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10 beggar, the farmer, the captain, the prince and the greateſt potentates of the world! Nay, all ſhall receive their reward according to their deſerts.

2dly. This is for terror to the wicked! every man muſt appear; O! that every man would but think of it. Would you know the man that ſhall on this day be bleſſed? It is he that thinks on this day and prepares for it. O then, I beſeech you, meditate every day, that you and every man muſt one day appear before the Judge of the quick and dead, and receive according to your works.

And now, having brought the priſoners to their trial, I muſt tell you what this trial muſt be: for your works, faith juſtifies, but it is by works we are judged. Miſtake me not, he ſhall be judged according to his works, as being the beſt witneſs of his inward righteouſneſs. But the better to acquaint you with this trial, we come to conſider,

1ſt, How all mens' works ſhall be manifeſted to us.

2dly, How all mens' works will be examined by God.

Firſt. Of the examination of every man's works, Rev. xx. 12. 'I ſaw the dead, ſmall and great aith St. John ſtand before God: and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which was the book of life; and the dead were judged out of theſe things which were written in the books, according to their works. Remember this, O forgetful ſinner, you may commit ſin after