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A25250	Ultima, = the last things in reference to the first and middle things: or certain meditations on life, death, judgement, hell, right purgatory, and heaven: delivered by Isaac Ambrose, minister of the Gospel at Preston in Amoundernes in Lancashire.; Prima, media, & ultima. Ultima.	Ambrose, Isaac, 1604-1664.	1650 (1650)	Wing A2970; ESTC R27187	201,728	236

of this sin it is mine yours Ours every ones What is it but Sin which our Saviour purged this is that ill humour derived from our Parents inherent in our selves imputed to our Saviour and therefore saith the Prophet he bare the sins of many Esay 53.12 Esay 53.12 to who● agrees the Apostle that he his own self bare our sins in his own body 1 Pet. 2.24 1 Pet. 2.24 What a load then lay on his shoulders when all our sins the sins of all the world were fastened upon him one mans sin is enough to sink him into hell and had not our Saviour intervened every one of us had known by a wofull experience how heavy sin would have been upon the soul of each man but O happie we the snare is broken and we are delivered To prevent sins effect Christ Jesus hath purged and washed it away And is this all the matter wherefore our Saviour suffered was sinne all the disease of which he laboured when he had by himself purged yes it was all and if we consider it rightly we may think it enough to cause sufferings in him when merely for its sake God was so wroth against us O loathsome sinne more ugly in the sight of God then is the foulest Creature in the sight of man he cannot away with it nor so righteous are his wayes could he save his own Elect because of it but by killing his own sonne Imagine then what a sicknesse is sinne when nothing but the bloud of the sonne of God could cure it imagine what a poyson is sin when nothing but a spirituall Methridate compounded and confected of the best bloud that ever the world had could heal it we need not any further to consider its nature but onely to think of it how hatefull it was to God how hurtfull to his Sonne how damnable to men Vse And was it Sinne he purged this may teach us how hatefull sinne is that put him thus to his Purge Every sinne is a nail a thorn a spear and every sinner a Jew a Judas a Pilate howsoever then we may seek to shift it on others yet are we found the principall in this act our selves you know it is not the Executioner that properly kils the man sin onely is the murtherer yea our sinnes onely are the crucifyers of the Lord of glory yea if you will please to hear me I will yet say more our sinnes onely did not crucifie him but do crucifie him afresh Heb. 6.6 Heb. 6.6 and herein how farre do we exceed the crueltie of the Jews then his body was passible and mortall but now it is glorified and immortall they knew not what they did 1 Cor. 2.8 for had they known they would not have crucified the Lord of glory but we know well enough what we do and say too they buried Christ in the earth and the third day he rose again from the dead but we through sinne so bury him in oblivion that not once in three dayes three weeks he ariseth or shineth in our hearts O shame of Christians to forget so great a mercie O sinne past shame to crucifie afresh the Sonne of God! Think of it beloved sin is the death of Christ and would you not hate him that kills your brother your father your Master your King your God beware then of sinne that does it all at a blow and if you are tempted to it suppose with your selves that you saw Christ Jesus coming towards you wrapt in linnens bound with a kercher and crying after you in this gastly manner beware take heed what you do once have your sinnes most vilely murthered me but now seeing my wounds are whole again do not I beseech you rub and revive them with your multiplyed sinnes pity pity me your Jesus save me your Saviour once have I dyed and had not that one death been sufficient I would have dyed a thousand deaths more to have saved your souls why then do you sin again to renew my sufferings O my Saviour who will not leave to sinne that but hears thy voice in the gardens Cant. 7.13 lo the companions hearken unto thy voice cause me to hear it it is I that have sinned and if this be the fruit of it let me rather be torn of beasts be devoured of Worms be violently pulled or haled with racks then wittingly or wilfully commit a sinne Secondly he purged sinne whose but our sinne and this tels us of the universality of this gracious benefit together with its limitation First of the universality he tasted of death for every man Heb. 2.9 Heb. 2.9 and he gave himself a ransome for all men 1 Tim. 2.6 1 Tim. 2.6 and he purged our sinnes saith my Text what ours onely no saith the Apostle he is the propitiation not for our sinnes onely but for the sinnes of the whole world 1 John 2.2 1 John 2.2 You will say all do not actually receive the fruit of his death you say indeed truly but I wonder through whose default Our blessed Saviour what is he but like a Royall Prince who having many of his subjects in captivity of thraldome under a Forrein enemie pays a full ransome for every one of them and then sending forth his Embassadours he woes them to return to their home and to enjoy their libertie some there are that reject the offer they will rather serve the enemy then return to the freedome of their Lord and are these all the thanks they give their Redeemer O sweet Saviour he made upon the crosse a full perfect and sufficient sacrifice oblation and satisfaction for the sinnes of the world but not all receive the benefit because many by their own demerit have made themselves unworthy and yet howsoever some despise liberty Num. 11.23 is the arm of the Lord shortned no see his arms spread on the Crosse to embrace all and here is the universality of this gracious benefit Vse The use hereof is full of comfort if any man any sinner will now come in with a truly penitent soul thirsting heartily for Christ Jesus and resolve unfeignedly to take his yoke upon him there is no number or notoriousnesse of sinne that can possibly hinder his gracious enterment at Gods mercy seat O then how heinously do they offend who refuse to take Christ Jesus offered thus universally if you ask who are they I answer they are offenders on both hands First those that too much despair secondly those that too much presume to begin with the latter Some there are that howsoever Christ and heaven and salvation be offered unto them yet so close do they stick and adhere to their sinnes that they are loath to leave them and they hope God is so mercifull that they can have Christ and their sinnes too Alas deceive not your selves though the dearnesse and sweetnesse and freenesse and generality of Christs offers be a doctrine most true we propound it unto you as a

his own knowledge Jer. 10.14 Jer. 10.14 Blessed God! what a world of evils are within us Orat. Manass We have sinned O Lord above the number of the sands of the seas our transgressions O Lord are multiplied our offences are exceeding many Many sure that contain these streams and yet how many are the rivolets that issue from them There be evils of weakness against God the Father whose attribute is Power there be evils of ignorance against God the Son whose attribute is Wisdome there be evils of malice against God the holy Ghost whose attribute is Love Can we adde any more Mark but our thoughts our delights our consents to evil or if these be not enough see a swarm indeed that continually assault us anger hatred envy distrust impatience avarice sacriledge pride despair presumption indevotion suspition contention derision exaction give me leave to breathe in the numbring of this bedroll perjurie blasphemie luxury simony perplexitie inconstancy hypocrisie apostasie here is a number numberless gross sins little sins known sins hid sins Who can understand his errours O Lord cleanse me from my secret faults Psal 19.12 Psal 19.12 The dayes of life are few but the evils God knows how many he that would number them may tell a thousand and yet not tell one of a thousand Can the proudest Pharisee justifie himself Remember the swarms that lurk in thy venomed conscience number thy wanton words thy carnal thoughts thy unchristian gestures thy outragious sins come they not in by troops and herds thicker then the frogs in Egypt well may we stand amazed at their number and as convicted prisoners cry for that Psalme of mercie Miserere mei Lord have mercy on us most evil wretched sinners Thus you see Beloved how evil be our dayes sith every day we do evil then to wander no further now we have found such a world of them will you see them in a map here is evils originall evils actuall evils of omission evils of commission evils of the body evils of the soul well may we pray Deliver us from evil what so many evils of sin now the Lord deliver us Vse 1 Remember your selves and who will not sing Davids burthen Psal 38.4 Mine iniquities are gone over my head and as a weighty burthen they are too heavy for me to bear There is in sin saith Austin both weight and number and is any one so dull or dead that he is sensible of neither go ye to the balance and what a mass lies upon you enough and enough again to sink you down to hel go ye to the count and what a swarm comes upon you a million and a million of millions to keep you out of heaven when all your sins must be called to account before that Judge of the world what account shall be given of this account that is endless see them like the stars onely these set and rise but your sins rise and never set see them like your hairs onely these shed and lose but your sinns grow ever more and more see them like the sands onely these are covered with the flouds and waters but your sins lie still open and are ever before you think on these stars these hairs these infinite innumerable sands of sins and when all is done let your tears be the floud to hide them over Psal 6.6 It was Davids saying Every night wash I my bed and water my couch with my tears if your daies be evil let not your night slip without repentance go not to bed but beat your breast with the Publican lay you not down but withall lift up your voice Lord be mercifull unto me a sinner How sweet a rest doth that night bring whose sleep is prevented with the consideration of our sins though we are begirt with a thousand devils this would be as the watch of our souls and the safeguard of our persons Vse 2 But I must speak with a difference I stand over some of you who are so far from * When I speak thus of tears or repentance I argue not a causality or merit onely I inferre a necessarie presence of repentance in those that obtain pardon of sin All that I positively affirm is this that repentance is the means or way which God hath appointed antecedently to to pardon Act. 3.19 Jer. 4.14 washing away your sins with tears that I fear you never took much notice of the multitude of your sins should I tel you that you brought sin enough with you to damn you when you first came into this world should I tell you that you have everie one committed thousands and thousand of thousands of actuall sins and yet any one of those thousands is enough to send you packing to hell You would think these strange points but if God be true there is no sin of man either originiall or actuall either of omission or commission either of the bodie or of the soul which without repentance will not produce eternall death and therefore in Gods fear take notice of your sins set before you the Commandments of God and thereto comparing your life you may find out such a catalogue of your sinnes that will throughly convince you of your damnable estate You may ask to what end should we be so carefull to find out our sins I answer to a very good end both in respect of the Unregenerate Regenerate First in respect of the unregenerate this is the first step of repentance this is one of those paces that will lead you towards heaven You may be sure without repentance no heaven without confession no repentance and without finding out sin there can be no confession It were good therefore and a singular means to bring you out of corruption into Christianity and out of the state of nature into the kingdome of grace that you would everie one of you have a Catalogue of your sins If you will not I can tell you who will there is an adversary called Sathan the adversary of mankind that stands at your back and I may say figuratively with a scroll in his hands wherein he writes down your sins not a day passeth on but he can easily tell how many sins you have committed all day Lord that men would think on 't Are you about any sin at that very time Sathan is registring the act and time and place and everie circumstance now wo wo to man that lets Sathan do his work for him Would you do this your self would you but study for a Catalogue of your own sins that so you might confess them to God and repent you thereof this would be a dash in the devils book so that he could not have whereof to accuse you but if still you go on securely in sin and never go about to call your sins to remembrance a day will come wo worth the day when that roring Lion shall set all your sins and transgressions in order before you then shall you read

that it might shine in heaven But this was but the beginning of his dayes now they are past they have been Go a little further we left him at school but how learned he Christ 1. Cor. 2.2 Psal 8.2 and him crucified this was the knowledge taught him by the Spirit of God in a wonderfull manner Out of the mouthes of babes and sucklings hast thou O God ordained strength To consider again his religious words his upright actions his hearty devotions his fear of God all then concluded as they did of John Luke 1.66 What manner of child shall this be No question the grace of God was with him If I should instance in any of these his frequencie in prayer his reading of Scripture his reasoning with others to get knowledge to himself we may wonder at Gods power in this childs poor weakness Excuse me whiles I tell nothing but truths and I hope they will tend to our own instruction In the morning he would not stir out of doors before he had poured out his prayers at noon he would not eat any meat before he had given the Lord thanks at night he would not lie down on his bed before he had kneeled down on his knees we may remember those times when sometimes that he had forgotten this dutie no sooner had he been in bed but up he would have got again and so kneeling down on his bare knees covered with no garment but his linens he would ask God forgiveness for that sinne of forgetfulness neither have his brothers escaped without his reprehension for had they eat any meal or meat without a grace his check was usuall Dare you do thus unless God be mercifull unto us this bit of bread might choke us The wise sentences the religious words which often dropt from his mouth like honey can we remember them and not grieve at the death of him that spake them What comfort had we in those dayes What sorrow have we to think those dayes are done Surely we cannot speak it without bitterness of soul they are gone they have been Thus he lived will you know how he died First a lingring sickness seized upon him against which to comfort him one tells him of possessions that must fall to his portion And what are they said he I had rather have the Kingdome of Heaven then a thousand such inheritances Thus he minds Heaven and God so minding him presently sent him his sickness that should summon him thither And now how should I repeat his words with the life that he spake them dying No sooner had God struck his body with that fatall sickness but he asks and needs would know his souls estate I have heard of the soul said he but what is the soul the mind he questions and questioning answers better I fear then many too many gray headed amongst us but the answer given how the soul consisted of the Will and the Understanding he sayes he is satisfied and now understands better then he did before Another comes to him and then he begins another question now he knows the soul he desires yet to know further How his soul may be saved O blessed soul how wisely couldst