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A74686	The nonsuch professor in his Meridian splendor, or the singular actions of sanctified Christians. Laid open in seaven sermons at Allhallows church in the wall, London. / By William Secker preacher of the gospel.	Secker, William, d. 1681?	1660 (1660)	Wing S2253; Thomason E1750_1; ESTC R209664	179,725	448

but at the worlds end such will be at their wits end He that now shakes his sword over their heads will then sheath it in their bowells There will be no tabula post naufragium no planke to swim to the shoare after your ship is split at the Sea And the Kings of the earth the great men and the rich men said to the Mountains and to the Rocks fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sits on the Throne and from the wrath of the Lamb Rev. 6. 16. If you cannot endure Christs coming as a refining fire how will you endure his coming as a consuming fire You that despise the death of the Lamb how will ye endure the wrath of the Lamb If the day of mercy leave you gracelesse the day of judgment will find you speechlesse There shall come in the last dayes s● offers walking after their own lusts saying Where is the promise of his ●oming 2 Pet. 3. 4. It 's no wonder to see such persons found in the fagg end of the world which like a false bottom being unwound is worst at the last But as an expiring man hath a little reviving before his departing or as the wasted candle gives a brighter glare at its going forth so their deepest security shall usher in their greatest calamity As mercy will let no service passe unrewarded so justice will let no sin passe unrevenged You that make no account of his Coming how will you give an account at his Coming One observes That the Resurrection of the body is placed between the remission of sins and everlasting life to show that then only is the Resurrection a benefit when remission of sins go before it and everlasting life follows after it It 's storied of one of the Hungarian Kings who being on a time marvelously dejected his brother would needs know what he ailed O saith he I have been a great sinner against God and know not how I shall appeare before him at the day of Judgment his brother replyed that these were nothing but a traine of Melancholy thoughts which should be banished from the breasts of Princes The King lets his brother alone at present but such was the Countries custome that if the Executioners of justice sounded a Trumpet at any mans doore he was presently to be led forth to death The King in the dead time of the night sends his Deaths-man and causes him to sound his Trumpet before his brothers door who hearing the messenger comes with a pale and trembling countenance into his brothers presence and beseeches the King to let him know wherein he had offended him Oh Brother saith the King thou hast alwayes pleased me and never griev'd me but if the sight of my Executioner be so dreadfull in thine eyes then the sight of Gods executioner must needs be more dreadfull in mine eyes How shall they be able to lift up their heads before Christ that have lift up their hands against Christ Le ts hear the conclusion of the whole matter Fear God and keep his Commandements for this is the whole duty of man Eccl. 12. 13. This is all we have to do and all this is to be done but why so vers 14. For God shall bring every worke into Judgment with every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evill If you be offendors in your words Minsuetum judicium non enim ex quibus alius dicit de te sed ex quibus ipsemet loquntus es calculationes judex feret Gor. in loc you will be made offendors for your words By thy words thou shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt be condemned Math. 12. 37. The Arrowes of idle words though they be shot out of sight will hereafter drop downe upon the heads of those that drew the bow Lingua nihil est vel bona melius vel mala pejus then a good tongue there 's nothing better then a bad tongue there 's nothing worser Jesus Christ will passe a sentence upon every sentence that hath passed Then the rich mans baggs shall be turned to see how the poor mans box hath been filled Riches as they bare the charges of the Pilgrims journey so they heighten the burden of the Stewards account Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing cursing Jam. 3. 12. There 's honey in the same Rose to the Bee poyson to the Spider Out of the same mouth of Christ will proceed both blessing and cursing As the same wind that sends one Vessell to its haven sinks another Vessell in the Ocean or as at the same gate a Citizen goes to his recreation a thief goes to his execution He that saith Come ye blessed he Ignis infernalis qui semel accensus est nunquam extinguitur Gerard. saith Goe ye cursed O how sad is that Tragedy that shall ever be acted but never be ended How can you heare the dolefull knell of an everlasting funerall Will those transient glances of former prosperity lighten the load of future calamity There 's but a little airey breathings betwixt you and everlasting burnings The day of retribution shall be a day of separation The wheat and the chaffe they may both grow together but they shall not both lye together When the one is gathered into the Garner to be preserved the other is cast into the fire to be burned They that were here their derisions shall not be there their companions The Saints enjoyments shall be incomparable when the sinners torments shall be intollerable The Sea of damnation shall not be sweetned with a drop of compassion If once thou drop Facilis descensus averni sed revocaro gradum c Hic labor hoc opus est Virg. lib. Aeneid 6. into Hell after thousands of years you will be as farre from coming out as at your first entring in Christ will put the Sheep by themselves that have the ear-mark of election and the Goats by themselves that have the hand-mark of transgression In Hell there shall not be a Saint amongst those that are crucified and in Heaven there shall not be a sinner amongst those that are glorified O how will those Magistrates dare to appeare before his Tribunall that have stained the sword of Authority with the blood of innocency by turning its back against the vitious and whetting its edge against the righteous Many an unjust judg that now sits confidently upon the Bench shall then stand tremblingly at the Barre Or how will those Ministers appear that like the Dog and the Wolfe combine together to macerate the Flock that instead of treading out the Corn are treading down the Corne and instead of furthering the Birth are murthering the Child O you fair-faced guilded professors that are no better then hells freeholders what will ye do When the painted sepulchre is opened the dead mens bones will be disclosed He will not judge you by the whitenesse of your countenances but by the blacknesse of

