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 The elect have fought a good fight, and finished their course. The wicked have been tried, and found incorrigible. Woe be to the earth, and to the works thereof! Its stream? are turned into pitch, its dust into brimstone, and the breath of the Almighty, like a torrent of fire, enkindles the whole—bee, see, how the conflagration rages— spreads—prevails over all ! The forests are in a blaze, and the mountains are wrapt in flame.— Cities, kingdoms, continents, sink into the burning deluge. London, Britain, Europe, are no more! Through all the receptacles of water, through all. tire tracts of land, through the whole extent of air, nothing is discernible but one vast, prodigious, fiery ruin.—Where are now the treasures of the covetous? Where the possessions of the mighty? Where the delights of the voluptuous? How wise, how happy are they whose portion is lodged in heavenly mansions! Their inheritance is incorruptible; such as the last fire cannot reach, nor the dissolution of nature impair.

But see, the azure vault cleaves. The expanse of heaven is rolled back like a scroll; and the Judge, the Judge appears! He cometh, cries a mighty seraph, the herald of his approach, He cometh, to judge the world in righteousness, and minister true judgment unto the people: He cometh, not as formerly, in the habit of a servant but clad with uncreated glory, and magnificently attended with the armies of heaven. Angels and the Archangels stand before Him, and ten thousand times ten thousand of those celestial spirits minister unto him.—Behold Him, ye followers of the Lamb, and wonder and love. This is He, who bore all your iniquities on the ignominious