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The unbelievers preparing for Christ. By T.HThe vnbeleevers preparing for Christ. By T.H
The unbelievers preparing for Christ. By T.H.The vnbeleevers preparing for Christ. By T.H.
London: printed by Tho Cotes for Andrew Crooke, 1638
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
namely, the wicked counsels and cursed persuasions which sinful damned persons use to hurry poor souls down into destruction, as though they could not go fast enough of themselves to hell, but they must lay these base sinful cords upon them, to draw them headlong into the bottomless pit of confusion. Well, the time will come, when these poor creatures shall call for vengeance at the hand of God to be executed against you; they will accuse you at the last day, and curse you, and call for vengeance to be poured down upon your heads; you that are guilty of this, whensoever you meet with the day of death here, or with the day of judgement hereafter, then it will go marvellous heavily with you; you have hindered the work of conversion for being wrought in them, and you have drawn them into wicked courses; they shall go to hell, they shall perish poor souls, but I tell you, their blood will God require at your hands, at that day they will appear before the Lord of ⟨p. 92⟩glory, and call for vengeance against you; when the heavens shall melt with fire, and when the Lord shall have ten thousand thousand of Angels ministering unto him; when all flesh at the dreadful day of judgement shall appear before the judgement seat of God, and render an account of that they have done here upon earth, then here you shall see a cursed drunkard, there a wretched adulterer, and there a profane swearer; and they shall come and accuse those that have drawn them into the commission of these sins, and they shall say, I confess Lord I was enlightened, my eyes were opened, and my heart was touched, and my conscience was awakened, and I was resolved to walk in a good course; but Lord here is the man, behold here is the woman, that by wicked devises and cursed persuasions never left until I fell off from this good resolution, and turned to my former wicked ways; this is the man Lord that did this, and therefore I beseech thee though I perish, yet let not my blood go unrevenged at this mans hands that hath been the cause of my destruction; and then this will lie heavy upon your score, at the day of death, or the day of judgement; when these poor souls shall appear before God;
namely, the wicked counsells and cursed perswasions which sinfull damned persons use to hurry poore soules downe into destruction, as though they could not go fast enough of themselves to hell, but they must lay these base sinfull cords upon them, to draw them headlong into the bottomlesse pit of confusion. Well, the time will come, when these poore creatures shall call for vengeance at the hand of God to bee executed against you; they will accuse you at the last day, and curse you, and call for vengeance to be poured downe upon your heads; you that are guilty of this, whensoever you meet with the day of death here, or with the day of judgement hereafter, then it will go marvellous heavily with you; you have hindred the worke of conversion for being wrought in them, and you have drawne them into wicked courses; they shall go to hell, they shall perish poore soules, but I tell you, their blood will God require at your hands, at that day they will appeare before the Lord of