge is He the Prisoners Men the evidence Works Non coronat Deus merita tua tanquam merita tua sed tanquam donasua Aug. lib. de grat lib. arbit cap. 7. which no sooner given in but

Iewes stuborn Gentiles wicked Christians when every eye shall see him and they also which pierced him This is the man shall they say that was crucified for us Apoc. 1.7 and again crucified by us why alas every sin is a Cross every oath is a Spear and when that day is come you must behold the man whom thus you do crucifie by your daily sins Sure this will be a fearfull fight where is the bloudy swearer that can tear his wounds and heart and bloud and all at this day of Doom * Sic Aug. habet suum fortasse de Christ martyrum vulneribus et quod non sit deformitas iis sed dignitas novi quod quaeritur an cicatrices remaneant in corpore perfecto et glorificato attamen Christus apparuit Thomae cum cicatricibus ad fidem ejus confirmandam Ioh. 20.27 Matth. 26.24 those wounds shall appear that heart be visible that body and bloud be seen both of good and bad and then shall that fearfull voice proceed from his Throne this was the heart thou piercedst these are the wounds thou racedst and this is the bloud thou spilledst Here is the fearfull judgment when thou that art the murtherer shall see the slain man sit thy Judge what favour canst thou exspect at his hands whom thou hast so vilely abused by thy daily sins be sure the Son of man will come as it is written of him but woe be unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed it had been good for that man if he had not been born Matth. 26.24 To the second question we answer that as Christ shall appear in the form of man so this man shall appear in a glorious form he that is a Mediatour betwixt God and man must both intercede for man to God and communicate those things which are of God to man to this purpose both these offices are agreeable to him in that he participates of both extreams he is man to abide the judgments due from God hee is God to convey all his benefits unto man as then in his first coming he pleased God by taking the infirmities of man upon him so in his second coming will he judg us men by appearing in that glory which he derives from God But look about you who is this Iudg arrayed in such a majesty Ioel. 2.3 6. A fire devoures before him and behind him a flame burns up on every side the people tremble and all faces shall gather blackness here is a change indeed he that was in a cratch now sits on a Throne then Christ stood like a Lamb before Pilate now Pilate stands like a malefactour before Christ he that was once made the foot-stool of his enemies Psal 110.1 must now judge till he hath made all his enemies his foot-stool Where shall they run and how shall they seek the clifts of the rocks and hollow places the glory of his Majesty kindles a flame while the heaven and earth shall fly from the presence of this Iudge Revel 21.17 O yee heavens why do ye fly away what have ye done why are ye afraid it is the Majesty of the Iudge that will amaze the innocent the greatness of whose indignation will be able to strike all the heavens with terror and admiration when the Sea is out-ragious and tempestuous he that stands on the shoar will be struck into a kinde of fear or when the Father goes like a Lyon about his house in punishing his bond-slave the innocent son stands in great fear and trouble and how then shall the wicked tremble when the very heavens shall be affraid Greg. in Mor. If the goodly Cedars of Lebanon be shaken what shall become of the tender twiggs in the Desart if the sturdy Rams stoop and tremble how will the bleating Lambes cry and run away 1 Pet. 4.18 and if the just and righteous scarcely be saved where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear The mountains and heavens shall melt before the Lord and what stony hearts have we that for all this are nothing at all yet moved But may be I prevent you exspectation if here be a Judge where is the guard behold him coming from above with great power and glory would you know this habit he is cloathed with Majesty seek you the colour 't is the brightness of his Father would you view his attendants they are an hoast of Angels look you for the guard they are a troope of shining Cherubims nay yet see a longer train a further company the souls of Saints descend from their imperiall seats and attend the Lambe with great glory and glorious majesty never was any Iudge Lord of such a circuit his footstool are the Clouds his seat the Rain-bow his justices Saints his officers Angels and the Arch-Angels Trump proclaims a silence whilest a just sentence comes from his mouth on all the world Thus are the Assizes begun to be solemnized the thrones as Daniel saw in in his vision were set up and the ancient of days sate down his garments white as snow Dan. 7.9 and the hair of his head like pure wooll his Throne like the fiery flame and his wheeles as burning fire Dan. 7.9 Dan. 7.9 This is the Iudge whose coming is so fearfull ushered by a fiery flood apparelled in snowy white carried in his circuit on burning wheeles and attended with the number of thousand thousands O yee Iewes behold the man whom before you crucified like a Malefactor behold him in his Throne whom you said his Disciples had stollen by night out of his grave behold him in his Majesty Matth. 28.13 Greg. sup ill Matth. 24. in nubibus coeli whom you would not deigne to look upon in his humility the baser you esteemed his weakness the heavier must you find and feel his mightiness The Son of man appears and the kindred of the earth must mourn such a shout of fury followes the sight of his Majesty that the vaults shall eccho the hills resound the earth shake the heavens change their situation and all be turned to a confusion then shall the wicked weep and wail and yet their tears not serve their turn their sins past betray them their shame present condemns them and their torment to come confounds them thus shall they bewail their miserable hap their unfortunate birth and their cursed end O fearfull Iudge Cant. 6.4 5. terrible as an Army with Banners turn away thine eyes from us which overcome the proudest Potentates the Kings of the earth shall be astonished and the Nations of the Isles shall fear from farr Every eye shall see him whom they have pierced and tremble at the presence of his sight Conceive the guilty prisoner coming to his tryall will not the red robes of his Judge make his heart bleed for his blood-shed doth not that scarlet Cloath present a monstrous hew before his eyes O then what sight is this when the man slain sits in the