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A57327	Confirmation revived, and, Doom's-day books opened in two sermons, the one preach'd at Coventry before the Right Reverend Father in God, John, Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, upon his first performance of confirmation in that city, June 23, 1662 : the other preach'd at Warwick before the Right Honourable the judges of Assize for that circuit upon the 2d of July next following / by John Riland.	Riland, John, 1619?-1673.; Riland, John, 1619?-1673. Doom's-day books opened.	1663 (1663)	Wing R1518; ESTC R26991	41,777	76

Mankind and say to the Sea Give back and to the Winds Restore though the Summon'd Members lye Scatter'd in several Shires and Countreys yet Bone as was say'd shall return to it's Fellow-bone each Vein shall Glide along the Old Channel The right Foot shall not Miss its way and Run to the Left the Right Eye shall not mistake its own place but be Lighted the Way to the Right Socket In a word not an Hair of our head shall be Lost or Misplac'd but when God shall Renew the Face of This Earth and Set forth a Second Edition of Mankind all our Limbs those Loose and Dispersed Leaves shall be Carefully sought out and bound up together so that we shall Come forth the same Volume though in a much Exacter Print and Clearer Letter The Glory of the Second Temple shall be farre greater than the Glory of the First provided it prove indeed to be Such a Faire Temple and not a Filthy Prison which the following Judgment shall soon determine And so I pass on to the Third Proposition viz. That Prop. 3. after the Death and Rising again of all men then comes the Judgment imply'd in these words And the Books were Opened Wherein according to the method proposed we are first to consider the Universality of this Judgment He saw the Dead i. e. All the dead stand before God c. Here I shall Endeavour not to be so Impertinent as to trouble you with those Intricate enquiries concerning the Time and Place of Judgment the Form and habit of the Judge the manner of Citation the Method 1 Forma illa it Judex quâ tit sub Ju●ce Illa Iu ●cabit quae Iu cata est Aug. of particular Trials the Execution of the General Sentence c. These things and what else of the like nature I shall either wholly omit or else if it fall in my way to make some little reflections upon any of them I shall doe it very sparingly and tread as Lightly as he does that passes over an unsound piece of Earth that shakes and trembles under him Thus much I take for granted that although some say it was the occasion of Cain's and Abel's quarrel whether there were such a thing as a Judgement to come or no yet that shall be no matter of Dispute among us but without further stay to prove That I may freely proceed to the Universality of the said Judgment which now we are to consider If the Judges have past Sentence upon Socrates Nature has past Sentence upon those Judges and in that Circum●●ance respect we are all a company of condemned Creatures as well as Socrates We must all appear before the Cor. 5. 10. Iudgment seat of Christ c. and then as God said to Abraham when he had brought him abroad Look now towards Heaven and tell the Stars c. I may say to you since God has also brought you Abroad Look ye now toward the Earth tell the Grass that is ready for the Sythe or the Corne ye have seen almost ripe for the Sickle and consider ye of the worlds great Harvest What All that have been All that now are All that ever shall be must all and every one Appear O what Throne will be able to hold that Judge What Benches will be enough for those Assessors even even those infinite numbers of Saints and Angels which he brings along with him what Dungeon is deep enough to contain the already condemned Devils or what Bar will be big enough to hold the now Arraigned Prisoners Some speak of the Valley of Iehoshaphat as the most convenient place being near unto Mount Olivet where Christ Ascended and whereabouts it is expected he should also descend again according to the Collection they make from that passage This same Iesus Act. 1. 11. shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him goe into heaven But for that supposing as some think the better sort shall be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the Aire and so not at all trouble that Valley yet as to the Wicked alone and their numbers what was spoken of Samaria may likewise be said of this Valley Surely the dust thereof will not suffice for every self-condemned Soul to take an handful and stop his own 1 King 20. 1 Mouth withall when he appears in a guilty silence before his Judge No wonder An heaven of heavens cannot contain an 1 King 8. 