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A02186	Greenvvoods vvorkes contayned in fiue seueral tractates. 1. Of the day of iudgement. 2. Of the Lords Prayer. 3. Of the race to saluation. 4. Of the torment of Tophet. 5. Of the baptisme of Christ.	Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5.; Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5. Treatise of the great and generall daye of judgement. aut; Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5. Race celestiall. aut; Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5. Tormenting Tophet. aut; Greenwood, Henry, b. 1544 or 5. Joyfull tractate of the most blessed baptisme. aut	1620 (1620)	STC 12329; ESTC S115797	129,145	422

with the sheep on his right hand and singing this blessed haruest song vnto you Come ye blessed of my Father inherite the Kingdome prepared for you from the beginning of the world To the which most blessed place of glory the Lord bring euery Soule of vs at the day of our death and dissolution and that for IESVS CHRIST his sake to whom with God the Father and God the blessed Spirit thrée glorious persons but one immortall God be ascribed all honour and glory both in Heauen and Earth this day and euer Amen * ⁎ * FINIS An Earnest and zealous Pray er to be saued from the damnation of TOPHET O Most glorious euerliuing and euerlouing Lord God the fountaine and well-spring of all our happinesse wee thy poore seruants vnworthy in regard of our manifold transgressions of the least of thy blessings doe most humbly fall downe before the throne of thy dreadfull Maiesty confessing in the bitternesse of our soules the basenesse and vilenesse of our estates by sinne O Lord ashamed wee are to come before thee that are nothing but sinfull corruption and abomination but thou a Maiesty most pure in comparison of whom the Angels themselues are counted impure we dare not therfore being thus lothsome and abominable presume to present our selues before thee as in our selues but in thy manifold mercies and thy Son Iesus Christ his merits in whom thou art delightfully pleased with all that faithfully call vpon thy name Lord in thy Son behold vs we humbly beseech thee accept vs in his worthinesse clense vs in his blood iustifie vs in his righteousnes sanctifie vs with his spirit and in his most precious death frée vs from the damnation of hell O till these comfortable tidings be sealed vp to our soules how perplexed are we O how do our harts quake and tremble till we haue found the saluation of thee our God! Reiect vs not O heauenly Father that faine would as be saued of thee so vprightly serue thee we plead now and euer for pardon so for grace whereby wee may in plentifull manner bring forth fruits worthy of amendement Lord kéepe vs in body and soule to thy euerlasting Kingdom and saluation Lord preserue vs from the terrible torments of Tophet O what shall become of vs if we for our sins when we dye be thrown into that Lake that burnes with fire and brimstone so bitterly as forceth screeching and screaming continually Lord deale not with vs according to our sinnes and thy iustice but in the multitude of thy mercies saue our soules aliue O consider the terrors of our troubled Soules Let not the grones of our hearts be despised but suffer them to pierce the heauens for a blessing O thou that art the God of endlesse compassion cast vs not away from thy presence we are the workmanship of thine hands O Lord confound vs not O Lord that delightest not in the death and damnation of a sinner bee moued to shewe pity vpon vs O Christ our blessed Sauior make intercession to God the Father for vs speake by thy gracious Spirit peace to our disquieted Soules bind vp our broken hearts giue vs that wée may cléerely sée our names written in the Booke of Life and our soules released from the fearefull damnation of Tophet To this end gracious God remoue all sinne from our soules and plant in the garden of our hearts all those spirituall and heauenly graces that are proper peculiar to thine Elect that we may be alwayes a swéet smelling sauor before thée giue vs faith in thy promises loue to thy Maiesty zeale to thy glory obedience to thy lawes and guide vs daily by thy blessed Spirit into all truth and godlinesse Lord giue vs to bee out of loue with the vanities of this life to hate euery worke of darknes the little sin as well as the great quicken vs O Lord by thy quickning Spirit O giue vs hearts