am to endeavour to live so well prepared that I may merit to be saved, taking the counsel that our Saviour Christ gave upon this, saying, " Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it;"[1] that is, let him mortify his carnal life, for losing it in such manner he shall quicken it with a spiritual life, and shall be secure at the day of this judgment.
Colloquy. — O Sovereign Judge, quicken me with Thy grace, that, like another Noe, I may be saved in the ark of Thy Church! Drag me out of the Sodom of the world, though it be by force,[2] like Lot, that being free from the fires that burn it, I may save my soul in the high " mountain" of Thy glory! Amen.
MEDITATION XIV.
ON THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD, AND THE COMING OF THE JUDGE, AND HIS PROCEEDINGS BEFORE GIVING THE SENTENCE.
POINT I.
First, I must consider the general resurrection of the dead, in which men in soul and body are to appear at this judgment. Concerning this article of our faith I am to consider,
1. First, that an " archangel," with a dreadful " voice," [3] in manner of a " trumpet," [4] will summon and call all the dead to rise again and come to judgment, saying, " Surgite, mortui, et venite ad judicium;" "Arise, you dead, and come to judgment!" And so potent will this voice be, by virtue of God's Almighty power, that "in a moment" all [5] the dead will arise. And (as St. John says) the "sea will give
