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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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you would think they would rather be torn in pieces, then depart into fire, but they must do it.
Fourthly, It is an uncertain Day in respect of our knowledge, though certain that it shall be; that this Day and hour cannot be known by any man, is plain from what our Saviour speaks, who saith, Neither men, nor Angels, nor the Son of man, as man, knoweth it: Therefore the opinion of some is very absurd, ⟨p. 51⟩who have concluded the time of this Day may be known, but the event hath to some proved their opinion a lie. In the Apostles days, some pretended Revelations from the Spirit about the Day, and in these later days, some deluded persons have in some places run up and down, making an horrid and doleful noise, crying out, Repent, Repent, because the Day of Judgement is come; Yea, some vain and ridiculous Astrologers, who use to foretell other mens conditions, and yet never know what shall befall themselves, as they have thoughts that Noah's flood, and Christs birth might ⟨p. 52⟩have been foretold by the Stars, Nay some have blasphemously said, That Christ wrought such miracles, because he was born under such a Constellation: So these do conclude, that by the Stars we may know the time of the Day of Judgement; but the Scripture compareth it to a Thief coming in the night, and to a snare for the bird, it will come upon all unexpected and unlooked for. It is true, many sober Divines, though they say the time cannot exactly be determined, yet think it is not far off, yea from this year and forwards, they look for mighty alterations in the world; so that ⟨p. 53⟩they think it not improbable, that some now living may not die till these things be. But these seem only conjectures, Let us content our selves with this, that it is certain, and the time uncertain, that we should not have oil to provide for, when the Bridegroom is come, that we should not cry out with him, Inducias usque ad mane, Let me alone longer, I am not yet ready for that Day.