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Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachi the…Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the…
Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachi the sixteen, seventeen and eighteen verses : seasonable for the times / by Thomas Watson ...Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the sixteen, seventeen and eighteen verses : seasonable for the times / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed by J. Astwood for Tho. Parkhurst, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. There shall be such a day for the Vindication of Gods Justice. Things seem to be carried in the World Partially: the Godly suffer, the Wicked Prosper. Atheists are ready to think God hath cast off the Government of the World, and minds not how things are transacted here below: therefore there must be a judicial Process that God may undeceive the World and set things right.
3. That there shall be such a day is evident by the Principles ingrafted in a natural conscience. When Paul reasoned of Judgment to come, Felix trembled, Acts 24.25. The Prisoner at bar made the Judge tremble. That a Wicked man dying is so surprised with terrors, whence is this but from a secret apprehension of Judgment ensuing?
3. That there shall be such a day is evident by the Principles ingrafted in a natural conscience. When Paul reasoned of Judgment to come, Felix trembled, Acts 24.25. The Prisoner at bar made the Judge tremble. That a Wicked man dying is so surprized with terrors, whence is this but from a secret apprehension of Judgment ensuing?
It will be a great Assizes, never ⟨p. 70⟩was the like seen. 2 Cor. 5.10. We must all appear before the Judgment Seat. There is no flying, no absconding, no bribing, no appearing by a Proxy, but all must make their Personal appearance *