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 parents, or husbands, or wives, or friends, or companions.

Imagine, thirdly, the universal deluge of fire, which shall go before this judgment; that dreadful noise of the trumpet, which one of the archangels shall blow, wherewith all the people of the whole world shall be summoned together, in one place, making their appearance before the judgment seat; and last of all, that dreadful majesty, the supreme judge of the quick and dead, shall assume to himself upon this tribunal.

Fourthly, consider, what exact account shall be required of every one. Holy Job saith: "Vere scio quod ita sit: et quod non justificelur homo compositifs Deo. Si voluerit contendere cum eo, non potent ei respondere unum pro mille." "Indeed, I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified, compared with God. If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand." What then shall become of man, when God shall begin to handle him according to the rigor of his justice, when he shall speak to his conscience inwardly?

O wicked and perverse man, what hast thou seen in me, that out of the height of impiety, despising me, thou shouldst join with my enemies! I have created thee according to mine own image and likeness: I have illuminated thee with the light of faith: I have seasoned