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A sermon of judgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Major and aldermen…A sermon of iudgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Maior and aldermen…
A sermon of judgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Major and aldermen of the city of London, Dec. 17, 1654 and now enlarged / Rich. Baxter.A sermon of iudgement preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord Maior and aldermen of the city of London, Dec. 17, 1654 and now enlarged / Rich. Baxter.
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1655
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A SERMON Of Judgement, Preached at Pauls before the Honourable Lord… › Part 5
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Answ. God will not stand to send them a Citation, nor require him to make his Voluntary Appearance; but willing or unwilling he will bring them in.
1. Before each mans particular Judgement, he sendeth death to call away his soul: A surly Serjeant, that will have no Nay; How dear so ever this world may be to men, and how loth soever they are to depart, away they must, and come before the Lord that made them; Death will not be bribed. Every man that was set in the Vineyard in the morning of their lives, must be called out at evening to Receive according to what he hath done; then must ⟨p. 28⟩the naked soul alone appear before, its Judge, and be accountable for all that was done in the body; and be sent before till the final Judgement, to remain in happiness or misery, till the body be raised again and joined to it.
1. Before each mans particular Judgement, he sendeth death to call away his soul: A surly Serjeant, that will have no Nay; How dear so ever this world may be to men, and how loth soever they are to depart, away they must, and come before the Lord that made them; Death will not be bribed. Every man that was set in the Vineyard in the morning of their lives, must be called out at evening to Receive according to what he hath done; then must ⟨p. 28⟩the naked soul alone appear before, its Judge, and be accomptible for all that was done in the body; and be sent before till the final Judgement, to remain in happiness or misery, till the body be raised again and joyned to it.
In this appearance of the soul before God, it seemeth by Scripture, that there is some Ministry of Angels; for