[Satan’s Invisible World Contents]
IT is written in the life of one Bruno, that a Doctor of great note for Learning and Godliness being dead, and being brought to the Church to be buried, while they were in their Popish Devotions, and came to these words, Responde mihi, the Corps arose in the Bier, and with a terrible voice cryed out, Justo DEI judicio accusatus sum, I am accused at the just Judgement of GOD. At which voice, the people ran all out afrighted. On the morrow when they came again to perform the Obsequies, to the like words as before, the Corps rose again, and cried with a hideous voice, Justo DEI judicio condemnatus sum; I am Judged at the Righteous Judgement of GOD. Whereupon the People run away amazed. The third day almost all the City came together, and when they came to the same words as before, the Corps rose again, and cried with a more doleful noise than before, Justo DEI judicio condemnatus sum, I am condemned at the just Judgement of GOD. The consideration whereof, that a man reputed so upright, should yet by his own confession be damned, caused Bruno, and the rest of his Companions, to enter into that strick Order of Carthusians. The Author and Relator makes this use of it. If the voice of the dead man could afright them into Superstition, should not the warning of GOD afright us into True Doctrine?