to bee inflamed with the loue of thy truth O that wée could hunger and thirst after grace as the chased Hart doth the running Brooke O that wee could experimentally say with thy seruant DAVID that all our delight is in thy Commandements Thus O Lord we receiuing grace from thy Maiesty to repell the fiery darts of the diuell to flye euen from euery apparition of euill so doing we may reap much comfort to our soules in this world of trouble and at the fearefull day of Iudgement wee may be freed from the lamentable tortures of Tophet where howling and yelling shall be for euermore and that for Iesus Christs sake thy Sonne our Sauiour to whom with thée and thy most glorious Spirit we desire euen from the bottome of our hearts to haue offered vp all thanksgiuing and praise both in heauen and earth this day and euermore Amen FINIS A IOYEFVLL TRACTATE OF The most blessed Baptisme that euer was solemniz'd VIZ. Of the Baptism of our Lord IESVS by IOHN in Iordan The fourth Edition corrected and amended IOHN 3. 5. Except a man be borne of water and of the Spirit hee cannot enter into the Kingdome of God LONDON Printed by George Purslowe and are to be sold by John Clarke 1620. TO THE RIGHT Worshipfull M. ROBERT MORDAVNT of Massingham Hall in the County of Norsolke Esquire and Mistris AMY MORDAVNT his mostlouing Bedfellow All increase of Grace in this life and of glory in the life to come SEldome or neuer Right Worshipfull doe we finde Tractates either Humane or Diuine passe without their particular Dedications that being shrowded vnder the safe-garding gourds of honorable and right godly dispositions they might the better bee preserued from the parching detractions of malignant Cynicks I make bolde therefore discarding all selfe-humour and irregular singularity to commend this poore Present vostrum ad patrocinium to the worthy patronage of your well-affected Worships two especiall reasons mouing me hereunto First that mine vnfained gratitude entire affection and most humble duty for all your fauors inexpressible might heereby bee made apparent Secondly it being deliuered at that solemne baptisme of Charles your first born and hopefull heyre none I know more worthy of this Dication than your worthy and right Christian persons I present it to your religious considerations as a louing and friendly New-yeeres gift for it aymes at that blessed New birth and happy New life liuely in baptisme represented without which it is not possible for either of you to possesse the Kingdome of God Accept therefore I humbly beseech you and take in good worth this short Treatise short both in line and learning respect not as is that Prouerbe the measure of the gift but the minde of the giuer what is wanting in the one I dare boldly promise is made vp in the other At your best leisures vouchsafe I pray now and then to peruse it and I trust that your Christian paines herein shall bee well reguerden'd with heauenly pleasures herefrom The Lord God make this with all other like

circumcised surely to Heauen for he saith he should goe to it And what became of all that dyed before the eight day the day of Circumcision though they had not the signe yet were they borne in the Church and were within the compasse of that generall couenant I will be thy God and the God of thy seede Indeede if we contemne baptisme then it is another matter As he that was not circumcised should be cut off Gen. 17. from the people Gen. 17. this is spoken of Adulti that contemned circumcision Alas children if they be not brought to baptisme and dye vnbaptized it is not their fault shall they bee damned for their fathers offence God forbid No the child shall not beare the fathers Ezek. 18. sinne Ezek. 18. Againe water is but a signe of the inward washing water it selfe doth not worke regeneration Though it bee sayd Except a man be borne of water and the Spirit Ioh. 3. 5. it is the Spirit that doth regenerate not the water and therefore a man may be regenerate without outward baptisme It is the speech of the Apostle Peter Baptisme saueth vs not that baptisme that putteth away the filth of the flesh viz. water but in that a good conscience maketh request to God 1. Pet. 3. 21. Indeed water is sayd to 1. Pet. 3. 