A65285:1593
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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Quest. 1. How doth it appear that there shall be a Day a Judgment?
Quest. 1. How doth it appear that there shall be a Day a Iudgment?
Resp. Two ways. 1. By the Suffrage of Scripture, Eccles. 11.9.12.14 For God shall bring every work into Judgment, with every secret thing, Psal. 96.13. For he cometh, for he cometh to judge the Earth. The Reduplication denotes the certainty, Dan. 7.9. I beheld till the Thrones were cast down, and the ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow. The Judgment was set, and the Books were opened.
2. It appears from the petty Sessions kept in a Mans own Conscience; when a Man doth Virtuously, Conscience doth excuse him, when evil Conscience doth arraign and condemn him. Now, what is this private Session kept in the Court of Conscience, but a certain fore-runner of that General Day of Judgment, when all the World shall be summoned to Gods Tribunal?