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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65802	The state of the future life, and the present's order to it consider'd by Tho. White, Gent.	White, Thomas, 1593-1676.	1654 (1654)	Wing W1842; ESTC R15645	17,794	128

possest but for those there was not the least certainty by never so great endeavours to compass them nor the least hope long to hold them VVhen the unhappy Soul shall be clearly convinc'd of all this will it not incomparably encrease its grief and infinitely augment its torments its pains The third Point BUt above all Those wretched Souls who whilst they liv'd in their Bodies had receiv'd greater Knowledge of this Beatitude and by the honour of being Christians had heard and believ'd both that there was an eternal Happiness provided for them if themselves would and that it incomparably exceeded all temporal Goods and worldly Felicity yet see on the other side how they spent their whole lives in running after Vanities and trash as if they had been Pagans and ignorant of Heav'n such must needs out of this knowledge fall into an incredible yet unprofitable Repentance and according to our Saviours sentence be beaten with many stripes as the VVise-man explicates like great Persons be greatly tormented Conclusion COnclude with fear and trembling lest what happens to many and perhaps to most Christians may also be thy lot and resolve with a constant courage to shake off quickly the burthen of all worldly Fears or Affections that hinder thy march to Heav'n lest when Death shall surprize thee thou mayst not peradventure find time for Repentance nor be able to alter in a moment what thy whole life has been us'd to The fifth Consideration The unspeakable Pains which the damned Souls shall suffer through their own disordinate Affections The first point COnsider Since a Soul cannot be without desires but something it must Love wherefore if it Loves not true Beatitude it must needs desire false Goods whence it will clearly follow that The Souls of the Wicked who dye without loving God must after death desire those same goods on which they placed their affections whilst they liv'd in this World and the Acts of a separated Soul being incomparably more strong and violent than any it could possibly exercise in the Body Those Souls must be all on fire and incredibly burn with perpetual longings after the goods of this life which notwithstanding cannot be had in that State and yet the desire of such is now grown natural to them and consequently as unchangeable and immortal as their Nature They must therefore be eternally tormented with a furious yet fruitless desire of those things they can never obtain whence follows a continual Desperation insufferable grief and A version from the causes of so great evil Viz. Hatred against God and Themselves and a raging Madness altogether inexplicable The second Point BUt further It being almost impossible that he who directs not his life to God should so lettle his Affections on any one temporal thing as not to be distracted with successive desires of now this now that independent of one another and all those Acts which in this life are successive and at severall times being in the next world altogether and at once in the Soul It must needs follow that such a Soul in the next life desires at the same time contrary and incompossible things and so for ever remains divided in and against it self alwaies at debate and strife with it self and as if compounded of so many furious beasts as it has contrary Passions perpetually biting and tearing one another without the least minute of rest becomming thus to it self a most bitter spiteful and tedious enemy and which way soever it turns still meeting new goads and spears that gore it to the very heart The third Point ANd which is yet more grievous than all the rest When these unhappy Souls shall clearly see that these evils into which they have plung'd themselves shall never have an end can never be lessen'd with any success of time nor admit of any the least comfort no not so much as a little Oblivion or not thinking on them for a Moment but shall alwaies and all at once in a heap o're-whelm oppress them continually gnawing and eating yet without consuming their very Bowels what mountains of Calamities what Etnas of despair must this needs draw upon them Do but reflect on your self what a terrour 't is wont to strike when you have some time thought of this Eternity by multiplying hundreds thousands and Millions of years which notwithstanding when you have gone as far as you are able is infinitely short of what Eternity is and then tell me what effect you think this sad consideration must needs produce in the damned who by the excellency of their Nature and the State wherein they now are cannot but behold the horrid countenance of this their accursed Eternity truly and such as in it self it is for ever Conclusion COnclude then Since our eternal misery flows from the habits and affections our Souls acquire in this life which if misplac't upon objects unenjoyable in the next engage us above all possibility of relief into everlasting sorrows and distractions Resolve from this hour from this very moment to bid adieu to the vanities of this world and as you cannot but know that Nothing ought to be belov'd but for our last end which is God so couragiously strive to regulate your Affections and force them to be subject to this only rule of true Reason The sixth Consideration Though the Bodies of the damned by reason of their State be incorruptible after the Resurrection yet shall not their Souls be exempt from Corporal pains The first Point COnsider As all pleasure in Man proceeds from the Soul so of necessity must all grief too wherefore as in the highest delight all kind of pleasure is contain'd so in the extreamest sorrow all kind of grief is included Since therefore all the corporal pains we suffer are but several griefs in the Soul it evidently follows that in damned Souls where extream sorrow reigns no kind of pain can be wanting Whence though their Bodies be in a state of Immutability and no material Instruments of Torment can work on them after the Resurrection yet shall not they be free even from corporal pains but feel incomparably more grievously than they ever could in this life the torments of burning by Fire the gnawing of Worms and Serpents the affliction of weeping and wayling the causes of gnashing the Teeth and all Pains whatever have been shew'd to holy Persons in their approved Visions The second Point AGain When all their wickednesses and most infamous Actions when every Word and Thought shall not only be written in their own Consciences but layd open to the sight of all the World those wretched Creatures of necessity must then appear both to themselves and all others most effeminate foolish and wicked and by consequence most base and infamous and thereby most hateful even to themselves contemptible to God and his Angels with all the Blessed Souls nay even to the very Devils and all the damned crew but especially