21 wash vs from our sinnes sacramentally but not really nor substantially that the Spirit doth Nay in the effectuall and complete baptisme tollitur peccatum non quod non sit sed quod non obsit non quod ad actum sed reatum that is sinne is taken away not that sinne is not but that sinne is not to condemnation not in regard of the act but in regard of the guilt Seeing then that Iohn could but baptize with water and the Minister can giue but outward baptisme it is Christ Iesus that baptizeth with fire O let Parents bee instant with the Lord in prayer that as the Minister powreth on water so the Lord Iesus would powre on his grace that as they are instruments of their childrens first birth which is damnable through sinne so they may bee instruments of their second birth without which neither they nor their children shall euer sée the saluation of God And thus much for the Baptisme of our Lord and Sauiour IESVS CHRIST Secondly Christs immediate action after baptisme Hee straight came The second text out of the water In this a mystery is obserued to shew that all that are effectually baptized doe presently come out of their sinnes making no delay to serue the Lord in holinesse O that this were verified of all that are baptized Wée sée then what God requireth at our hands that when wee are little ones euen in our infancy for then wee are baptized wee sacrifice our soules and bodies to the seruice of our God for the Lord looketh for the Alpha of our liues as well as the O meg● for praise euen out of the mouth of Babes and sucklings All therefore that are baptized and yet deserre their repentance here are iustly reprehended It was Saint Augustines fault before his conuersion Ignosce pater ignosce pardon me O Lord pardon At noli modo but not now let mee sinne in my youth and pardon mee in mine age But let such persons beware of a double danger Suddaine death Hardnesse of heart Life is vncertaine who knowes it not Let vs therefore with the wise Virgins bee alwayes surnisht with the candle of faith and the oyle of loue in the Lampes of our soules that so we be not excluded the bride-chamber of glory Againe let all such desperate wretches know that custome in sinne hardens the heart of a sinner Qui non est bodie c●as n●nus aptus e●●t He that is not sit for repen●ance to day will be lesse to 〈…〉 euen as a ruinous house the longer it is let runne the more it will aske to repayre and as a nayle the more blowes a man gines it the harder will it be to pull out Let vs therefore while it is said to day resolue perfect obedience to our God while the Lord speaketh make him speedy answere Let there bee an eccho resounding in the thickets of our hearts as was in the heart of Dauid Psal 27. 8. Seeke ye my face thy Psal 2●● face Lord will I seeke that hauing regarded the Lord and his seruice in time the Lord may reward vs with his blessed fauour not for a time but for euer Thus much for Christs immediate action after Baptisme Thirdly Gods of Christs miraculous approbation testified by two by Vision by Voyce By Vision two wayes by the heauens appertion by the Spirits descension First by the heauens appertion And behold the heauens were opened Text. to him Behold Ecce loe This word is vsed in holy Writ 600. times a word euer placed before matters of great waight and moment whervpon Bernard calls it notam stelliferam a starry note pointing out extraordinary matters reuealed as the Star pointed out Christ to the Wisemen and stood ouer the house where he lay Sometimes placed before Gods inexpressible merctes as Esay 7. 14 Behold a Virgin shall conceine and Esay 7. beare a Sonne and his name shall bee called IMMANVEL Sometimes before his invtterable iudgements as Amos 8. Behold I will bring a famine vpon you not a famine of bread or of wine which of outward deaths I know none worse then staruing to death but a famine of hearing the Word of the Lord and ye shall goe from sea to sea and coast to coast as little account as you make of Sermons now and shall not finde it The exposition of this word you may finde by comparing Math. the 6. Math. 6. Luke 12 with Luke 12. for S. Mathew speaking of GODS prouidence for the Fowles of the ayre vseth the word Behold Behold the Fowles of the ayre Saint Luke speaking of the selfesame subiect vseth the word Consider Consider the Rauens c So that Behold is as much as Consider or seriously perpend what it is that shal be spoken The vse of this word is to stirre vp auditories diligently to attend to those things that make for Gods glory and the euerlasting peace of their owne soules The heauens were opened to him Text. The heauens haue béene opened to many as you may reade in the Scriptures of God 1. To Steuen martyred Act. 7. 56. Act. 7. 56. 2. To Peter in prayer deuoted Acts. 10. 3. To Christ transfigured Math. 17. 5. 4. To Christ ascended Acts 1. 9. 5. To Christ here baptized And when Iesus was baptized behold the heauens were opened to him By the heauens apertion many times is vnderstood the manifestation of the glory of God but héere it doth signifie visibilis coeli scissura● ita vt Iohannes perspicere potuit aliquid planetis austris superius the diuision of the visible heauens whereby Iohn saw somthing higher than the Planets and Starres and therfore