perfectissime certissime et dist●nctissime 〈◊〉 Pol●and Dsp Theol p. 73. we see not what God doth in Heaven for earth we think that God sees not what we do on earth against Heaven Men care not what they do when they beleeve that God sees not what is done They slay the widdow and the stranger and murder the fatherless Ps●l 94. 6. They say the Lord shall not see neither shall the God of Jacob regard it The Adulterer he waits for the twi-light his sin gets up when the Sun goes down The time of darknesse payes most tribute to the Prince of darknesse There are many that blush to confesse their faults that did never blush to commit their faults though we gain by confessing what we loose by transgressing Poor Adam when he had sinned he sought not the fairest fruits to fill his emptinesse but the broadest leaves to cover his nakednesse Its Gods eyeing of us that makes us prosperous but it s our eyeing of God that makes us vertuous What servant is there that would be a sleeper under the view of his Master Or what Souldier will be a Coward in the presence of his General 2. Principle that you should walk by is this That after all your present receivings you must be brought to your future reckonings Give an account of thy Steward-ship for thou mayest be no longer a Steward Luke 16. 2. Mans enjoyment of outward blessings is not a Lord-ship but a Steward-ship When we Haecbona Deus hominibus communicat non ut ipsieorum sint Domini sed dispensatores ad alios Cherm Har. Evang. cap. 122. take our leave of the earth the earth takes its leave of us The rich man had as poor a beginning as the meanest and the poor man shall have as rich an ending as the greatest Austin Ideo latet ultimus dies ut observantur omnes dies We should every day be expecting our last dayes approaching Persons of the greatest eminence have anciently had their Moniters The Sicilian Prince Agathocles Is Rex et Dominus factus Siciliae fictilia pocula interserere solebataureis Plut. Apoth Sect. 26. had his earthen Plate to tell him that he was but a Potters son The Roman Triumphers in the Meridian of all their splendor had a servant behind them crying to each of them Memento te esse hominem Men that are Gods in Office are apt to think themselves Gods in Essence As they say of the Pope at his installment Mutatio nominis is mutatio hominis The change of the name makes the change of the man I have said ye are Gods but ye shall dye like men Psalm 82. 2. This Divinity it s shrouded up in Mortality and they that are Gods before men are but men before God Death levels Palidamors aeguo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas Regumque turres Horat Od. 4. the highest Mountains with the lowest Valleys and mows down the Lillies of the world as well as the grasse of the field The Robes of Princes and the rags of Peasants are both laid up together in the Wardrobe of the grave That Star that led Israel from Aegypt went out of sight before they came to their journeys end For we must all appear before the Omnes nos generaliter sine excaptione manifestari evidentèr sine absconsione oportet inexcusabiliter sine evas●one ●nte Tribunal praesentialiter sine procuratore Gor. in loc Judgment Seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whither it be good or whither it be evil 2 Cor. 5. 10. They who refused to come before his Mercy-seat shall be forced to come before his Judgment-seat At the shril voice of the last Trumpet the greatest Jailors shall surrender up 〈◊〉 their prisoners Now we see living men begin to dye but then we shall see dea● men begin to live The scattered dust of Adams seed shall ride upon windy wings till it meet together in a collected body Thy dead men shall live together with my dead body shall they arise awake and sing ye that dwell in dust Isa 26. 19. All the creatures in the world that have made their meals of mans flesh shall find that they have eaten morsels too hard for the digestion of their weak stomacks Now he that comes to raise the dead he shall come to Judge the dead In the day that God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my Gospel 2 Rom. 16. The same Rule that God hath given the creature to act by the same Rule he hath taken himselfe to judge by If you obey not the truth of God revealed from Heaven unto you you shall suffer the wrath of God revealed from Heaven against you Though you may resist the judgments that he layes before you yet you can never resist the judgments that he layes upon you O shake the Vipers of lust off of your hands lest they pull you into unquenchable flames Let nothing be acted in one world which cannot be answered in another Because he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousnesse by that man whom he hath ordained Acts 17. 31. It s the Son of man by whom the world was redeemed and its the Son of man before whom the world is arraigned He who was guarded to the Crosse with a band of Souldiers shall be attended to the Bench with a guard of Angels The Thebanes pictured their Judges without eyes that they might not respect persons and without hands that they might not receive bribes Shall not the Judg of all the world do right The wills of other Judges are regulated by righteousnesse but righteousness it self is regulated by this Judges will As all his works are great and marvelous so all his wayes are true and righteous Then there will be no standing before Christ but by standing within Christ What hopes shall he have at the general Assises whose conscience condemns him before he appears Rejoyce O young man in the dayes of thy youth and walke in the wayes of thy heart and in the sight of thine eys Eccl 11. 9. You will say this is brave indeed if it Fruere ut libet hujus mundi voluptatibus quòd si rebus hujus seculi insolescas et abutaris haud dubiè acerrimas aliquando lues paenas et extremo occurres judicio in quo vitae tuae redditurus es rationem Arboreus in loc would alwayes last O but after the flash of Lightning comes the clap of Thunder But know that for all these things God will bring thee to judgement As if he had said well run down the hill as fast as you please you will be sure to break your necks at the last This is the day of Gods long-suffering but that shall be the day of mans long-suffering Here the cords of patience doth as it were tye the hands of vengeance Sinners they have forbearing mercy though they want forgiving mercy