344 Chap. 19. AnExpofstionupon the Book of JOB. Vert: zsà tence until! the cotaming9fchrift. So that Maranatha, fignify_ mg the Lord fhall come, was a proverbial! fpeech, implying a dayofJudgment coining. And as Scripture authorities are full of it, fo there are many rationall dernonftrations of it For firft, The judgements which have been, thew that there !hall be a judgement ;_ Chritt path often, as it were, flood onthe ground already in judgement botá againfl ,perfons and Nati- ons ; There leffer dayes ofJudgement , are a ftrong argument ofa great day of Judgement. Secondly. As letter external! Judgement.dayes argue it, fo doe internai! Judgement- daes. There is a day of judgement kept in the Conscience of man, which tells us that God will kee,ee a day of Judgement at lath .concerning all men. Ifwe were not to be judgd, we fhóuld never judge our foires, nor be troubled at what we have done,: were we not to'anfwer for what we have done. The Apottle is cieare in it ( Rem. 2. 15. ) (peaking of the Gentiles who had not the Law publithed to theirear, yet ( faith he) which Phew the ppkf ofthe Lan written in their hearts, their confciences alto' bearing witnelfe, and their thoughts in the meane Whileeither excu- fsng, or dealing one another. This meane while,is,till the judgement come ; As if he hadthus exprefted himfelfe ; Before the great Judgement comes they judge themfelves ; or their thoughts be- twixt themfelves are arraigning & impleading them, or Apolo- gizing for and acguitting them The reafon of this internal! an- tecedent felon is, becaufe as many as havefinned in the Law, /ball bejudged by the Law, (verf sa.) (the 13th, 14th, and jyth Verfes,are but a parenthefis) In the day when godfaall judge the ferrets ofmen by yetis Chrifi according to my golfel. In thismeant while or in this interim till the day that God fhaïl judge the thoughts ofmen by jefus Chrift, mens thoughts fall a judging themfelves.Confcienceis the correfporderce of the fpirit ofman with the lawofGod in bindingor loofing, in condemning, or abfolving. And though tome mens confciences are fo dark,. blinde, and ignorant, that they doe not judge themfelves at all, and the confciences ofothersare fo br;b'd and biafs'd, fo ill en- formed and erroneous, that they give a falle judgement, and juflífie thofe whomGod and his Law condemne, yet that there is fucha worksofconfcience ( whether it be true or falle, right . t?r wrong,' alters, not the cafe ) all ( who know any thing of its
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