290 Of the Inanity of Man's 7udgrnent. SERM. all the reafon in the world to believe he wills XI. if we confider the conftitution of our own 'minds, and his adminiftration, which, though imperfectly difcovered, has to an attentive mind the plain appearances of moral admini, liration ; for the natural prefages of our own thoughts, the admonitions of confcience, and the promifcuous difpenfations of natural good and evil to men by providence in the prefent Rate, which evidently appears to be a ¡late of difcipline, do all of them concur in eftablifh- ing the expectation of a judgment to come. But we have exprefs affurance given us by the refurrection of Chrift and the declarations of the gofpel, that God * has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righ- teoazfnefs by him whom he bath ordained and to whom he bath committed all judgment, even yejus our Lord. How awful is this confi- deration ! how affecting to the minds of all who believe and ferioufly attend it ! Then 'hall the righteous thine forth in the kingdom of their Father, as the brightnefs of the fir, marnent, and as the liars for ever and even Then shall the judge fay to the workers of iniquity, to them who were really fo, what= ever figure they made in this world, and Acts xvii. 3i. however
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