2 infinitely Blessed God when a Hell of Hells is little enough to hold a company of his accursed Creatures and if the Gaol be so well fill'd the Bar must be sadly Throng'd For however many Angells they say may rest in one Point as that Legion in one man yet raised Bodies sure shall not lose their former Dimensions so as one of them may be Unconfinedly in any place or many of them crowded uncircumscribedly into one Place Then reckoning from the First Adam to the last Son of Adam could we but consider what those Slaughter-Weapons of War Famine Plagues and Pestilential diseases have done and shall yet do not to speak of the daily work of common Mortality still kept a going did we but cast up what Hecatombs have been offered up to Earthquakes Fires and Floods viz. an entire Countrey swallowed at one morsell by an Earthquake many Lebanons have not been sufficient for one of these burnt Sacrifices whole Mountains of men suddainly carried into the Depths of the Sea and there drowned forever Beside those many other Besoms of Destruction all mankind but Eight persons was at once we know Swept off the Common stage by one deluge And if the Flames have often Practised upon Lesser Parcells and thereby given us some cast as it were of their consuming-skill aforehand against the great burning at the last day neither have the Waters been wanting by frequent and violent Inundations to let us know they have not quite forgotten their Former over-flowings So for all those that are already Come Gone in these Wayes all those that are now a Going and Every One that is yet for to Come and Goe for All these at once to Appear in the Same Place and fall under One and the Same Prospect we must needs say S. John here was mightily assisted with Those Divine Opticks The Lesser could not Shrowd themselves under the Greater so as to Escape him the Greater cannot Over-shadow the Lesser so as to Hinder him Habes Tu literas meas Ego Tuas ante Tribunal ●ypr Ep. 69 Christi Utraeque recitabuntur the True Catholick and the Perverse Schismatick the Church-Governour and the Church-Despiser shall both stand before Christ's Tribunal where it will be Impartially sifted what Letters either of them have Brought in their Bosomes Which leads me to the Second Circumstance considerable in this Judgment viz. the Impartiality thereof contain'd in those words Small and Great I saw the Dead Small and Great Stand c. The Great as well

the stubborn sullen old Trunk dyes in the removal Isa 60. 21. Thus we find the Church is styled of God not the full grown Tree but the Branch of my Planting and to let us know what kind of Branch it is and how it comes to Thrive so well there he tells us in the 22 v. A little one shall become a thousand and a small one a strong nation c. These thousands and Ten thousands this strong and mighty Nation of Christians all sure we are most of all arose from these small ones these little ones these little little ones or the least of small ones as the doubling of the words may their force in Hebr. do's imply These are they who in great multitudes Follow the Rev. 14. 4. Lamb wherever he goes These have Fill'd up the Companies of Saints These have Recruited and Compleated the Armies of Martyrs ever since the first footing of Christianity most of the Churches Additions have been made up of These Little ones whereas your Great ones those that choose the time of full-grown Christians for their implanting have never since the time aforesaid come in any such considerable numbers nor are they ever likely to doe so For if we look upon the present Face of that way though 't is confess'd much wash'd of late smooth'd over and made Fineish in comparison of those ugly Outlandish looks which at first it began withall however they may seem to have got the start of others in some flashes of Zeal and Knowledge with some little shewes of Outward Holiness yet it may be feared that Ambition and Self-Love Perversness and Disobedience Fierceness and Scornfulness Implacableness and Unpeaceableness yea Robbing and Murdering of men rather than fail to make Sacrifice and Burnt-Offerings for God I say all these and more such as these if lay'd in the other Ballance I doubt will weigh down all those Light flashes and Insubstantial shewes of a welpersonated Piety which seem to Stuffe and Fill up the other Scale But if any still be otherwise minded God I hope will in his time reveal this unto them To our business a business of Religion though sometimes necessarily folded up in these Garden-figures wherein whatever Improprieties have been or may be met withall I beg your pardon as being a profess'd stranger to those kind of studies For the Earliness of our Admission the subject now in hand let us consider our being Christians is not only a Planting or Transplanting both which bespeak the young and yielding Tenderness of the thing so planted or transplanted but it also supposes a sacred kind of Engraffing as our Church teaches us to say of Baptized Children They are Graffed into the body of Christ's Congregation Which Engraffing may be signified by the Hebr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here in the Text as well as Implanting yea if that Rule be true that your choicest Fruit-trees are still Engraffed the Psalmist here speaking of a Fruit-bearing