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Stimulator. Or, The case of a soul walking in darkness awfully & suitably considered.…
Stimulator. Or, The case of a soul walking in darkness awfully & suitably considered. An essay, to awaken people out of the lethargy which disposes them to continue in a dark uncertainty about their future state, in the world, which is not seen, but is eternal. : [Four lines of Scripture texts]
printed by T Green, 1724
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
The Second Assertion.
If People would bestow Suitable Thoughts on the World, unto which they are going, one would think, it could not be possible for them to remain in that Unhappy Condition, to Walk in Darkness, & know not whither they are going, and have Good Terms with Heaven, to be still not Settled and Certain with them. For them that can with any Composed Mind continue in this Unhappy Condition, one would think, Either they Believe nothing at all of a World to Come; or, they never trouble themselves to Think much about it, or about their own Relation to it. But the Experiment was made; Psal. XXXIX. 3. My Heart was hot within me; while I was musing, the Fire burned. Certainly, If People would ponder duly, What there is in those Two Eternal Worlds, one or t'other of which they are going to, while they are musing of those things, their Hearts could not but be Hot within them; ⟨p. 32⟩they could not but feel a Fire burning there: they must needs be Inflamed into the uttermost Impatience of knowing, In which of those Worlds they must have their Portion. Did People Believe, what the Worlds are which the Dead must go into, and that they are very quickly to go into one or t'other of them, they could not continue in their darkness about it, without saying, I am troubled, I am bowed down greatly, I go mourning all the day long, I have Roared by reason of the Disquietness of my Heart.
If People would bestow Suitable Thoughts on the World, unto which they are going, one would think, it could not be possible for them to remain in that Ʋnhappy Condition, to Walk in Darkness, & know not whither they are going, and have Good Terms with Heaven, to be still not Settled and Certain with them. For them that can with any Composed Mind continue in this Unhappy Condition, one would think, Either they Believe nothing at all of a World to Come; or, they never trouble themselves to Think much about it, or about their own Relation to it. But the Experiment was made;