John Trapp on Psalms 1:5

Verſ. 5. Therefore the ungodly ſhall not ſtand in the judgement] i. e. Cauſâ cadent & damnabun[illegible: 1 letter]ur; at the Great Aſſizes they ſhall bee caſt and condemned. Revel. 6.17. For the great day of his Wrath is come, and who ſhall be able to ſtand? If the righteous ſcarcely be ſaved, where ſhall the ungodly and the ſinner appear? 1 Pet. 4.18. Surely no where, but in Hell, their own place, Acts 1.25. not before God, for he is a conſuming fire, Heb. 12. ult. and they chaff, or ſtubble fully dried. See Iſa. 33.14. Not before Chriſt, for he ſhall come in flaming fire rendring vengeance, &c. 2 Theſſ. 1.7. not in Heaven, for it's an undefiled inheritance, neither may any dirty Dogge trample on that golden pavement, Revel. 22.15. Not any longer on Earth, defiled by their iniquities, and therefore to bee purged by the fire of the laſt Day: for the earth alſo, and the works that are therein ſhall be burnt up, 2 Pet. 3.10. R. David Kimchi by Judgement here, underſtandeth the day of the wicked mans death; and indeed his Deaths-day is his Doomeſday, when he muſt take a fearful farewell, and breath out his Soul and hope together with the breath of the ſame dying groan, Job. 27.8. & 11.20. Hinc illae Lachrymae, hence that loth-to-depart, though ſome ſet a good face upon it when to dye, as Sir Thomas Moore, who dyed for the Popes Supremacy with a light jeſt in his mouth; Veſpaſian likewiſe dyed with a jeſt, and Auguſtus in a Complement. This was but the Hypocriſie of mirth: for Death is the King of terror to a Natural man. See Heb. 2.15. 1 Sam. 15.32. & 28.20. Saul at the meſſage of death ſwooned quite away, and fell all along, Quantus quantus erat, as Peter Martyr phraſeth it; yea good Hezekiah wept when ſentenced to death, and the approach of it was to him Mar mar, bitter bitterneſs, Iſa. 38.3.17. he muſt have his faith at his fingers ends, as one ſaith, that will dye actively. But all men have not faith, 2 Theſſ. 3.2. and thoſe few that have, are not always aſſured that their hearts ſhall live for ever, as Pſal. 22.26. and that Death, the Devils Serjeant to drag wicked men to Hell, ſhall be to them the Lords Gentleman-uſher to conduct them to Heaven; as Mr. Brightman expreſſeth it.

Nor Sinners in the Congregation of the righteous] They ſhall never ſet foot within heavens Threſhold, within that general Aſſembly, that ſacred Panegyris, ample Amphitheatre, the Congregation-houſe of crowned Saints, and glorious Angels. Tertullian ſaith of Pompies Theatre (which was the greateſt ornament of old Rome) that it was Arx omnium turpitudinum, a receptacle of all kind of Ribaldry and Roguery. Not ſo Heaven; There ſhall in no wiſe enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatſoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lye, Rev. 21.27.Auguſtin. The Iriſh air will ſooner brook a Toad, or a Snake, than Heaven a Sinner. Mali in area nobiſcum eſſe poſſunt, in horreo non poſſunt, Chaff may be with Gods good Corn on the floor, but in the Garner it ſhall not. For Chriſt will throughly purge his floor, and gather his Wheat into the Garner, but will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire, Mat. 3.12.