Sermons preached

5. A Judge implies a Judgment-day, or some Time when his Justice must have a solemn Trial, when he will reckon with the lapsed World. He reckons sometimes with Nations now, for Ungodliness and Unrighteousness, by Wars, and Pestilence, and Famine. He reckons with particular Persons at their Death, and when their Work is done he pays them their Wages. Heb. 9. 27. It is appointed for all Men once to dye, and after that the Judgment. But there is a more general and final Judgment, when his Justice must have a solemn Trial, which is in part evident in Nature: for the Apostles did slide in the Christian Doctrine mostly by this means into the Hearts of those to whom they preached; Acts 24. 25. He reasoned of Righteousness, Temperance, and Judgment to come. The particularity of it belongs to the Gospel-Revelation; but ⟨p. 8⟩Nature hath some kind of Sense of it in it self, and they are urged to repent; because God hath appointed a Day wherein he will judge the World in Righteousness, by the Man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all Men, in that he hath raised him from the dead, Acts 17. 31. God judgeth the World in Patience now, but then in Righteousness, when all things shall be reviewed, and every thing restored; Virtue to its public Honour, and Vice to its due Shame.

5. A Iudge implies a Iudgment-day, or some Time when his Justice must have a solemn Trial, when he will reckon with the lapsed World. He reckons sometimes with Nations now, for Ungodliness and Unrighteousness, by Wars, and Pestilence, and Famine. He reckons with particular Persons at their Death, and when their Work is done he pays them their Wages. Heb. 9. 27. It is appointed for all Men once to dye, and after that the Iudgment. But there is a more general and final Judgment, when his Justice must have a solemn Tryal, which is in part evident in Nature: for the Apostles did slide in the Christian Doctrine mostly by this means into the Hearts of those to whom they preached;