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A treatise of self-judging, in order to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper.…
A treatise of self-judging, in order to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper. Together with a sermon of the general day of judgement. / By Anthony Burgess pastor of Sutton-Coldfield in Warwickshire.A treatise of self-judging, in order to the worthy receiving of the Lords Supper. Together with a sermon of the generall day of judgement. / By Anthony Burgesse pastor of Sutton-Coldfield in Warwickshire.
London: printed by J.H. for T. Underhill, 1658
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and within thee is the greatest horror, there is the gnawing worm which never dieth; Think then of sin, ⟨p. 46⟩look upon thy lusts, as thou wouldst then at that Day; Would I do as I do, if I were at Gods Tribunal, if I were arraigned at that dreadful Day?
and within thee is the greatest horrour, there is the gnawing worm which never dieth; Think then of sinne, ⟨p. 46⟩look upon thy lusts, as thou wouldst then at that Day; Would I do as I do, if I were at Gods Tribunal, if I were arraigned at that dreadful Day?
Thirdly, It is a wonderful Day, a Day wherein there are nothing but miracles upon miracles, and wonders upon wonders: Insomuch that we need a divine faith in this Article, as well as in any other, Prorsus incredibile quia impossibile, as Tertullian of Christs Incarnation; The Scripture tells us, such a Day will be, and we must not be curious Quomodists, saying, Quomodo, How can it be? There is a ⟨p. 47⟩Quomodo essential, and a Quomodo accidental in every main point of Divinity; The essential Quomodo we are to enquire after, that is, Whether the thing be or no? But for the accidental it is good to satisfy our selves with that of Gregory, He that in Gods doings doth not invenire rationem facti, may easily in seipso invenire rationem cur non inveniat; yet let us instance in some of those miracles at that wonderful Day; What a wonder is it that all the persons, who ever were in the world, though their bodies have consumed so many ways, yea eaten it may be by other creatures, yea it ⟨p. 48⟩may be by some Cannibals or savage men, yet all those very bodies rise again, and the same individual persons appear before God? This corruptible, (saith Paul) cutem tangens, as Tertullian. This is so great a miracle, that the Philosophers derided it. Another wonder is, that all the millions and infinite millions of persons should be gathered into one place; As for those who say, it will be the valley of Jehoshaphat, with their conceits thereupon, we leave it as a curiosity. This is wonderful, that all the persons which ever lived in all Ages (Infants not excepted, for they must rise