thou question for thine own souls good The answer given by faith applying Christs merits he heard it and had it anon telling them who before had taught it him Resolved in these questions he questions no further but will now answer them that go about to question him One asks him whether he had rather live or die he gives the answer and not without Pauls reason I desire to die said he that I might go to my Saviour O blessed Spirit bow didst thou inspire into this child thy wisdome and goodnesse This done his pain begins again to afflict him and this occasions another thus to question him whether he would rather still endure those pains or forsake his Christ Alas said he I know not what to say as a child for these pains might stagger a strong man but I will strive to endure the best I can Upon this he presently calls to mind that Martyr who being in prison Thom. Bilney the night before his burning put his finger in the candle to know how he could endure the fire O said he had I lived then I would have runne through the fire to have gone to Christ Sweet resolution of a silly child who can hear and not wonder wonder and not desire to hear that he may wonder still Blessed child hadst thou lived that we might have wondred at thy wisdome but his daies were determined and now is the number turned to this poor cypher they are not they have been I cannot leave him yet his sicknesse lasts long and at least three dayes before his death he prophesies his departure and how strange a prophecie not onely that he must die but fore-telling the very day On the Lords day said he look to me Neither was this a word of course which you may guesse by his often repetition every day asking till the day came indeed What is Sunday come At last the lookt-for day came on and no sooner had the Sun beautified that morning with his light but he falls into a trance What think ye meant his blessed soul whilest the body it self used such an action his eyes were fixed his face chearfull his lips smiling his hands and arms clasping in a bow as if he would have received some blessed Angel that there was at hand to receive his soul but he comes to himself and tells them how he saw the sweetest boy that ever eyes beheld and bids them Be of good chear for he must presently go with him One standing near as now suspecting his time of dissolution bids him say Lord into thy hands I commend my spirit Psal 31.5 Yes said he Into thy hands Lord I commit my spirit which is thy due for why thou hast redeemed it O Lord my God most true Who will not believe this child now sings in Heaven that so soon had learned this Davids Psalm on earth I cannot hold my self nor will I hold you long but how may I omit his heavenly ejaculations Beloved I beseech you pardon me whilest I speak his words and I will promise you to speak no word but the very same formally which were his own Pray pray pray nay yet pray and the more prayers the better all prospers God is the best Physician into his hands I commend my spirit O Lord Jesus receive my soul Now close mine eyes forgive me father mother brothers sister all the world Now I am well my pain is almost gone my joy is at hand Lord have mercy on me O Lord receive my soul unto thee Where am I whilest I speak these words Blessed Saint now thou singest in Heaven God hath bid thee welcome the Angels are hugging thee the Saints rejoyce with thee this day is the Crown set on thy head this day is the Palm of victory in thy hand

adornas Hugo de claustro animae not so much for the body as for the souls good to this purpose saith Hugo Why cloath we the body in silks which must rot in the grave and adorn not the soul with faith and good works which one day must appear before God and his Angels O think of this day this night this hour of death for then must your Souls be taken from you Thus far you see the rich mans arrest God injoyns it death serves it the time was this night and the party is his Soul God give us grace to provide our souls that when death arrests we may be ready and then O God have thou mercy on our Souls Shall be required THe originall is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They shall require it wherein you have the Sergeants Arrest The Sergeants They and the arrest it self They require his soul Wee 'll first take a view of the Sergeants They who not God he knows not sinners what should he do with a drunken profane covetous sensuall soul he that never so much as thought on God in this life will God accept of the commending of his soul to him at his death no the Lord of heaven will none of it he that forsook God is justly forsaken of God See the true weight of this balance he would not receive Gods grace into his soul and God will not receive his graceless soul into heaven But who then will the Angels take it no they have nothing to do with the soul of a dying sinner the Angels are onely porters for the souls of the just Poor Lazarus that could neither go nor sit nor stand for sores it is he must be carried on the wings of Angels but for this rich man not the lowest Angell will do him poorest service Who then will the Saints receive it no they have no such commission to receive a soul that blind opinion which every one may blush at that Saint Peter should be heavens porter and that none may go in but to whom he will open if it be true why may not a Saint help a departing soul Away with this dreaming folly not