Christ's certain and sudden appearance to judgment

All secret sins will be found there recorded, for nothing is secret to God, whose eyes are like a flame of fire, which gives light to every dark corner; darkness hideth not from him, but the night shineth as the day; he looks into every corner of the Earth, and into every corner of the heart, and hath set our secret sins in the light of his countenance: and all open sins will be found there recorded; no man hath taken so much notice of others sins, as God hath done; he doth as it were, book all down in his remembrance, and when Christ comes at the last day, the book of Gods remembrance will be opened.

2. The second Book which will be opened at Christs coming, will be the Book of Mens own Consciences: and this will be the counter-part to every Mans particular, of What is written in the book of Gods remembrance, they will find the same thing there registered; indeed conscience now may seem to be asleep, and say nothing whilst men are eating, and drinking, and •inning; yet conscience is secretly awake, and busy in writing, and taking notes of every Mans actions, every day; conscience hath its day-book, which hath not an empty page; the mouth of conscience may be shut, and with much ado, for the present, restrained from speaking, and biting; but the eye of conscience cannot be shut from seeing, nor the hand of conscience restrained from registering what it takes notice of: every one in the World hath as it were whole volumes of his own actions in his bosom, written down by conscience; and though the letters of some things done long ago, may seem to be razed and worn out; so that a Man cannot read them now; yet when this Book shall be opened at the last day, they will appear; in very legible characters; like as when a Man writes with the juice of a Lemon upon fair paper; the juice is white, and the paper is white, and he cannot read a word when it is written, nor while it is writing; but let him keep the paper many years by him, and after bring that paper close to the fire, the white letters will turn black, and become very legible: so the conscience of wicked persons is writing, whilst they are sinning, and they do not perceive it after it is written; they forget many of their old sins, yea they do not take notice of them as sins, whilst they ⟨p. 28⟩