A26786:248
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.
And all the Goodness of the Saints shall then be revealed by the Judg.* Their greatest Excellencies are invisible to the Eyes of Men: the Sanctity of their Aims and Affections, which gives Life and Value to all the Acts of Obedience, their secret Duties, wherein the sincerity and ardency of their Souls is most expressed, are only known to God. And such is the excellent humility of the Saints, that the more they are enriched, and abound with the gracious Influences of the Spirit, the less they discover to the World; as the Celestial Bodies, when in nearest conjunction with the Sun, and most filled with his Light, are least in appearance to the Inhabitants of the Earth. But there is a Book of Remembrance before him, for them that feared the Lord, 2and thought upon his Name. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of Hosts, in the Day when I make up my Jewels: and I will spare them as a Man spares his Son that serves him.
And all the Goodness of the Saints shall then be revealed by the Judg.* Their greatest Excellencies are invisible to the Eyes of Men: the Sanctity of their Aims and Affections, which gives Life and Value to all the Acts of Obedience, their secret Duties, wherein the sincerity and ardency of their Souls is most express'd, are only known to God. And such is the excellent humility of the Saints, that the more they are enrich'd, and abound with the gracious Influences of the Spirit, the less they discover to the World; as the Celestial Bodies, when in nearest conjunction with the Sun, and most fill'd with his Light, are least in appearance to the Inhabitants of the Earth. But there is a Book of Remembrance before him, for them that feared the Lord, 2and thought upon his Name. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of Hosts, in the Day when I make up my Jewels: and I will spare them as a Man spares his Son that serves him.
- *O si nobis animam boni viri liceret inspicere, quam pulchram faciem, quam sanctam, quam ex magnifico, placidoquefulgentem videremus! Senec.