Speculum amatorum mundi

That day is a day of life, a day of unheard-of light, in which death itself will die, and night itself will be destroyed. Behold the King is desired, and is expected by the holy ones. Now He hastens, He exhorts, prepared to save. Now the celestial King, our Judge and Witness, hastens. He will appear in haste; every eye will see Him. He will appear and will not delay; He will come and demonstrate how much He has waited for those who are troubled for the sake of faith. O how pious, and how grateful, how sweet, how blessed it will be then to see Jesus for those who have loved Him. Then Jesus, sweet in affection and admirable in aspect, will speak thus in affection in the sight of all flesh: "You who have believed in Me, and who have remained with Me, who have suffered for Me, behold the good you have sought. Behold the kingdom which I promised, and which until now I kept hidden; now see, now have it. Now reign, now rejoice." O how sweet and joyful it will then be to have hated the world, and how sad and bitter to have held the world dear. One cannot think how much it will be to be exalted, then to dwell in the heavens, and to reign with the angels. To which kingdom, O just Judge, deign to call me, whom I expect, whom I seek, for whom I anxiously sigh. Until when, therefore, O man, who was created to the likeness and image of God, and called to possess the celestial kingdoms, are you occupied in these things which are vanity of vanities? Why do you so waste yourself in foolishness, oppressed by deadly crimes and many vices? Strive to repent for your sins, O wretched one. Attend to the unavoidable necessity of death, and shudder at the infallible equity of the divine judgment, and tremble at the intolerable acerbity of the infernal punishments, and be terrified at the deceitfulness of this deceiving world, so that you may prudently evade its snares. We have entered into this world, fraudulent and fallacious, promising many good things but fallacious in all. For the world promises man to give a long life, but when death comes, it is not worth a moment to prolong it.