Peter nor Paul nor all the Saints of heaven have any such priviledg if God will not hear us what will our prayers do to Saints Heaven is too far off they cannot hear or were it nearer they will not cannot help it is God must save us or we perish ever Who then are the Sergeants not God nor Saints nor Angels no there is another crew Death and Devils stand in a readiness and they are the parties that arrest this prisoner Stay what would death have the soul cannot die and for the body no matter who receives it O yes there is a death of the soul as well as of the body I mean not such a death whereby it may be annihilated but a second death that shall ever accompany it this is a death of the soul that will always keep it in deaths pangs But not to speak of this death there is another death temperall that shall sever the soul and body each from other these two twins that have lived together since their first espousall these two lovely ones that were made and met and married by the hands of God these two made one till death them depart and make them two again now is their rufull time of divorce when death comes he gives over the body to the grave and arrests the soul to appear in presence before Gods high Tribunall Such a Bayliffe hath now laid hands on this rich mans soul when he least thought on 't death comes on a sudden and arrests his person O wretched worldling who is this behinde thee call we this Gods Sergeant What grim ugly monstrous visage is this we see have ever any of you seen the grisly picture of death before you how was it but with hollow eyes open skull grinning teeth naked ribs a few bones knit together with dry strings as presenting to your eyes the most deformed image of a man in moldes But what 's that in his hands an hour-glass and a dart the one expressing the decreasings of our life and the other deaths stroke that he gives us in our death Such emblemes are most fit to express mortality and imagine such a thing to arrest this rich man would it not terrifie him whilest looking back death suddenly claps him on his shoulder away he must with this messenger all the gold and pearl of East and West cannot stay him one hour now rich man what avails all thy worldly pleasure Hadst thou in thy hands the reigns of all earthly kingdomes wert thou exalted as the Eagle Obad. 1.4 and thy nest set among the starrs yet all this and whatsoever else thou canst imagine is not worth a button where did that man dwell or of what cloth was his garment that was ever comforted by his goods or greatness in this last and sorest conflict See worldling death requires thy soul no bribe will be taken no entreatie will prevail no riches rescue nothing at all redeem death death is impartiall But O horrour death is not all see yet more Sergeants Devils and Dragons are about thy bed and these are they that will hurrie away thy soul to hell How Devils O worldling stay thy soul and never yield it better to die a thousand deaths then to leave it in their hands but alas thou canst not choose thy last hour is come and here is neither hope nor help nor place of any longer terrying See but the misery of a miserable soul what shall it do whither shall it fly from these damned Furies would they take it and teare it into nothing it were somewhat tollerable but to teare it in pieces and never to make end of tearing to give it torments without all patience or resistance this is that load which it cannot bear and yet O extremity it ever ever must be born Think on this O my soul and whilest thou hast a minutes stay in this body call upon God to prevent this arrest of Devils was it not think yee a terrour to this rich man when so many hell hounds waited for his soul we read of one man Hartmundus Schedel in vit Pap. who being took away with a Devill through the air was said so to roar and yell that many miles distant his noise was heard to many a mans trembling And if a soul had but the organs of a sound what a shreek would it make being seized on by a Devil witness the cries of many desperate souls when as yet they are safe in their beds how do they roar and rage how do they call and cry Help help us save us deliver us from these fiends about us these are those evening wolves enraged with hellish hunger these are those ramping Lyons ever ready to devour our souls these are those walkers up and down the earth which are now come and entred into this rich mans lodging

it was committed till Dooms-day again yet then shall it out with a witnesse and be as legible in thy forehead as if it were writ with the brightest stars or the most glistring Sun beam upon a wall of chrystall Vse 2 As you mean the good of your souls amend your lives call your selves to account while it is called to day search and examine all your thoughts words and deeds and prostrating your selves before God with broken and bleeding affections pray and sue that your names may be writ in heaven in that Book of life This will be the joy of your hearts the peace of your souls the rest of your minds yea how glad will you then be to have * It is a question whether the sinnes of Gods people shall be manifested at that day some say they shall be manifested not for their ignominy or confusion but onely that the goodnesse and grace of God may be made the more illustrious and for this they urge Matth. 