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A40135 Christ's parable of Dives and Lazarus for all call'd Christians and others to consider by G. Fox. Fox, George, 1624-1691. 1677 (1677) Wing F1762; ESTC R28647 5,660 12

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dye Do ye think upon this rich man where he is and where poor Lazarus is You that receive the Good Things in your Life Time remember now while you are alive and do not eat and drink without the Fear of God to make your selves wanton lest you be lifted up and regard not the poor and look loftily and disdainfully upon your Fellow-Creatures that be in Misery lest the time come that you come into Torment with the rich man when they are comforted in Abraham's Bosom For you hear what Christ saith in his Parable and what Abraham saith Abraham tells the rich man that is tormented in Hell that There is a great Gulf fixed between the rich man in Hell and Lazarus and Abraham So that they which would pass from Abraham to the rich man in Hell cannot neither can they from Hell pass unto Abraham that would come from thence So this doth manifest that when the wicked dye they go to Hell so there is no Purgatory nor middle place as some imagine And they in Hell cannot pass to Abraham nor Abraham to them so there is no Prayers that will get them out of Hell-Fire And therefore consider ye this that fare sumptuously every day are clothed in your purple and fine linnen regard not the poor lest the day of your visitation do pass over your heads and you do continue in your Wickedness and dye in your Sins for the Wicked must be turned into Hell and all that forget God For this rich man in Hell cryed unto Abraham to have Mercy upon him and for him to send poor Lazarus that he might dip the Tip of his Finger in Water to cool his Tongue for he was tormented in the Flame in Hell-Fire Now Abraham could shew him no Mercy that was in Hell-Fire nor Lazarus they could not comfort this rich man with as much Water as they could take up on the Tip of their Finger so there was no Comfort to be shewed to him And though Abraham called him Son this was a Parable to the Jews who profest themselves Children of Abraham and did not do the Works of Abraham So this Parable may stand to them that profess themselves Christians and do not the Works of Christianity And when they be in Hell what good will all their Riches and their sumptuous Fare and their fine Linnen and Purple do them When they live without Mercy and Compassion in their Life Time and without the Fear of God and go to Hell-Fire and be in Torment when they dye And therefore for them to see the poor despised Begger Lasarus in Happiness in Abraham's Bosom and a great Gulf fixed between them in Hell and the poor that be in Abraham's Bosom that Abraham and the Begger cannot pass to them in Hell neither can they pass to them in Heaven And therefore what doth all your Pleasures and sumptuous Fare and Aparel avail you whose Dogs have more Compassion upon the poor then you in your Life Time Abraham tells you the Reason how that there is a great Gulf fixed betwixt you and them as afore-said And therefore remember this in your Life Time and be warned and repent and while you have Time prize it This is the Day of your Visitation who live in Pleasures and Fulness and Wantonness despising the poor and persecuting the just and innocent and comforting your selves with your pleasures and Things of this World And nourishing your Hearts as in a Day of slaughter and living wantonly upon the Earth And live neither according to the Law of Moses nor the Prophets nor according to the Gospel of Christ Jesus though they all tell you what Misery will be your End yet you will not hear them nor obey them And therefore if you will not hear neither the Gospel the Law nor the Prophets then hear what the rich man in Hell saith to you in his Torment as in Luke 16. For Abraham nor Lazarus could not help him nor comfort him nor shew him any Mercy who had shewed no Mercy in his Life Time So you may see plainly by Christ's own Words here is no Purgatory or Middle Place but when the Wicked dye they go to Hell and the just are carried in Abraham's Bosom with the Angels And when this rich Man could get no Hope of any Comfort in Hell from Abraham and Lazarus he was so tormented that he desired Abraham that he would send to his Father's House for he had five Brethren that they may testifie unto them lest they should come into that place of Torment to wit Hell And Abraham told the rich man in Hell That they had Moses and the Prophets let them hear them So now you have Christ to hear and his Apostles and if you do not hear Christ's Voice that speaks from Heaven and follow him who is the Way to God the Truth and the life Then consider and see if your Way be not the rich man's to Hell to his place of Torments But i● it not your Principle to say that there is no hearing Christ's Voice whilest you are alive hereupon the Earth Oh! Therefore be warned and be serious and consider your latter End and now you have Time prize it ●est you say you had Time when it is past For if you do not prize your Time whilest you are upon th●● Earth Christ tells you you must go to Hell Nay though you call Christ Lord and say you have preacht in the Streets yet if you be found workers of Iniquity though you may have preacht Christ's Death and Resurrection and prophesied in his Name yet if ye be found workers of Iniquity Christ will say unto you Depart from me I know you not go ye cursed into Everlasting Punishment prepared for the Devil and his Angels And though you may say as many Prayers as the babbling Pharisees did three times a Day and call Christ Lord and do not the Things which he commands he tells you Ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of God For Christ tells you It is those that Do the Will of his Father which is in Heaven that enter into the Kingdom of God And therefore do not vex nor quench nor grieve the Spirit of God which is given unto you to instruct you to shun the Wayes of Sin and Evil and Pleasures which lead to Hell And do not hate the Light which Christ hath enlightned you withal that shines in your dark Hearts which would given you the Knowledge of your lost State and of your Sins and of Christ that saves you from your Sins And do not walk Despitefully against the Spirit of Grace nor turn it into Wantonness which Grace of God that brings Salvation hath appeared unto all Men to teach them and to bring them Salvation I say To teach you to live soberly and godly and to deny all Unrighteousness and Ungodliness which leads to Hell And if you do hate the Light and quench his Spirit and walk Despitefully against the Spirit of Grace and turn it into Wantonness God and Christ will be clear of you when you are condemned to Hell-Fire and in it roar For what could God do more for you who sent his Son to dye for you and sent his Grace which hath appeared to all Men to teach them and bring their and your Salvation and poured out of his Spirit upon all Flesh and his Son hath enlightened every man that cometh into the World and he bids them Believe in the Light that they may become Children of the Light And sent his Apostles and Disciples into all Nations To preach the Gospel unto every Creature freely as they had received it freely and yet you to hate his light and quench his spirit and resist it and turn his Grace into Wantonness and not obey his Gospel but persecute his free Messengers of it and so not do the Thing which God and Christ command but live in Pleasures and Wantonness and despise the poor and persecute the just How can you expect any other End but this rich man's in Hell And acknowledge that God and Christ were Just and Merciful all your life time to you before he gave you up to your Hearts-lusts which you walked after who resisted his Grace and Spirit and his Servants and Messengers that admonished you within and without Now if any should imagine that by giving Means unto Priests that they can pray your Souls out of Purgatory or Middle Place Abraham and Christ tell you no such thing but tell you you cannot come to Abraham nor Abraham unto you when you are dead and in Hell And therefore be warned in your Life Time for There is no Repentance in the Grave it must be in you Life Time and before you go to the Grave for As the Tree falls so it lies as the Scripture tells you therefore consider this while you be alive The 7th Mo. 1676 G. F. THE END