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mercy_n	good_a	sin_n	sinner_n	3,410	5	7.5691	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05759	A summons to iudgement. Or a sermon appointed for the Crosse, but deliuered vpon occasion in the cathedrall church of S. Paul London the 6. day of Iune, 1613. beeing the first Sunday of Midsommer Terme. By Thomas Baughe, student of Christ-Church in Oxford.	Baughe, Thomas, b. 1577 or 8.	1614 (1614)	STC 1594; ESTC S101085	31,180	66

descension for hee descended and came as it were backe from God to man He passed Libra in his Passion where his mercie and his merits ouer-wayed our misery and sinne And not to be although I might bee curious in all hee passed Leo in his resurrection when hee rose strong as a Lyon and ouercame the graue death and hell and that hellish roaring and deuouring Lyon Now then that Christ hath passed all these signes it is a signe that the world and all must passe away Alas then why doe some and some Christian men so liue as if there were no iudgement after this life Nay more as if they were Aduocates and Orators and Sophisters for the Diuell why doe they dispute against the iudgement of our God For say some why should God iudge man after his death since hee hath his iudgement at his death I answere S. August that in death wee haue a particular iudgement but God will also haue a generall Secondly S. Bern. in death we haue the iudgement of the Soule but God will iudge both Body and Soule Lastly S. Hiero. in death wee haue a secret doome but God will haue an open assise a publike Sessions and a manifest iudgement O then put not farre from you the euill day but so liue as if you were to make your personall appearance before your God this present day For be you sure if any heare mee this day and regard not in his heart the iudgment day that euen this Text these words this Sermon of iudgement will rise vp against them in the day of iudgement So I come to my fourth obseruation the end of Christs comming it is to iudgement 4 And here I note these things First the multiplicitie of iudgement Secondly the qualitie of Gods iudgement Thirdly the prodromi and fore-runners of the iudgement Lastly the followers and attendants on this iudgement There is a manifold and various iudgement Bonauen For as Bonauenture notes their is in God iudicium praescienti● a iudgement for those sinnes that were but intended Secondly there is iudicium causae a iudgment for the cause whence they sprang and the end wherevnto they tended Thirdly there is iudicium operationis a iudgement for euerie euill act committed And lastly iudicium approbationis a iudgement of euery iust punishment inflicted There is a iudgement of retribution for the good a iudgement of reprobation for the euill and a iudgement of discussion both for good and euill There hath beene already a iudgement of water S. Peter which did wash away sinners but not sinne and there shall bee a iudgement of fire which shall burne away both sinne and sinners Secondly I noted the qualitie of Gods iudgement and first it is full of Maiestie for the King of heauen shall come cum militia caelesti with all the armie troupe and traine of heauen He shall send forth as it were his Herald and Beedle and call a Conuocation of Angels and Saints heauen and earth to cull and seuer and marke out his sheepe from the goates Posuit thronum God is come as it were to the Kings Bench of his iustice hee hath opened a booke and another booke as it is in the Reuelation Reuel to wit the booke scientiae diuinae of diuine knowledge and science and a booke humana conscientiae of mans guilty and accusing conscience O wretched man saith a good Father tanta contra te fit praeparatio doth God so prepare so muster vp his men for thy iudgement and wilt thou either not feele thy imminent iudgement or if thou feele it not amend thy life that thou maiest escape in that fierie triall and fierce iudgement If our gracious King whom the King of Kings set for euer as a signet vppon his right hand should take his Peeres and Nobles Bishops and Iudges to iudge a rebell or a malefactor how would the countenance of that Traitor fall his tongue faulter his bodie tremble and his heart and spirit euen thawe and melt away And yet good God such is our frailtie that though we be traitors to our iudge our Sauior and our own soules yet we more awe feare a temporall then an eternall iudgement and are more daunted with him that can but kill the bodie and that for a time then with him that can destroy both bodie and soule and that for euer Secondly there is mercie in this iudgement For Christ will iudge vs not by the letter and rigor of the Law but as it were in a Court of Conscience Et Conscientia qualis sententia talis and our verdict shall bee giuen in according and agreeing with the Conscience wee haue within Neither will our mercifull iudge proceed against vs without witnesse nay not without a thousand witnesses and those no forraine aliene or strange witnesses but such as are in our owne bosome such as are more inward with vs then that soule which is within vs For vnlesse our conscience which is as the soule of the soule doe like another Cerberus barke within vs we shall escape that true Cerberus and dog of hell Besides our mercifull iudge will not condemne vs for one accuser for except Moses and the Law accuse vs S. Iohn as Saint Iohn hath it except Singuli errores our particular and singular errors single vs out and become singuli accusatores ech of them accusers of vs nay more except man himselfe doe condemne himselfe Christ who is God and Man will not condemne Nay more except Sin and Satan come with plaine direct and vnauoidable euidence against vs it shall yet maugre all their malice goe well with vs. And Lord how will that accuser of his brethren in that day accuse vs S. August S. Augustine brings him in thus inditing man Iuste iudex marke he doth not say Bone Deus good God to mooue clemencie and mercie but iust iudge to whet and sharpen him on to rigor and seueritie and the bill of his enditement runnes thus Indeed iust iudge these sinners were thine per gratiam by thy grace to them committed but they are become mine per culpam by that sin which they committed They were thine per misericordiam in thy mercie but they are become mine through their own misery They were thine per passionem through thy crosse and passion but they are become mine per persuasionem by my slie subtle perswasion They were thine creatione in the creation but they are become mine destructione since they haue brought themselues to their destruction They haue forsaken Sacramenta tua thy Sacraments haue followed blandimenta mea my allurements and therefore iust iudge since they belong to mee let them bee condemned with me Alas good Christians being thus arraigned at the barr of Gods iustice by whom will you bee tried By your God Why he must be iust by a Iurie of Angels and Saints why they cannot quit you For it is God that condemnes and who can iustifie by your owne hearts

