448 / 772
Meditating
ofthe
iuftice
and trial)
of
God.
Iab
4
t 8.and
15.15.
Efa.b4.6.
420
o What things
art
required
in
true
repentance.
one feeineth
to
point at
them,
yet
wee
our
felues
will
neuer
difcerne
them,
vnleflè
wee
-fet
the
looking
glaffe
of
the
law
before
vs.
Thirdly,
wee
are
often
and
earnefly
to meditate
vpon the
iuflice and
truth
ofGod,
in
whole
prefence
the
heapens
are
not
cleane,
and
the
angels
themfelues
are
vnable
to
abide
the
rigour ofhis
iuflice;
and
how
muchmore
is
man
abominable
and
f
/thie,who drinketh
iniquitie
like
)eater ?In
whore fight our
belt
righteoufneffe
is
like
a
polluted cloth;
and
how much
more
filthie
then
are
our
finncs
and
wickedneffe
?
Moreouer,as
he
is
moll
iufl,
fo as
he
cannot let
finne
goe vnpunifhed,
fo
alfo
hee
is mcrfl
true,
yea
truth
it
felfe
:
neither
can
any
of
thofe
threatnings
fall
to the ground
vnexecuted, which he
hath
denounced againfl thofe
who
line in
their
Gnnes;and
there-
fore
there
is
no
ineanes
to
efcape
his fearefull
iudgements,
vnleffe
we
turne from our frmes,
and
meete
the Lord
by vn-
fained
repentance.
4.Meditation
Fourthly, let
vs
continually remember
that
we mull once
ofthe
tali
appeare
before
Gods
tribunali
feate
of
iudgement, there
to
i
idgernent,
render
an
account
not
onely
of
our
words
and
workes,
but
euen
of
our
fecret
thoughts,when
as
the
Lord
himfelfe
who
fearche.th
the
hearts and
raines (hall
be our
Iudge, who will
not
acquit the
guilde,
nor
refpe6t
the
perfon
ofian,
neither
will
he
be
fatisfied
with
faire pretences and
fmooth
excufes,
nor
corrupted
with
bribes
and gifts. And therefore
let
vs
iudge
our
felues
that
we inay
not
be iudged
of
the
Lord;and
in
bitterneffe
of
foule
and reinorfe
of
cónfcience
let
vs
còn-
demne our
felues
to
bee
iniferablefinners,that the
Lord
may
acquite
vs
and make
vs
tafle
ofhis
mercie.
;.
Remens.
Laflly, let
vs
ferioufly
meditate
on thofe
fearefull
punith
brace
of
tho
je
ments,which
are
prepared for thofe
who
line
and die
in
their
pueto
etas
films
for they
(hall for
euer
be
feparated
from
the
prefence
due
to
the
ofGod,the
ioyes
ofheauen, and
the fweete companie
ofthe
Saints
and Angels,and be call
into
eternall darkneffe, where
they íhail for
euer
and euer bee
tormented in
flames vn-
quenchable;
all
which horrible punifhments
are
due
vnto
al,who
continue not in
all
rrhich
is
written
in the
bootie
of
the
law
to.
doe
them
;.
And
therefore how (hall
efcape,
who
in
Head
a.Cor.ti,.
wicked,
Cia1.3.io.
of