John Trapp on John 8:21-22
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John8:21-22
Verſe 21. Ye ſhall dye is your ſins] A heavy doome, the very door to damnation. It is a ſad thing to dye in priſon, to dye in a ditch, but far worſe to dye in your ſins. This is to be ſlain with death, according to that Revel. 2.21. I will kill her children with death. All men dye, but wicked men only are killed with death. As a godly man ſaid, that he did aegrotare vitaliter: ſo do all the righteous, mori vitaliter, becauſe they have hope in their death; which to them is as the valley of Achor, a door of hope, to give entrance into Paradiſe. Whereas to the wicked, it is as a trap-door to let them into hell: ſo that it is a juſt wonder, that foreſeeing their danger, they go not roaring and raving out of the world. Nothing ſhould be done (we ſay) to trouble a dying perſon, no ſhreiking or crying out. Oh take heed, and prevent the ſhreikings of conſcience at that hour, &c. Take heed ye dye not in your ſin, in that your ſin of unbeleefe. [non-Latin text not transcribed] In hoc peccato (as Beza here rendereth it;) for unbeleef ſhuts a man up cloſe priſoner in the Laws dark dungeon till death come with a Writ of Habeas corpus, and hell, with a Writ of Habeas animam, &c.
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