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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19261	A white sheete, or A warning for whoremongers A sermon preached in the parish church of St. Swithins by London-stone, the 19. of Iuly, anno Domi: 1629. the day appointed by honorable authoritie, for penance to be done, by an inhabitant there, for fornication, continued more then two yeares, with his maide-seruant. By Richard Cooke B: of D: and parson there.	Cooke, Richard, 1574 or 5-1639.	1629 (1629)	STC 5676; ESTC S108659	25,390	52

and the simple young man when he goeth to a bandie house and to meete with his har lot takes his time in the twilight in the morning in the blacke and darke night Thus indeed they may be too cunning and to craftie for the eyes of men but they are to young to hide their sinnes from God for there is no darkenesse nor shadow of death where the workers of iniquity can be hid as Elihu speakes in Iob can any man hide himselfe in secret that I shall not see him doe not I fill heaven and earth The darkenesse is no darkenesse with him but the night is as cleare as the day the darkenesse and the light to him are both alike And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all things are naked and open vnto the eyes of him with whom wee haue to doe Hee therefore that made the eyes must needs see and he that planteth the eare must needs heare and he that chastneth the Heathen shall not he punish yes surely and as he never winkes at any sinne so will he not at this for whoremongers and adulterers God will judge The other thing that flesheth men in their filthinesse is weakenes of authority when either those that would may not or those that may doe not or dare not meddle with them when these beastly creatures thinke they can either over-looke or over-top authoritie by being greater or better either by their persons or places or purses then the Magistrate for this is not alwaies or alone the sinne of beggars as it was wont to be said of drunkennesse as drunke as a beggar But Erasmas called it long since Lusum magnatū the sport of great men and therefore through their greatnesse know how to deale well enough with Authoritie presuming that either by fraud or force or feare to scape well enough by breaking the cords of Magistrates and casting these bonds from them T is true it may so now and then fall out that greatnesse of offendors may manumit malefactors and free them from the force of the stroke of a mortall Magistrate but they are like to meete with their match when they meddle with their maker he neither wants eyes to see nor handes to smite nor courage to punish the proudest whoremōger or the greatest adulterer when he shal come to sit in iudgement The strongest wil be to weake to deale with him who will set the briars and thornes against him in battell doe we provoke the Lord to iealousie are we stronger then he what is a pot of earth to a scepter of iron or the stabble to the fire for our God is a consuming fire He can teare in peeces and none shall deliver he can kill both soule and body in hell And this is that judge which here the Apostle tells vs shall giue this sentence upon these and all other impenitent sinners Whoremongers and adulterers by name in this text for whoremongers and adulterers God will iudge The third and the last thing in the tryall of these persons is to heare their judgement for God will iudge them There is a two fold kind of iudging given to God iudicium liberationis and iudicium condemnationis a iudgement of absolution and another of condemnation the first is gratiae the other irae that comfortable this other terrible The iudgement of absolution is onely for such which after sinne committed haue heartily repented and humbled themselues to God and through Christ haue made their peace with God for whose onely sake they haue their pardon sealed and heare no more of them but some sweete wordes of grace and mercie like that of Nathan to David Dominus transtulit peccatum tuum The Lord hath put away thy sinne thou shalt not die or as Christ sayd to him that he had cured of the palsie Confide fili remittuntur tibi peocata tua sonne be of good comfort thy sins are forgiven thee So that there is now no condemnation to those that are in Christ Rom. 8. 1. For he that heareth my words and beleeueth in him that sent me hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation And thus onely are the godly iudged and none thus but these The other kind of iudging is a iudgement condemnatorie binding ouer all remorsles and impenitent sinners to all those temporall and eternall plagues and punishments which God the righteous Iudge hath not onely nominated and threatned but vndoubtedly shal be inflicted as severely as threatned And of this kind of iudging onely is this in the text intended thus Whoremongers and adulterers God will iudge A terrible saying but a true A word of astonishment and amasement like that hand writing which appeared to Belshazzar on the wall at the very sight whereof before he knew what it might be or meant his countenance was changed his thoughts troubled him the ioynts of his loynes were loosed and his knees knocked one against another little lesse terrible then Peters words to Ananias and Saphira at the hearing whereof they both gaue vp the Ghost and died As much amasement well may this word cause in Whoremongers and adulterers to deterre them from this sinne for God will iudge them But if God be purposed to iudge such beastly livers where when or how will some man aske will God effect it I answer for the time that is in his owne appointing and at his owne pleasure sooner or later or whensoever he listeth onely let such know that first or last at one time or an other God hath appointed a day in which he will iudge them There damnation sleepeth not it may come suddenly Gods handes are never so bound never so pinioned that he cannot punish at his pleasure If not suddenly yet certainely h Scra venit sed certa venit vindicta deorum slow but sure Hath not God met with some in the very act of their abominable filthinesse Thus perished Zimri and Cosbi by the hands of Phinees Plutarke reports that Alaebiades was burned in his bed with his Curtizan Yimandra and Paulus Diaconus that Rodoaldus King of Lombardic was slaine with a certaine Matrone even in the action of their concupiscence But what if present execution be not done shall they therefore scape scot-free will God put it vp or passe it by vnpunished I haue a long time held my peace I haue been still and resrained my selfe but I will cry like a travelling woman I will destroy and devoure at once Quod differtur non aufertur forbearance with God is no payment the longer he stayeth the liker to pay home at the last quanto diutiùs sustinet tanto disstrictiùs iudicat the further he fetcheth his blow the heavier it must needs fall wheresoever it lighteth But of this let all those be fully assured that whensoever it comes it will be to their cost whether here or hereafter now or then temporally or eternally it may be in both Whoremougers and Adulterers God will