tree and that of the best sort it must needs presuppose this Engraffing and be thus resolved viz. That this blessed big-grown Tree in the Text here before us was at first but a little tender Twig graffed into such a Stock as was Planted by the Rivers of Waters c. And if so then it must be a little one indeed for I think men don 't usually Engraffe your Thick truncheon-Trees or your Tall full-grown Branches but your lesser younger Springs of a span-long according to that other Rule which I am told of that the least Twig that grow's on the Trees top and looks Easterly and first sees the Morning-Sun such a one qualified with all these combinations of Early circumstances is absolutely the best for that purpose all which does secretly insinuate the Earliness of our Spiritual Engraffing And as this Early-Engraffing was here thus prefigur'd by our Prophet so was it uninterruptedly practised down along all the Primitive times For this even that of Tertullian Quid festinat innocens aetas c. His nice questioning why it should be so contains a solid Proof that indeed it was so I will say no more of the Earliness of the time but whereas the Lord hath spoken by the mouth of his servant David Those that be planted in the house of Psal 92. 13. the Lord shall flourish in c. Let us only turn that Promise into a Prayer and beg of God that those who have been thus planted in Gods House may not hereafter unroot and dance after the Pipe of any Orpheus whatever but still flourish in the Courts of that same House where at first they were planted Which brings me to the third thing proposed The Advantage of the place in these words By the Rivers of Waters He shall be like a Tree c. 3. As for the Hebrew here 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whether it be best rendred by Divisiones as some Decursus as others or Rivos Aquarum Rivers of Waters as ours translate it we shall not Dive too Daringly nor be Curious in the Enquiry but content our selves to be like the Tree we speak of Secus non Intus stand by the Banks not Plunge into the Bottome of these Waters If Scriptures and Sacraments with the unwearied workings and strivings of Gods blessed Spirit if the former and later Rain of his preventing and assisting Graces together with the continual droppings of all his Ordinances I say if all these may pass for Rivers of Waters as the Word of God does frequently so call them surely then our standing is so advantageous and comfortable that blessed be God we have not wanted any of those Waters However we have been to God he has not been a Wilderness to us Rivers of such waters Running through every street Theophrastus cites it for an old saying 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●ib 8. de Plant. 't is the Season not the Soyle the Heavens not the Earth that produces plenty and abundance as it is in the 65 Psal v. 9 10. Thou enrichest the earth Thou providest for it Thou waterest the Rigdes Thou softenest and settlest the Furrows yet for all that if the heavens Plow and do all for us 't is not without the Earth's Heifer using and blessing the means and a great matter it is when that Heifer is Tractable and Towardly I mean when the Earth is kind and good-natured I will hear the Heaven the Heaven shall hear the Earth ●os 2. 21. c. but then as the Heavens have an Eare to hear so the Earth must have a Tongue to speak which if like Davids It cleaves to the Roof of the mouth and be Parch'd and Dry'd up for want of Moisture so that the Lord doe's not Water it from his Chambers above nor yet from his Cellars below sure the Mower will nere fill his hand with That Harvest nor he that bindes up the sheaves his bosome To prevent which droughts and Barrennesses in spiritual concerns the God of heaven is never wanting the

that way were nothing How many of us have been set it a Rich Soile and yet have hitherto afforded little else but a Fruitless shade and so only Cumbred the very ground that bears us What saies S. Bernard Securis ignis debetur c. S. Bernard nothing but the Axe and the Fire is that sad Debentur due to such unfruitful Trees In that parable God was coming and going Three yeares seeking Fruit of that Luke 13. 7. Fig-tree and found none He comes in our Child-hood there 's nothing but Folly he comes in our youth there 's nothing but vanity he comes in our man-hood that 's his Tertio jam venit and there 's little else but Greg. in loc Villany what has he found by these three years coming Hos 6. 7. but that now at last we can Transgress like Men Or however otherwise we Reckon those three years Certain it is that to some amongst us he has come year after year now for these many three years and has not found so much as leaves upon us Now since it cannot be said for us as it was said for that Tree The Mar. 11. 13. time of Figs was not yet What can we expect but the doom of that unhappy Tree that at Christs coming was Laden with nothing but Leaves Let no fruit Mat. 21. 