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Furthermore we see, how quickly Gods curse was scattered over the whole earth, when our first parents had sinned:¹ the deformity came not upon the creatures by degrees, but it overtook them presently and out of hand. And so at the last day Christ shall come in the twinkling of an eye, as to call the godly forthwith unto glory,² so to draw the wicked immediately before Gods judgement seat, to receive present and everlasting punishment and torment.

Furthermore we see, how quickly Gods curse was scattered ouer the whole earth, when our first parents had sinned:¹ the deformitie came not vpon the creatures by degrees, but it ouertooke them presently and out of hand. And so at the last day Christ shall come in the twinckling of an eye, as to call the godly forthwith vnto glory,² so to draw the wicked immediately before Gods iudgement seate, to receiue present and euerlasting punishment and torment.

1. 1Gen. 3. 17. 18.
2. 21. Cor. 15. 52.

And the reason of this is,¹ because God at all times is in all places, and of equal power in every place, and therefore what should hinder him from doing that every where in the same moment, if it stand with his justice and will, which he doth any where? The great deluge in the time of Noah, covered not one Nation one year, and an other the next, and a long time after the rest which were far separated asunder, but he in his wrath was present in every country, and so were they all overwhelmed in few days: and who knoweth whether it seized not upon each of them in one day? which maketh,