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A47705 Pious instructions, in meeter fitted to the weaker capacities. Leo of S. Mary Magdalen. 1693 (1693) Wing L1097; ESTC R12062 112,916 324

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receive their sentence there When they before the Judge appear v. 12. The Conscience-Book will op'ned be Wherein as in a Christal clear Each Man his good and ill shall see All what lay hid before 1. Cor. 4. v. 5. shall then Be open lay'd to th' view of men All what in dark Eccli 23. v. 26. or private place Was done or what was unconfes't With great confusion and disgrace Shall open ly Math. 10. v. 26. Eccli 25. v. 27. with all the rest Then all shall own there was an Eye From which no secret hid could ly The Dev'l Rev. 12. v. 10. who is Man's great Accuser Will vent his Malice at that day As of Man's life the strict peruser Our faults before the Judge will lay All thoughts words deeds which ere have been Less virtuous he 'l accuse of sin Thrice happy he who hath apply'd By Sacraments Christ's pretious merits Unto his soul before he dy'd He will not dread these wicked Spirits Whose tears have washt Luk. 7. v. 38 1. Pet. 4. v. 8. and Charity Cover'd his Faults secure shall be Iam 5. v 20. Luk. 13. v. 5. Dan. 4. v. 24. But he who Pennance did neglect And with Alms did not sin redeem Will nothing find him to protect Against the Dev'ls but then will seem Wholly dejected and mute stand At what God shall of him demand It is not Power or Eloquence That with the Judge will then prevail An humble and clear conscience Is then a friend that will not fail A virtuous Beggar Luk 16. v. 22. here contemn'd Will be preferr'd and Kings condemn'd The Lyar there shall not prevail The Swearer's Oath will be in vain All craft and Policy will fail Heb. 4. v. 12.13 Deceitfull Tongue will nothing gain Their Truth will naked open ly Which none shall dare then to deny Great Honour Pow'r Prov. 11. v. 4. and Majesty Wealth Beauty Valour Strength and Wit Will not at all regarded be Nothing but Virtue then shall quit This shall advance to high degree And those will prove but Vanity Wisd 5. v. 1. The Just shall in great constancy Against their Persecutours stand v. 3. Who sighing then most bitterly Will their past follies understand How dearly worldly Pleasures cost For which Eternall Joys are lost We v. 4. mad Men did the Saints lives deem Great madness and their end disgrace Behold how God doth them esteem v. 5. And with his dearest children place What doth our glory now avail v. 8. Since of Eternall we do fail The Sheep then parted from the Goats Shall placed be at God's right hand Mat. 25. v. 32. v. 33. Those pleasant these with dolefull notes Shall at the left with Devills stand Expecting Sentence which shall sever Them from the Just and God for ever Then God unto the Just shall say When I was hungry or in need v. 35. You Ghospell-Counsell did obey And in the poor you did me feed What unto them to me you gave v. 45. And from me your reward shall have Come Blessed v. 34. glory now possess Go you Accursed to Hell fire v. 41. v. 42. As you on Earth were merciless And as your horrid Sins require Iam 2. v. 13. Mat. 25. v. 46. Your Lot with Dev'ls in Fire shall be But these shall live for êver with me I wish all Men would oft reflect Upon this dreadfull Judgment-Day Then Virtue they would not neglect Nor for vain pleasures go astray Since they account for all must give 2. Cor. 5. v. 10. They would be carefull how they live This was Saint Jerom's Meditation Hieron de Reg. Monachor c. 20 what e're I do write eat or drink Upon that great day's desolation And God's strict Iudgment I do think This Trumpet still sounds in my ear Arise you Dead make answer here Thrice happy Man who doth prepare For that most horrid dreadfull day 2. Pet. 3. v. 11.14 Who God doth serve and sin beware And Pennance do without delay While others fear he shall rejoyce At Trumpet sound and Iudge's Voice Amen OF HELL Go ye accursed into Everlasting fire Math. 25. v. 41. AS Man in part Corporeall is He of necessity must dy Gen. 3. v. 19. Wisd 7. v. 1. 1. Cor. 15. v. 5● But when this part from grave is ris ' He 'l live again Eternally In joy or grief in Heav'n or Hell Iudgment decides where he shall dwell Who liv'd and dy'd in wickedness With piercing Fire shall then be try'd No Tongue is able to express What he with Dev'ls shall there abide What grief in soul what pain in sense What knawing worm of Conscience Isai 66. v 24. For as his Body shar'd in sin So shall the sense afflicted be 2 Cor 5. v. 10. The soul as Actor chief therein Shall undergo most misery The pain of sense no Tongue can tell The pain of Loss will that excell God by the Wise Man doth declare Eccli 39. v. 33. In Hell there are Tormenting Spirits Which to revenge created are And punish justly to demerits Who have in fury fortify'd Their Torments Who shall then abide His fury who hath them created v. 34. They shall powr forth without restraint No pain shall ever be abated God will not mind their sad complaint Hail Fire Famin Death and Scorpions v. 35. v. 36. Beasts teeth and Serpents are their Portions The Fire will pierce in that degree And so excessively torment That they will so enraged be As their own Flesh to gnaw and rent Rev. 16. v. 10. They 'l curse the hour which life first gave And wish the Womb had been their Grave Mat. 26. v. 24. The Lord 's great Day says Malachy Malae ● v. 1. Shall like à fiêry furnace flame When all the Proud like straw shall be Consum'd to ashes in the same v. 3. The Humble shall tread them in fire Who did on Earth so high aspire The wanton and Luxurious Man Shall fiery Serpents there embrace Eccli 39. v. 36. Who greedy after Riches ran Shall come to want shame and disgrace The Envious Man shall pine away To think of others happy day The Furious Man the Fire shall tame His Oaths and Curses none shall dread The Lving Tongue shall come to Shame The Slothfull shall with Want be fed The Glutton there Luk 16. v. 24. through burning Thirst Shall judge his case to be the worst The Atheist then a God will find So also will the Temporiser Who held belief of any kind To save his Wealth true Faith's despiser All then shall own what Scripture saith There 's but one God Eph. 4. v. 5. and one true Faith Themselves in vain they will condemn Wisd 5. v. 7.8.13 That for vain Honour Riches Wealth The Laws of God they did contemn With virtue Isai 66. v. 24. Mark 9. v. 44.46.48 and their ghostly