The Practice of Piety

O damned Furies! I would ye might without delay, ⟨p. 124⟩tear me in pieces, on condition that you would tear me unto nothing! But whilst thou art thus in vain bewailing thy misery,¹ the Angels hale thee violently away from the brink of thy Grave, to some place near the Tribunal seat of Christ; where being as a cursed Goat, separated to stand beneath, on earth, as on the left hand of the Judge, Christ, shall rip up all the benefits he bestowed on thee, and the torments he suffered for thee, and all the good deeds which thou omitted, and all the ungrateful villainies which thou didst commit against him, and his holy Laws.

O damned Furies! I would yee might vvithout delay, ⟨p. 124⟩teare me in pieces, on condition that you vvould teare me vnto nothing! But whilest thou art thus in vaine bewailing thy miserie,¹ the Angels hale thee violently away from the brincke of thy Graue, to some place neere the Tribunall seate of Christ; where being as a cursed Goate, separated to stand beneath, on earth, as on the left hand of the Iudge, Christ, shall rippe vp all the benefits he bestowed on thee, and the torments hee suffered for thee, and all the good deedes which thou omitted, and all the vngratefull villanies which thou didst commit against him, and his holy Lawes.

1. 1Mat. 13.41. Mat. 24.31.

Within thee thine own conscience (more then a thousand ⟨p. 121⟩