He hath likewise divided thy body and soul, and thy body He hath delivered to the worms to eat, and thy soul to the devils to torment it And in the very same hour that God shall intimate this sentence, He will execute it, and none shall be able to resist Him.
Colloquy. — Oh, what tremblings shall I then feel, more terrible than those of King Baltassar! Oh, what clamours and lamentations, what troubles and agonies of death shall afflict my poor soul, with so much the greater torment as the forgetfulness was the greater! Eemember me, O God, for Thy mercy, and imprint in my soul the memory of these three sentences, that I may always remember the account that Thou hast made of my days, and of the last which must be the end of them, that I may live with such care that at the day of judgment, when Thou shalt weigh me in Thy scale, Thou mayest not find me wanting, but entire, and weighty in all my works: and that although Thou dividest from me the kingdom of the earth, Thou mayest not exclude me from Thy kingdom of heaven! Amen.
MEDITATION XIII.
ON THE GENERAL JUDGMENT, AND ON THE SIGNS AND THINGS PRECEDING THAT DAY.
For the first Sunday of Advent.
POINT I.
1. For the foundation of this matter, I am to consider the
verity of that article of our faith that teaches us, that
besides the particular judgment that is made of every man
in the hour of death, there shall be another general judgment of all men together in the end of the world, which