yeeres in the sight of God that is in respect of the eternity euerlastingnesse of God are as a day It is therfore spoken on this maner to expresse the eternity of God as if hee should say A thousand yeeres with m●n in respect of the eternity of God a●● but as a day for as many as are haue bin and euer shall be the dayes of man so many thousand yea so 〈…〉 th●n sand thousands yeeres is the C●●●nitie of God He is Alpha and Omega the First and the La●● before all beginnings and shall neuer haue ending Againe they alleage that place of Genesis In that day that thou eatest Gen. 2. 17. thereof namely of the forbidden fruit thou shalt dye the death Now saith the Heretique that Ob day they dyed not but liued many hundrd yeeres after Therfore by a day is vnderstood many hundred yeeres Ans But I answer that that day wherin ADAM did eate of the forbidden fruit euen that day did hee dye that is that day by sin he was separated from God then the which separation no death is greater for Vt v●●a corporis est anima 〈◊〉 v●●a 〈◊〉 est Deus Augustine tolle animam 〈◊〉 corpus tolle D●●●● m●ritur anima●●d est As the soule is the life of the body so God is 〈◊〉 of the soule take away the soule the body dieth take away God the Soule 〈…〉 So Adam that day dyed in Soule ●eing separated from the Lord yea that day Adam was made subiect to death in this life and in the life to come that day hee had the beginnings of death seazing vpon him for hee was presently cast out of Paradise into the ragged world he was cursed and all his posterity yea hee should haue gone to hell had not the second Adam broken the head of the subtill serpent that inticed him to sinne Yea the Thiefe vpon the Crosse had Paradise that day in his soule in which he suffered in body although hee had it not in so full measure as hee shall at the generall day when his Soule shall take vnto it the body againe Hodie to day thy soule with my soule shall be in Paradise that is in my Fathers Kingdome Where is now the Heretique that confoundeth particular iudgement Where is now the Epicure that thinketh there is no iudgement at all Where is now the ignorant Papist that dreameth of ●u●ga●ory and he that ●ondly thinketh that there is Limbus Patrum and Limbus Puerorum and where are those that imagin of a place of aboad betwéene Heauen and Hell I turne them altogether to the Hebrewes for wisedome in this Heb. 9. 27. point where they shall find that after death the soule of man is iudged Would Paul haue so earnestly desired Phil. 1. 23. to haue béen dissolued if he should not presently haue been with Christ He saith That in this world we see in 1 Cor. 13. 12. a glasse darkely Wée sée but Gods back-part as Moses did that is but a little of the fauor of God But then Ex. 33. 23. that is after this life ended wee shall see God face to face that is wée shall haue the full fruition of him Wée reade of Diues and Lazarus Luk. 19. 22 that after death the one was iudged to heauen the other to hell which is a Parable to signifie the truth of this particular iudgement And to conclude this point wée Eccl. 12. 7. read in Salomon That the dust returneth to the earth from whence it came and the Spirit to God that gaue it So that wée may learne from hence the vncertainty of the day of Iudgement The vse hereof Bernard Well saith Bernard Nihil certius morte hora mortis nihil ●●certius that is Nothing is more certaine then death and there is nothing more vncertaine then the houre of death Let euery Christian therefore that wisheth the saluation of his Soule at the day of death and Iudgement beware of security and carelesse liuing let no man deferre repentance and amendment of life lest death come when hee looketh not for it and so being vnprepared he be cast into hell fire The old world had 120. yeeres to Gen 6. 3. Ionas 1 ● Psa 9. 