16. The last Motive to Repentance is,1 the day of judgement is coming. This is the Apostles own Argument, Act. 17. 31. God commands men every where to repent, because he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world. There is that in the day of judgement, which may make a stony heart bleed. Will a man go on thieving when the Assizes are nigh? Will the sinner go on sinning when the day of judgement is so nigh? Thou canst no more conceal thy sin, than thou canst defend it; and what wilt thou do when all thy sins shall be written in Gods Book, and engraven on thy forehead? O direful day, when Jesus Christ clothed in his Judges Robe, shall say to the sinner, stand forth, answer to the Indictment brought against thee. What canst thou say for all thy oaths, adulteries, and thy desperate impenitency? O how amazed and stricken with consternation will the sinner be! and after his conviction, he must hear the sad sentence, Depart from me. Then, he who would not repent of his sins, shall repent of his •olly: If then there be such a time a coming, wherein God will judge men for their impieties, what a spur ⟨p. 116⟩should this be to Repentance! The penitent soul shall at the last day lift up his head with comfort, and have a discharge to show under the Judges own hand.
16. The last Motive to Repentance is,1 the day of judgement is coming. This is the Apostles own Argument, Act. 17. 31. God commands men every where to repent, because he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world. There is that in the day of judgement, which may make a stony heart bleed. Will a man go on thieving when the Assizes are nigh? Will the sinner go on sinning when the day of judgement is so nigh? Thou canst no more conceal thy sin, than thou canst defend it; and what wilt thou do when all thy sins shall be written in Gods Book, and engraven on thy forehead? O direful day, when Jesus Christ clothed in his Judges Robe, shall say to the sinner, stand forth, answer to the Indictment brought against thee. What canst thou say for all thy oaths, adulteries, and thy desperate impenitency? O how amazed and stricken with consternation will the sinner be! and after his conviction, he must hear the sad sentence, Depart from me. Then, he who would not repent of his sins, shall repent of his •olly: If then there be such a time a coming, wherein God will judge men for their impieties, what a spur ⟨p. 116⟩should this be to Repentance! The penitent soul shall at the last day lift up his head with comfort, and have a discharge to shew under the Judges own hand.
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