The second Pointe.
SEcondly, I am to consider the Time, and Place, * 1.1 wherein this Iudgement is to bee donne.
1. The time is the Instant of Deathe: for allbeeit that by the speciall dispensation of God, it hath beene seene to begin visibly a litle before Deathe, in sundry cases that haue happened for our example: yet ordinarily it is donne inuisibly, in the very In∣stant that the Soule leaues to Informe the Bodye without any delaye. And in that very moment the whole Iudgement is concluded, the accusation is made and the Sentence is giuen, and executed. This moment I am to haue allwaies before mi∣ne eyes, as that which is to bee the beginning of my eternall good, or euill, saying: O momentum à quo aeternitas, O moment vvherein eternitye beginneth, who can forget thee without greate Perill, and who can remember thee without greate Astonishment? Bee mindefull, o my Soule, of this moment, and endeuour not to loose any moment of time, for in euery one, thou maiest merite the life that shall for euer en∣dure.
2. The place of this Iudgement is, wheresoeuer Deathe arresteth any man, without going to the Valley of Iosaphat, or to any other speciall place: for as the Iudge is in all places, so in all places hee hath his Tribunall, and maketh this Iudgement: in the Earthe, and in the Sea; in the bed, and in the streete; that in euery place I may feare, because I knowe not whither that shallbee the place of my Iudgement. But because that Deathe most ordinarily attacheth vs in our Chamber, and Bed, when I am in these places, I must imagine