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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.
Those who in their Pride and Jollity, have despised serious Religion, either as a fond Transport and Ecstasy towards God, or a dull Melancholy and Dejection about the Soul, or an idle Scrupulosity about indifferent things, yet when God has set their Sins ⟨p. 503⟩with all their killing circumstances in order before their Eyes, how changed, how confounded are they at that Apparition? how restless, with the dreadful expectation of the doom that attends them! Belshazzar in the midst of his Cups, and Herd of Concubines, by a few Words written on the Wall, containing his Process and Judgment, was so terrified by his guilty jealous Conscience, that his Joints were loosed, Nature sunk under the apprehension. Now all these troubles of Mind, are but the beginnings of Sorrows, but the Smoke of the infernal Furnace, but Earnests of that terrible Sum which divine Justice will severely exact of the Wicked in Hell.
Those who in their Pride and Jollity, have despised serious Religion, either as a fond Transport and Extasy towards God, or a dull Melancholy and Dejection about the Soul, or an idle Scrupulosity about indifferent things, yet when God has set their Sins ⟨p. 503⟩with all their killing circumstances in order before their Eyes, how changed, how confounded are they at that Apparition? how restless, with the dreadful expectation of the doom that attends them! Belshazzer in the midst of his Cups, and Herd of Concubines, by a few Words written on the Wall, containing his Process and Judgment, was so terrified by his guilty jealous Conscience, that his Joints were loosed, Nature sunk under the apprehension. Now all these troubles of Mind, are but the beginnings of Sorrows, but the Smoak of the infernal Furnace, but Earnests of that terrible Sum which divine Justice will severely exact of the Wicked in Hell.
Indeed these Examples are rare, and not regarded by the most, and by some looked on as the effects of Distraction; but to convince the bold and careless Sinners who never felt the stings of an awakened Conscience, what extreme Terrors seize upon the Wicked in the other World? Consider,