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Two treatises tending to awaken secure sinners viz., 1. The terror of the day…
Two treatises tending to awaken secure sinners viz., 1. The terror of the day of judgment, from 2 Cor. 5. 10, 2. The danger of slighting Christ and his Gospel, from Matth. 22. 5 / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Jonas Luntley, 1696
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.
Answ. God will not stand to send them a Citation, nor require them to make their voluntary Appearance: but willing or unwilling he will bring them in.
1. Before each Man's particular Judgment, he sendeth Death to call away his Soul, a surly Serjeant that will have no Nay: How dear soever 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 the naked Soul alone appear before its Judg, and be accountable for all that was done in the Body, and be sent before till the final Judgment ⟨p. 12⟩to remain in Happiness or Misery, till the Body be raised again and joined to it.
In this Appearance of the Soul before God, it. seemeth by Scripture, that there is some Ministry of Angels; for Luke 16. 22. it is said that the Angels carried Lazarus, that is, his Soul, into Abraham's Bosom. What local Motion there is, or Situation of Souls, is no fit Matter for the Enquiry of Mortals; and what it is in this that the Angels will do, we cannot clearly understand as yet; but most certain it is, that as soon as ever the Soul is out of the Body, it comes to its account before the God of Spirits.