5 1● repent in Nini●e had 40. dayes to repent in Israel had 40 yéeres to repent in but thou O man knowest not how long thou hast to liue thou hast no lease of thy life thou art here to day gone to morrow when the houres of thy life bee ended and the glasse out-runne thou must away death waiteth for thee in euery place and at all times therefore w●ite thou for it playing the fiue wise Virgins that had the candle of saith burning in the lamps of their hearts nourished with Mat. 25. 4. the oyle of loue and workes Ierusalem because she could not be brought to repentance shee was destroyed many hundred thousands of her children were ●amisht to death and many hundred thousands taken captiue by Titus Vespatian the Roman 〈…〉 Emperour many cast to wilde beasts and deuoured The children of Israel because they were a stiffe-necked people and a froward generation and would not be brought to Repentance how many thousands of men lay slaine in the Wildernesse 600000. Males except Ioshua and Caleb The old world because they would Gen. 7. ●● take no warning and could not bee brought to amendment of life the s●oud drowned them all except faithfull Noah and his godly family And except thou repentest thou likewise shalt perish according to that of Luke Except yee repent yee shall all likewise Luk 13 3 perish Beware therefore and repent betimes F●lix quem ●●ciunt aliena pericula cautum Happy is hee whom other mens harmes doe make to beware Refuse no good motions knocking at the dore of thy heart but entertaine them willingly according to the counsell of Augustine If hee offereth Augustine thee grace to day saith hee take it make much of it for thou knowest not whether hee will offer the same to morrow Make no long tarrying to turne to the Lord and put not off from day to day the longer thou remainest in thy sinne the h●r●er it is for thee to repent for Qui 〈…〉 cra● Poet. minus aptus ●rit If thou b●●●l not fit for amendment to day thou wilt bee lesse fit to morrow Therefore while the Lord speaketh to thee make him answere while he calleth vnto thee let there be an eccho in thi●e heart as was in the heart of Dauid Seeke ye my Psal ●7 ● face thy face Lord will I seeke And while it is said to day harden not your hearts in no case deserve repentance for the day of death and iudgement is vncertaine as saith Chrysostome Poenitenti veniam spospondit sed viuendi in crastinum non spospondit that is The Lord hath promised pardon to him that repenteth but to liue till to morrow he hath not promised Obiect But some there

they goe thorow some narrow cranny or other to loosen their skinnes and cast them within foure twenty houres So shouldest thou put off the old man Col. 3. 9. with all his workes And to doe this thou must goe Per strictam rimam poeniten●iae id est Thorow the narrow cranny and straight gate of amendment Meditate therefore with the Iust Psal 1. 2. man in the Law of God day and night Let the candle of faith burne cleere in the lampe of thy heart and nourish it with the oyle of loue and good works Walke not in the counsell of the wicked Psal ● ● stand not in the way of sinners ●it not in the ●ea●e of the scornefull but runne in the Race of 〈…〉 well that liuing well thou maist dye well and after death eternally spéede well obtaining that blessednesse Blessed Apoc. 13. 14. are they that dye in the Lord. So run tha● ye may obtaine Text. And that wee may run in the race of Godlinesse one Caueat is exceeding necessary namely that wee auoid wicked company which will draw away our hearts from this Race Celestiall Qui ●angit picem co●●quinabitur Eccles 13. ab ●a id est Hee that toucheth pitch shall bee defiled therewith Cum sancto san●●us eris cum peruerso peruerter●s id est With the holy thou shalt bee holy and with the ●●●ward thou shalt learne frowardnesse for birds of a feather will flye together It was not lawfull for a lew to conuerse with a S●●ari●ane if an Hebrew did ●a●e with an Egyptian it was counted an abomination so must we ●o●nt it abomination and hold it a point of reprobation to frequent the company of damned hel-hounds and hellish miscreants Let vs therefore flye all occasion and euery apparition of euill let vs delight in the company of those that ●eare the Lord and excell in vertue Well therefore saith Seneca Cum illis versare qui te meliorem S 〈…〉 sunt facturi vel quos meliores ●ffi●er● possis id est Keepe company with those that may make thee better or whom thou maist make better I command you therfore brethren 2. Thes 3. 