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The last work of a believer his passing prayer recommending his departing spirit to…
The last work of a believer his passing prayer recommending his departing spirit to Christ to be received by Him / prepared for the funerals of Mary the widow first of Francis Charlton Esq. and after of Thomas Hanmer, Esq., and partly preached at St. Mary Magdalens Church in Milk-Street, London, and now, at the desire of her daughter, reprinted by Richard Baxter.
London: printed by B. Griffin for B. Simmons, 1682
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.
2. If Christ then receive not thy departed Soul, the Devils will receive it. I am loth to speak so terrible a word, but that it must be spoken, if you will be awaked to prevent it. He that deceived thee, will then plead Conquest, and claim thee as his due, that he may torment thee. And if the Devil say, This Soul is mine; and Christ do not rescue and justify thee, but say so too, no heart is able to conceive the horror that will then overwhelm thee: Doth not the reading of the Sentence make thee tremble, Matth. 25. 41. [Depart from me ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the Devil and his Angels]? This is that dreadful delivering ⟨p. 32⟩up to Satan, when the Soul is excommunicated from the City of God. O therefore if thou be yet unreconciled to God, agree with him quickly, while thou art here in the way, lest he deliver thee to this terrible Jailer and Executioner, and thou be cast into the prison of the bottomless pit: Verily I say unto thee, thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing, Mat. 5. 25, 26.
2. If Christ then receive not thy departed Soul, the Devils will receive it. I am loth to speak so terrible a word, but that it must be spoken, if you will be awaked to prevent it. He that deceived thee, will then plead Conquest, and claim thee as his due, that he may torment thee. And if the Devil say, This Soul is mine; and Christ do not rescue and justifie thee, but say so too, no heart is able to conceive the horrour that will then overwhelm thee: Doth not the reading of the Sentence make thee tremble, Matth. 25. 41. [Depart from me ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the Devil and his Angels]? This is that dreadful delivering ⟨p. 32⟩up to Satan, when the Soul is excommunicated from the City of God. O therefore if thou be yet unreconciled to God, agree with him quickly, while thou art here in the way, lest he deliver thee to this terrible Jaylor and Executioner, and thou be cast into the prison of the bottomless pit: Verily I say unto thee, thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing,