[ 1363] Atheistical Wicked Men, at the hour of Death forced to confesse Gods Iudgments.
IT is the report of a Reverend Divine (now with God) concerning an Atheist in England;* 1.1 A young Man, sayes he, was a Papist, but soon fell into dislike of their superstition? He became a Protestant, but that did not please him long; England could not content him, he reels to Amsterdam, there he fell from one sect to another, till he lighted upon the Familists; The first Principle they taught him was this; There is no God; (as indeed they had need to sear up their Consciences, and dam up all natural light that turn Familists) hereupon he fell to a loose life, committed a Robbery, was convicted, condemned, and brought to die; At the Execution he desired a little time, uttering these words, Say what you will, surely there is a God, loving to his Friends, terrible to his Enemies. And thus it is,* 1.2 that the lewdest Reprobates, the most wretched Atheists that spit in the face of Heaven, and wade deepest in bloud, are forced at the time of Death,* 1.3 when they see the hand-writing of Gods Iudgments upon the wall,* 1.4 to confesse there is a God, who is just in all his wayes, and wondrous in all his works.