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 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;" 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, like Lot, that being free from the fires that burn it, I may save my soul in the high " mountain" of Thy glory! Amen.

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," in manner of a " trumpet," 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 the dead will arise. And (as St. John says) the "sea will give