6 as saith S. Paul in the name of our Lord IESVS CHRIST that ye withdraw your selues from euery brother that walketh inordinately and not after the instruction which yee receiued from me And to conclude this point I giue euery Christian this good counsell with good King Salomon My sonne if Pro. 1. 10 11 1● c sinners doe entice thee consent thou not If they say Come with vs wee will lay wait for bloud wee will swallow vp the Innocent wh●le like a graue wee s●●ll finde all precious ri●he● and ●ill ou● ho●●● wi●h ●poyl● 〈…〉 n thy lo● among ●s we will haue all ●ne pu●se My s●nne w●lke not thou in the way with them refrain● thy foot from their path for their feet runne to euill and make haste to shead Iob. ●9 23. 24. bloud O that these my words were written O that they were written in a booke O that they were written with an iron pen in Lead or in stone for euer O that they were ingrauen in brasse Table of euery young mans heart that so bad company may not be his destruction So run that ye may obtaine Text. Secondly if we will run to obtain we must run Celer●●er seu feslinanter swiftly and speedily Vita breuis vita longa saith S. Bernard Bernard si ●●s ●d metam peruenire incipe celeriter currere id est The liff of man is very short the way to heauen is very long if therefore thou wil● obtaine thou must run exceeding swiftly We sée that those that runne in an earthly race and that but for a mean reward how swiftly doe they straine themselues to runne according to that of the Poet Qui cupit optatā cursu contingere metam Poet. Multa tulit fecitque miser suda●it alsit Id est Hee that desireth first to touch the Marke taketh much paines sweateth abundantly and runneth exceeding swiftly Euen so should we that wee may obtaine an euerlasting reward in heauen runne in the path of Gods Commandements being shod with the shooes of the Gospel of peace like Roes excéeding swiftly The senselesse creatures are a 〈…〉 king-glasse to all Christians in 〈…〉 respect The Sunne as sayth the Psalmist Psal ● like a Gyant reioyceth to run his race that is valiantly and swiftly swift in his motion and speedy in his race for in the space of 24. houres hee compasseth the earth round about that nothing is hidden from him and passeth from the one end of heauen to the other that nothing is wanting in him So the Lord our God hath set euery man his task vpon earth which is To worke out his saluation wi●l feare and trembling A great worke a short time a long way from Egypt to 〈…〉 from the gates of hell to the doores of heauen therefore like Gyants we ●ad need to runne swiftly lest we come too late and bee shut out of heauen like the fiue foolish aforesayd Virgins As the Sun in the heauens is a looking glasse vnto vs in this regard so is also the Son of God Christ ●esus aboue the heauens to be imitated o● vs all in this point Omnis Christi actio 〈…〉 ●●str● deb●t esse instru●●io id est Euery action of Christ ought to be a matter of imitation to vs Christians As hee was I●mensus maiestate in 〈…〉 bilis ●●r 〈…〉 so was hee in 〈…〉 is celer●●●●● id est As hee was ●●●at in Maiestie incomparable in 〈…〉 o was ●e ●lso incomprehen●●●le ●● celeri●●e and swiftnesse Hee 〈…〉 w●ought the wo●ke● of him that ●ent 〈…〉 y without ●●y delay in the world This Bridegroome Christ Iesus ●●●n as the Su●●e went forth out of the Chamber of the highest Heauens from the bosome of the Father and from the inuisibility of the Diuinity and descended downe to the earth and became Man and was like vnto Man in all things sinne onely excepted and valiantly in the Wildernesse pitched a field against Satan that old Serpent and roaring Lyon and ouerthrew him in the Desart breaking his wyly head and ouercomming his chiefest power fulfilled the Law in euery point and tittle satisfied Gods Iustice for vs appeased his wrath against vs purchased celestiall mansions to vs by offering himselfe in Sacrifice to the Lord of H●sts vpon the Crosse at Gol●o●ha for the sinnes of the whole world by his death and passion by vanquishing hell by conquering death by his glorious resurrection and ascension and by sending of the Holy Ghost Hee Io● 16. 28. went from the ●ather and came into the world And in short time yea in the space of 33. yeeres wrought the redemption of all beleeuers And left this world and went againe to his Iob 1● 28. Father The Spouse of Christ considering her Husbands great velocity celeritie Can. 2.