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A94239	The high court of justice. A sermon preached before the judge of assise at Leicester, Julie 30. 1652. / By Antonie Scattergood rectour of Winwick in North-hampton-shire.	Scattergood, Antony, 1611-1687.	1652 (1652)	Wing S841; Thomason E1418_2; ESTC R210320	21,372	75

prosper but hee that confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercie So S. Peter Acts 3.19 Repent yee and bee converted that your sins may bee blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. Every sin wee committ God setteth it on our score till wee repent but penitent tears wash all out This Peter having found true by experience Mark 14.72 16.7 commendeth a Remedie with a Probatum est David Manasseh Marie Magdalene all Gods Saints have proved this course effectuall Let us take it Let us arraign ourselves at the barre of our own conscience rip-up our hearts and lives confess our sins with sorrow and shame condemn ourselves for them repent unfeignedly of them and turn from them and then wee shall find all blotted out at that day The Judge will take all on himself will plead for us and discharge us But if wee cover our transgressions as Adam by hiding our iniquity in our bosome Job 31.33 wee shall find that as the bushes could not hide him so neither shall the hills hide us For if wee neglect this duty assure wee ourselves the Judge will not but if wee forget our sins hee will remember them and if wee cast them behind our backs hee will set them in order before our faces Psal 50.21 Oh let us not put the Judge to this but let us save him the labour of judging by judging ourselves His judgement as yee have heard is terrible It is a fearfull thing to fall into the hands of the living God Hebr. 10.31 and who may stand in his sight when once hee is angry Psal 76.7 but our judging of ourselves is prositable For though haply for the present as Correction Hebr. 12.11 it bee not joyous but grievous yet afterwards it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those that are exercised thereby For so saith the Apostle If wee would judge ourselves wee should not bee judged that is wee should not bee condemned with the world 1 Cor. 11.31 32 This is one Use II. If yee would not bee judged yourselves then judge not others It is our Saviours caveat Matth. 7.1 Judge not that yee bee not judged yea and the Apostles argument in this very place Why dost thou judge thy brother or why dost thou set at naught thy brother for wee shall all stand before the judgement-seat of Christ. So it should bee read for there is an illative particle 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Originall which should not have been left out in the Translation This For ushereth-in a double argument against proud and Pharisaicall judging against busy and uncharitable censuring of other men one from the persons to bee judged at the last day another from the Judge 1. Wee shall all bee judged therefore leave meddling with thy brothers affairs and look well to thy self 2. Christ is the Judge of all therefore usurp not his office step not from the barre to the bench This would bee presumption and sacrilege the other folly and uncharitableness S. James argueth after the same maner Jam. 4.11 12. Speak not evill one of another brethren Hee that speaketh evil of his brother and judgeth his brother speaketh evil of the law and judgeth the law but if thou judge the law thou art not a doer of the law but a judge There is one Lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy who art thou that judgest another What absurd and sawcy impudence would it bee for prisoners who are all in the same condemnation to doom and damne one another Yet how common is this sin this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this putting an oar into other mens boats Who is there almost that is not more curious to enquire after others then carefull to mind his own duty more ready to say as Peter concerning John John 21.21 What shall this man do then as they to him Acts 2.37 What shall I do How usuall a thing is it to hear the Countrey-man blame the Citizen and the Citizen the Countrey-man and both the Clergy-man how ordinarie even among those that profess religion to find men spying motes and straining gnats in their brethren and yet bearing beams and swallowing camels in themselves Matth. 7.3 23.24 And truly for the most part such as are so quick-sighted abroad are as the Lamiae blind at home It is a good observation of Plutarch's that as it is a shrewd signe that they have a durty and an ill-ordered house of their own who love to gad much abroad so it is probable that they have foul consciences in their bosomes that love to peep much into other mens matters This wee gather from Matth. 7.3 No ey so good at spying a mote as that which hath a beam in it None so ready to find fault with the wast of the ointment as hee that was about to sell his Masters bloud John 12.4 5. Know this whoever thou art that busiest thy self with thy brothers accounts and thy Masters office that thy condemning of others will not excuse thy self I have heard it hath been so sometimes in Courts below that an offender hath escaped by impeaching his fellows but it will bee so far from standing thee in stead at the barre above that it will bee added to the bill of thy sinnes and enflame thy rekoning See what the Apostle saith Rom. 2.1 Thou art inexcusable O man whosoever thou art that judgest Leave prying therefore into other mens actions and passing thy sentence upon them and turn thine ey inward and examin thine own conscience and I warrant thee thou shalt find matter enough at home to find fault with and business enough to cast-up thine own accounts and no leisure or list at all to cast stones at others John 8.7 Obj. Doth not our Saviour say Matth. 7.16 20. By their fruits yee shall know them therefore judging his lawfull Or if judging bee not lawfull down with the Magistrate Resp When actions are notoriously evil we may reprove and censure them we ought to beware of the persons that committ them yea wee may safely judge the tree to be yet evill that is wont to bear such fruit But to determin the finall condition of such a tree and to say it shall bee feuell for hell is high and dangerous presumption For ought thou knowest God may better the nature of it and make it a plant of Paradise Judge nothing therefore before the time 1 Cor. 4.5 nothing rashly nothing harshly nothing without ground nothing against charity Such judging it is that the Scripture forbiddeth But this maketh nothing against publick judging nothing against the civile Magistrate whose calling is as clearly warranted by Gods Word as the exsecution thereof is profitable to humane society By mee Kings reigne and Princes decree justice By mee Princes rule and nobles even all the Judges of the earth Pro. 8.15 16. The Judge here in the text would not invade the Judges office Luke 12.14 and commandeth that Cesar have his due as

