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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.
All Sins, whether secret or openly visible, shall be accounted for. Those Sins that have been acted in the most secret Retirement, so that no Eye of Man could take cognizance of them, Sins concealed from the Eye of the Day, the Light of the Sun, and from the Eye of the Night, the Light of a Candle, shall then be made manifest. Nay, the Sins of the Thoughts and ⟨p. 182⟩Affections, of which Satan could not accuse Men, when the inward Fire of Lust or Malice is not discovered by the least smoke or sparkles, by no expressions, all those shall be brought to Judgment:1 God will judg the Secrets of Men by Jesus Christ.
All Sins, whether secret or openly visible, shall be accounted for. Those Sins that have been acted in the most secret Retirement, so that no Eye of Man could take cognizance of them, Sins concealed from the Eye of the Day, the Light of the Sun, and from the Eye of the Night, the Light of a Candle, shall then be made manifest. Nay, the Sins of the Thoughts and ⟨p. 182⟩Affections, of which Satan could not accuse Men, when the inward Fire of Lust or Malice is not discovered by the least smoak or sparkles, by no expressions, all those shall be brought to Judgment:1 God will judg the Secrets of Men by Jesus Christ.
The Sins of Omission of our Duty that are so numerous, from carelessness and diversions, from slothfulness and delays, and that now so little affect us; for we are more sensible of what we do than of what we have not done; the guilt of all these shall then be heavily charged on the Conscience of the Sinner. I was an hungry, and you gave me no Meat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no Drink, was the Accusation of the Reprobates from the Judg himself. To him who knoweth to do Good,