First, Of the manifestation of every mans Works. Rev. 2.12. John saith he saw the Dead small and great stand before God, and the Books was opened, and another Book was opened; which is the Book of Life, and the dead were Judged ou• of those things which were written in the Book according to their Works. Remember this, O forgetful Sinner! thou mayest commit Sin after Sin, and multiply your Sins; but be assured God keeps a just Account, land not one of thy Sins (though ne••• so secret) shall be forgot; there is a Book of God's Memory, 'tis called a Book of Remembrance, Mal. 3.16. A Book of Remembrance was Written before GOD for them that fear the Lord and thought upon his Name. This is that which manifest• all Secrets. This is that which Reveals ⟨p. 12⟩all doings whether good or evil: In these Records are found at large, Abel's Sacrifice, Cain's Murder, Absalom's Rebellion, David's Devotion, the Jews Cruelty, the Prophet's Innocency: Nothing shall be hid when this Book is opened; for all may run that read it. God will bring every Work into Judgment, with every secret Thing, be it good or be it evil; Eccles. 12.14. Wail ye wicked and tremble in astonishment, now your Closet sins must be disclosed, your private Faults laid open, Imprimis, for Adultery, for Envy, Blasphemy, Oaths, Drunkenness, Violence, Murder, Lying, Sabbath-breaking and every Sin from the beginning to the end, from your Birth to your Burial: the total Sum, Eternal Death and Damnation. But here is another Book that shall give a more fearful Evidence than the Former, which is the Book of every Man's Conscience, and the Secretary is the Soul of Man; no Man can commit one Sin, but his Soul that is privy to the Fact will write it in this Book. In what a woeful case will thy Heart be then; in what a strange terror and trembling must it then stand possest, when this must be opened, and thy Sins Revealed? This Book is now perhaps shut up and sealed; but in the day of Judgment it shall be opened, and what ⟨p. 13⟩will be the Evidence that will be brought in? There are private Sessions to be held in the Breast of every sinner; the Memory is the Recorder, Truth is the Law, Damnation the Jailers, and Conscience both Witness and Judge to pass sentence upon thee▪ what hopes can he have at the General Assize, whose Conscience hath condemned him before he appears, Consider this, O thou impenitent Sinner.
First, Of the manifestation of every mans Works. Rev. 2.12. John saith he saw the Dead small and great stand before God, and the Books was opened, and another Bonk was opened; which is the Book of Lise, and the dead were Judged ou• of those things which were written in the Book according to their Works. Remember this, O forgetful Sinner! thou mayest commit Sin after Sin, and multiply your Sins; but be assured God keeps a just Account, land not one of thy Sins (though ne••• so socret) shall be forgot; there is a Book of God's Memory, 'tis call'd a Book of Remembrance, Mal. 3.16. A Book of Remembrance was Written before GOD for them that fear the Lord and thought upon his Name. This is that which manifest• all Secrets. This is that which Reveals ⟨p. 12⟩all doings whether good or evil: In these Records are found at large, Abel's Sacrifice, Cain's Murther, Absalem's Rebellion, David's Devotion, the Jews Cruelty, the Prophet's Innocency: Nothing shall be hid when this Book is opened; for all may run that read it. God will bring every Work into Judgment, with every secret Thing, be it good or be it evil; Eccles. 12.14. Wail ye wicked and tremble in astonishment, now your Closet sins must be disclosed, your private Faults laid open, Imprimis, for Adultery, for Envy, Blasphemy, Oaths, Drunkenness, Violence, Murther, Lying, Sabbath-breaking and every Sin from the beginning to the end, from your Birth to your Burial: the total Sum, Eternal Death and Damnation. But here is another Book that shall give a more fearful Evidence than the Former, which is the Book of every Man's Conscience, and the Secretary is the Soul of Man; no Man can commit one Sin, but his Soul that is privy to the Fact will write it in this Book. In what a woful case will thy Heart be then; in what a strange terror and trembling must it then stand possest, when this must be opened, and thy Sins Revealed? This Book is now perhaps shut up and sealed; but in the day of Judgment it shall be opened, and what ⟨p. 13⟩will be the Evidence that will be brought in? There are private Sessions to be held in the Breast of every sinner; the Memory is the Recorder, Truth is the Law, Damnation the Jaylors, and Conscience both Witness and Judge to pass sentence upon thee▪ what hopes can he have at the General Assize, whose Conscience hath condemned him before he appears, Consider this, O thou impenitent Sinner.
