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Rh habit! He is indeed clothed with Majeſty. Would you know his attendance? They are an hoſt of holy angels; nay, yet a much longer train, even the ſouls of the ſaints, deſcending from their imperial feats, and attending the Lamb with great glory Never was there any judge, Lord of ſuch a circuit: His footſtool is the clouds, his feet is the rainbow, his judges are ſaints, his officers, angels and arch-angels. The trumpet proclaims a ſilence, while a juſt ſentence cometh from his mouth upon all the world Thus you ſee the aſſize begun: 'I beheld till the thrones were caſt down, aith the Prophet, and the Ancient of Days did it, whoſe garments were white as ſnow, and the hair of his head like pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and the wheels as burning fire,' Dan. vii. 9.

This is the Judge, whoſe coming is ſo fearful, uſhered in by a fiery cloud, and appareled in a ſnowy white, carried in his circuit on burning wheels, and attended with thouſands of thouſands. O ye Jews! behold the man whom before ye crucified as a maleſactor; behold him on his throne, whom you ſaid, his diſciples had ſtolen away by night out of his grave, Mat xxviii. 12. Behold himn in his majeſty; him upon whom you would not look in his humility. This is he, at whoſe appearance the kindreds of the earth ſhould mourn. Such a ſhour of fury follows the fight of his Majeſty, that the vaults ſhall echo, the hills reound, the earth ſhall ſhake, the heavens ſhall paſs away, and be turned to conſuſion. Then