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A sermon of judgement, preached before the Queen Dowager in Her Majesties chappel at Somerset-House, on the first Sunday in Advent, being the 27th. of Novemb. 1686 / by J.D. of the Society of Jesus.
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J. D. (John Dormer), 1636-1700.
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Wing D1927; ESTC R8585
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à me maledicti vers 41. in ignem aeternum qui paratus est Diabolo Angelis ejus Depart from me ye accursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels And Judgement is done the Sentence and Execution is doing for all Eternity Discedite Depart Venite Come O fatal Departure O blessed Access Of Whom From Whom To Whom Whither And How long A sad Departure of Men from God from the Centre of Bliss to the Devil to Hell fire and that for Ever O joyful Access of the Creature to his Maker to his sweet Redeemer to the Mansion of Happiness never to End. Come O Blessed Depart O Wicked But is there no Attonement to be had None No hopes of Mitigation Not the least Is the Sentence Unalterable Unalterable In aeternum for ever It s God's Word To question it were to Impeach our Reason and God's Veracity Discourse it thus if you please To deprive Man of a Temporal Life for an Offence to Man equal in Nature your Reason tells you is just And for an Offence against God so great in Goodness and Worth so infinitely above Man by a proportion of Justice the Punishment ought it not to be Eternal O imprudent O rash Mortals Were the Case but doubtful in Wisdom you should provide for the worst much more were it probable most of all it being Certain We are indicted both by Reason and God's Word and yet we prepare neither for the impartial Tryal nor unalterable Sentence by a timely Repentance and Reformation of our Manners God send we hear not Discedite maledicti in ignem aeternum Depart you accursed into Eternal flames Tunc videbunt Then they shall see the Son of Man Never to see him more Tune plangent And then they shall mourn to mourn for ever Where I cannot but reflect that Tears of Punishment begin from Seeing Tears of Repentance from Believing They deferr'd Weeping till they saw the Judge then too late They Weep they Sigh they Groan they Gnash their Teeth and so they shall for Ever Plangent they shall Mourn and that Eternally Whereas the Just grounded in a true Belief now wash away their Failures with Pious and Devout Tears and therefore shall Weep no more but Videbunt shall see Him whose sight is Life Everlasting Depart O Accursed for Ever Come ye Blessed for Ever O Ever Ever After Hundreds and Thousands and Thousands of Millions of Ages yet Ever remains Suppose all Heaven and Earth turned into Cyphers put an Unit before them you 'l find written at the end of them here Ever here Eternity begins O Holy Penance O Happy Repentance Thou alone art able to prevent the perpetual Torment and Disgrace due to our Sins Thou hast filled Heaven and changed Sinners into Saints Thee from this Hour we heartily Embrace Aspire O Lord with thy moving Grace melt our flinty Hearts dissolve them into Waters of Compunction that joyning our Sorrow with thy Passion our Tears with thy precious Blood which so abundantly flow'd from thy Sacred Wounds we may wash away the Guilt of our Crimes Peccavimus We have sin'd but we Repent To thee an Infant Saviour we have Recourse this Holy Time of Advent that at thy Second Coming as a Judge we may have cause to Rejoyce and not to Mourn Be it so beloved Brethren for who in this Life has Sin'd and doth not Repent shall Mourn and Burn for Ever Ever Ever Discedite in ignem aeternum c. From which God of his infinite Mercy preserve us all In the Name of the Father c. FINIS