A brief discourse of justification. Wherein this doctrine is plainly laid down according to…

1. Consider, The certainty of the great Judgment. If it were so, that the children of men were never to come to a Trial, it would then little concern them to enquire into their own case, or the estate of affairs between God and them, they might well enough, and with safety let all things run on without any concernedness upon their Spirits: but since there will certainly […] time come wherein every Son and Daughter of Adam shall be brought forth to the •ar, and pass an exact Trial, it must needs speak it a piece of the highest prudence in them to be most carefully providing for it, and the most manifest folly to be negligent about it; and if the Scriptures of Truth may be believed, they have given us undeniable assurance that there will be a time wherein all the world shall be Judged, and all persons in particular shall be called forth to give up their account at the Bar: see Eccles. 12. ult. For God will bring every work to Judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or evil, 2 Cor. 5. 10. For we must all appear before the ⟨p. 118⟩Judgment Seat of Christ, that every one may receive the things which he hath done in the body, &c. and there are many other Scriptures of the like import. So that the thing it self is indubitable; and it is an argument of horrid Atheism as well as Unbelief; for any to suspect the Truth of this assertion, as all these practically do, who do wholly neglect all manner of care to be providing for it: Remember then, that it will be but a little while, and all that are in the graves shall arise, and be gathered together unto the Judgment when the Thrones shall be set, and the Books shall be opened. and all the children of men that ever have been shall be judged out of them: when you and I shall, whether we will or no, be brought forth and made to stand out and appear before that awful Tribunal.

1. Consider, The certainty of the great Judgment. If it were so, that the children of men were never to come to a Tryal, it would then little concern them to enquire into their own case, or the estaté of affairs between God and them, they might well enough, and with safety let all things run on without any concernedness upon their Spirits: but since there will certainly time come wherein every Son and Daughter of Adam shall be brought forth to the ar, and pass an exact Tryal, it must needs speak it a piece of the highest prudence in them to be most carefully providing for it, and the most manifest folly to be negligent about it; and if the Scriptures of Truth may be believed, they have given us undeniable assurance that there will be a time wherein all the world shall be Judged, and all persons in particular shall be called forth to give up their account at the Bar: see