Chap. tel. An Expofitionupon the Bookof J O B. Verf. 25. 345 its working ) doe agree ; And this is arrevident and convincing demonttratíon, that there that' be a, jji figment : confcience is Gods Depnty, and doth b& begin what Chrift in that Great audit.day,, or day of reckoning, will compleate and finifh. The Apoftle indeed allures ás, that ifwe wouldjudge cur felves, we _Mould not he j udged ( i Cori 1 1 . 3 1 . in this he doth not exempt eyther good or bad who judge t felves from appear- ing in the great day ofJudgement, but onely direLts the Good ( for he fpeakes there to Saints in fellowthip) how to prevent the Lords adjudgeing them to prefent chaftnings and afidtions, as is clear from the 3 2dVerfe ; For when we arejudged, we are chafined of the Lord,that weJhould not be condemnedwith she world. Holy felfe judging and examination may prevent prefent judge- ment, but every felfe judgeing is an evidence, yea,an affluence of the future judgement. Thirdly, Judgement bath not been fully executed-in any age of the World excepting one , that of the old World ; and yet then it was not a full executionof judgement, there was a wicked one not judged, therewas an accurfed Cham in theArke (pared from judgement, while the reft of mankinde was drowned and overwhelmed with water. And though God bath written wrath arid judgement upon thoufands of wicked men in red Letters, even in their owne blind, yet there are many whofe paths fwimwith butter, and the rock powres out rivers ofOyle unto them, many upon whole heads the, candle of outward profperit% fhines, while their heads and hearts and handsare full ofwickedr,effe ; judgement is fo farce from being fully executed in this world, that many are hardned in firne, and ['erne fo {tumbled or offended in tie wayes of holineffe., that they are ready to fay, where is the cid of judgement ? And hence it is that the Ap ,ft e ( .Rom. 2. 5. ) calls the laft Judge. ment, the day of thedeclarationof the righteous judgement of Çod ; the judgement of God is righteous now, but it is not revealed, it is not manifeited, thercfire a time (ball come, when there (mall be a revelation of his righteous judgement fully ; The famo Apnftie gives a fourth reafon (which comes near the cafe of lob ) ,vh s' there mutt be aday of judgement. ?`-b's g' od name war under a cloud, his credit was exceedingly eciipied, and he was mi( judged by his friends (as many fincere ones have firne Y y been )
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