The four last things viz. death, judgment, heaven, hell, practically considered and applied in…

Briefly; The whole Process of that Day, the Arraignment and Sentence will be so ordered, the Righteousness and Reasonableness of the Proceedings will be so manifest, as to clear the Judg, and confound the Guilty. God will be justified in his Sentence, and overcome when he judgeth.

I shall now come to apply this great Doctrine.

1. Let us from what has been discoursed of Judgment to come, be excited to confirm our Faith in this great and useful Doctrine; and by serious and frequent thoughts to apply it to our selves. Some within the Church have only a superficial belief of this, as a point of the Religion wherein they were educated; but carnal Affections, Fear, Hope, Love, and Desire, control their Assent, as to its operation upon them. They believe in the general ⟨p. 212⟩that God is the Judg and Rewarder of our Actions, and in the absence of Temptation resolve to obey him: but when a strong Trial comes from some temporal Good or Evil that is present, their Faith is negligent, and unactive to keep them from Sin. Now to make our Faith powerful, we must,

1. Let us from what has been discours'd of Judgment to come, be excited to confirm our Faith in this great and useful Doctrine; and by serious and frequent thoughts to apply it to our selves. Some within the Church have only a superficial belief of this, as a point of the Religion wherein they were educated; but carnal Affections, Fear, Hope, Love, and Desire, controul their Assent, as to its operation upon them. They believe in the general ⟨p. 212⟩that God is the Judg and Rewarder of our Actions, and in the absence of Temptation resolve to obey him: but when a strong Tryal comes from some temporal Good or Evil that is present, their Faith is negligent, and unactive to keep them from Sin. Now to make our Faith powerful, we must,