The Fountain of Life Opened

If Christ be ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead,¹ how miserable a case will Christless Souls be in at that day! They that are Christless now, will be speechless, helpless, and hopeless then. How will their hands hang down, and their knees knock together! O what pale faces, quivering lips, fainting ⟨p. 598⟩hearts, and roaring consciences will be among them in that day! O dreadful day! O astonishing sight! To see the World in a dreadful conflagration, the Elements melting, the Stars falling, the Earth trembling, the Judgement set, the Prisoners brought forth; O who shall endure in this day, but those that by union with Christ, are secured against the danger and dread of it? Let me demand of poor Christless Souls, whom this day is like to overtake unawares.

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First, Do ye think it possible to avoid appearing after that terrible citation is given to the World by the Trump of God? Alas, how can you imagine it? Is not the same power that revived your dust, able to bring you before the bar? There is a necessity that you must come forth, 2 Cor. 5.10. We [Must] all appear. It is not at the sinners choice, to obey the Summons or not.

Secondly, If you must appear, are there no Accusers, nor Witnesses that will appear against you, and confront you in the Court? What think you, was Satan so often a Tempter to you here, and will he not be an Accuser there? Yes, nothing surer; for that was the main design of all his Temptations. What think you of your own Consciences? Are they not privy to your secret wickedness? Don't they now whisper sometimes in your ears, what you care not to hear of? If they whisper now, they will thunder then,