The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…

Name: The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…
Author: Lewis Bayly

The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author

Lewis Bayly d. 1631London: printed for Edward Brewster, 1695

[17], 566 p. · 116k words · Wing B1502 · ESTC R29026

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THE PRACTICE OF PIETY. › Meditations of the State of a Christian reconciled to God in Christ. › 3. Meditations of the Blessed Estate of the Regenerate Man after De…: 3. Meditations of the Blessed Estate of the Regenerate Man after Death.

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5. Lastly, When Christ is set in his glorious^d Throne, and all the^e many Thousands of his Saints, and Angels, shining more bright than so many Suns in glory, sitting about him; and the Body of Christ in glory and brightness surpassing them all: the Reprobates being separate and remaining beneath upon the earth (for the right-hand signifies a blessed, the left-hand a cursed estate) Christ will first pronounce the sentence of absolution, and bliss upon the Elect: First, because he will thereby increase the grief of the Reprobate that shall hear it. Secondly, to show himself more pro•e to^f mercy than to Judgment. And thus from his Throne of Majesty in the Air, he shall (in the sight and hearing of all the World) pronounce unto his Elect, Come ye blessed of my Father, and inherit the ⟨p. 81⟩Kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world, &c.⁴

5. Lastly, When Christ is set in his glorious^d Throne, and all the^e many Thousands of his Saints, and Angels, shining more bright than so many Suns in glory, sitting about him; and the Body of Christ in glory and brightness surpassing them all: the Reprobates bei•g separate and remaining beneath upon the earth (for the right-hand signifies a blessed, the left-hand a cursed estate) Christ will first pronounce the sentence of absolution, and bliss upon the Elect: First, because he will thereby increase the grief of the Reprobate that shall hear it. Secondly, to shew himself more pro•e to^f mercy than to Judgment. And thus from his Throne of Majesty in the Air, he shall (in the sight and hearing of all the World) ponounce unto his Elect, Come ye blessed of my Father, and inherit the

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