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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77851	A treatise of self-judging, in order to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper. Together with a sermon of the generall day of judgement. / By Anthony Burgesse pastor of Sutton-Coldfield in Warwickshire.	Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.; Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664. Demonstration of the day of judgement against atheists & hereticks.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1658 (1658)	Wing B5661; Thomason E1904_1; ESTC R209997	46,977	246

appointed a day And In the words Consider The Authour or Effici●nt Cause God hath appointed a day God that is Just Omniscient Omnipotent He hath appointed a day 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he hath setled it so that there is no repealing of it there cannot be any reversing of it though ungodly men would give worlds to have it cancelled 2. There is the Matter it self A Day Here is much dispute about the length Some say this Day is a thousand years wherein God will be judging of the world It is certain that there will be no proper Natural or Artificial Day as we account but seeing the Scripture hath not determined the duration who can define it 3. The End why such a Day is appointed and that is to judge Now God seemeth to take no notice of the impieties and ungodliness of wicked men for they at present eat drink and rejoyce in their iniquities but there is a Day wherein God will judge the world 4. The Object The World None is exempted great as well as small rich as well as poor the mighty as well as the weak whosoever is of the world shall be judged the godly as well as the wicked But differently The godly with a judgement of Discussion and Approbation the wicked with a judgement of Discussion and Condemnation 5. The Manner how in righteousness Righteousness is here put partly for Truth and partly for Justice whereby he hateth sinne and will punish it so that the opinion of the Socinians which saith there is no such thing as vindicative Justice essentially appertaining unto God as it maketh Christ Satisfaction needless so it openeth a wide door to all impieties Lastly There is the Judge By whom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Hebraism for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Grecism Now in that Christ is called here a man and a Judge only appointed a constituted Judge Hence those blasphemous Socinians deny the Essential Deity of Christ and make him only a constituted God but therefore is he called a man here not exclusively to God but because he shall judge the world in an external and visible manner which cannot be done by him as God for so he is invisible and whereas he is said to be appointed a Judge and this Judiciary Power is given him you must know that many things are said to be given unto Christ as Mediatour which doth not diminish his Deity but necessarily presuppose it as to be made a Judge of the whole world None can be so but he who is God as well as man for he must be Omniscient and Omnipotent who is this Judge whether indeed he be a Judge in both Natures as well in the Divine as Humane As also how the Humane Nature of Christ cometh to know all the secret things of mans heart is disputed between us and the Lutherans but I wave it only you must know Christ is not an inferiour or delegate Judge but supream and chief being God as well as man The Text being thus divided and opened this Doctrine or Corollary naturally floweth from it viZ. That God hath appointed a Day to judge all mankinde by Christ. This truth is an Article of Faith and having such powerfull influence upon our lives it is good to possess our mindes with the truth of it and our hearts with the terrour of it for both corrupt mindes and prophane hearts have withstood this main Fundamental point As the fool hath said in his heart by wish and affection that there is no God So they say in their hearts there is no Day of Judgement And as that King of France strictly forbad any so much as to mention death in his hearing he did so abhorre the thoughts of it so do many about the name of this Day The Devil cannot hurry men into hell as he did the Swine into the Sea untill the thoughts of this Day are wholly obliturated Therefore before Christs time and since there have been Doctrinal and Practical opposers of it Doctrinal so the Sadduces who denied the Resurrection and Immortality of the soul were necessitated also to deny the Day of Judgement And as Josephus observes The Sadduces though they were not so many as the Pharisees nor so reputed of for Religion yet they were the most potent the greatest in wealth and honour So that the denial of a Resurrection and the Day of Judgement was very suitable to their interest After Christs time though this Article be so plainly affirmed in the New Testament that no words can speak it more clearly yet there is a large Catalogue given by learned men of blasphemous and damnable Hereticks who do deny it and the Socinians in that they hold eternal torment to be the annihilation of the whole man do in effect also renounce this necessary Truth And as for Practical Opposers of it the Apostle Peter doth signally decipher some even in his dayes that were but scoffers and deriders at that truth which should have struck them into fear and tremblihg 2 Pet. 3.3 4. There shall in the last dayes come scoffers saying Where is the promise of his coming No doubt all prophane secure and atheistical sinners who say Let us eat and drink and to morrow shall be as this day though they do not expresly yet do really deny this Day or put it farre from them It is therefore Gods great mercy that whereas some main points in Divinity are not directly in Scripture but by consequence though the sense and matter be in Scripture yet not the words But for this Article we have in Scripture both the truth and the words For if there had been any evasion the corrupt heart of man would have sought out plausible inventions to have denied it This truth is clearly asserted both in the Old and New Testament so that the Scribe of the Kingdom of Heaven may bring out of his Treasure old and new and this is the more remarkable to have it in the Old where the truths of Heaven and Hell are more obscurely delivered Yea the Socinians look upon the Jews under that Legal Administration but as so many Swine desiring husks only and not knowing of the Manna of the Gospel That this Doctrine was believed of old yea presently after the fall appeareth by what Jude relateth in his Epistle vers 14. Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied saying Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his Saints to render vengeance And whether this was a reall or verbal Prophecy is disputed if verbal where is that Prophecy if it be lost May any part of the Canonical Scripture be lost And how did Jude come to know this was in Enoch's Prophecy These are Disputes which the practical matter I intend will not suffer me to treat of Here we have a plain Prophecy and that almost from the beginning That the Lord will come with ten thousand of his Saints to execute Judgement That it is