Men are gods, or, The dignity of magistracy, and the duty of the magistrate…

3. Consider the day of Judgement, God will then search and sentence you, discover and reward you according to your works. Ye that examine and try others, shall then be examined and tried your selves, and ye that acquit or condemn others, shall then be acquitted or condemned your selves.

3. Consider the day of Judgement, God will then search and sentence you, discover and reward you according to your works. Ye that examine and try others, shall then be examined and tryed your selves, and ye that acquit or condemn others, shall then be acquitted or condemned your selves.

How should this thought move you to walk exactly, since your hearts shall be anatomized, and your lives manifested before God, Angels and men! Could ye but as Jerome, hear the sound of the last trump always in your ears, Arise ye dead, and come to judgement, surely ye would he holy Judges and Justices indeed. Peter maketh this argument a strong enforcement to holiness, 2 Pet. 3.10, 11. ⟨p. 276⟩The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the Heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat; the earth also and the works therein shall be burnt up; seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godliness? Observe, the certainty of it, The day of the Lord will come; If it were doubtful, it would not be so dreadful; but it will come surely, though it come slowly, therefore men had need to be holy. Tertullian observed of all those that profest Christianity in his time, none lived so loosely as those that did not believe the certainty of the day of judgement; But observe 2. the suddenness of it, The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; when men at midnight are securely sleeping, they dream not of, nor prepare for a thief. It is sometimes called a day,