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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. He must with unfainting Patience continue in doing his Duty, notwithstanding all Miseries and Calamities, Losses, Disgraces, Torments, or Death it self, which wicked Men, and greater Enemies, the Powers of Darkness, can inflict upon him. To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for Glory, 1Honour and Immortality, Eternal Life is promised. 2He that endures to the End (notwithstanding the most terrible Sufferings to which he is exposed for Christ's sake) shall be saved. In this a Christian must be the express image of his Saviour, who for the joy that was set before him endured the Cross, despised the shame, and is set down at the right hand of God. Disgrace and Pain are Evils that humane Nature has a most tender sense of, yet the Son of God with a divine generosity and constancy endured them in the highest degrees. He was scorned as a feigned King, and a false Prophet. He suffered a bloody Death, and by the Cross ascended to Glory. And we must follow him, if we desire to be where he is.
1. He must with unfainting Patience continue in doing his Duty, notwithstanding all Miseries and Calamities, Losses, Disgraces, Torments, or Death it self, which wicked Men, and greater Enemies, the Powers of Darkness, can inflict upon him. To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for Glory, 1Honour and Immortality, Eternal Life is promised. 2He that endures to the End (notwithstanding the most terrible Sufferings to which he is exposed for Christ's sake) shall be saved. In this a Christian must be the express image of his Saviour, who for the joy that was set before him endured the Cross, despised the shame, and is set down at the right hand of God. Disgrace and Pain are Evils that humane Nature has a most tender sense of, yet the Son of God with a divine generosity and constancy endured them in the highest degrees. He was scorn'd as a feigned King, and a false Prophet. He suffered a bloody Death, and by the Cross ascended to Glory. And we must follow him, if we desire to be where he is.
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