N00341:143
The greatest sinners exhorted and encouraged to come to Christ, and that now without…
The greatest sinners exhorted and encouraged to come to Christ, and that now without delaying. Also, the exceeding danger of men's deferring their repentance. : Together with a discourse about the day of judgement. And on several other subjects. / By Increase Mather teacher of a church at Boston in N. England. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]
printed by R.P. for Joseph Brunning i.e, 1686
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Consider. 3. That as death leaveth a man, so judgement will find him. All the time which men have to prepare for Judgment is only […] they are in this world. There is no […] gra•e whither thou goest. For there is a particular Judgement passeth upon e•ery soul at death, Heb. 9.27. It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment ▪ When once a mans soul is out of his body, it appears before the Judge of all, and is sentenced, either to Life or Death for ever; which particular judgement will be published at the Last Day. If death find a man unprepared, so will Judgment. Therefore it highly concerns every man to prepare now. Miserable Sinner, thou knowest not how soon death may come upon thee like an armed m•n, and drag thy soul before the Judgment seat of GOD! It may be this night it will be so. Death sometimes giveth no warning before it comes. Remember that Scripture, Amos. 4.11. I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. And how was that? verily by Thunder and Lightning from Heaven. And has it not been so amongst us also? There have ⟨p. 90⟩been (to my observation) about Twenty persons in this Land, who have at several times, and places been killed with Lightning: some such very lately. Therefore if God fell upon them, and struck them dead in a moment; how doest thou know but that it may be so with thee? If thou continuest unprepared for Death and Judgment, thou knowest not but that the next Thunder-storm that cometh, may prove to thy soul, as snares, and fire, and brimstone, and an horrible Tempest.
Consider. 3. That as death leaveth a man, so judgement will find him. All the time which men have to prepare for Judgment is only 〈…〉 they are in this world. There is no 〈…〉 gra•e whither thou goest. For there is a particular Judgement passeth upon e•ery soul at death,