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Rh For comfort to all who are the Judge's favourites, Now is the day if ye are God's ſervants) that Satan ſhall be trodden under your feet, and you, with your Maſter, Chriſt, ſhall be carried into the holy of holies. You may remember how all the men of God, in their greateſt anguiſh here below, have fetched comfort from the eyes of faith, it was at this mountain Job rejoiced, being caſt on the dung-hill, that his Redeemer lived; and that he ſhould ſee him at the last day ſtand on the earth, ſo likewie the Evangeliſt John longed and cried, 'Come Lord Jeſus come quickly,' Rev. xxii. 20. 'Now little children abide in him, that when he ſhall appear, we may have confidence and not be aſhamed at his coming. And this is the promiſe that he hath promiſed us even eternal life,' 1 John ii. 28, 25. But I proceed,

The perious to be judged, are a world of men. good and bad, elect and reprobate.

Firſt, There is a ſummons, and this very man muſt hear, and this ſhall be the voice of the laſt trumpet, 'Ariſe ye dead, and come to Judgement!' O what a fearful and terrible voice will this be to all the wicked! How will they tremble at his voice which makes the earth to tremble! Even at this voice the graves of the dead ſhall be opened, and every ſoul re-united to his own body: the dark pit of hell ſhall be ſhaken, when the dreadful ſoul ſhall leave its place of terror, and once more re-enter into its ſtinking carrion, to receive a greater condemnation, John v. 28, 29. The