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.

V. FOR the fifth particular, How will the sinners be cal∣led to the Barr?

Answ. God will not stand to send them a Citation, nor require him to make his Voluntary Ap∣pearance; but willing or unwilling he will bring them in.

1. Before each mans particular Judgement, he sendeth death to call away his soul: A surly Ser∣jeant, that will have no Nay; How dear so ever this world may be to men, and how loth soever they are to depart, away they must, and come before the Lord that made them; Death will not be bribed. Every man that was set in the Vineyard in the morning of their lives, must be called out at evening to Receive according to what he hath done; then must

the naked soul alone appear be∣fore, its Judge, and be accomptible for all that was done in the body; and be sent before till the final Judgement, to remain in happi∣ness or misery, till the body be raised again and joyned to it.

In this appearance of the soul before God, it seemeth by Scri∣pture, that there is some Mini∣stery of Angels; for Luk. 16.22. it is said, that the Angels carried Lazarus, that is, his soul, into Abrahams bosom: What local motion there is, or situation of souls, is no fit matter for the en∣quiry of mortals; and what it is in this that the Angels will do, we cannot clearly under∣stand as yet; But most certain it is, that as soon as ever the soul is out of the Body, it comes to its account before the God of Spi∣rits.

2. At the end of the world the bodies of all men sha••l be raised from the earth, and jo••ned again to their souls; and the soul and body shall be judged to their end∣less state; and this is the great and general Judgement, where all men shal at once appear. The same power of God that made men of nothing, will as easily then New make them by a Resurrection; by which he will add much more per∣fection, even to the wicked in their Naturals, which will make them capable of the greater mi∣sery; even they shall have im∣mortal and incorruptible bodies, which may be the subjects of im∣mortal woe, 1 Cor. 15.53 Iohn 5.28, 29.

Of this Resurrection, and our Appearance at Judgement, the Angels will be some way the Mi∣nisters: As they shall come with Christ to Judgement, so they shall

sound his Trumpet, 1 Thes. 4.16. and they shall gather the wicked out of Gods Kingdom; and they shall gather the Tares to burn them, Mat. 13.39▪40, 41. in the end of the world the Angels shall come forth and sever the wicked from among the just, and shall cast them into the Furnace of fire, Mat. 17.49, 50.