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The Saints' Everlasting Rest
The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in glory wherein is showed its excellency and certainty, the misery of those that lose it, the way to attain it, and assurance of it, and how to live in the continual delightful forecasts of it and now published by Richard Baxter ...The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in glory wherein is shewed its excellency and certainty, the misery of those that lose it, the way to attain it, and assurance of it, and how to live in the continual delightful forecasts of it and now published by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by Rob. White for Thomas Underhil and Francis Tyton, 1650
THE SAINTS Everlasting REST. PART. III. › Chapter 6 › Section 24
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4 Quest. If one of your old acquaintance and companions in sin, should come from the dead, and tell you, that he suffereth the Torments of Hell for those sins that you are guilty of, and for neglecting those duties which you neglect, and for living such a careless, worldly, ungodly life as you now live, & should therefore advise you to take another course; If you should meet such a one in your Chamber when you are going to bed, and he should say to you, Oh take heed of this carnal unholy life! Set your self to seek the Lord with all your might; neglect not your Soul, Prepare for Eternity, that you ⟨p. 371⟩come not to the place of Torment that I am in: How would this take with you? and what manner of persons would you afterwards be? It is written in the life of Bruno, that a Doctor of great note for learning and godliness being dead, and being brought to the Church to be buried, while they were in their Popish Devotions, and came to the words Responde mihi, the Corps arose in the Bier, and with a terrible voice cried out, Justo Dei Judicio accusatus sum, I am accused at the Just Judgment of God: At which voice the people run all out of Church affrighted. On the morrow when they came again to perform the Obsequies, at the same words as before, the Corps arose again, and cried with a hideous voyce, Justo Dei Judicio Judicatus sum, I am Judged at the righteous Judgment of God: Whereupon the people run away again amazed. The third day almost all the City came together, and when they came to the same words as before, the Corps rose again, and cried with a more doleful voice then before, Justo Dei Judicio Condemnatus sum, I am Condemned at the Just Judgment of God. The consideration whereof, that a man reputed so upright should yet by his own confession be damned, caused Bruno, and the rest of his companions, to enter into that strict order of the Carthusians. If the voice of the dead man could affright them into Superstition, should not the warnings of God affright thee into true Devotion?
4 Quest. If one of your old acquaintance and companions in sin, should come from the dead, and tell you, that he suffereth the Torments of Hell for those sins that you are guilty of, and for neglecting those duties which you neglect, and for living such a careless, worldly, ungodly life as you now live, & should therfore advise you to take another course; If you should meet such a one in your Chamber when you are going to bed, and he should say to you, Oh take heed of this carnal unholy life! Set your self to seek the Lord with all your might; neglect not your Soul, Prepare for Eternity, that you