12.36 2 Cor. 5.10 Revel 20.12 Others say they shall not be manifested 1. Because Christ in his sentence onely enumerates the good works they had done but takes no notice of their sins 2. Because this agrees best with those expressions that God blotteth out our sins and that they are thrown into the bottome of the sea 3. Because Christ is their bridegroom friend advocate and how ill would it become one in such relations to accuse or lay open their sins which of these opinions is truest is hard to say Heb. 6.10 all these books laid open by this means I speak it to the comfort of all true hearted Christians shall your obedience and repentance and faith and love and zeal and patience c. come to light and be known God is not unrighteous to forget your works of labour and love No all must out especially at that day when the books shall be open our works manifested and as we have done so must we be rewarded for then he shall reward every man according to his works The books are opened and now are the matters to be examined there is first a view and then a tryall The Law-book whereby we are tryed contains three leaves Nature the Law and the Gospel the Gentiles must be tryed by the first the unbelieving Jews and Gentiles by the second and the faithfull Jews and Gentiles by the last Those that confesse no God but nature must be judged by the law of nature those that confesse a God no Christ must be judged by the Law of God without the merits of Christ those that confesse God the Father and believe in God the Sonne shall be judged by the Gospel which reconcileth us to God the Father by the merits of Christ Atheists by the law of nature infidels by the law of God Christians by the Gospel of our Saviour Christ To the statutes of the former who can answer our hope is in the latter we appeal to the Gospel and by the Gospel we shall have our tryall They that have sinned without the law Rom. 2.12 shall perish without the law and they that have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law Rom. 2.16 But God shall judge the secrets of all hearts of all our hearts by Jesus Christ according to my Gospel Rom. 2.12.16 Vse Vel te totaliter absolvit vel te capitaliter damnat John 16.9 Let this then forewarn us what we have to do It is the Gospel that will either throughly justifie thee or extremely condemn thee The Spirit shall convince the world of sinne saith Christ and why so but because they believe not on me John 16.9 There is no sinne but infidelitie no righteousnesse but faith not that adulterie intemperance malice are no sinnes but if unfaithfulnesse remain not all these sinnes are pardoned and so they are as if they were no sins indeed How quick a riddance true repenting faith makes with our sinnes they are too heavie for our shoulders and we cannot bear them faith onely turns them over unto Christ and we are disburthened of them whereas there would go with us to judgement an huge kennell of lusts an armie of vain words a legion of evil deeds faith instantly dischargeth them all and kneeling down to Jesus Christ beseecheth him to answer for them all howsoever committed O then make we much of faith but not of such a faith neither as goes alone without works it is nothing at this judgement to say I have believed and not well lived the Gospel requires both faith to believe and obedience to work not onely to repent and believe the Gospel Mark 1.15 Mark 1.15 but to obey from the heart that form of doctrine Rom. 6.17 Rom. 6.17 True indeed thou shalt be saved for thy faith not for thy works but for such a faith as is without works thou shalt never be saved we say therefore A justificando non à justificato works are disjoyned from the act of justifying not from the person justified heaven is given to us for Christs merits but we must shew him the fair copie of our lives O then let this move us to abound in knowledge and faith and repentance and love and zeal and clothing and feeding and lodging the poor members of Christ Jesus and howsoever all these can merit nothing at Gods hands yet will he crown his own gifts and reward them in his mercy Say then dost thou relieve a poor member of Christ Jesus dost thou give a cup of cold water to a Prophet in the name of Prophet Matt. 10.42 Christ doth promise thee of his truth he will not let thee lose thy reward certainly he will not so thy works be done in faith why this is the covenant the glad tidings the Gospel to live well and believe well O let not that which is a word of comfort to us be a bill of inditement against us albeit in our justification we may say Be it to us according to our faith yet in our retribution it is said as you have it before you in this Text read unto you Then he shall reward every man for manifestation of his faith according to his works A little to recall our selves The Prisoners are tryed the Verdict's brought in the inditement is found and the Judge now sits on life and death even ready with sparkling eyes to pronounce his sentence This we must deferre a while and the next time you shall hear what you have long exspected The Lord grant us an happy issue that when this day is come the sentence may be for us and we may be saved to our endless comfort Shall reward VVHat Assize is this that affords each circumstance of each prisoners triall the time is Then the Judge is He the Prisoners Men the evidence Works Non coronat Deus merita tua tanquam merita tua sed tanquam donasua Aug. lib. de grat lib. arbit cap. 7. which no sooner given in but