being more weakned in the outward man bee made stronger to Christ who is God and Man And if any part of this house bee out of order wee must labour to order it and that well and in euery part Esay 38. Else when it shall bee said to thee as it was to Ezekias thou shalt die what wilt thou answere to the liuing God in that iudgement which must follow after death What will the hypocrite answere then who doth now couer Luciferum suum his pride vnder the mantle of humilitie when after death hee shall haue no part in Christ that humbled himselfe vnto the death what will the blasphemer answere then who now comes too neere vnto God with his lips and sweares him ouer from head to foot part after part when in the sweet mercies of his God hee cannot haue the least part What will the furious spirits and vnmanly manhood answere then who now count it their greatest grace to mangle and murther a man for a lie or a lesse disgrace and cannot stay till they wash their hands in bloud when they shall bee bard the benefit and blessing of Christ and his most precious bloud In this strict Visitation of the Lord the malitious cannot answere wee are men and cannot forgiue our enemies for they shall see Saint Steuen a man Acts not onely pardoning but praying for his enemies In this visitation the deuouring gluttons who doe nothing but feast and ryot cannot say wee were men and could not fast for they shall see Iohn Baptist a man S. Hierome whose life was a perpetuall fast What then shall wee answere Wilt thou say with Saint Paul nihil sum conscius I know nothing against my selfe alas thou canst not For as Saint Iames speakes S. Iames. in many things we offend all yet if thou couldst this will not acquit thee this will not iustifie Better were it with the Publicane to stand farre off S. Luke as knowing thy filthinesse to looke on the ground as confessing thy vnworthinesse to knocke thy brest as shewing thy pensiuenes to cry miserere Lord haue mercie as being guiltie and that on me a sinner as beeing laden with miserie Or wilt thou answere with Saint Peter Non noui hominem I know not the man when euer did I see Christ hungry and did not feede him or naked and did not cloth him alas good Christians Christ himselfe will reply thus against this answere inasmuch as you haue not fedde the hungry Christian you haue not fed Christ● in that you haue not clothed the naked Christian you haue not clothed me as then in him you haue not knowne me so now Nescio vos I know you not you shall not raigne with me And here like him in the Gospel that wanted his wedding garment wee must needes stand speechlesse and no maruell For if we be not able to answere sicknes when it speakes vnto vs how then shall wee answere saluti nostrae that iudge that Iesus who is the Lord both of sicknes and health If wee bee not able to answere death when it shall question and arrest vs how then shall we answere the God both of life and death But what wilt thou flie from answere to petition and come with a supplicat to the iudge Why in this dreadfull iudgement and day of miserie there is no place left for mercie yet doth a good father bring in thus a sinner and his iudge sweet Sauiour saith the sinner remember now thy bitter passion true saith the iudge but yet now there is nor time nor place for cōpassion yet Iesus let me come vnto thee no for in thy life thou saidst Depart thou maist not come neere vnto mee Yet Iesus hast thou but one blessing giue me a blessing before I part no thou art vnder the curse of the Law and therefore goe from mee you cursed Yet since wee are accursed let vs feele no other punishment then thy curses Yes as you haue burnt with the fire of lust so goe you cursed into the fire ah but who is able to endure this flame Let it not sweet Iesus continue long yes as you would haue sinned for euer so shall this fire last for euer Go into euerlasting fire Yet giue vs some comfortable mates and fellowes which may refresh vs in this flame no but as you were of your father the Diuell so goe into that flame which was prepared for the Diuell What now shall a soule thus surprized doe whither shall it flye from Christ vnto Christ from Christ as hee will bee our iudge vnto Christ as hee is yet our Iesus It is a terme among those that be graduates in the schoole Respondebit pro me Aristoteles that Aristotle the eye of nature and heart of Philosophie shall answere for them so wee that are blanke and dumbe of our selues haue no other anchor of hope but this Respondebit pro nobis Iesus that Iesus our blessed Sauior will intercede and mediate for vs. And sweete Iesus let thy wisedome answere for our folly thy humilitie for our pride thy meeknes for our cruelty thy righteousnes for our sinne Thou O Iesus art a lambe without any spot answere thou for vs who like Iacobs Lambes are full of spots And if God blessed Laban for Iacobs sake much more will hee giue vs a blessing for Iesus sake Gen. Ostende patri latus vulnera Present sweet Iesus to thy Father thy side S. Bernard that as thy side was opened so his heart may be open vnto vs present also thy bleeding wounds that those wounds may heale vs from those sinnes that like the bloud of Abel cry against vs. So I come to speake in a word of the last word of my text answere him 3 We are but vermiculi little wormes that crawle and creepe on the face of the earth and what can we answere him who is Lord both of heauen earth We are but vernaculae S. Bernard the vassals and slaues of sinne and what can wee answere him who in heauen earth and hell angels men and diuels hath punished and will punish sin The heauens melt the mountaines smoke the earth quakes and the Cherubins couer their faces from him and the foure and twenty Elders cast downe their crownes before him Et quid coenum coelo O then how shall we euer be able to answere him He is goodnes it selfe and we are euill hee is wisedome it selfe and wee are foolish hee is powre it selfe and wee are weake non sumus respondendo we cannot be able to answere him For if that readie Philosopher were daunted and silenced at the sight of Hannibal Plut. and his manly presence Dan. if the Prophet Daniel were dismaied at the view of an Angell how will the approch of him who is the God both of Angell and Man daunt and dismay vs When Christ came into the world to saue his people yet then those that came to take him fell down before him