The works of George Swinnock, M.A

9. Is not that worthy to be made thy business, which will help thee to comfort and confidence at a dreadful day of judgement, and cause thee to lift up thy head with joy, when thousands and millions shall weep and wail. The day of judgement will be a terrible day indeed; the judge will come in flaming sire, a fire devouring before him and behind him, a flame burning. His tribunal, will be a tribunal of fire; Out of his mouth did proceed a fiery Law, and by that law of fire he will try men for their eternal lives and deaths. The earth at that day, will be consumed with fire, and the elements melt with fervent heat. If the cry of fire, fire, in the night now, be so dreadful, and doth so affright and amaze us, though it be but in one house, and possible not very near us; how dreadful will that day be, when we shall see the whole world in a flame, and the Judge coming in flaming fire to pronounce our eternal dooms! Who can abide the day of his coming! or who can stand when he appeareth! Then the Kings, and Captains, and Nobles, and Mighty Men will call to the rocks to fall on them, and to the hills to hide them, from the face that sitteth in the Throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, Rev. 6. 15.

9. Is not that worthy to be made thy business, which will help thee to comfort and confidence at a dreadful day of judgement, and cause thee to lift up thy head with joy, when thousands and millions shall weep and wail. The day of judgement will be a terrible day indeed; the judge will come in flaming sire, a fire devouring before him and behind him, a flame burning. His tribunal, will be a tribunal of fire; Out of his mouth did proceed a fiery Law, and by that law of fire he will try men for their eternal lives and deaths. The earth at that day, will be consumed with fire, and the elements melt with fervent heat. If the cry of fire, firè, in the night now, be so dreadfull, and doth so afright and amaze us, though it be but in one house, and possible not very near us; how dreadful will that day be, when we shall see the whole world in a flame, and the Judge coming in flaming fire to pronounce our eternal dooms! Who can abide the day of his coming! or who can stand when he appeareth! Then the Kings, and Captains, and Nobles, and Mighty Men will call to the rocks to fall on them, and to the hills to hide them, from the face that sitteth in the Throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, Rev. 6. 15