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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.
1. With respect to the appearance of the Judg. When the Law was given from Mount Sinai, the Mountain was covered with Fire, and the Voice of God as loud as Thunder proclaimed it from the midst of the Flames, so that the whole Army of the Israelites was prostrate on the Plain, struck with a sacred Horror, and almost dead at the amazing Sights and Sounds. From hence 'tis said, that in his right Hand was a fiery Law. And if the Law-giver ⟨p. 158⟩appeared in such terrible Majesty at the proclaiming the Law, how much more when he shall come to revenge the Transgressions of it? 'Tis set forth in Scripture in the most lofty and magnificent Expressions: He shall come in his Father's Glory, 1and his own Glory, and the Glory of the Angels. A devouring Fire shall go before him, to consume all the Works of the Universe. He shall descend from the highest Heavens, glorious in the attendance of innumerable Angels, but more in his own Majesty, and sit on a radiant Throne high above all.
1. With respect to the appearance of the Judg. When the Law was given from Mount Sinai, the Mountain was covered with Fire, and the Voice of God as loud as Thunder proclaimed it from the midst of the Flames, so that the whole Army of the Israelites was prostrate on the Plain, struck with a sacred Horror, and almost dead at the amazing Sights and Sounds. From hence 'tis said, that in his right Hand was a fiery Law. And if the Law-giver ⟨p. 158⟩appear'd in such terrible Majesty at the proclaiming the Law, how much more when he shall come to revenge the Transgressions of it? 'Tis set forth in Scripture in the most lofty and magnificent Expressions: He shall come in his Father's Glory, 1and his own Glory, and the Glory of the Angels. A devouring Fire shall go before him, to consume all the Works of the Universe. He shall descend from the highest Heavens, glorious in the attendance of innumerable Angels, but more in his own Majesty, and sit on a radiant Throne high above all.
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