John Trapp on Ecclesiastes 12:14

Verſ. 14. For God ſhall bring every work into judgement] Full loth is ſinful fleſh to come to judgement: but (will they, nill they) come they muſt, God will bring them: Angels will hale them out of their hiding holes. Rocks and mountains will then prove a ſorry ſhelter; ſith rocks ſhall rent, and mountains melt at the preſence of the Judge. Let us therefore judge our ſelves, if hee ſhall not judge us, and take unto us words againſt our ſins, if wee will not have him to take unto him words againſt our ſouls, Hoſ. 14.2. And then, Ita vivamus, ut rationem nobis reddendam arbitremur, ſaith the Heathen Oratour, Let us ſo live, as thoſe that muſt ſhortly bee called to an account. For who can tell but that hee may ſuddenly hear as that Pope did, and was ſoon after found dead, Veni, miſer, in judicium, Come, thou wretch, receive thy judgement. Let this bee firmly beleeved, and thorowly digeſted, and it will notably incite us to the fear and ſervice of God. This ſome Heathens knew; Zaleucus Locrenſis, in the Proeme to his Laws hath theſe words, Hoc inculcatum ſit, eſſe Deos, & venturum eſſe ſummum & fatalem illum diem: Remember to preſs often upon the people theſe two things; Firſt, That there are Gods, Next, to theſe Gods an account of all muſt bee given. The Areopagites at their Council were wont diligently to enquire what every of the Athenians did, Rouz his Archaeol. Atti. 125 and how hee lived: that men knowing and remembring that once they muſt give an account of their lives (though but to earthly Judges) might imbrace honeſty.

With every ſecret thing] For at that day of Revelation, as it is called, Wee muſt all appear (or bee made tranſparent, pellucid and clear like a diaphanous body, as the word there ſignifies) before the judgement-ſeat of Chriſt: 2 Cor. 5.20 all ſhall bee laid naked and open, the Books of Gods Omniſcience, and mans Conſcience alſo ſhall bee then opened, and ſecret ſins ſhall bee as legible in thy fore-head, as if written with the brighteſt Stars, or the moſt glittering Sun-beams upon a wall of Cryſtal. Mens actions are all in print in Heaven, and God will at that day read them aloud in the ears of all the world.

Whether it bee good or evil] Then it ſhall appear what it is, which before was not ſo clear: like as in April, both wholeſome roots and poiſonable diſcover themſelves, which in winter were not ſeen. Then men ſhall give an account, 1 De bonis commiſſis, of good things committed unto them. 2. De bonis dimiſſis, of good things neglected by them. 3. De malis commiſſis, of evils committed by them. 4. Laſtly, De malis permiſſis, of evils done by others, ſuffered by them, when they might have hindered it.