19. grow on thee henceforward for ever For as the Thirst of a love-sick Soul must be stayd with Full Flagons not empty pots so the hunger of a love-sick Saviour must be Refresht with Apples not deluded with Leaves Stay me with Flagons comfort Can. 2. 5. me with Apples Besides we observe Christs travail had got him an early appetite He was hungry betimes in the Morning Mat. 21. 18. when he came for food to that False Deceitfull Tree suppose we he had come to many of us in the morning of our dayes Alas How sorrily had we treated him unless he could make a meal of a few Green leaves our childhood and youth has nothing else to entertain him If he please to come and take a short Supper with us when we are old and have little else to do perhaps we may think of Receiving him at least so far as a Lord have mercy or a few good words and 1 Sam. 2. 10. wishes will go then if Deus judicabit extrema terrae Aug Civ Dei ●● 7. c. 4. be onely Extrema hominis as St. Augustine would have it we may do well But to come and take us in the morning of our age and think as it were to find a Breakfast and satisfie those his early hungerings upon us alas we should utterly disappoint him unless like Iohn Baptist he can feed upon Locusts and that Wild honey which onely grows upon those our greener years Although we are not of their mind that say Confirmation necessarily carry's an Indeleble character along with it yet sure now it is high time by some mark or other to be known whose servants we are and to whom we belong If any Baal whatever be our God then serve him saith the Prophet but if the Lord be our God let him alone have our service For as the Tree is known not by its Leaves nor its Blossoms but by its Fruit of what sort soever it is so the true Christian is not discernible onely by pious professions fair shews or the like these are mere leaves and blossoms but by a life full of Obedience Humility Charity and Purity c. These are those Distinguishing Fruits not such as onely drop from the lips but grow upon the hands of a Christian Therfore when I read of that Tree in Ludolphus whose leaves resembled a man's hand it presently minded me of a Christian indeed all whose words promises and professions which are in themselves but light and leafy-things should be constantly referr'd to holy practises Leaves like the tongue of a Man we see enough upon any tree but every leaf of this tree must be like the hand of a Man and not so only but the Hand of a Christian We have been all I presume Baptiz'd into Christ Conclusion and what he said to Saint Peter about His washing What I doe thou knowest not now but shalt know hereafter the same may be sayd concerning Ours though John 13. 7. we knew not then what was done yet now I hope we do know and yet as if that Baptismal vow had been only wrote upon the Baptismal water too many make a sad shift easily to forget themselves and their Saviour You have now been Christs Probationers a long time and have had many years of tryall If you cannot away with this or have found out some better service say so and be gone to it If not then let your Renouncement in Baptism be this day renewed bid a considerate and fresh Defiance to the Devil c. and take upon you the yoke of Christ Jesus When you were Infants others took it for you now you come to take it from off their Necks and put it on your own and to say to your God-fathers and God-mothers as they did to the Woman of Samaria Now we believe not because of thy saying for we have John 4. 42. heard him our selves This day thou doest avouch the Lord to be thy God Deut. 26. 17. c. and to let the world know thou doest not repent of that Blessed bargain made for thee in thy minority behold thou art here ready by Gods help to make good those undertakements of others As said the blind mans parents so say yours He is of age ask him let him John 9. 21. now speak for himself Only be well advised what you speak or have spoken for as the Psalmist saith of his Tongue It is as the pen of a writer so should yours be Nil agat incompositum tanquam amus scritis c. ar in loc c. Do nothing speak nothing but with great deliberation and composedness as the same Father hath it You are now upon building a Towre whose Top will reach heaven sit down first and consider what it will ●●ke 14. 28. cost you to be a Christian and that you 'l have by and by Those that are to be numbred must be from twenty years ●●m 1. 3. old and upward provided they are able to goe forth to war in Israel-whereupon Origen observes All Women Children slaves old Men that is all womanish Childish Slavish decrepit Souls such as were below the heathen Agones they are Divinis Calculis prorsus indigni-unworthy ●●e● super ●●m to be Reckon'd up by Gods Counters So that such as those like Gideon's Supernumeraries may be spared and sent every man to his own place ●dg 7. 7. For our business here this day is about a Spiritual warfare such as are able for war in Israel our Meeting a kind of Mustering Behold here pardon the expression the Infantry of the Lord