19.41 Let us now curb our lusts break off our sinful courses live in all holy conversation godliness 2 Pet. 3.11 Let us kiss the Son lest he bee angry wee perish when his wrath is kindled Then blessed are they and onely they that put their trust in him Psal 2.12 I am fallen on a third Use III. If Christ be Judge then lift up your heads comfort your hearts all true Christians Though his eyes bee as a flame of fire his voice as the sound of many waters Rev. 1.14 15. though a fiery stream issue come forth from before him Dan. 7.10 though at his coming the heavens shall pass away with a great noise the elements shall melt with fervent heat the earth the works that are therein shall bee burnt up 2 Pet. 3.10 though as wax melteth before the fire the wicked perish at the presence of the Judge yet let the righteous bee glad let them rejoyce yea let them exceedingly rejoice Psal 68.2 3. That great flame that shall devour all things else shall not touch them Let them not fear any thing neither Sin nor Satan nor Hell They have a Friend in the Court that is able to save them to the uttermost Heb. 7.25 The Judge himself that sitteth on the bench will bee their Advocate plead their cause Hee is their Brother Heb. 2.11 their Husband 2 Cor. 11.2 their Head Col. 1.18 their Redeemer Rev. 5.9 Hee shed his bloud for them on the Cross shall he not then speak a word for them on the tribunall Hee appeared at his first coming like us taking not onely our infirmities but our iniquities upon him that at his second coming wee might bee like him and appear with him in glorie Col. 3.4 1 Joh. 3.2 How should the consideration of this make us w th patience bear the Cross run to the Crown make us w th care to prepare for Christs coming with an earnest desire 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rom. 8.19 to wish and long look for it still crying Come Lord Jesus come quickly Rev. 22.20 It remaineth now that wee speak of the third observable in the text the Persons to bee judged Wee all Whence this doctrine III. The last Judgement shall bee generall It shall bee more general then Death Some have already escaped death as Enoch Elijah many shall escape it even all that shall bee found alive at Christs coming 1 Cor. 15.51 1 Thess 4.17 But none shall escape judgement All that are in the graves shall hear Christs voice Joh. 5.28 All shall appear before his judgement-seat 2 Cor. 5.10 whether Smal or Great Rev. 20.12 whether Quick or Dead Acts 10.42 whether Just or Unjust Acts 24.15 So that the Prophets Many Dan. 12.2 is to be expounded by the Apostles All here All shall awake out of the dust for All shall stand before the tribunall high low rich and poor one with another from him that sitteth on the throne to her that grindeth at the mill There shall bee no acception or exception of persons no sanctuarie or hiding place no bribe no appeal no appearing by Proxy or Atturney no pleading by Counsel but every man shall stand at the barre in his own person to give account of himself to the Judge Every mans actions shall bee scanned and sifted weighed in the balance of the Sanctuarie Every one shal be tried judged by Gods Law concerning every thing that hee hath done in his body whether good or bad 2 Cor. 5.10 Yea not onely deeds but words shall bee accounted for Matth. 12.36 yea thoughts Acts 8.22 Ro. 2.16 yea not onely commissions of evil but omissions of good not onely the wasting of our substance with the Prodigall but the not employing of our talent with the slothfull servant Thou must bee reckoned with for all that God hath bestowed on thee for all the gifts of nature for all the means of grace for every Sabbath thou hast enjoyed for every Sermon thou hast heard for every blessing received for every correction inflicted for the time that God hath lent thee the opportunitles of well-doing Thou shalt bee questioned how thou hast used the membres of thy body how thou hast employed the faculties of thy soul how thou hast gotten and how thou hast spent thine estate how thou camest into and how thou hast discharged thy calling Every man shall bee summoned in particular to give an account of his stewardship Luke 16.2 An exact and strict survey shall bee taken of all that wee have done spoken thought of every roving cogitation idle word unadvised action of every duty omitted sinne committed creature abused means neglected time misspent Here wee take notice but of a few matters amiss in our lives but at that day the least sinnes shall bee made to appear before all the world For as in the beams of the Sun the least motes are discerned so shall the smallest peccadillos bee discovered by the brightness of Christs coming And if the least how much more the greatest If for every idle word that men speak they shall give account in the day of judgement Matth. 12.36 how much more for Lying Swearing Forswearing Cursing Blaspheming If wee must bee answerable for the utmost farthing how much more for Covetousness Oppression Gluttony Drunkenness Theft Adulterie Murder Rebellion The consideration of this strict tribunall maketh the godly themselves oft to tremble and quake Quoties diem illum considero toto corde contremisco saith Hierome And if holy men bee afraid oh what cause have profane ones to bee astonished If the righteous searcely bee saved where shall the ungodly and sinner appear 1 Pet. 4.18 How will the faces of all wicked wretches bee covered with shame when those abominable sinnes which they now dig deep to hide from the ey of the world shall all bee made manifest to men and angels If yee ask mee now as they Acts 2.37 What shall wee do that wee may stand with comfort before the judgement-seat of Christ I answer I. Let us all judge our selves unpartially II. Let none judge others rashly III. Let Magistrates judge justly I. Such is the Knowledge and Power of the Judge as yee have heard that it will bee altogether impossible for any man to hide himself from him Neither the mountains nor the waves will bee able to cover thee from him that will command the Sea the Earth Death and Hell to give-up their dead Rev. 20.13 But though thou canst not conceal thy person yet which is far better thou mayest conceal thy sins from the ey of the Judge by confessing and forsaking them now 1 Joh. 1.9 Psal 32.5 If thou discover them now they will bee covered then If in the petite Court of thine own Conscience thou call thy self to accompt and condemn thy self for thy transgressions thou shalt bee acquitted at the generall Assises Hear the Wise mans words Prov. 28 13. Hee that hideth his sins shall not