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The four last things viz. death, judgment, heaven, hell, practically considered and applied in…
The four last things viz. death, judgment, heaven, hell, practically considered and applied in several discourses / by William Bates.
London: printed for Brabazon Aylmer, 1691
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.
1One of the ancient Romans highly celebrates the Astronomers, who discovered the true Causes of the Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, and freed the World from the double darkness of Ignorance and Fear; for before that Discovery, Men believed the obscuring of those great Lights were the fainting fits of Nature, and mortal Symptoms threatening an universal Calamity. But what Praise and Blessing is due to our Saviour, who hath given us infallible assurance that the Death of the Righteous is not, as the Heathen World imagined, an irreparable loss of Life, but a short eclipsing of this low and mean Light that is common to sensitive Creatures, to be restored more excellent and permanent in Heaven; where those Stars shine in the Divine Presence for ⟨p. 83⟩ever? Thanks be to God which gives us the Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. This should render him infinitely precious to us, and inflame our Hearts with Desires equal to our Obligations to serve him.
1One of the ancient Romans highly celebrates the Astronomers, who discover'd the true Causes of the Eclipses of the Sun and Moon, and freed the World from the double darkness of Ignorance and Fear; for before that Discovery, Men believed the obscuring of those great Lights were the fainting fits of Nature, and mortal Symptoms threatning an universal Calamity. But what Praise and Blessing is due to our Saviour, who hath given us infallible assurance that the Death of the Righteous is not, as the Heathen World imagin'd, an irreparable loss of Life, but a short eclipsing of this low and mean Light that is common to sensitive Creatures, to be restored more excellent and permanent in Heaven; where those Stars shine in the Divine Presence for ⟨p. 83⟩ever? Thanks be to God which gives us the Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. This should render him infinitely precious to us, and inflame our Hearts with Desires equal to our Obligations to serve him.
- 1Macti ingenio este Coeli interprets, rerumque naturae capaces, Argumenti repertores, quo Deos hominesque vinxistis. Plin. lib. 2.