Contradiction and cast us into those very evils we seek most to fly And as all Vices are contrary to our Nature and cannot be kept subject to Reason's Rule so are they of necessity bitter and painful in their effects pressing their Followers still downward from evill to worse till in death they tumble them at length into Hell where they shall justly complain that They have walked thither by difficult and rough ways and even been weary'd in their Iniquities The third Point THirdly Since our Bodies are made for our Souls and the Dispositions of the one for the Operations of the other it follows that then our Souls best operate when our Bodies are best dispos'd and that Disposition of the Body is truly best which is best fitted to the Operations of the Soul whence 't is an errour to think it well with our Bodies when they are not fit to serve our Soul And hence again it follows that ev'n Those delights and comforts of the Body which God has created for it 's necessary Recreation are not to be deny'd to a Pious Life in their due proportion that a Pious and Orderly Life truly and really more abounds with corporal delights than the Life of the wicked as appears to any that considers the inconveniences unavoydably flowing from disorder and that ev'n They who abstain from those corporal delights which are enjoy'd in Marriage the possession of Riches such find here other far greater temporal Pleasures incompatible with these as Honour Friendship Knowledge excellent Conversation and the like which abundantly supply the defect of those material enjoyments and rende● their Life more sweet and happy ev'n in this world Conclusion COnclude then without fear to commit thy self to God and a Pious Life and know that the Almighty has no need of thee nor made thee for his own sake but for thine that thou might'st partaker that Happiness whereof He was Essentially full and therefore He were not wise but would miss of his End had He not prepar'd all things convenient to render thee happy Be thou then but confident and discreetly proceed and thou shalt quickly find by experience what a difference there is between a wicked or negligent and a truly vertuous and devout Life how much more pleasant how much more full of comfort and delight this is than that and how sweetly yet strongly our wise Creatour has fram'd all the parts of our Felicity conformable to each other and to the End for which he has ordain'd us The ninth Consideration God highly esteems our Felicity then how ought we to value It. The first point COnsider Since Almighty God is essentially happy and in Possession of all Good and therefore incapable of the least new addition by his Creatures 't is evident that whatever he has created he made not for his own but for thine and thy Brethrens sake not to render himself but thee and them happy and by consequence has valew'd your Felicity above all the rest of his works Behold therefore Heaven Earth and Sea and all the Creatures wherewith he has stor'd adorn'd them created for thee and to bring thee to happiness nor cared for but as means to that End And which is yet infinitely more ev'n beyond all amazement see the Divinity it self humbled and impoverish't to raise and enrich thee Him whom but now wee concluded through his own fulness incapable of encrease devested for thy sake of all his Royal Privileges and cloth'd with all our miseries and infirmities For what know we amongst the whole mass of Creatures so distressed and helpless as a poor Infant newly born what so subject to all kind of contingencies and inconveniencies what requiring so much care and industry to nurse and breed up to its perfection Thank on every particular and see at how high a rate the unerrable judgement of the Almighty has valew'd thy happiness The second Point BUt again Consider the whole Life and Death of this poor God pillag'd of his own to purchase thy glory See a Life of three and thirty long years endur'd in cōtinual necessities labours molestations and contradictions How often was it necessary that this most meek and innocent Lamb who never brake a brused Reed nor quench'd the smoaking Flax should to give thee an example of Patience undergoe the anger and indignation of his enemies How often to teach thee Meekness and Humility was He to be chidden threatned reproach'd and blasphem'd without once op'ning his mouth to reply What shall I say of his Travayls Sweats Weariness Lying without dores Watching whole nights in Prayer Fasting Poverty not having a House wherein to shrow'd his Head living on Alms continual Dangers and Flying from one place to another especially in the last three years of his Life O but His End Consider his Anguish in the Garden the manner of his Apprehension his leading or rather dragging from one Tribunal to another all sorts of contempt all manner of insolent and abusive revilements weigh the Pains he suffer'd in the most tender and sensible parts of his Body His being Betray'd by One and Forsaken by the rest of his Disciples the doleful presence of his dearest Mother and other afflicted Friends In fine his ignominious Death and the effusion of the last drop of his Blood for thy Redemption and eternal Happiness The third Point LAstly Consider how not content with all this He spar'd not his Glorious Body but ordain'd even That too to serve as a means for thy Felicity leaving himself to thee in the Blessed Sacrament under the forms of Bread and Wine not only to be seen and adored but ev'n to be handled broken chew'd swallow'd and incorporated by thee for all this is as truly and really verify'd of him invested with the Accidents or forms of Bread and Wine as it would be of the Bread it self were it taken before Consecration and It 's connatural Accidents are now as truly Those of His Body as they were of the Bread whilst it continu'd such Add now to this all the Injuries and indignities that are offer'd his Sacred Person as it lyes veyl'd under those Accidents for thy Love whether by Negligence of inconsiderate Servants or Malice of wicked Sinners and see to what a pitch his Charity to thee is heightned which has made Him in a manner prefer thee before Himself Conclusion COnclude therefore Since thou neither mayst nor canst doubt but that the judgement of thy God is most certain impartial and unerrable what care and esteem oughtst thou to have of thine own Salvation what Sollicitude to seek the means of attaining It what diligence to omit nothing in order to assure It whereof thou see'st him so industriously careful who is no wayes concern'd more than out of pure Goodness whether thou bee'st a sav'd Soul or no and yet whom even Goodness it self could not so transport as to make him think any price too high to procure thee Felicity The