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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27038	A sermon of iudgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Maior and aldermen of the city of London, Dec. 17, 1654 and now enlarged / Rich. Baxter.	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1655 (1655)	Wing B1408; ESTC R13294	85,241	312

the Example of a Godly Conversation and they did but deride us they were readier to mark every slip of our lives and to observe all our Infirmities and catch at any Accusation that was against us then to follow us in any work of holy obedience or care for our everlasting peace The ●ord knows it is a most heavy thing to consider now that poor neighbors must be fain to come in against those that they love so dearly and by their Testimony to Judge them to perdition Oh heavy case to think of that a master must witness against his own servant Yea a husband against his own wife and a wife against her husband yea parents against their own children and say Lord I taught them thy word but they would not learn I told them what would come on it if they returned not to thee I brought them to Sermons and I prayed with them and for them I frequently minded them of these everlasting things and of this dreadful day which now they see But youthful lusts and the temptations of the flesh and the Devil led them away and I could never get them throughly and soundly to lay it to their hearts Oh you that are parents and friends and neighbors in the fear of God bestir you now that you may not be put to this at the day of Judgement Oh give them no rest take no nay of them till you have perswaded their heart from this world to God lest you be put to be their condemners It must be now that you must prevent it or else never now while you are with them while you and they are in the flesh together which will be but a little while Can you but now prevail with them all will be well and you may meet them Joyfully before the Lord 3. Another witness that will testifie against the ungodly at that day will be their sinful companions those that drew them into sin or were drawn by them or joyned with them in it Oh little do poor drunkards think when they sit merrily in an Ale-house that one of them must bear witness against another and condemn one another If they thought of this me thinks it should make them have less delight in that company Those that now joyn with you in wickedness shall then be forced to witness I confess Lord I did hear him swear and curse I heard him deride those that feared the Lord and make a jest of a holy life I saw him in the Ale-house when he should be hearing the Word of God or reading or calling upon God and preparing for this day I joyned with him in fleshly delights in abusing thy creature and our own bodies Sinners look your companions in the face the next time you are with them and remember this that I now say that those men shall give in Evidence against you that now are your associates in all your mirth Little thinketh the fornicator and lustful wanton that their sinful mates must then bear witness of that which they thought the dark had concealed and tell their shame before all the world But this must be the fruit of sin It s meet that they who encouraged one another in sin should condemn one another for it And marvail not at it for they shall be forced to it whether they will or no Light will not then be hid They may think to have some ease to their consciences by accusing and condemning others When Adam is questioned for his sin he presently accuseth the woman Gen. 3.12 when Judas his conscience was awakened he runs to the Pharisees with the money that drew him to it and they cast it back in his own face and say See thou to it what is that to us Mat. ●7 4 5 6. Oh the cold comfort that sinners will have in one another at that day and the little pleasure that they will find in remembring their evil waies Now when a fornicator or a worldling or a merry voluptuous man is grown old and cannot act all his sin again he takes pleasure in rem●mbring and telling others of his former folly what he once was and what he did and the merry hours that he had but then when sinners are come to themselves a little more they will remember and tell one another of these things with another heart Oh that they did but know now how these things will then affect them 4. Another witness that will then rise up against them will be the very Devils that tempted them They that did purposely draw them to sin that they might draw them to Torment for sin They can witness that you harkned to their Temptations when you would not harken to Gods Exhortations They can witness that you obeyed them in working Iniquity But because you may think the Accusers Testimony is not to be taken I will not stand on this Though it is not nothing where God knoweth it to be true 5. The very Angels of God also may be witnesses against the wicked Therefore are we advised in Scripture not to sin before them Eccl. 5.6 1 Cor. 11.10 1 Tim. 5.21 I charge thee before the Elect Angels c. They can testifie that they would have been ministring Spirits for their good when the wicked rather chose to be slaves to the Spirit of malitiousness The holy Angels of God do many a time stand by you when you are sinning They see you when you see not them They are employed by God in some sort for your good as well as we And as it is the grief of Ministers that their labors succeed not so may we suppose that according to their state and nature it is theirs For they that Rejoyce in heaven at the Conversion of one sinner may be said to sorrow or to lose those joyes when you refuse to be converted These noble Spirits these Holy and Glorious attendants of Christ that shall wait upon him to Judgement will be Witnesses against Rebellious sinners to their Confu●ion Sirs you have all in you naturally a fear of Spirits and invisible powers Fear them aright least hearkening to the deceiving Spirits and refusing the help of the Angels of God and wilfully sinning before their faces you should cause them at that day to the terrour of your souls to stand forth as witnesses against you to your Condemnation 6. Conscience it self will be a most effectual witness against the wicked at that day I before told you it will be a Discerner and force them to a Confession But a further office it hath even to witness against them If none else in the world had known of their secret sins conscience will say I was acquainted with them 7. The Spirit of Christ can witness against the ungodly that he oft moved them to Repent and Return and they rejected his motions that he spoke to their hearts in secret and oft set in with the Minister and often minded them of their case and perswaded them to God but they resisted quenched and